B2 · C 2 · C1 · Media, arts, literature & entertainment · Vocabulary B2/C1/C2 Adjectives for describing films and books 19 March, 202028 December, 2022 blogdeserena Created by blogdeserena B2-C1-C2 VOCABULARY QUIZ FOR DESCRIBING BOOKS AND FILMS Read & choose the correct word Activity by Serena a thought-provoking book makes you ... think deeply about something cheerful and and feeling that good things will happen excellent and impressive outstanding shocking making you feel sad dull depressing a new wave film is about ... new ideas punk culture moves or develops quickly lurid pacy very upsetting, wrong, or immoral outstanding shocking overrated is... very modern not as good as some people tend to think having a strong effect on your feelings, especially one that makes you feel sad lurid moving a faithful account tells you about ... a religious experience how things happened a mediocre book is ... not very good depressing actually happening in life, not invented in a book realistic real-life a high-brow book is typically ... very rude or offensive very serious and difficult to understan defamatory content intends to... criticizes someone or something in a strong and effective way make people have a bad opinion of something or someone in an untrue or unfair way if you consider a film filthy you think it's ... cheap very rude or offensive if something is far-fetched it's ... difficult to believe about a time that is very remote interesting and enjoyable entertaining gripping want to watch it because you find it very interesting gripping entertaining related to love dull romantic having a sharp exciting quality poignant edgy a gory movie involves ... a lot of blood and violence sex belonging to the present time realistic contemporary racy writing is typically ... exciting and entertaining and often about sex very serious and difficult to understand a page-turner novel is ... so bad you turn the pages over as quickly as you can in order to finish it very good. So good you can't stop reading shocking and violent in a way that is deliberate pacy lurid a film or book that contains a lot of violence shocking violent not interesting or exciting dull depressing a potted account of something is ... tightly controlled short and simple if you consider that a document was very wordy, you think that ... it is easy to understand it uses too many words relating to art, literature, music etc. romantic cultural a hard-hitting serial ... criticizes someone or something in a strong and effective way shows lot of blood and violence if a book has been abridged it... has been made shorter has become very popular an upbeat film makes you ... depressed cheerful and and feeling that good a blue movie is related to... violence sex a type of entertainment that helps you forget about bad or boring things for a short time escapist gory showing things as they really are real-life realistic if a serial shows you the gritty realism it... shows you the unpleasant reality of something gives you an unrealistic account of life a riveting film is ... very interesting cheap and badly made Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte share this Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Like this:Like Loading… Related share this Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Like this:Like Loading…
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