1. Choose the correct answers (a-c) to complete the sentences.
1) On our trip, we visited a shop selling ____ furniture.
a old beautiful Chinese
b Chinese beautiful old
c beautiful old Chinese
2) We ordered some ____ olives with our meal.
a small black Greek
b Greek black small
c black small Greek
3) parents are buying a ____ sofa next week.
a new red comfortable
b red comfortable new
c comfortable new red
4) Our favourite singer has just married a ____ politician.
a middle-aged German tall
b tall middle-aged German
c German tall middle-aged
5) In the story, a girl finds the key to a ____ box.
a strange black antique
b black strange antique
c strange antique black
6) Look at those ____ kittens – they’re so cute!
a white young tiny
b tiny young white
c young tiny white
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1) c 2) a 3) c 4) b 5) c 6) b
2. Choose the correct answers (a or b) to complete the text.
A young contestant at the Mental Calculation World Cup
There are more and more reports of child prodigies – children with exceptional talents. One of these is the 1) ___ maths genius Cameron Thompson. As a 2) ___ boy, he corrected his teacher by saying that zero isn’t the lowest number, because she had forgotten about negative numbers. A(n) 3) ___ girl called Priyanshi Somani won the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010, held at the relatively 4) ___ university of Magdeburg. And a 5) ___ boy from Berlin started playing the violin at the age of two. Akim Camara has performed in front of 18,000 people, wearing a 6) ___ suit and playing a baby-size violin.
1) a Welsh amazing b amazing Welsh
2) a clever four-year-old b four-year-old clever
3) a Indian young b young Indian
4) a new German b German new
5) a remarkable little b little remarkable
6) a black tiny b tiny black
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1) b 2) a 3) b 4) a 5) a 6) b
3. Complete each sentence with the most appropriate two adjectives below in the correct order.
ancient delicious famous Greek Italian purple
tiny Turkish white young
1) The red and ____________ flag has a moon and a star on it.
2) The Parthenon is a(n) ____________ temple in Athens.
3) She picked up the ____________ boy to stop him from crying.
4) Michelangelo was a(n) ____________ painter.
5) Let’s make a fruit salad – we can use these ____________ grapes.
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1) white Turkish 2) ancient Greek 3) tiny young
4) famous Italian 5) delicious purple
4. Choose the correct adjective. If both are correct, put a tick.
1) Don’t be afraid / frightened ; the dog won’t hurt you.
2) His only alive / living relatives live in New Zealand.
3) Are you angry / annoyed because I’m late?
4) It’s a lonely / an alone life on that tiny island.
5) The glad / happy students celebrated the end of their exams with a party.
6) Shut the door quietly – your father’s asleep / sleeping .
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1) ✓ 2) living 3) ✓ 4) a lonely 5) happy 6 ✓
5. Complete the sentences with the words below. Use a dictionary to help you.
alone asleep aware content cross irritable sorry sure
1) I can’t be ____________ , but that looks like Jaime over there.
2) If your brother’s still ____________ , he’s going to miss breakfast!
3) When I’m on holiday, I always feel ____________ just to sit on the beach and sunbathe.
4) No one was ____________ that the date of the test had been changed.
5) Does your sister live ____________ or with friends?
6) She seems really ____________ about the accident.
7) He becomes ____________ when he hasn’t had enough sleep.
8) Emma looks really ________ What did you say to make her so angry?
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1) sure 2) asleep 3) content 4) aware 5) alone
6) sorry 7) irritable 8) cross
Extra exercises
1. Choose the correct adjective to complete the sentences.
1) The afraid / frightened children hid during the storm.
2) We heard angry / annoyed voices from next door.
3) There are a lot of alone / lonely old people in the world.
4) There were a lot of glad / happy faces at the party.
5) He picked up the asleep / sleeping child and put her to bed.
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1) frightened 2) angry 3) lonely 4) happy 5) sleeping
2. Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.
1) The music streaming service Spotify has over 20 million providers / subscribers worldwide.
2) One of the funniest things about the show is the channel / interaction between the comedian and the audience.
3) Which provider / subscriber offers the best service?
4) The content / platform on the website isn’t good.
5) Does internet accessibility / feedback decrease the further you move away from your router?
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1) subscribers 2) interaction 3 provider 4) content
5) accessibility
3. Replace the underlined words with extreme adjectives.
1) That film was very funny. ______________
2) We were very tired when we got home because we’d been travelling all day. ______________
3) sister was really angry when I spilled coffee on her laptop. ______________
4) I’m really hungry because I didn’t have time for breakfast this morning. ______________
5) The little boy couldn’t take his eyes off the magic show. He was really interested. ______________
6) The actress was very frightened when she heard that someone was stalking her. ______________
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1) hilarious 2) exhausted 3 furious 4) starving
5) fascinated 6) terrified
4. Complete the sentences with the phrases below.
be sure looks like most likely say that some kind
1) They’re ____________ journalists, or something like that.
2) It looks to me like a festival of ____________
3) I can’t ____________, but I think it’s Broadway.
4) I’d ____________ she was enjoying all the publicity.
5) It ____________ some kind of castle, or maybe a palace.
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1) most likely 2) some kind 3) be sure 4) say that
5) looks like
