NOT NICE! Beautiful Handsome Good-looking Pretty Interesting Entertaining Exciting Fun Enjoyable LOOKS Friendly Lovely Kind/funny Understanding Pleasant CHARACTER ANIMALS CHILDREN ACTIVITIES Great Fantastic Excellent Super Wonderful Brilliant Awesome Marvellous NICE CLOTHES GENERAL WEATHER Fine Bright Lovely Glorious FOOD Cute Sweet Gorgeous Majestic Noble Smart Well-fitting Best They suit you Tasty Delicious Scrumptious Yummy Gourmet Using the word ‘nice’ all the time is a bit lazy! There are many synonyms for NICE Study the flower shape By the way, there are many other things you can describe, for example, MUSIC Think about your favourite song or piece of music Think up or look up adjectives which describe it Then, complete the sentences on the next page You cannot use NICE, of course! 1) Jenny has got such a …………………… face She could be a model for a make-up company 2) I love going to Belinda’s house for tea because her cakes are so …………………… 3) We went to the beach yesterday because the weather was so ……………… 4) I really like Jolene Everyone likes her! She is such a ……………… girl 5) Jed had a part in the school play His performance was …………… and the audience stood up and applauded him 6) We went to the zoo and we saw some great animals I loved the monkeys! I thought they were …………… 7) We went to see the new Star Wars film and we really enjoyed it It was …………… 8) The view from the top of Mount Everest is ……………… 9) I love learning Spanish It is a really ……………… activity 10) It was my first day at a new school Everybody was really ………………… to me 11) My fiend went to a birthday party and she wore her ……………… dress She looked ………………… 12) Our new teacher started last week and we all like her because she is ………………… 13) I took my parents out for a meal last night They really enjoyed it because the food was ……………………… 14) I lost my pencil and it was very …………………… of Kevin to lend me his 15) Tennis is a ………………… game; I really love it! Nasty and can be used as an antonym (or opposite) for NICE Bad can be used in this way, too, although it is the opposite of GOOD TASK: Draw your own flower like the ‘Nice’ flower Sort the nasty words into the right category Unfriendly shabby disgusting foul boring ugly mean spiteful horrible dull badly-fitting vicious tasteless awful unpalatable bad-tempered Nevertheless, sometimes we need to use NICE! What you think?