6 Minute Vocabulary - Strong adjectives

This is a download from BBC Learning English to find out more , visit our website . Six minutes recovered from BBC Learning English dot com . Hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary . I'm Rob and this is Catherine . Hi . And today , we've got a fantastic program for you . It's all about strong objectives . Yes , it is . We'll give you a wonderful explanation of what they are and how to use them . We'll also give you some very useful advice on how to use it intensifies with adjectives . And he'll be a fabulous quiz . And finally , we'll give you an absolutely amazing tip to help you learn vocabulary . Wow . OK , let's get going . there's no time to waste . Here's Tom now . He took his girlfriend to the cinema and then for dinner afterwards . Very romantic . Let's hear how the evening went . While you're listening , try to answer this question . Was it a successful evening out of . We went to see that new film , I thought it was quite funny , but Jenny thought it was hilarious . We went for a meal . The food was not so bad , but the service was absolutely terrible . We waited nearly an hour to get our food . When it finally arrived , I was absolutely starving . So the meal didn't go too well , Tom and Jenny had to wait a long time for their food , nearly an hour . What do you think about that , Catherine ? I wouldn't last that long 20 minutes and I'd be gone . Well , luckily , they liked the film . Listen to this clip . I thought it was quite funny , but Jenny thought it was hilarious . Tom said he thought the film was quite funny , quite funny . Now , when we use an ordinary adjective like funny , we can add a word like white or very or just a little bit to give more information about the adjective so we can say the film was quite funny or very funny or just a little bit funny . These words are called Intensifies and they're quite useful . They're very useful , actually . Yes . So Tom thought the film was funny , but Jenny thought it was hilarious . And the word hilarious means very , very funny . Hilarious is a special kind of a. . It already includes the idea of very right . And we call this type of a. . A strong adjective . And there are lots of them , for example , to mean very good . We can say wonderful , fabulous , amazing . Thank you , Rob . Three fantastic words , but most of the time we don't use intensifies like quite or very or just a little bit with these strong adjectives . And that's because the idea of very is already in the word . So , for example , hilarious means very funny . So a little bit hilarious would mean a little bit very funny . And that doesn't make sense , does it , . Absolutely not . No . OK , well , back to the clip . Tom used a couple of other strong adjectives to listen again . What's the strong adjective ? The food was not so bad , but the service was absolutely terrible . Well , Tom used the ordinary adjective , but and he used it with an intensifier when he said not so bad , but the strong adjective was terrible . Terrible means very bad . And this time Tom used an intensifier that we usually only use with strong adjectives . He said it was absolutely terrible . So when we want to make a strong adjective even stronger , we need to use one of these special intensifies like . Absolutely . So we say very bad , but we say absolutely terrible . And we don't usually say absolutely bad . No . So here's Tom using another strong adjective . Listen carefully and see if you can catch it . We waited for nearly an hour to get our food when it finally arrived . I was absolutely starving . Tom used the phrase absolutely starving , starving the strong A. which means very hungry . And he used the intensifier . Absolutely . To make it even stronger . Absolutely starving . Six minutes vocabulary from BBC Learning English and today are absolutely wonderful topic is strong adjectives and intensifies . And now it's time for a very quick quiz . Question one , what's a strong adjective for funny ? And the answer is hilarious . Question , what is a strong adjective , an intensifier for very bad . And the answer is absolutely terrible . Just one more question . Can you name three strong adjectives that mean good ? And in the program today , we had fantastic , wonderful , fabulous and amazing , which describes me , I think . And if you got all those right , you're absolutely wonderful . And we just got time for that fantastic vocabulary tip we promised you . When you're learning objectives , make a picture in your mind of someone or something that reminds you of that objective . It will help you remember the word . For example , I think that Rob is absolutely fantastic . Oh , you're just saying that . , thank you very much . There's more about this ABC Learning English dot com . Join us again soon for six minute vocabulary . Bye bye . Bye .