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Lesson 3:

Adjectives and Adverbs - Exercises

1. Underline the correct order

• A big fat Russian Man → 1c ✓
• An old carving steel knife → 2d ✗ → 2b
• A wonderful red sports car → 3a ✓
• An oval new wooden table → 4c ✓
• A new Italian exciting recipe → 5a ✗ → 5d
• A big black leather coat → 6b ✓
• A nice little cotton tie → 7d ✓
• Brown leather riding boots → 8a ✓

2. Complete the sentences while the correct form of the verb (-ing or -ed)

• 1 - terrifying ✗
• 2 - boring ✗
• 3 - interesting ✓
• 4 - disappointing ✓
• 5 - depressing ✗
• 6 - bored ✗
• 7 - embarrassed ✓
• 8 - depressing ✗
• 9 - terrified ✓
• 10 - disappointing ✗
• 11 - exciting ✓
• 12 - interesting ✗
• 13 - embarrassed ✗
• 14 - excited ✓

3. From nouns to adjectives

• Anger: Angry
• Love: Loving Fearful
• Joy: Joyful
• Horror: Horrific
• Terror: Terrifying
• Humour: Humorous
• Hate: Hateful
• Passion: Passionate
• Sun: Sunny
• Trouble: Troublesome
• Ease: Easy
• Child: Childless
• Reason: Reasonable
• Delight: Delightful
• Sleep: Sleepy
• Glamour: Glamorous
• Music: Musical
• Salt: Salty
• Wood: Wooden
• Juice: Juicy
• Hope: Hopeful
• Height: High
• Pride: Proud
• Wisdom: Wise
• Nation: National
• Length: Long

4. Rewrite the sentence if the adverb is in the wrong position

• She usually visits her parent at the weekend ✓
• You'll never finish your project in time if you don't hurry up ✓
• Susan is late. Probably She has forgotten about the meeting.
• I never feel cold in your house ✓
• Love very much Travelling by plane ✓ too much
• Always you should look before you cross the street ✓
• Often I don't go to the doctor ✓ too much
• We will be definitely keep his girlfriend tonight ✓

Lesson 3: Adjectives and Adverbs - Exercises

1. Underline the correct order
   1. A big fat Russian man → 1c ✓
   2. An old carving steel knife → 2d ✗ → 2b
   3. A wonderful red sports car → 3a ✓
   4. An oval new wooden table → 4c ✓
   5. A new Italian exciting recipe → 5a ✗ → 5d
   6. A big black leather coat → 6b ✓
   7. A nice little cotton tie → 7d ✓
   8. Brown leather riding boots → 8a ✓
2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb (-ing or -ed)
   1. terrifying ✗
   2. boring ✗
   3. interesting ✓
   4. disappointing ✓
   5. depressing ✓
   6. bored ✗
   7. embarrassed ✓
   8. depressing ✗
   9. terrified ✗
   10. disappointing ✗
   11. exciting ✓
   12. interesting ✗
   13. embarrassed ✗
   14. excited ✓
3. From nouns to adjectives
   • Anger → Angry
   • Love → Loving
   • Fear → Fearful
   • Joy → Joyful
   • Terror → Terrifying
   • Humour → Humorous
   • Hate → Hateful
   • Passion → Passionate
   • Sun → Sunny
   • Trouble → Troublesome
   • Ease → Easy
   • Child → Childless
   • Reason → Reasonable
   • Delight → Delightful
   • Glamour → Glamorous
   • Music → Musical
   • Salt → Salty
   • Wood → Wooden
   • Sleep → Sleeping
   • Hope → Hopeful
   • Height → High
   • Pride → Proud
   • Juice → Juicy
   • Nation → National
   • Length → Long
   • Wisdom → Wise
4. Rewrite the sentence if the adverb is in the wrong position
   1. She usually visits her parents at the weekend ✓
   2. You'll never finish your project in time if you don't hurry up ✓
   3. Susan is late. Probably she has forgotten about the meeting ✗
   4. I never feel cold in your house ✓
   5. I love very much travelling by plane ✗ very much
   6. Always you should look before you cross the street ✗
   7. Often I don't go to the doctor ✗ very much
   8. Luke will he definitely meet his girlfriend tonight ✓

1. I should never have taken the children to see.
2. She's sleepy...
3. I'm never late for school
4. They usually go skiing in March
5. My husband always gets up...
6. My brother often walks to the...
7. I had seen...
8. My dad often goes to...
9. Sometimes we have...
10. They had lived there.

Are the words in bold adjectives or adverbs

1. adjectives
2. adverbs
3. adverbs
4. adverbs
5. adjectives
6. adjectives
7. adverbs
8. adjectives
9. adjectives
10. adverbs
11. adjectives
12. adverbs

Underline the right word

1. terribly
2. bad
3. madly
4. surprisingly
5. real
6. cleverly
7. slight
8. wonderful

Use the adjective in bracket

1. easy
2. beautifully
3. simply
4. comfortably
5. easily
6. beautiful
7. simple
8. comfortable

Comparatives and Superlatives Exercises

Exercise 1

1. The best
2. more expensive/than
3. the cheapest
4. more expensive/that
5. the most delicious
6. better/most interesting

Exercise 2

1. bigger
2. more attractive
3. more peaceful
4. most boring
5. the best
6. the biggest
7. milder

