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30 Writing U The information and tasks provided in the following sections will help you improve your texts, which will be graded according to the assessment criteria generally used in Austria. These criteria are task achievement, organisation and layout, lexical and structural range, lexical and structural accuracy. The exercises below will focus on the most common challenges that might occur in text production. For more information on the B2 Assessment Scale and on task type conventions, please refer to the SRDP (standardisierte Reife- und Diplomprüfung) website. You can find the answer key to all tasks online. Go to www.oebv.at and type in this code: g55m3g. Improving lexical and structural range Use strong, expressive adjectives and adverbs Try to avoid using very. Match adjectives 1–12 to the expressions with a similar meaning (a–l). 1 Complete the table below by filling in the more ‘basic’ version of the adjectives. (very) bad (very) beautiful (very) cold (very) funny (very) good (very) hot (very) hungry (very) sad (very) ugly (very) worried 1 fantastic, fabulous, excellent, superb 2 awful, horrible, terrible, repellent 3 devastated 7 hideous 4 hilarious 8 freezing 5 distressed 9 scorching 6 gorgeous 10 starving 2 1 ancient 2 basic 3 deafening 4 distraught 5 enthusiastic 6 exhausted 7 furious 8 intriguing 9 spotless 10 terrified 11 thrilling 12 vital a very important b very afraid c very angry d very interested e very interesting f very old g very clean h very upset i very exciting j very simple k very loud l very tired Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv

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