Vocabulary: Describing a city

Here are some words to describe Barcelona:

lovely    busy    noisy      quiet      beautiful       impressive       delicious       ancient

Which adjectives do you think are positive, and which are negative, or are there some adjectives which are neutral?

The opposite of beautiful is ugly. What is the opposite of busy? noisy? quiet? impressive? Use a dictionary to help you.

Pretty is a synonym of beautiful: they are two different words that mean the same thing. Can you think of synonyms for each of the adjectives? Use a thesaurus to help you.

What does each word describe: the buildings, the sounds, the sights, the people, the tastes? Can you think of any other adjectives to add to the list?

Here are some adjectives that you could use to describe Manchester. Are they positive or negative? What do they describe? Can you think of any synonyms for these words? What are the opposites of these words?

lively     dirty     polluted     buzzing    tasty    clean    chaotic     exciting     amazing    awesome    messy    filthy    horrible    loud    friendly   helpful   attractive    pleasant    fabulous   cool    vibrant    traditional    modern    dangerous    old     spectacular    safe    empty    


Which of these adjectives would you use to describe your home town?
How could you compare your home town with Manchester? (My home town is .......more exciting/ cleaner than Manchester)

Here are some more adjectives with a practice exercise:

http://www.englishlanguageworld.com/Intermediate_English_Lesson13/Intermediate_English_Lesson13_Vocabulary.html

There are some more adjectives and games here:

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/preint3/vocabulary/describing_towns/vocabulary07_02?cc=gb&selLanguage=en