Everyday English (Vocabulary Building)

Topic: Extreme Adjectives

Lesson Notes September 9, 2025 (Vocabulary Building)

Words & Phrases

• Saury (noun) (has similar pronunciation as ‘sorry’) = a slender, silver-coloured fish found in the Pacific, also called Pacific saury

• Grilled saury is a popular autumn dish in Japan.

• The fishermen returned with a large catch of saury this morning.

• She served the saury with grated daikon and soy sauce.

• An estimated 2 million people in Japan do some form of hula, from exercise to social groups to professionals.

• They do their hair with wax.

• They use wax to style their hair.

Extreme Adjectives

Lesson 2D Vocabulary

• 1 Paris during the 1920s was home to the finest writers and artists of the age. (Here we use ‘the’ with the superlative ‘finest’)

• In real life (phrase) = in actual, everyday life, as opposed to online, fictional, or imagined situations

• He seems funny online, but in real life he’s very serious.

• Meeting her in real life was completely different from chatting on social media.

• In real life, emergencies require calm thinking, not just planning.

• The might Amazon River winds its way through the rainforest. (Here we use ‘the’ with a river name)