Exercise 3

• badly worse worst
• far further furthest
• little less least
• well better the best

Exercise 4

1. My sofa is as comfortable as mine
2. This winter is as very cold as last winter
3. Jane is as beautiful as Jane’s mother
4. Jenny does an works hard as Max
5. Kathy can run fast as Sue

Exercise 5

1. Further furthest
2. faster furthest
3. worse
4. more carefully
5. more fluent
6. the most fluently

Exercise 6

1. in
2. on
3. in
4. of
5. in
6. of
7. in

Exercise 7

1. better
2. louder
3. more expensive
4. farthest
5. rudest
6. worse
7. worst

Exercise 8

1. fewer
2. the least
3. the most
4. more
5. much
6. much (mass uncountable)

Exercise 9

1. Matthew is the best student in my class
2. Mary is as smart as her sister
3. I need further information about this holiday
4. This book is the least most expensive of all
5. My sister drives more carefully than her husband

Exercise 10

1. happier
2. nicer
3. the tallest
4. the worst
5. the most badly
6. the nearest
7. firmer
8. most important
9. harder
10. bigger
11. nicer
12. more

Lesson 15 Exercises: Conditional Clauses

Esercizio 1

1. would have had left
2. was is
3. isn't leave
4. am were
5. would leave
6. will miss miss
7. had had gone
8. hadn’t left

Esercizio 2

1. when if
2. when if
3. when if
4. when if
5. when if
6. when if
7. when if
8. when if
9. if when
10. if when
11. if when
12. if when
13. if when
14. if when
15. if when
16. if when

Esercizio 3

1. didn’t finish so I wouldn’t have could come with you
2. had not lent, couldn’t have afforded

Esercizio 4

1. provided that
2. unless
3. provided that
4. provided that
5. provided that
6. unless
7. provided that
8. provided that
9. unless
10. unless

Esercizio 5

2. in case
3. as long as
4. unless

Esercizio 6

1. I wish I had more money
2. I wish I could give up smoking
3. I wish I had more time
4. I wish it could be cold I wish it weren't so cold in this place
5. I wish I could drive

Esercizio 7

1. She wishes she could know
2. John wishes he was
3. They wish they lived
4. We wish we could
5. I wish you had

Lessons 13 Exercises: Future Tenses

• Will
• Present simple
• Present continuous
• To be going to

1. A - V
2. B - V
3. A - V
4. V - A
5. A - V
6. B - V
7. D - V
8. B - V

14 - V

15 - doesn't V

16 - does V

17 - arrive V

18 - is coming V

19 - am V

20 - will take V

1. 1 - V
2. 2 - A V
3. A - V
4. V - V
5. 4 - will cost V
6. V - V
7. V - V
8. V - V
9. V - will start V

a) 1 - leaves V

2 - is departing V

3 - will change V

4 - will be drinking V

5 - arrives V

6 - is snowing V

7 - starts V

8 - to point out V

9 - will have V

10 - will take V

1. 4 - will be burning V
2. is snow V
3. 6 - will drive V

LESSONS 11 EXERCISES

1. We didn’t enjoy the meal
2. Did you eat the cheese?
3. Susy spent
4. She didn’t feel well
5. Did they catch the fish?

2. Were you doing? Was washing up, broke Was doing Didn’t see / was watching Was swimming Was stopping, screamed Were you doing? Did you feel Were you doing? Didn’t understand Did you live? Were seeing / did they doing?

3. Was sitting, saw Went, show Felt, was running Broke, lived Was, least, studied Rang / had Wasted Were arriving Did you wear? Met Lost Was teaching Lived, worked

4. Gone, been Been Gone Gone, been Been Gone Been Gone Been Gone Been

5. Haven't Sew I Have never met Made Left Did you eat Haven't finished Turned up Often Wondered Have read Led

6. Have been sitting Have been standing Haven't Have been paying Have been learning Have learned Haven't been Have been Has written Haven't been finished Have been waiting Haven't arrived Have gardened, Have planted

7. Had Had finished Hadn't checked, broke Had arrived, didn’t invited Spreaded, had arrived Eat, got Left Realised Forgot

ESERCIZIO 1

1. a, the
2. an, a
3. the, a
4. the
5. the
6. a, the
7. the
8. the, a
9. a
10. the
11. an, a
12. a
13. a, the
14. a, a
15. the, an
16. an
17. the

ESERCIZIO 2

1. Most of the players like playing on Sundays
2. Correct
3. Correct
4. A few
5. Correct

ESERCIZIO 3

1. Have
2. Most of
3. Every
4. Neither
5. Each

ESERCIZIO 4

1. Very little
2. A little
3. A few
4. Very few
5. A few
6. A little

ESERCIZIO 5

1. Some
2. Any
3. Any
4. Any
5. Some
6. Any

ESERCIZIO 6

1. Too much
2. Too many
3. Too
4. Too, too many
5. Too much
6. Too
7. Too much
8. Too much
9. Too many
10. Too much

ESERCIZIO 7

1. A lot of
2. Many
3. Many
4. Much
5. A lot of
6. A lot of
7. Many
8. Many
9. Many, much
10. A lot of, much, a lot of

ESERCIZIO 8

1. Some
2. A few, any
3. Every
4. Another
5. Other, other
6. Any, another