Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Extreme Adjectives

Lesson Notes August 26, 2025 (Vocabulary Building)

Words & Phrases

• The event started just around (sundown / sunset).

• Sunset is more precise and often used in writing, schedules, or science.

• Sundown is casual and often used in conversation.

• Yamayuri has a new booking system starting next month.

• One of the dancers shoes fell off, but she continued dancing with only one shoe.

• The male dancers danced gracefully.

• The female athletes performed very well.

Appropriate Language

• Keep someone on their toes (idiom) = to make someone stay alert, prepared, and attentive, often by presenting challenges or unpredictability

• I sometimes take a ballet class at the gym to keep me on my toes.

• The coach’s unexpected drills kept the players on their toes during practice.

• Her clever questions kept the interviewee on his toes throughout the conversation.

Extreme Adjectives

Speaking

• 4A: Paris in the 1920s because she’s a huge fan of the artists and writers from that period.

• 4B: All the phrases are used, except: “Another possibility would be to …”

• 4C

• 1: What else? / Another possibility would be to …

• 2: With that in mind, I’d …

• 3: To start with … / And last but not least, I’d …