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This document summarizes Yordan Andronov's vocabulary and grammar test results. It includes exercises testing knowledge of adjectives, adverbs, compound words, phrasal verbs, and comparative/superlative forms. Yordan scored highly on most exercises, answering 66 out of 71 questions correctly. The test covered a wide range of grammar and vocabulary topics related to describing homes and living situations.

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Vocabulary and Grammar Test Unit 4

This document summarizes Yordan Andronov's vocabulary and grammar test results. It includes exercises testing knowledge of adjectives, adverbs, compound words, phrasal verbs, and comparative/superlative forms. Yordan scored highly on most exercises, answering 66 out of 71 questions correctly. The test covered a wide range of grammar and vocabulary topics related to describing homes and living situations.

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Vocabulary and Grammar Test Unit 4

Name: Yordan Andronov

Vocabulary
1 Complete the missing adjectives and adverbs.
Adjectives Adverbs

1 Happy happily
2 Unfortunate unfortunately
3 Helpful helpfully
4 Easy easily
5 Lucky luckily
6 Surprising surprisingly

Mark: _6__ / 6

2 Complete the sentences with the words in exercise 1.


1 The children don’t mind helping their parents with the chores. They are very helpful .
2 We were really looking forward to our holiday, but unfortunately it rained all week.
3 Not surprisingly, most teenagers don’t like sharing a room with their siblings.
4 Lyn Hymers would happily go back to the 1940s because she really enjoyed her life then, even
though it wasn’t always easy.
5 There was a fire in our neighbour’s house last night, but luckily everyone is fine.

Mark: __5_ / 6

3 Complete the compound adjectives.


1 semi-detached house
2 open-plan home
3 old-fashioned home
4 modern-day family
5 labour-saving devices
6 two-storey house

Mark: __6_ / 6

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4 Match the words in exercise 3 to the comments below. There is one word that you do not
need.
1 ‘The kitchen and living room are downstairs. The stairs take you upstairs where we have the
bathroom and three bedrooms.’ two-storey house
2 ‘Our neighbours kids keep banging on the walls. It’s so noisy!’ semi-detached house
3 ‘Everything in my grandmother’s house is from the 1950s.’ old-fashioned home
4 ‘I love my dishwasher, washing machine and dryer. They save me so much time.’ labour-saving
devices
5 ‘Our kitchen, dining room and living room are all in one area. There are no walls or doors
separating them.’ open-plan home

Mark: __4_ / 5

5 Complete the text.


Both our parents work full-time, so my brother and I do a lot of household 1chores to help them. We
have to 2make our beds in the morning and 3hoover the floors in our rooms twice a week. My brother
4
takes out the rubbish and I 5do the dishes. We both help to 6lay the table before dinner. My parents
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do the ironing, but I help to 8load the washing machine.
Mark: __8_ / 8

6 Replace the phrases in brackets with phrasal verbs in the correct form.
1 The people in this neighbourhood have big houses and expensive cars. They like to show off
(impress other people).
7 My mum looks after (cares for) her garden – she’s very proud of it!
8 Before my parents bought our new house, they tried to find out (learn) everything about the area.
9 My grandma grew up (became an adult) in a tiny house in the country.
10 My family’s move to Australia brought about (caused) many problems.

Mark: __5_ / 5

7 Complete the dialogue with phrases A–E.


James 1B use your laptop, please? My computer is broken.

Dad Sure, 2A. But just for five minutes. I’m trying to work!

James Thanks. I just need to send Paul an email. And is it OK if I stay at his house
tonight?

Dad 3C . Why do you want to stay at Paul’s house tonight? You’ve got school
tomorrow, remember?

James I know. But we’re working on our project. It’s really important.

Dad Well, don’t stay up all night.

James I won’t. 4E if I use your bike?

Dad 5D, but ride carefully!

James Thanks, Dad!


2
A no problem

B Could I

C That depends

D Of course

E Is it OK

Mark: __5_ / 5

8 Complete the text with the correct words (a–c).


Tree houses
Would you like 1____ in a tree house thirty-five metres from the ground? Children 2____ are
a part of the Korowai Tribe of Papua New Guinea need 3____ a good head for heights
because their traditional homes are in the tops of trees in the middle of a deep, thick
jungle. They usually 4____ their houses out of the wood and leaves of banyan trees, and
they use the same parts of the tree to make the walls and the floor. Of course, the floor
must be 5____ than the walls. That’s because there are 6____ people in a Korowai family.
It isn’t unusual to have twelve children – all living in one house! That’s a very 7____ tree
house! Before 1974, the Korowai people were completely isolated from the outside
world. 8____ knew anything about them, and they didn’t know about us. It’s amazing to
think that they have lived for centuries in the jungle in their tree houses, away from
mosquitoes, evil spirits and neighbours who might attack and kill them.

1 a live b to live c living

2 a who b which c whose

3 a have b to have c having

4 a build b built c are building

5 a strong b stronger c strongest

6 a much b a lot c a lot of

7 a quiet b crowded c tidy

8 a Everybody b Nobody c Anybody

Mark: __8_ / 8

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Grammar
9 Complete the text with the comparative or superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets.
1
The most important (important) room in our house is the living room. Here is where our family
spends most of our time together. It’s 2the biggest (big) room, and also 3the quietest (quiet), because
it backs out on to the garden. It faces north, so it’s a bit 4darker (dark) than the other rooms in the
house, but that makes it 5better (good) in the summer, because it doesn’t get too hot. It’s also 6
cleanest the cleanest (clean) room of all of them. But my favourite room is my bedroom. It’s much
7
smaller (small) than the living room, but it’s also 8the brightest (bright).
Mark: __7_ / 8

10 Rewrite sentence b so that it has a similar meaning to sentence a.


1 a My room is the same size as my sister’s room.
b My room is as big as my sister’s room.
2 a There aren’t any houses smaller than our house in our street.
b Our house is the smallest in our street.
3 a This house is too expensive for us.
b This house is not cheap enough for us.
4 a The dishes aren’t clean enough, so I need to wash them again.
b The dishes are too dirty, so I need to wash them again.
5 a Our school is closer to our new house than it was to our old house.
b Our school isn’t as far to our new house as it was to our old house.
6 a The streets around here are busier than the streets where we live.
b The streets around here aren’t as the quiet as the streets where we live.as quiet as
7 a There is no other bed more comfortable than mine in our house.
b My bed is the most comfortable in our house.
8 a The bathroom is colder than other rooms in the house.
b The bathroom is not as warm as the other rooms in the house.

Mark: __6_ / 8

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11 Circle the correct answers.
The thinnest house in the world?
Imagine 1to live / living in a house that’s only 122cm wide. That’s not even wide enough for a double
bed! But that didn’t worry Polish architect Jerzy Szczesny who recently managed 2to build /
building, what he claims to be, the narrowest house in the world. Szczesny decided 3to design /
designing the two-story house as part of an art project headed by Etgar Keret, a famous writer and
filmmaker.
The ground floor has a toilet, a kitchen with a table and chairs, and a sofa. Upstairs, there’s a small
bed and another table. And if you’d like 4to take / taking a shower, you can also do that.
The house is already on the tourist map and many people coming to Warsaw want 5to visit / visiting
it. But they first need 6to get / getting through a small hole to enter the building. So, if you don’t
mind 7to be / being in narrow spaces, I hope 8to see / seeing you there next time you’re in Warsaw.
Mark: __6_ / 6
TOTAL MARKS: __66_ / 71

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