Feelings Adjectives Sounds Game with Gradable and Extreme Adjectives

Feelings adjectives sounds game

with gradable and extreme adjectives

Choose an adjective below and make sounds to represent that feeling until your partner guesses. You can’t make (facial and bodily) gestures or say any words, but any sound is okay. If your teacher says, you should turn back to back so that you can’t use other clues. You can use the ideas for sounds (in italics with brackets) if you are given them.

 

Cards to cut up/ Suggested answers 

happy/ pleased// delighted/ overjoyed	sad/ upset	cold// freezing/ frozen
(cheering, giggling, etc)	(crying, sniffing, etc)	(shivering, teeth chattering, etc)
hot// boiling/ baking/ sweltering	hungry// starving/ dying of hunger	tired/ sleepy// exhausted/ shattered
(panting, breathing out, etc)	(your stomach rumbling, etc)	(yawning, etc)
irritated/ annoyed/ angry/ cross// furious	afraid/ frightened/ scared// terrified	surprised// stunned/ astonished
(growling, beeped out swearing, tutting, etc)	(teeth chattering, muttering, etc)	(suddenly breathing in, etc)
bored// bored silly/ bored to tears	excited	under the weather/ out of sorts/ ill/ sick
(sighing, huffing and puffing, etc)	(screaming a little, etc)	(vomiting, sneezing, sniffing, coughing, etc)
embarrassed/ shy	disgusted	disappointed// devastated
(giggling, etc)	(retching, etc)	(sighing, etc)
confused// mystified/ baffled	drunk/ tipsy// wasted/ blotto	interested// fascinated
(“eh?” etc)	(slurring your words, hiccupping, etc)	(humming with rising intonation, etc)
thirsty// parched	amused	impatient
(slurping, sucking, etc)	(laughing, etc)	(murmuring louder and louder, etc)
unfit	fed up	itchy
(panting, etc)	(harrumphing, gnashing your teeth, etc)	(scratching, etc)
calm/ relaxed	impressed	comfortable
(humming, breathing deeply, etc)	(gasping, etc)	(sighing contentedly, etc)
uncomfortable	unsure/ doubtful	satisfied/ contented/ relieved
(tutting, etc)	(humming and hawing, etc)	(breathing out slowly, etc)

After playing the guessing game, look at all the cards with the suggested actions and ask about any which you don’t understand or don’t think match.

 

Gradable and extreme feelings adjectives presentation 1

Without looking above for now, put another slash (/) between the gradable adjective(s) (= adjectives which can go with “a little”, “fairly”, “very”, etc) and any extreme adjective(s) (= can go with “absolutely”, etc) in each line below. Some lines only have one kind of adjective (e.g. only gradable adjectives) and so don’t need an extra slash.

happy/ pleased/ delighted/ overjoyed

 

sad/ upset

 

cold/ freezing/ frozen

 

hot/ boiling/ baking/ sweltering

 

hungry/ starving/ dying of hunger

 

tired/ sleepy/ exhausted/ shattered

 

irritated/ annoyed/ angry/ cross/ furious

 

afraid/ frightened/ scared/ terrified

 

surprised/ stunned/ astonished

 

bored/ bored silly/ bored to tears

 

under the weather/ out of sorts/ ill/ sick

 

embarrassed/ shy

 

disappointed/ devastated

 

confused/ mystified/ baffled

 

drunk/ tipsy/ wasted/ blotto

 

interested/ fascinated

 

thirsty/ parched

 

calm/ relaxed

 

unsure/ doubtful

 

satisfied/ contented/ relieved

 

Compare with double slashes (//) with those on the cards above.

 

Gradable and extreme feelings adjectives presentation 2

First of all without any help, try to brainstorm extreme versions of each of these words:

• happy/ pleased
• cold
• hot
• hungry
• tired/ sleepy
• irritated/ annoyed/ angry/ cross
• afraid/ frightened/ scared
• surprised
• bored
• disappointed
• confused
• drunk/ tipsy
• interested
• thirsty

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Used the mixed answers below to help with task above. Most have more than one answer.

• astonished
• baffled
• baking
• blotto
• boiling
• … silly
• … to tears
• delighted
• devastated
• dying of hunger
• exhausted
• fascinated
• freezing
• frozen
• furious
• mystified
• overjoyed
• parched
• shattered
• starving
• stunned
• sweltering
• terrified
• wasted

 

Use the less mixed answers below to help with the task above. This time the ones with the same meaning are on the same line.  

• boiling/ baking/ sweltering
• bored silly/ bored to tears
• delighted/ overjoyed
• devastated
• exhausted/ shattered
• fascinated
• freezing/ frozen
• furious
• mystified/ baffled
• parched
• starving/ dying of hunger
• stunned/ astonished
• terrified
• wasted/ blotto

Check with the cards.

 

Sounds connected to particular feelings presentation

First of all without looking above, try to think of at least one feeling connected to each of the sounds below.

• “eh?”
• beeped out swearing
• breathing deeply
• breathing in
• breathing out
• cheering
• coughing
• crying
• gasping
• giggling
• gnashing your teeth
• growling
• harrumphing
• hiccupping
• huffing and puffing
• humming
• humming and hawing
• laughing
• murmuring
• muttering
• panting
• rumbling
• scratching
• screaming a little
• shivering
• sighing
• slurping
• slurring your words
• sneezing
• sniffing
• sucking
• teeth chattering
• tutting
• vomiting/ retching
• yawning

Use the gradable and extreme adjectives worksheets above to help with the task above, then check with a copy of the original cards.

Say a feeling word and see if your partner can make a matching noise.