1

a
b
Answer
b dif erences between them
c
Answers
1 Susanna 2 Sabine 3 Sabine and Hussein 4 Sabine

2 GRAMMAR Comparative adjectives
a
Answers
1 tablet; smartphone
2 tablet; smartphone
3 tablet; smartphone
4 tablet; smartphone
5 smartphone; tablet
b

Answers
adjectives: heavier, better, bigger, more expensive, lighter
rule: different
c Answers
1 -er; harder
2 more; more
3 better

d 3.37
Answers
1 than
2 than
e 3.
Answer
not stressed
CAREFUL!
One of the most common mistakes with comparative adjectives
is with the spelling. The spelling rules for comparative
adjectives are highlighted in Grammar Focus 7A on SB p.154.
At this level the most common mistakes are with double
letters. Students may either not double the final consonant
in comparative adjectives, e.g. biger (Correct form: bigger),
or double the final consonant where it isn’t necessary, e.g.
cheapper (Correct form = cheaper). Students may also use
more with one-syllable adjectives, which should form the
comparative with -er, e.g. more hard (Correct form = harder)
and more light (Correct form = lighter). They may also use both
more and -er at the same time, e.g. more heavier (Correct form =
heavier) and more smaller (Correct form = smaller).
Ater studying more for comparatives, students may then start
to overuse this in sentences which require very, e.g. … they are
more expensive. (Correct form = I haven’t got a tablet because
they are very expensive.).

f 3. Answers (Grammar Focus 10A SB p.155)

a 2 worse 3 cleaner 4 colder 5 more comfortable
6 more crowded 7 faster 8 fatter 9 better
10 more interesting 11 more modern 12 noisier
13 older 14 more popular 15 sadder 16 stranger
17 stronger 18 thinner 19 wetter 20 wider
b 2 The film is more interesting than the book.
3 Her children are noisier than my children.
4 She is a better cook than my dad.
5 Dubai is more modern than Dublin.
6 This hotel is more comfortable than the last hotel.
7 My friends are fitter than me.
2 good better
c 1 She’s/is 3 worser worse
quicker 6 more big
5 weter
4 prettyer prettier bigger
wetter
7 most more interesting 8 faster than mine

3 LISTENING
a 3.39
Answer
The podcast talks about diferent ideas from the reading text:
pocketability and eatability.

b 3. Answers
1a2b
c
4 VOCABULARY IT collocations
a 3.40
Answers
1 surf
2 check
3 make
Answers
1 b; c
2d
3a
4 a; e
5 b; c
c

1 LISTENING
a
b 3.41
Answers
Italian ✓, English ✓, Japanese ✓, Mandarin Chinese ✓,
Basque ✓, Spanish ✓

c 3.
Answers
1 Italian
2 Japanese
3 Spanish
4 Mandarin Chinese

d 3.41
Answers
1 Italian
2 more than 20
3 in parts of Spain and France
4 14%
e
2 GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives
a 3.
adjectives adjectives adjectives
big bigger
easy easier
good better
hard harder
musical more musical

Answers
1 best
2 musical
3 hardest
4 easiest
5 biggest
b
Answers
1 Spanish
2 French
3 Japanese
4 Basque
c
d Answers
1 -est; smallest
2 most; most
3 best

e 3.43 Answers (Grammar Focus 10B SB p.155)

3 the funniest 5 the
a 2 the 4 the
prettiest
fittest driest
7 the 9 the
6 the worst 8 the best
friendliest biggest
10 the nicest 11 the safest 12 the most exciting
13 the most tiring 14 the hottest
3 the most popular; the most
b 2 The shortest
interesting
4 The most useful 5 The fastest 6 the most important
7 the best 8 the worst
f 3.
g 3. Answer
on the adjective
h

3 READING
a
b
Answer
It has interesting facts about languages and learning languages.
c
Answers
1 the best 6 the heaviest
2 the fastest 7 the shortest
3 the oldest 8 the longest
4 most expensive 9 the most dificult
5 the biggest 10 the most dificult
d Answers
1 Harold Williams
2 Tamil
3 Khmer
4 the Oxford English Dictionary
5 Fran Capo
6 English
e

4 VOCABULARY High numbers

a
Answers
people who answered a question
three thousand online about the easiest language
to learn
people who speak Mandarin
nine hundred million
Chinese
words Fran Capo can say in 54
six hundred and three
seconds
words in the Oxford English
six hundred thousand
Dictionary
b 3.46
Answers (Vocabulary Focus 10B SB p.162)
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
a1d 2g
a f c e j i h b
b 2 two thousand and
3-
two
4 three hundred and eighty-one thousand two hundred and
forty-five
5 two million six hundred and seventy
6 fiteen million six hundred and eighty thousand four hundred
and thirty

c
5 SPEAKING
a
Answers
1 the nicest
2 the most beautiful
3 the best
4 the ugliest
5 the longest
6 the hardest
7 the most dificult
8 the most interesting
b