Language Activator – Bad

اغلب دیکشنری ها لغاتی را مترادف یک لغت معرفی میکنند. اما آیا تمامی مترادفهای یک لغت صد در صد معنای همان لغت را القا میکنند؟ مسلماً خیر. در این بخش از آفرینش اکتیوتر لغات هم معنی و یا نزدیک به لغت bad را بررسی خواهیم کرد. ابتدا جملات را خوانده و خودرا محک بزنید سپس برای دیدن نتایج و توضیح اینکه هر لغت در چه موقعیتی استفاده میشود به لینک زیر بروید

Good-bad at sth/badly

bad

(adjective)

: not able to do something well, for example a job, sport, or activity

.He’s the worst driver I’ve ever seen

.Critics blame the students’ poor test performances on bad teaching

bad at

! I was always really bad at French

bad at doing something

.I’m very bad at remembering people’s names

badly

(adverb)

:if you do something badly, you do it carelessly, not skillfully, or you do it in the wrong way

.Lorna speaks Spanish so badly that no one in our class can understand her

not very good also not much good

(adjective phrase not before noun)

: especially spoken not able to do something well

not very good at

.I’m not much good at speeches but I’ll do my best

not very good at doing something

.She’s not very good at communicating with other people

.He has never been much good at dealing with people

not very well

.Do you play the piano?Yes, but not very well

not very good as

.She’s a nice person, but not much good as a boss

no good at something

: bad at a skill or activity

.Cait freely admits that she’s no good at anything except singing

no good at doing something

.Leo’s no good at lying — his face always turns red when he’s not telling the truth

second-rate/third-rate

(adjective)

: not very good, especially not as good as other people who do the same thing

.She’s a second-rate singer

.We spent the evening listening to third-rate writers read their poetry in a seedy nightclub

weak/poor

(adjective)

: not having much ability or skill in a particular activity or subject

.This is Boston’s weakest team in years

weak/poor at science/history etc

.She’s weak at mathematics, and this affects her physics results as well

 

:Practice

: Fill in the blanks with appropriate words

.N1. I’m no ……… at tennis
.N2. I’m afraid I’m not very ………. at math
……… N3. Adams admitted that he had played
.N4. The company had been ………… managed from the start
.N5. When managers’ leadership skills are …………, productivity suffers
.N6. I wouldn’t trust her. She’s always been a ………… judge of character

 

:Answers

N1. good
N2. good
N3. badly
N4. badly
N5. poor
N6. poor