Oefentoets chapter 6 M1

Exercise 1: Vocabulary
Complete the sentences. Choose the correct words.

1 I am talking – please be quiet and don’t interrupt / practise me.

2 He’s sick so he has to feel / skip the game today.

3 My brother hurt his ankle / gymnastics playing basketball.

4 It’s your turn in five minutes; just be awful / patient.

5 Don't forget to paint the nail on her neck / thumb too.

6 The coach / performance always gets angry when her team loses.

7 Is it possible / unusual to meet up tomorrow? I am free at 3 o’clock.

8 My sisters are only 8 years old, but they belong to / pick up languages very quickly.

Exercise 2: Comparisons
Use the correct form of the comparisons (-er & -est) or more/most.

1. Jack is even noisier (noisy) than Mark.

2. But Chris is literally the noisiest (noisy) of them all!

3. This couch is more comfortable (comfortable) than the other one.

4. I think my sister is the happiest (happy) girl on earth now!

5. This movie was stranger (strange) than the one we watched but ABC was the strangest

(strange)!

6. Don’t do that again. That was the worst (bad) idea ever!

7. She is less (little) tall than her sister.

Exercise 3: Past simple of ‘to be’ and ‘have’

Complete the sentences. Fill in the past simple of to be or to have. Sometimes you have to use the

negative form (not).

1 Michael Jackson’s music video Thriller was a big hit in 1983.

2 My mother was twenty-one when she met my father.

3 There wasn’t anything interesting on TV last night, so I read a book.

4 It’s a pity that you weren’t at the party. We had a lot of fun.

5 We were out for dinner so we weren’t home when you called.

6 Was your sister sick at home last week or not?

7 Indiana Jones and Back to the Future were our favourite films in the nineties.

8 Dave and Anna had their birthday last Sunday, or am I wrong?

9 The leading actress in that film wasn’t very good, I’m afraid.

10 I didn’t have fun at the museum in Paris last month.

Exercise 4: Writing

Write down 7 sentences with vocabulary from this chapter and comparisons (exercise 2) and
past simple of ‘to be’ and ‘have’.

1. English is more fun than Dutch / funnier (maar dan betekent dat grappig).

2. The kids didn’t have patience.

3. My mother didn’t have her phone with her.

4. My cousins weren’t at the party.

5. Voldemort is more dangerous than other villains.

6. Harry Styles is even better live.

7. The footballers were even more exhausted than before.