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Grammar 3 Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

One sentence does not have a mistake.
1 Write the comparative and superlative forms of 1 Mike is a lot lazyer than his brother.
these adjectives.
1 far __________ __________
2 It was worst painting in the exhibition.
2 angry __________ __________
3 comfortable __________ __________
4 intelligent __________ __________ 3 Leo is the more serious student in the class.
5 easy __________ __________

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2 Make sentences with the prompts and

comparatives or superlatives. 5 The test today was harder that the one last
week.
1 Our English class tomorrow is/early/ than
usual.

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2 The flight to Paris this year was/uncomfortable/
than it was last year.
Vocabulary
3 Dave bought /expensive/phone in the shop. 4 Complete the sentences with the correct
adjectives.
1 I have nothing to do, and all my friends are
4 Terry got /bad/ results in the class. away. I’m b__________.
2 Susie took my laptop to school today again!
I’m a__________.
5 The opera was /long/ than it said on the ticket. 3 I’m sitting on the beach in the sun with a good
book. I’m r__________.
4 I think I did badly in the test and I don’t want
/5 my results. I’m w__________.
5 Jim didn’t get the job he wanted, but he’s very
clever. I’m s__________.

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5 Reorder the letters to find adjectives. Then
complete the sentences.
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1 Jack is always __________, even when it’s
raining.
2 Megan’s mum is very __________ and drove
me to school today.
3 Some teenagers are more __________ than
others. They are more reliable.
4 I was always very __________ when I was
younger. I never helped my mum.
5 You have to be __________ to study maths!
It’s a difficult subject.
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6 Complete the sentences with the social
problems.
1 When people have no food: __________
2 When people have no work: ________
3 When people don’t have much money:
__________
4 When people fight a lot: __________
5 When people have nowhere to live:
__________
6 When the air or water is dirty: __________
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Reading
7 Read the text from which some sentences have
been taken out. Choose the correct sentences
A–D to fill the gaps.
Do you have a home and a happy family?
Perhaps you go to school and you’re studying
to go to university. You work hard and you
hope to have a good job in the future, get
married and live in a nice house. You’ve
probably got some hobbies too and do sports
and go out with your friends sometimes. (1)
___ There’s a lot of work, and you don’t have
time to do everything you want. Is that true for
you? Well, give us just a moment of your time
to think about something that is very important.
Some people don’t have the same life as
you. They didn’t go to university and they
don’t have a good job. They don’t have a
family. (2) ___ We see these people every day
in the big cities, but we don’t want to see them.
We don’t look at them because we think they
are dirty and lazy. We think that they live on
the streets because they don’t want to work.
That isn’t true. These people had everything a
long time ago. They had a life the same as us.
(3) ___ Now they have to sleep on the roads or
under bridges and they have to ask us for food
and money.
Here at Homes for All, we try to help these
people. We give them a bed for the night and
some food when it’s very cold outside. (4) ___
Can you help us? If your answer is yes, then
contact us on homesforall.com. Life is hard for
all of us sometimes.
A They don’t have a home.
B We also try to find work for them.
C But something happened, and they lost
everything.
D But life is sometimes difficult for you too.
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Listening (Tests CD, Track 10) Writing

8 You are going to hear an interview about life 10 Write an essay for your teacher about the
today. Listen and decide if the statements are differences in your life when you were first at
true (T) or false (F). school and now.

1 The woman would like to be a T/F Write 60–80 words.

teenager again.
2 When the woman was young, T/F
not so many people went to
university as today.
3 The woman thinks people buy more T/F
things today because they’ve got
more money.
4 The woman thinks adverts make T/F
life difficult for people with
children.

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Use of English
9 Complete the text with one word in each gap.
We recently did a project and compared (1)
__________ lives of students in our country
with students in England, and there were some
surprising results. In England, children are a lot
younger when they start school (2) __________
in our country, and there are usually more
children in a class. Our school day is shorter
than the English students’ day, but they have a
(3) __________ lunch break! Lucky them! We
do more homework than they do too! In both
countries, the boys’ results are (4) __________ /5
than the girls’ when they are young, but they
get better and are about the same when they are
older. In England, some students want to start
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school (5) __________ in the morning so they
can stay in bed longer. I think that’s a good
idea. But I’m the laziest person in my class, so
the others probably don’t agree! For English
students, the (6) __________ boring lesson is
maths, and I think that’s true here too. The best
lesson for English students is ICT. What a
surprise! Perhaps they learn how to win at
computer games!

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