ADJECTIVES

Adjectives

- ING the cause
This film is boring

-ED the effect
I feel really bored


Fill the gaps with the adjectives in brackets.

1 He's such a monotonous speaker. I was so ................................. . (bored / boring)
2 Most sequels are ................................. . (disappointed / disappointing)
3 I had such a ................................. day I went straight to bed. (tired / tiring)
4 Everyone's very ................................. about the news. (excited / exciting)
5 That lamp produces a very ................................. effect. (pleased / pleasing)
6 The whole school was ................................. by the tragic event. (saddened / saddening)
7 I don't like watching ................................. films on my own. (depressed / depressing)
8 I was ................................. when she told me she'd got divorced. (amazed / amazing)
9 He's such a ................................. guy. He only ever talks about himself. (bored / boring)
10 I'm very ................................. in films and theatre. (interested / interesting) 1
1 No one knew what would happen next. We were all .................................. . (intrigued / intriguing) 12 It was a very ................................. situation. (interested / interesting)
13 There's been some very ................................. news. (surprised / surprising)
14 His mother was ................................. by what she found under his bed. (disgusted / disgusting)
15 Their hamburgers are .................................. (disgusted / disgusting)
16 Dad always arrives home from work completely .................................. . (exhausted / exhausting) 17 He's always showing off. It's really .................................. . (annoyed / annoying)
18 I think Alex is one of the most ................................. people I've ever met. He can't keep still for a second. (annoyed / annoying)
19 I walked into this restaurant and there was Andy with a strange woman. He seemed really .................................. . (embarrassed / embarrassing)
20 She kept talking about her boyfriend problems all night. It was rather .................................. . (embarrassed / embarrassing)




Choose the correct adjective:

1. My nephew was (amusing / amused) by the clown.
2. It’s so (frustrating / frustrated)! No matter how much I study I can’t seem to remember this vocabulary.
3. This lesson is so (boring / bored)!
4. I’m feeling (depressed / depressing), so I’m going to go home, eat some chocolate, and go to bed early with a good book.
5. I thought her new idea was absolutely (fascinated / fascinating).
6. This maths problem is so (confusing / confused). Can you help me?
7. The teacher was really (amusing / amused) so the lesson passed quickly.
8. The journey was (exhausting / exhausted)! Twelve hours by bus.
9. The plane began to move in a rather (alarming / alarmed) way.
10. He was (frightening / frightened) when he saw the spider.
11. I was really (embarrassing / embarrassed) when I fell over in the street.
12. That film was so (depressing / depressed)! There was no happy ending for any of the characters. 13. I’m sorry, I can’t come tonight. I’m completely (exhausting / exhausted).
14. We are going in a helicopter? How (exciting / excited)!
15. Don’t show my baby photos to people, Mum! It’s so (embarrassing / embarrassed)!
16. It’s okay, it’s only me. Don’t be (alarming / alarmed).
17. My sister is so (exciting / excited) because she is going on holiday tomorrow.
18. I hate long flights, I’m always really (boring / bored).
19. She looked very (confusing / confused) when I told her we had to change the plan.
20. John was (fascinated / fascinating) by Mandarin when he first started learning languages. He decided to study more and now he can speak it fluently.