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ELO 2E6
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Erm, hello 2E6, this is Ms Tey. Here are some of the descriptive phrases you can use for Paper 1.

Describing crowded places:


  • The [insert name of the place] was so crowded it was bursting at its seams.

  • It was a seething mass of people.

  • It was a quivering mass at the [place]

  • The people were grunting unhappily as they weaved through the crowd.

  • I was swept along with the crowd.

  • It was suffocating and I couldn't breathe.

  • There were throngs of people at the [place].

  • It was so warm that even the walls radiated heat.

Answers for ex 130

  1. contrasting
  2. advertisement
  3. courageous
  4. prescription
  5. oppression
  6. presiding
  7. assurance
  8. pressurizing
  9. compulsion
  10. environmental
  11. severity
  12. irritation

Answers for the worksheet Ex 131

  1. irrigating
  2. problematic
  3. mechanical
  4. necessities
  5. disappointment
  6. photographic
  7. retention
  8. conversation
  9. pessimisim
  10. subscription
  11. daily
  12. transaction