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Writing Comparisons
Write a sentence comparing one thing with another. For example: Compare two rooms in your house: My bathroom is smaller than my living room. 1. Compare two people in your class: ___________________________________________________________________ 2. Compare two films that you have seen: ___________________________________________________________________ 3. Compare two Asian countries: ___________________________________________________________________ 4. Compare two types of transport: ___________________________________________________________________ 5. Compare two novels that you have read: ___________________________________________________________________ 6. Compare two places near to where you live: ___________________________________________________________________ 7. Compare two famous people from history:

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8. Compare two capital cities: ___________________________________________________________________ 9. Compare two occupations: ___________________________________________________________________ 10. Compare two days of the week: ___________________________________________________________________

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Countable and Uncountable Nouns 1

Complete the sentences using either a or some: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. There is ________________ sand in my shoe. There is ________________ five pound note in my wallet. There is ________________ wine in the cupboard. There is ________________ butter in the fridge. There is ________________ peanut butter on the worktop. There is ________________ radio in the kitchen. There is ________________ toothbrush in the bathroom. There is ________________ jam in the cupboard. There is ________________ magazine in the living room. There is ________________ queue at the post office. There is ________________ luggage in the car. There is ________________ suitcase in the bedroom. There is ________________ flour in the cupboard. There is ________________ sugar in your tea. There is ________________ bicycle outside.

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Jennys Story - Using Capital Letters

Put capital letters in the right places in this text: hello, im jenny, tims wife. we have been married for almost eleven years. i met tim when we were both at university. i studied physics while tim studied business management. we graduated from cardiff university in 1989, and went to live in birmingham. we got married in 1993 at lincoln cathedral. i took a oneyear post-graduate teaching course, then got a job teaching science at lincoln high school. we moved to nottingham in 1996 where lisa was born. i remember that she was a very fat baby, but a happy one! my mum helped us with looking after the baby in the first year, before she had to go into the nursing home in manchester. she wanted to move to a home in manchester because that is where my two older sisters and their families live. we go to visit often - when i can get tim to drive us up there! i dont drive. i took some lessons when i was a student in cardiff but i found driving on the roads quite frightening and gave up! perhaps one day i will try again. about two years after we had lisa, james was born. he was born at st.patricks hospital in nottingham. it seems like it was only last week. i cant believe hes already at school.

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Comparatives and Superlatives 1 Write the appropriate comparative and superlative form of these adjectives:

adjective example: big 1. nice 2. cold 3. clean 4. young 5. fast 6. large 7. hungry 8. narrow 9. blue 10. near

comparative bigger _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

superlative biggest _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________

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Wh - Questions 2 Complete these sentences using what, where, when, who and why: what (information) where (location) when (time) who (people) why (reasons) 1. _________________ do you work? 2. _________________ were you talking to yesterday? 3. _________________ s going on? 4. _________________ are you still in bed at four in the afternoon? 5. _________________ is your birthday? 6. _________________ did the builders get here? 7. _________________ did you put my magazine? 8. _________________ is the oldest person in this room? 9. _________________ are you going to tidy up your room? 10. _________________ is there a scratch on my new car? 11. _________________ is your sisters occupation? 12. _________________ should I talk to about my wages? 13. _________________ s your favourite food? 14. _________________ has your friend been? 15. _________________ did the chicken cross the road?

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Emotions and Feelings 1 Match a sentence from section A with a sentence from section B: Section A: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Im happy because... Im sad because... Im afraid because... I feel lonely because... Im disappointed because... Im worried because... Im confused because... I feel hurt because... Im excited because... Im bored because...

Section B: a) b) c) d) e) f) g) h) i) j) I have just lost 40. I dont have anyone to talk to. theres a spider in the bath. I didnt get the job that I wanted. the sun is shining. I thought today was Wednesday. my friends have been talking about me behind my back. I havent got any work to do. were all going on holiday tomorrow! I dont know how I can pay my electricity bill.

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Good Advice 1 Match the question on the left to the good advice given on the right:
1. Are you hungry?

a) Go to the doctors! b) Have something to eat! c) Go and work in a hospital! d) Go for a ten mile run! e) Have something to drink! f) Go and buy some! g) Go to bed! h) Cheer up - it might never happen! i) Go and sit in a field! j) Go and get one! k) Make some friends! l) Go and do something! m) Go and buy a lottery ticket! n) Go on a sailing holiday! o) Stop eating chocolate and cakes! p) Start by making others happy. q) Slow down a bit! r) Get a part in a Hollywood blockbuster! s) Go to the Himalayas! t) Calm down!

2. Are you unhappy? 3. Are you bored? 4. Are you tired? 5. Are you in a hurry? 6. Are you feeling ill? 7. Are you lonely? 8. Are you thirsty? 9. Do you need some new shoes? 10. Do you need a new suit? 11. Do you feel stressed out? 12. Do you like boats? 13. Do you like trees and grass? 14. Do you like ill people? 15. Do you want to be a millionaire? 16. Do you want to be famous? 17. Do you want to be happy? 18. Do you like mountains? 19. Are you unfit? 20. Do you want to lose weight?

