Grammar
1. We go somewhere warm for our holidays. (usually)
2. I’m trying to write a song. (at the moment)
2. I'm trying to write a song at the moment.
Some of the best tea in the world is imported / exported from China.
exported
We ________(walk) for hours when we _______(realise) we were lost.
had been walking
realised
1. Oh, no! The other team ________(just / score) a goal!
2. How long ________(write) your own songs?
3. This is the first time I ________(ever / ride) a camel!
1. has just scored
2. have you been writing
3. have ever ridden
1. (g _ t _ nt _) – become interested and start doing
2. (g _ v _ _ p _ n) – stop hoping
3. (b _ w _ rth _ t)– enjoyable or useful enough to do despite the effort
1. get into
2. give up on
3. be worth it
I ate a lot of ice cream yesterday and I felt ill later.
MUCH
I ate _______________ yesterday that I felt ill later.
so much ice cream
1. The biggest swimming pool in the world is in Chile. It’s _________ big that people even sail boats on it!
2. The lack of rain last year meant there wasn’t _________ water to use for the crops.
1. so
2. enough
3. such
1. Chemicals in our body ______ down the food we eat so that our bodies can use it.
2. Please will you ______ up? It’s so untidy in here!
3. Can you come ______ with a good idea for a new business?
1. down
2. clean/clear
3. up
Brian, the quietest boy 1________ our class, went for a week’s work experience last month in the office of a railway company. All day long he heard complaints from customers: there weren’t 2________ trains on in the mornings, there were 3________ many delays, the coffee wasn’t 4________ good as it used to be … Strangely, Brian found it easier to reply to these complaints 5________ he did to answer questions in class. He did 6________ better in the job than anyone expected – people started calling just to talk to him! What a success!
1. in
2. enough
3. so
4. as
5. than
6. much
1. By the time we finished going round the exhibition, most of the visitors ________(leave) the museum.
2. The film ________(already / start) when we got to the cinema, so we missed the beginning.
3. The historian gave his talk and then he ________(accept) questions from the audience.
1. had left
2. had already started
3. accepted
Write the strong adjective for each:
1. tasty d_________
2. scary t_________
3. big m_________
4. very good b_________
5. not nice d_________
1. delicious
2. terrifying
3. massive
4. brilliant
5. disgusting
Holiday time!
I live in Puerto Vallarta in Mexico. This weekend I 1_______(go) on a school trip to Banderas Bay. So this time tomorrow, I 2_______(watch) the wild dolphins there! I’m sure it 3_______(be) really exciting. On the Saturday morning, our Biology teacher 4_______(give) us a talk first and then we 5_______(definitely / go) out on a boat. I’ll report back next week after we 6_______(get) back from the trip!
1. am going
2. will be watching
3. will be
4. is giving
5. are definitely going to go
6. get
Crazy robots!
A robot at a Tech Fair 1_______(talk) to some children when he suddenly 2_______(lose) control and 3_______(crash) into an exhibition stand. The organisers 4_______(discover) that the exhibitor who 5_______(control) the robot 6_______(hit) the forward button by accident instead of the reverse button.
1. was talking
2. lost
3. crashed
4. discovered
5. was controlling
6. had hit
Everyone knows at least one urban legend. But most people couldn’t
1_______(HONEST) say where or when they first heard it. By the time you hear it, it may have changed from the 2_______(ORIGIN) story. And by the time someone else hears it, it will 3_______(PROBABLE) be different again! No one really knows if people telling urban legends are telling the 4_______(TRUE). In fact, most of them might be inventions. Sometimes, they are exaggerated versions of incredible events that appear in the news. So, why do they spread so 5_______(QUICK) and widely? Most likely because they sound like they could be real.
1. honestly
2. original
3. probably
4. truth
5. quickly
1. People couldn’t ignore the evidence because the campaign presented such a lot of it.
SO
The campaign presented _______ people couldn’t ignore it.
2. That lecture about urban environments was so interesting!
SUCH
That _______ interesting lecture about urban environments!
3. There were such a lot of people at the conference that there wasn’t room for them all.
NOT
There _______ room for all the people at the conference.
1. so much evidence
2. was such an
3. was not enough