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Adjectives and Adverbs

Write the adverbs

10 fast 11 beautifully 12 softly 13 early 14 noisily 15 carefully 16 happily 17 terribly

18 awfully

Change each sentence. Use the underlined word to make an adverb.

1 Jim works well 2 Ann dances wonderfully 3 Carol writes accurately 4 Tine sings badly
5 Sam smokes secretly 6 Ruth runs fast 7 Pablo drives carefully 8 Liz reads quickly
9 They run slowly

Which is right?

1 quickly 2 angry 3 slowly 4 slow 5 careful 6 hard 7 suddenly 8 bad 9 nice

Comparatives and superlatives

Exercise A

5- more narrow or narrower/ most narrow or narrowest (adjectives such as clever,

stupid, friendly, gentle, etc. form the comparative either with –er/-est or more/most)

6- worse than/ the worst

8- safer than/ the safest

9- more comfortable than/ the most comfortable

Exercise B

1-More responsibly than/ the most responsibly

4- faster than/ the fastest

7- more quickly/ the most quickly

Exercise C

3- is the worst

4- as tall as

8- is heavier than

9- was more interesting

10- the most expensive

Exercise D

1- was hotter than it is today.

2- longer than Dave

3- worse than Chris

4- arrived earlier than I expected

8- is the worst liar I´ve ever met.

9- speaks English better than me

10. walk faster than me

EXTRA PRACTICE

4- It´s the most beautiful song I have ever heard

5- My mum is the best driver in my family

7- This is the warmest sweater I have ever worn.

8. This necklace is as expensive as that one.

9- Roger is less handsome than Peter

10-Tomas is the best student in his class.

11- It´s the largest beach in London

12- Skiing is easier to learn than horse-riding/ Horse- riding is more difficult than
skiing (both are possible).

13- I drive faster than Pedro

14-He´s the most dangerous criminal in the country.

15- Everest is the highest mountain in the world.

Wh- questions

Fill in the gaps with one of the question words from the list

1 Whose 2 Where 3 When 4 How 5 Who 6 What time 7 How often 8 What
9 Which 10 How long

Fill in what, which, who, when, where, whose or why.

1 What 2 Which 3 What 4 Where 5 What 6 Why 7 Whose 8 Who 9 Where 10

When 11 Who 12 What 13 Why 14 Who

Fill in the gaps in the questions with how old, how often, how much, how many,
how long or how long ago. Then match the questions to the answers.

1 How much 2 How often 3 How old 4 How many 5 How long 6 How long ago

1b 2e 3d 4f 5a 6c

Ask questions to which the words in bold are the answers.

1 What time did you finish last night? 2 Did you enjoy the film? 3 How often do they
play soccer? 4 Did he call you yesterday? 5 Whose is this dress? 6 Were there many
people at the party? (REMEMBER: we use “many” with plural countable nouns in
questions and negations, and “a lot of/lots of” in positive statements) 7 What is Sara
making for the party? 8 How long have you known him? 9 How often do you go to the
gym? 10 How long ago did you leave school? 11 How much did you pay for that dress?
12 Whose is this bicycle? 13 Where are you having lunch today? 14 How long have you
worked for this company? 15 What did Susan buy yesterday? 16 Why is he so happy?
Use the prompts and the verb forms in brackets to write questions.

1 Why are you crying? 2 How did you get here? 3 What does Jack usually do on
Saturdays? 4 How long have you lived here? 5 Where was David going? 6 Who are
you talking to? 7 What were you doing? 8 When do you usually wake up? 9 What has
Jack done? 10 What did Mark and Sue buy?

Final Quiz

1 don’t answer / will call 2 Does your brother have a girlfriend? 3 isn’t playing 4
How long have you known Bill? / have been 5 is giving us… 6 What are you doing?
7 How did they get home last night? / took 8 were arguing 9 were you doing 10
does he usually get to work? 11 was driving 12 What do you do? 13 won’t hurt
14 I’m not working at the moment 15 What are you going to do this afternoon? 16
When are we studying 17 How long have you been at work today? 18 We will meet
you at the airport 19 went 20 What time did you go to bed last night? 21 I was
walking on the beach.

Quiz Verb Tenses (2nd March)

Exercise 1

1) am writing 2) belongs 3) spends 4) think 5) are having 6) swim 7) go

8)have 9)go 10) is raining 11)hate 12) are having 13)are eating 14) smells 15)
Are you having
Exercise 2
1) went 2) were having 3) got 4) went 5) was speaking 6) noticed 7)was sitting
8) went 9) said 10) stopped 11) was passing 12) took 13) returned 14) came 15)
was smiling 16) started 17) looked 18) was laughing
Exercise 3

-Haven´t seen

-Have been

-Have done

-Saw

-Got

-Moved

-did you move?

-Haven´t unpacked

-Phoned

-Was

-was

-wanted

Exercise 4
-are you going to

- are going to have

-we are going to take

-will probably book into

-is coming

-will phone

-are going to do

-will be warm

- we are going to see

-will join