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A Letter to Aunt Monica See if you can find all the spelling and punctuation mistakes in Sandys letter:
14st october 2002 cardiff, uK Dear aunt Monica Thank you very much fo your letter. It was greet to get a letter from you. I am really enjoying University life. i have made some good fiends allready - expecially helen and marcus. Helen is form Manchester and Marcus comes from liverpool. His accent is reelly weird. yesterday we went to Cardiff to do som shoping. Everything is much more exspensive than back at home.- i miss Jamaica and of corse I miss You and my naughty little bruthers. Cardiff is a Big city - the capitul city of Wales. Wales is nex to Englund and a seperate country, but they are both part of the UK. Its confusing, isn,t it! My course Is verry interesting.. i am leaning so much about the enviroment of this country. my Teachers are Good, accept I wish they would speek more slowly som of th time.,, cord every lecture8. Then I can listen to it in my Room as I stuidy. Its really helps. Thank s for asking abot all my boyfrends !! No, - I haven,t met anone yet. Im here to learn about the enviroment and practise my english, rathur than go out drinking in pubs and clubs with boys every night! I hope that i will fiind someone who shars my interests. Untill that time ; you will have to make do with me being a singl girl! With Lots of Love to you and my Darling bruthers Roger an Paul, and all my family and frends there. I will see You very soon. Hope I will hear from you soon Too. Your loving Niece, I cant always here everythng that they are saying. Thats Why Im using a small tape recorder to re-

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Reading Comprehension Read the story and answer the questions below: The Girl Who Got Bigger and Bigger, by Matt Purland There was once a girl who wanted to be grown up like her parents, so she made a special drink that would make her grow, and she did grow. She grew until she was as big as her parents, but she didnt stop there. She kept on growing until her foot was the size of her house. She quite enjoyed being suddenly so big, but her parents were annoyed. She found her breakfast was too small to fill her up, and even after several bowls of corn flakes she was still very hungry. Her mother had to start making some big clothes for her. Her father just looked at her, then he went to work. She spent all that day visiting towns and villages that she had never been able to go to before. People were pleased to see such a big girl, and offered her great platefuls of food and a tanker which was full of milk for her to drink. In one place she even drank a swimming pool full of lemonade. After that she felt quite sick. Night fell and she saw that she was completely lost. Nobody could show her the way back home, and she couldnt tell anybody where she had come from, because she didnt know. A farmer let her stay at his farm for the night, and she made a scratchy bed on a stubbly hill. She cried herself to sleep and felt sad because nobody was as big as her. In the morning she awoke and was dismayed to see that sure enough she was still just as big. Saying goodbye to the farmer she set off early, determined to find her way home. Every stride seemed to be about half a mile long. Suddenly she felt a tap on her shoulder, which she hadnt quite expected what with being so tall. It was a boy. And he was even bigger than she was. Hello, said the boy. Did you make a drink to get big and grow big too? asked the girl, wide-eyed. Yes, he replied, This is my town. He pointed to the small town which was spread out on the ground before them like a carpet. There were mountains beyond it and a lake. The girl explained to him that she was lost and he invited her to come and stay with him. He even offered to loan her some of his big clothes but she shook her head, saying, No thanks. Im tired

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Reading Comprehension of being too big. I want to be small. With that she shrank back down to her original and normal size. Wow, she gasped, I wasnt expecting that. She told him where she thought she lived, and the boy said he thought he might know where it was. He seemed a little disappointed that she was no longer big, but nevertheless let the girl ride on his shoe as he walked, and she clung happily onto one of his enormous laces. When they arrived at the girls home she leapt to the ground and shouted, Thanks for the lift! The boy gave her a big grin and marched away, humming to himself. His humming was as loud as a small orchestra. The girls mother and father were waiting in the town hall. They were very worried. Her father was pacing about, and her mother was sitting rather too still. She had been knitting a jumper. Her brow was knit too. When the girl bounded in they were extremely pleased to see her. When they got home they all had shepherds pie, then ice cream and strawberries, and the girl was allowed to stay up until half past nine with her parents, playing game after game of cards. But she couldnt help wishing to be big again like the boy, because his head had brushed the clouds in the daytime, and at night-time the stars. Questions: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. How did the girl grow bigger? How did her parents react to her growing bigger? Why did the girl feel sick? Where did she spend the night? Why did she cry herself to sleep? Who did she meet the next day? What did he offer to loan her? How did the girl get home? What was her mother doing when she met her? Why did the girl wish that she was big again?

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Alphabet Quiz 2
All the answers begin with successive letters of the alphabet in this fun team quiz: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z someone who comes from another planet a place where you put your money a family pet who might chase birds and mice a port in the south of the UK a popular soap opera on BBC1 four times a week the last day of the working week the opposite of rough you need this to pump blood around your body a country in Europe. Its capital city is Rome an item of clothing. Usually made of denim you use this to boil water in the kitchen to make a cup of tea this is what you get when you borrow money from the bank pork, beef, chicken and ham are all types of this preposition. The opposite of far the first number something that you open at Christmas or on your birthday you stand in this when you wait in line at a supermarket a colour that symbolises the Communist party the name of woolly animals who love to eat grass Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, and Rev are all examples of this how to describe someone who is unattractive a city in Italy that is famous for its canals a season. In England it is cold and frosty on most days you have this if you have a special quality that is indescribable something you say to agree with people a black and white animal

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Alphabet Quiz 3
All the answers begin with successive letters of the alphabet in this fun team quiz: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a continent where you might see some penguins you can hear these being rung before a church service a fortress which kept out invaders in times gone by the animal commonly known as mans best friend you need these to hear anything! something that you dont have to pay for can be described as this a relaxing game played over eighteen holes where you end up if you break your leg and need an operation the name for someone who is really foolish you tell this to make somebody laugh a place where a dog may sleep there are many different ones spoken throughout the world a famous board game where you have to buy up property and build hotels a bird will build this out of twigs for its family to live in a meal made from eggs and milk. You can add cheese, mushrooms, ham, etc you usually have two of these at the top of your trousers and one at the back a major city in Canada used to draw straight lines, or a King or Queen the opposite of weak you produce these when you cry a very useful thing to have if it starts raining! a type of material that feels very soft to the touch rain, sunshine, thunder, cloud cover, and drizzle are all types of this this is a kind of photograph showing the inside of your body there are twelve months in every one the number before one

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