ANSWERS 2 ESO

UNIT 4

Past continuous: affirmative and negative

1
1 was doing
2 were
3 weren’t
4 wasn’t
5 wasn’t
6 was sleeping
2
1 was swimming
2 was skiing
3 was cycling
3
1 We weren’t having breakfast.
2 It wasn’t raining this morning.
3 They weren’t listening to the teacher.
4 I wasn’t reading the newspaper.

Past continuous: questions

4
1 Were you doing your homework at 9 p.m.?
Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t.
2 Were you sleeping at 10 p.m.?
Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t.
3 Were you and your family watching TV at 8.30 _
p.m.?
Yes, we were. / No, we weren’t.
4 Were you walking home at 5 p.m. yesterday?
Yes, I was. / No, I wasn’t.
5
1 a
2 b
3 a
4 b
5 a

Vocabulary

Actions and movement

1
1 lie on
2 hold
 3 pick up
4 climb up
5 sit on
6 kick
7 hang from
8 jump up
9 walk on
2
1 was sitting
2 ’s hanging
3 ’re lying
4 are you holding
5 ’s kicking

Adjectives and adverbs

3
1 easy
2 patiently
3 quiet
4 rude
5 carefully
4
Across
2 brave
6 polite
7 well
Down
1 creatively
3 quiet
4 slowly
5

Jack Smith is a very creative person. He works happily in his studio which he likes because it
is quiet and comfortably.

People ask him to do paintings but they have to wait patient because he is sometimes quite
slowly. He says painting takes a long time.

1 comfortable
2 patiently
3 slow

UNIT 5

Comparative and superlative adjectives

1
-er double remove y,
consonant, add add -ier
 -er
faster bigger heavier
slower fatter friendlier
irregular more
worse more aggressive
better more expensive

2
1 Mount Blanc is higher than the Matterhorn but Mount Everest is the highest mountain.
2 Meg is shorter than Kate but Jim is the shortest.
3 Scotland is bigger than Wales but England is the biggest country in the UK.
4 Jan is funnier than David but Simon is the funniest.
5 Sam is more intelligent than Rosie but Jill is the most intelligent.

Ability: can and could

3
1 Could
2 could
3 Could
4 couldn’t
5 Could
6 couldn’t
7 can

4 I can walk when I was twelve months old but I can’t talk until I was eighteen months old. I
couldn’t ride a bike for a very long time but I could ride a bike now. I couldn’t swim when I
was a baby and I still couldn’t swim now!

could
1 couldn’t
2 can
3 can’t

Question with How…?

5
2 How many, f
3 How fast, e
4 How far, b
5 How long, a
6 How high, c

Vocabulary

Periods of time, numbers and measurement

1
1 kilos
2 days
3 minutes
 4 millennium
5 century
2
5 – 3, 6 – 10, 7 – 2, 8 – 4, 11 – 12
3
1 billion
2 decade
3 century
4 hundred
5 million
6 kilo
7 minutes

Jobs and skills

4
2 c
3 f
4 a
5 e
6 h
7 b
5
1 mathematician
2 programmer
3 genius
4 writer
5 inventor
6
1 expert
2 writer
3 genius
4 professors