Grammar Unit 5: 1. Complete The Sentences With To Be and The Comparative or Superlative Form of The Adjectives Below

Grammar Unit 5
1. Complete the sentences with to be and the comparative or superlative form

of the adjectives below.
fat  adventurous  hot  interesting  strong  good  dangerous  colourful
1. Mosquitoes can give people malaria. They ……………………………… spiders.
2. You must watch TV at 6.00! Animal Planet ……………………………… documentary
about animals on the Discovery Channel.
3. That black mouse never stops eating. It ……………………………… all the other mice.
4. Some of the Brazilian parrots ……………………………… birds in the world.
5. A weightlifter must ……………………………… many other types of athletes.
6. Jim wants to go to the jungle. Ellie prefers the beach. Jim ………………………………
Ellie.
7. This summer the temperatures are over 40ºC. It ……………………………… summer
in fifty years.
8. Some people like the film, but I prefer the book. In my opinion, the book
……………………………… the film.
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2 Look at the fact file about two chimpanzees. Then write sentences about them
with (not) as … as and suitable adjectives.
Lucy (female) Ricky (male)
age: 7 years 7 years
height: 1 metre 1.2 metres
weight: 25 kilos 32 kilos
colour: black black
activities: play with other play with other
chimpanzees chimpanzees
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjectives in brackets
1. Twins Meg and Bella both weigh 18.2 kilos. Meg is ………………………………
(heavy) Bella.
2. Lionel Messi is one of ……………………………… (good) football players in the
world.
3. A dog is ……………………………… (dangerous) a wolf.
4. Algeria is more than 2.38 million square kilometres. It’s ………………………………
(big) country in Africa.
5. Parrots are ……………………………… (colourful) than bats.
6. A giraffe is ……………………………… (tall) an elephant.
7. Black is ……………………………… (dark) colour of all.
8. A zebra runs at 64 kilometres an hour. A horse can run at 80 kilometres an hour.
The zebra is ……………………………… (fast) the horse.
4 Complete the text about sharks with the adjectives in brackets. Use to be and
the correct form of the comparative, superlative or (not) as ... as.
Scuba diving with sharks is becoming a very popular activity. Diving
1.
……………………………… (adventurous) than ordinary water sports, and diving
with sharks 2. ……………………………… (exciting) than ordinary diving. It is an
amazing experience! People often dive with sand tiger sharks. These sharks 3.
……………………………… (strong) than ordinary fish, but don’t worry – they never
eat people. At only three metres from head to tail, they 4. ………………………………
(big) sharks in the ocean, but they 5. ……………………………… (big) than a human.
Sand tiger sharks 6. ……………………………… (shy) as other fish, so you
can swim near them. They 7. ……………………………… (friendly)
as dolphins, so you can’t play with them, but you can watch them and
take photos of them. Believe it or not – scuba diving with sharks isn’t
8.
……………………………… (dangerous) sport on our planet
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5 Complete the sentences with the comparative or superlative form of a suitable
adjective in brackets.
1. The River Nile is 6,853 kilometres from the beginning to the end. It is ………………………………
river in Africa. (heavy / long / unusual)
2. Jay has got straight hair. Les hasn’t got straight hair. Les’ hair is ………………………………
(long / curly / ugly) Jay’s hair.
3. Parrots are ……………………………… bats. (amazing / wild / colourful)
4. Keret House in Poland is 122 centimetres wide. It is ……………………………… building in Europe.
(long, narrow, short)
5. Black sheep are ……………………………… white sheep. (light / unusual / ordinary)
6 Complete the second sentence so it has got a similar meaning to the first.
Use the adjectives below and (not) as … as. (4 points)
pretty  dangerous  old  fat
1. Butterflies are beautiful but flies aren’t.
Flies ……………………………… butterflies.
2. Jane and Ella have got the same birthday – 27th May 2000.
Jane ……………………………… Ella.
3. Tigers and sharks are strong and have got very big teeth.
Tigers ……………………………… sharks.
4. My cat and your cat both weigh five kilos!
My cat ……………………………… your cat.
1 Read the text and answer the questions.
A very interesting phenomenon is happening in the city of Moscow, Russia. Many dogs are living on
the street there, and they must be very intelligent in order to stay alive. According to a study by
scientists at the Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, there are about 35,000 dogs in
Moscow’s streets. Many of these dogs begin life as pets, but then their owners leave them in the
5 streets. The dogs haven’t got homes, and they must find food and a place to sleep. Only about 3% of
the dogs survive. Over time, they start to look like wolves and they aren’t as friendly as ordinary pet
dogs. They have got some new and very unusual skills, and these skills help them to survive.
According to the Severtsov study, there are four different groups of dogs. The first group helps the
guards at hospitals, car parks and other places, and the guards give them food. The second group begs
10 for food from people on the street, and the third group looks for food in rubbish bins. The fourth
group of dogs is wilder than the others. They eat mice, rats and cats.
One special sub-group of beggar dogs is cleverer than all the other groups. These dogs ride on the
metro trains from place to place and receive food from travellers. Some people are more generous
than others and the dogs seem to have an instinct for who to ask for food. The dogs also travel to the
15 centre of the city because the food on the streets is better there. They can recognise the different metro
stations, so they can return “home” at night. About 500 dogs live in the metro stations, but only about
20 of them know how to ride the trains.
The Moscow metro dogs are controversial. Government officials don’t like the dogs and don’t want
them to go on the metro. The metro guards have the job of keeping the dogs out of the stations, but
20 some of them like the dogs. Some passengers also like the dogs, but others are afraid of them. It
seems the problem of the Moscow dogs isn’t easy to solve.
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1. What quality helps the Moscow street dogs to survive?
2. What happens to the appearance of the surviving dogs?
3. Where can you often find the first group of dogs?
4. Why does the text mention mice, rats and cats?
5. What are two reasons that the metro dogs ride the trains?
6. Why do some metro guards feel a conflict about the dogs?
2 Find the following numbers in the text. What do they refer to?
1. 35,000 ……………………
2. 3% ……………………
3. 500 ……………………
3 Find words in the text to match the definitions below.

1. start (lines 1-7) ……………………
2. stay alive (lines 1-7) ……………………
3. abilities (lines 1-7) ……………………
4. passengers (lines 12-17) ……………………
5. scared (lines 18-21) ……………………

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Grammar Unit 5

1. Complete the sentences with to be and the comparative or superlative form

1 Read the text and answer the questions.

2. What happens to the appearance of the surviving dogs?

3. Where can you often find the first group of dogs?

4. Why does the text mention mice, rats and cats?

6. Why do some metro guards feel a conflict about the dogs?

3 Find words in the text to match the definitions below.

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