A refreshing refreshment

Posted by Pak Guru on November 7th, 2017 | 0 comments | adjectives, refreshing, speaking, vocabulary, writing

Students can take a break while they are studying in college for refreshing.

This word has been borrowed from English and used in Indonesian as a noun. However, in English ‘refreshing‘ is not a noun, and the closest noun available is ‘refreshment‘, but this is used almost exclusively for food and drink.
‘Refreshing‘ is an adjective:

• Students can take a refreshing break while they are studying at college.
• Taking a break while studying at college can be refreshing.

Refreshed and refreshing

IELTS candidates are often asked to explain why they enjoy certain activities, for example going to the beach at the weekend. In this case both the adjectives ‘refreshing’ and ‘refreshed’ might be used:

• Going to the beach at the weekend is refreshing.
• When I go to the beach at the weekend I feel refreshed.

Refreshing and refreshed follow the same rule as bored and boring, where the __ing form is for the source, and the __ed form is used for the receiver:

• I feel refreshed. (receiver: I)
• Going to the beach is refreshing. (source: Going to the beach)

Refresh

Finally, you might use the verb ‘refresh‘:

• I go to the beach at the weekend to refresh myself.

Notice that in this case you must include an object: refresh myself. Also notice that when you’re explaining why you do something, you use to + V1 (not for).

Further study

Check out these other examples of ‘refreshing’.