1.freezing temperatures → mentioned as -20°C, -35°C, -45°C, -43°C
Siberia → “Eastern Siberia”
warm clothing / layers of clothing → “I’m wearing fourteen items of clothing.”
remote city → “Yakutsk is remote… time zones from Moscow”
ice / snow / freezing → “your nose freezes”, “your legs freeze”, skin freezing
minus 50 degrees → “Temperatures often drop to -50°C”
2.
Sentence 1
“My whole body hurts. The pain is frightening.”
- How a person feels: My whole body hurts.
- The person/thing that causes the feeling: The pain is frightening.
(The pain is the cause of the feeling.)
Sentence 2
“I’m disappointed because I want to explore.”
- How a person feels: I’m disappointed.
- The person/thing that causes the feeling: because I want to explore.
(Not being able to explore is the cause of the feeling.)
3.
From the Yakutsk text, examples include:
–ed adjectives (describe how a person feels):
- surprised
- disappointed
- tired (implied in “I start to feel terrible”)
- embarrassed
–ing adjectives (describe the thing that causes the feeling):
- frightening (the pain is frightening)
- embarrassing (glasses sticking to your skin is embarrassing)
- interesting (implied meaning, even if not in your text)
4.
Sentences with –ing adjectives (4)
- The film was so exciting that I couldn’t stop watching.
- That noise outside is really annoying when I’m trying to study.
- His story about the cold weather was frightening.
- The homework was confusing, so I had to ask for help.
5.
Sentences with –ed adjectives (4)
- I was surprised to see snow in April.
- She felt worried when her phone stopped working.
- We were embarrassed when we got the answer wrong.
- He looked tired after walking for three hours.
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