Appearance and personality words
Present Simple/Present Continuous
Synonyms
State Verbs
100

Translate:

ленивый
Самовлюбленный
Полный
Надежный
высокомерный

Lazy
Selfish
Over-weight
Reliable
Arrogant

100

Choose tbe correct variant:

Water boils/is boiling at 100 C.
Police officers wear/are wearing uniforms.
Little by little, people start/are starting to more attention.
You always take/ are...taking my things without asking.
My cousin studies/is studying in the US for a month.

boils
wear
are starting
are takingis studying

100

Choose the correct variant:

Don't call your grandmother old/elderly! It's more polite to call her old/elderly.
That new actor is really good-looking/attractive.
He's very pretty/handsome.

old, elderly
good-looking,attractive
handsome

100

Translate the state words:
realise
sound
prefer
appear
owe

осознавать
звучать
предпочитать
появляться, казаться
задолжать

200

Guess by the definition: 

Good at learning and understanding things;
When you are always telling other people what to do;
Good, friendly, kind;

Clever
Bossy
Nice

200

Put the words given in the correct places in the sentences:

I use social networking sites. (never) They take up too much time.
We don’t chat online at the weekends. (often)
Jake is changing his avatar’s identity! (always) At the moment, he’s a bit bossy!
Do you react the same way as your avatar does? (usually)
My dad plays computer games. (rarely) He’s too impatient! (usually)

I never use social networking sites. They take up too much time.
We don’t often chat online at the weekends.
Jake is always changing his avatar’s identity!  At the moment he’s a bit bossy!
Do you usually react the same way as your avatar does?
My dad rarely plays computer games. He’s usually too impatient!

200

Choose the odd one:
happy - glad, cheerful, sociable
friendly - sociable, cute, outgoing
not easy - untidy, hard, difficult
clever - elderly, bright, intelligent
attractive - pretty, beautiful, bright

sociable
cut
untidy
elderly
bright

200

Tell us if we can use the words in present continuous and in what meaning?
like
be
have
taste

like - нравиться - no continuous
be - character - no Pr.C.; behaviour. - Pr. cont.
have - to possess - no Pr.C.; to eat - Pr.Cont.
taste - to have a flavour - no Pr. Cont; test a flavour - Pr.Cont.

300

Correct the mistakes:

Jack is a very pretty man.
Ben is quite well-grown, but he's not really fat!
My sister's got medium-height curly hair.
I'd love to be as long as you. I'm too short!

handsome
well-built
medium-length
tall

300

Correct the mistakes if there're any:

I do go to the local college.
Do you coming with us today?
We don’t often chat online.
Your dinner is on the table. It gets cold.
He always doesn’t wait for me after class.

I go to the local college.
Are you coming with us today?
correct
Your dinner is on the table. It is getting cold.
He doesn’t always wait for me after class

300

Give the synonyms:

slim
intelligent
sociable
beautiful
happy
hard

slim - thin
intelligent - smart, clever, bright
sociable - outgoing, friendly
beautiful - attractive, cute, good-looking, pretty, hansome
happy - glad, cheerful
hard - difficult 

300

Open the brackets:

This cake ... (taste) awful.
She ... (smell) flowers in the garden.
The people next door ... (have) party.
I'm sorry I ... (not understand) what you mean.
I ... (see) you ... (feel) better now.

tastes
is smelling
are having
don't understand
see, are feeling better

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