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) …………………….
Answers
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.
Answers
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)
Answers
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 …………………….
Answers
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