Exercise 1
Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position.
1) a beautiful table (wooden / round) ________
2) an unusual ring (gold) ________
3) an old house (beautiful) ________
4) black gloves (leather) ________
5) an American film (old) ________
6) a long face (thin) ________
7) big clouds (black) ________
8) a sunny day (lovely) ________
9) an ugly dress (yellow) ________
10) a wide avenue (long) ________
11) a lovely restaurant (little) ________
12) a red car (old / little) ________
13) a new sweater (green / nice) ________
14) a metal box (black / small) ________
15) a big cat (fat / black) ________
16) long hair (black / beautiful) ________
17) an old painting (interesting / French) ________
18) an enormous umbrella (red / yellow) ________
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1)
1 a beautiful round wooden table
2 an unusual gold ring
3 a beautiful old house
4 black leather gloves
5 an old American film
6 a long thin face
7 big black clouds
8 a lovely sunny day
9 an ugly yellow dress
10 a long wide avenue
11 a lovely little restaurant
12 a little old red car
13 a nice new green sweater
14 a small black metal box
15 a big fat black cat
16 beautiful long black hair
17 an interesting old French painting
18 an enormous red and yellow umbrella
Exercise 2
Complete each sentence with a verb (in the correct form) and an adjective from the boxes.
|
feel look seem smell sound taste |
awful fine interesting nice upset wet |
1) Helen ________ this morning. Do you know what was wrong?
2) I can't eat this. I've just tried it and it ________
3) I wasn't very well yesterday, but I ________ today.
4) What beautiful flowers! They ________ too.
5) You ________ . Have you been out in the rain?
6) James was telling me about his new job. It ________ – much better than his old job.
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2)
1 seemed upset
2 tastes/tasted awful
3 feel fine
4 smell nice
5 look wet
6 sounds/sounded interesting
Exercise 3
Put in the correct word.
1) This tea tastes a bit ________ . (strange / strangely)
2) I always feel ________ when the sun is shining. (happy / happily)
3) The children were playing ________ in the garden. (happy / happily)
4) The man became ________ when the manager of the restaurant asked him to leave. (violent / violently)
5) You look ________! Are you all right? (terrible / terribly)
6) There's no point in doing a job if you don't do it ________ . (proper / properly)
7) The soup tastes ________ . (good / well)
8) Hurry up! You're always so ________ . (slow / slowly)
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3)
1 strange 5 terrible
2 happy 6 properly
3 happily 7 good
4 violent 8 slow
Exercise 4
Write the following in another way using the first … / the next … / the last … .
1) the first day and the second day of the course ________
2) next week and the week after ________
3) yesterday and the day before yesterday ________
4) the first week and the second week of May ________
5) tomorrow and a few days after that ________
6) questions 1, 2 and 3 in the exam ________
7) next year and the year after ________
8) the last day of our holiday and the two days before that ________
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4)
1 the first two days of the course
2 the next two weeks
3 the last two days
4 the first two weeks of May
5 the next few days
6 the first three questions (in the exam)
7 the next two years
8 the last three days of our holiday