Tennis player Maria Sh 1 People in Istanbul speak 2 A lot of people in China speak 3 ‘Language’ is a…

2 Complete the dialogue using a word or expression from the box. There are four extra words. baseball basketball do exercise final go league player runner team tournament won Bob: Do you like sport, Eva? 0 Eva: Oh yes, I do a lot of exercise every week. I love tennis and usually play in a tennis every month. I got into the of the last one. 1 2 Bob:: Wow, you must be a really good 3 ! Eva: Yes, not bad. I a really nice cup in the local tennis competition last year. What about you, Bob? Do you like sport? swimming twice a Bob: Oh yes, 15 week. I’m in the school swimming 6 — there are about eight of us and we all practise together. Eva: I’d like to try. too, but I don’t think I’m tall enough to be really good. I’m not very good at throwing a big ball like that either. Bob: Oh well, at least you’re really good at one sport. Eva: And you too!​

Write the words in the correct form (normal adjective, comparative
or superlative)
Most of the questions in everde 2 are (1)
to answer, Some have a dear answer. For example, the
Big) animal in the world is the blue whate,
It can grow to 30 metres (3)
( Cong), and can werth
190 tons, and the cheetah is the (1)
A cheetah can run at 120 bilometres per hour — but some birds are
Gast) than that. At the moment, the worlds
Cong) bridge is in China, It’s called the
Danyang Kunshan Grand Bridge and it’s 164,8 kilometres long,
Cong) one tomorrow. We know which type of tree is the
(tall) in the world, That’s the coast redwood tree, Coast redwood trees are in
(tall) coast redwood we know about is 115,56 metres
(tall) trees we don’t know about. We don’t really know
are 1,750,000 years old! Are they buildings? It’s (12)
(old) building in the world is. There are some stone cirdes in Africa that
(difficult) to say, Some people think
other people might think that someone else is (14)
(good) chess player in the world, but
(good), What’s the
(dangerous) sport? Is it diving Rafting Street luge? (If you don’t know what
that is, look it up on the internett) People disagree. And what’s the (16)
(difficult)
language to learn? Well, that depends what language you speak already!
California in the USA, The (9)
tall, but there may be other (10)
what the (11)
Viswanathan Anand from India is the (13)​

7- These trainers are much
those. (cheap)
8 — Frank works
most people (hard)
9 — I’m
at English than you (good)
10 — Today has been
day of the year. (hot)
11 — This is
CDI’ve ever listened (bad)
12 — English is
Japanese, (easy)
13 — Which mountain is
in the world. (high)
Fohn is
his brother. (clever)
15 alish is
Latin. (useful)​

c Complete the conversations. Use where possible. contractions They aren’t French. They re Swiss, from Lausanne. 1 A B No, we English. 2 A B Yes, they 4 Sorry, you room 22. 5 A 3 Nikolai is from Moscow. He from St Petersburg. from Madrid. B No, it 6 A B Yes, you you from the United States? American. We 71 8 They they Spanish? .They from Texas. in room 20, you’re in Adidas American? we late? 9.30! Sara Smith, I’m Sara Simpson. from New York, they’re 9 A Where’s Laura from? B She A B Yes, it German. from Recife. Recife in Brazil? p.12​

7

Speaking

• Giving personal details

Ask and answer.

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. Marika

Russia, Moscow

— 13

A: Hello! What’s your name?

B: Ricardo.

A: Where are you from?

B: I’m from Spain.

• Ricardo

●

Spain, Valencia

12

• Jane

the USA, New York

• 12

Sergio

Portugal, Lisbon

• 14

Nurlan

Kazakhstan, Almaty

15

A: You’re Spanish, then.

B: Yes, I’m from Valencia.

A: How old are you?

B: I’m 12.

Put the words in the correct order to make correct sentences. goes a few a week. My days swimming sister a lot of bags. player brings tennis favourite My every neighbour he but My year. runs doesn’t run a marathon much,

2 Read the text. Then mark the sentences T (true), F (false) or ? (the text doesn’t say). Assel is writing to Jenny about a day that’s celebrated in Kazakhstan and other parts of 1 the world. 2 3 4 Assel doesn’t know how many languages Jenny speaks. On the Day of Languages, Assel left school an hour early. Assel and her classmates talked about helping languages survive. 5 Assel won the competition they had in class. 6 The students who acted in the play spoke in different languages.​

3 Order the words to make questions.

1 speak/you/ German/can/?

Can you speak German?

2 Mark/car/can/a/drive/?

3

French/they/at/can/school/learn/?

4

sister / Italian / your / understand / can/?

5

Tina’s/walk/baby/can/?

6 play/can/brother/ your / football/?

7 kilometres / swim / many/you/ how/can/?

GRAMMAR QUIZ ARTICLES: A, AN, THE Choose the best answers: a, an, the, or Ø (no word). 9. 1. Can you see . sun when it is rainy and cloudy? a) the b) an c) a 2. Yesterday, I saw . beautiful blue bird at a park. a) the b) Ø c) a 3. He is wearing a hat. hat is brown. a) A b) The c) An 4. What is . correct answer, twenty or twenty-five? a) Ø b) the c) a . 5. Brazil is . country. The country is located in South America. a) the b) a c) an 6. I love to eat . apples. I usually eat an apple every day. a) Ø b) an c) the 7. Where did you put . ticket that I gave you yesterday? a) a b) the c) an 8. My birthday is on . last day of September. a) an b) a c) the 2 Ferdinand was . only student in our class to get an A+ on the exam. a) Ø b) an c) the 10. Maree usually eats . sandwich for lunch. a) a b) Ø c) the 11. Mexico City and London are both . big cities. a) the b) Ø c) a 12. What is . meaning of this word? Do you have a dictionary? a) a b) the c) Ø 13. We had. g holiday! a) a b) the c) an great time on our summer 14. He has to go to a very important meeting on . Tuesday. a) Ø b) the c) an 15. ‘A’ is. first letter of the English alphabet. a) an b) a c) the 16. Could you please give this paper to . Emily? a) an b) Ø c) the​

1. A Mercedes is ________ (expensive) a Fiat. 2. Maradona is ________ (good) football player ever. 3. A swordfish is ________ (fast) a jellyfish. 4. Julio is ________ (friendly) Carlos. 5. Irene is ________ (clever) Silvia. 6. Comedies are ________ (funny) police dramas. 7. Pablo is ________ (big) Juanma. 8. Max is ________ (old) John. 9. Adriano is ________ (fast) Ronaldo. 10. My hair is ________ (long) yours. 11. A dolphin is ________ (intelligent) a shark. 12. Elaine is ________ (wise) her sister. 13. Tony is ________ (happy) Max. 14. Sandra is ________ (busy) Sam. 15. Skiing is ________ (dangerous) football. 16. This is ________ (narrow) of all roads in Málaga. 17. Health is ________ (important) money. 18. Those cakes are ________ (bad) I´ve ever tasted. 19. My dog is ________ (good) dog in the world. 20. Patricia´s house is ________ (small) Linda´s. 21. A car is ________ (fast) a bike. 22. My laptop is ________ (fast) yours. 23. The ant is ________ (small) insect. 24. This lamp is ________ (bright) one in the room. 25. My house is ________ (clean) her house. 26. Jack is ________ (tall) boy in his class. 27. Steven Spielberg is ________ (good) film director in the world. 28. This dress is ________ (old) that one. 29. A sea lion is ________ (heavy) a lobster. 30. A sports car is ________ (fast) a motorbike.