M inistry o f Higher and Secondary Specialized Education o f the Republic o f Uzbekistan

participants o f the conference and it’s a great 
chance to be close with the scholars o f this sphere.
10. Take some time at the beginning o f the day to 
think what you might be able to apply 
to 
your own work.
4 Answer the following questions.
1. What are the ways o f preparing effective 
presentation?
2. What are poster and paper presentations?
3. What are benefits o f being a scholarship holder?
4. What can you say about social events o f the 
conferences?
5 Put the adjectives in the box into the correct 
column.
difficult 
nice impossible 
ugly
thirsty delicious 
terrible frightened
amazing 
tasty enormous 
important
terrified 
tired exhausted 
vital 
furious devastated
Gradable 
Non-gradable
f r i g h t e n e d
t e r r i f i e d
6 Decide whether underlined adjectives are 
gradable or non-gradable?
1. The conversations in the conference were 
incredibly positive despite the different views.
2. Watching hundreds o f participants interact with 
each other through their various interests was 
absolutely fascinating to me.
3. The questions were pretty hard.
4. Lola was absolutely sure about the team.
5. This is particularly important to be good at 
presenting.
6. This scientist’s books are immensely popular 
among the readers.
7. The presenter’s answer was very simple.
8. The instructions were extremely complicated.
Scale Up I 2 9

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7 Fill in the sentences with suitable adjectives.
1. It w a s
____________ in the building. The heaters
didn’t work and it was snowing outside.
2. Their flat is 
_______________
. They have five
bedrooms and a sitting room the size o f a tennis 
court.
3. I’ve been reading this
______________
book about
life in future. I can’t put it down.
4. They didn’t serve any food on the flight. When I 
got to Paris I was
______________ .
5. “ Was she pleased with her exam results?”. “ She 
was absolutely
_______________
.
6. We walked all day without a break. I was absolutely
7. “ Whatdo you think ofthiscake?”. “
______________ .
The best Fve ever tasted!”.
8. The taxi driver was completely crazy. We were all
j
9. Rukhsora looks absolutely
________________
in
that black dress.
10. You’ve got all the answers right 
_______________
!
8 Match the verbs and the words they collocate.
1. to submit
a. by reputation
2. to stay
b. one’s ability
3. to gather
c. a paper
4. to deliver
d. in touch
5. to recognize e. people’s contact information
6. to get
f. the theory component
7. to improve
g-
value
a. It’s also important to introduce yourself toj 
unknown people correctly at conferences. Pm 
not very extroverted, and it has been one of the i 
hardest tasks for me, but introducing myself to ] 
others and making myself meet new people has \ 
made the experience o f attending conferences ! 
richer, and assisted in developing my career j 
through the new relationships I’ve made.
b. Consists o f smaller groups o f between 10-30 !