Choose one of the sets of four adverbs below and try to write a sentence with a gap that can only be filled with one of the four adverbs (because of grammar, collocations, meaning, etc). For example, you could write the question “It is __________ sought after” for the options “perfectly/ highly/ effectively/ honestly”, because only one of those four goes in that gap. Then test other groups with your question. You get one point for each student who gets it wrong, so try to make your question a tricky one. However, you lose all those points plus one more point if the other students spot that more than one answer is right or none of the answers is right in your sentence. You get an extra point if someone challenges your question but actually it’s okay.
CPE
deservingly
admittedly
conceivably
assuredly
correspondingly
similarly
accordingly
appropriately
perfectly
completely
reasonably
competently
potentially
plausibly
predictably
prospectively
permanently
uniformly
perpetually
invariably
CAE
correctly
exactly
thoroughly
perfectly
really
carefully
definitely
precisely
exactly
absolutely
completely
totally
only
fairly
hardly
nearly
fully
truly
honestly
purely
highly
radically
extremely
severely
truly
validly
correctly
effectively
considerably
highly
vastly
supremely
correctly
exactly
thoroughly
perfectly
really
carefully
definitely
precisely
Ask about any above which you don’t understand the differences between.
Make similar questions from any four of the adverbs below. For example, you could choose one adverb, write a gapped sentence for it, then choose three others which are similar but can’t go in that gap (for reasons of meaning, collocations, grammar, etc). You can use the ones with “x 2/ 3” next to more than once (as they are more common in real exam tasks).
absolutely
accordingly
admittedly
appropriately
assuredly
carefully x 2
competently
completely x 2
conceivably
considerably
correctly x 3
correspondingly
definitely x 2
deservingly
effectively
exactly x 3
extremely
fairly
fully
hardly
highly x 2
honestly
invariably
nearly
only
perfectly x 3
permanently
perpetually
plausibly
potentially
precisely x 2
predictably
prospectively
purely
radically
really x 2
reasonably
severely
similarly
supremely
thoroughly x 2
totally
truly x 2
uniformly
validly
vastly
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