VOCABULARY Work in pairs. Read the Learn this! box. Decide which sports venues from exercises 2 and 5 you are likely to describe with these compound adjectives.
Compound adjectives
25-metre | 400-metre | air-conditioned | brightly lit | eight-lane |
full-sized | open-air | solar-heated | soundproof | well-equipped |
LEARN THIS! Compound adjectives a. Compound adjectives are adjectives formed from two words. well-known half-eaten record-breaking wind-powered b. We usually write compound adjectives with a hyphen. c. Sometimes, compound adjectives have more than two words (state-of-the-art) |
- 25-metre: swimming pool
(25m: hồ bơi)
- 400-metre: athletics track
(400m: đường chạy điền kinh)
- air-conditioned: ice rink
(có điều hòa: sân trượt băng)
- brightly lit: boxing ring
(sáng rực rỡ: võ đài quyền anh)
- eight-lane: swimming pool
(tám làn: bể bơi)
- full-sized: golf course
(kích thước đầy đủ: sân golf)
- open-air: climbing wall
(ngoài trời: leo tường)
- solar-heated: football pitch
(năng lượng mặt trời sưởi ấm: sân bóng đá)
- soundproof: dance studio
(cách âm: phòng tập nhảy)
- well-equipped: weights room
(đầy đủ tiện nghi: phòng tập tạ)
