Beautiful,successful, rich,huge, large, willful, bad, popular.
Form the comparative and the superlative degrees of the adjectives from the text.
goodheavy
cold little
bad expensive
Use the adjectives given in brackets in the comparative or superlative form.
1. Two heads are … than one. (good)
2. This is … book I have ever read. (interesting)
3. Concorde is…plane in the world. (fast)
4. Mike is…than Nick. (tall)
5. Harrods is… shop in London. (expensive)
6. This is… hotel in our city. (cheap)
7. We discuss… news. (late)
8. My… brother is five years my senior. (old)
9. The first exercise is… than the second. (difficult)
10. The weather has become…. It looks like raining. (bad)
Translate into Russian.
1. She is as pretty as a rose.
2. He is as clever as an owl.
3. My brother is not so strong as my father.
4. He is not so busy as me.
5. This girl is more attractive than that one.
6. The student is as clever as his teacher.
7. My car is not so new as your car.
Use the necessary form of the adjective or adverb.
1. The Mississippi is (long) river in the world. 2. My cigarettes are (bad) than yours. 3. The battle of Waterloo was the (great) battle of all times. 4. This plan is (practical) of all. 5. She is not so (tall) as her sister. 6. He is (strong) than his brother. 7. Our house is as (low) as yours. 8. Elbrus is the (high) peak in the Caucasian mountains. 9. The Neva is (wide) and (deep) than the Moskva river. 10. October is (cold) than June.
Answer the questions.
1. Are the cities in Scotland as large as the cities in England? 2. Is the Volga longer than the Don? 3. Which is the shortest month of the year? 4. Which is the biggest city in Great Britain? 5. Which is the most beautiful square in Moscow? 6. Which season is the coldest? 7. Where is it better to spend a holiday: in the South or in the North? 8. Where is it better to live: in the city or in the countryside?
Additional Text
Books in our Life
Books... I think that we can’t live without them.
I consider that books are with us during all our life. When I was a child my parents read them to me. I was pleased to listen to the stories and tales. I learned a lot of interesting things from books. I remember, I liked thick books.
Later I could read myself. I like to read books about animals, nature and children.
I like to get presents on my birthday. I am happy if it is a book. It doesn’t matter what kind of book it is. I like to read almost all books. If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book. When I was fifteen I was fond of reading too.
But I preferred to read books about travels. I travelled with the heroes of the stories. I saw many interesting places and learned a lot of important facts about other countries and people.
Now I like to read books on science. You can learn many things from books. I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.
Our family has got many books. All the members of our family buy books and read them. My mother says that books help us in self-education.
In ancient times books were written by hand. It was difficult to write a book with a pen. Then printing came into our life. Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.
Now there are a lot of books in the shops, there are many books in our flats. But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read. That’s why we get books in public libraries.
There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to solve them. I think that books can help us. Last year. I read a very interesting book “An
American Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser. This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century. The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story. This novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays. Books must be our friends during all our life.
