Exercise 60 Complete the sentences with modal verbs (more than one answer may be possible).

1. … I use your phone? 2. … you lend me a pen? 3. She has very good clothes. She … have a lot of money. 4. She doesn’t answer the phone. She … be at home. 5. People … smile more often. 6. One day, people … go to the moon on holiday. 7. Cara wants to be a doctor. She … study hard. 8. ‘Do I look all right?’ ‘You … get a haircut.’ 9. What … I do to get a visa? 10. The sign says we … smoke here.

Exercise 61 Choose a comparative or a superlative.

1. ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ is (beautiful) of all Mozart’s operas. 2. My new car is (fast) than my old one. 3. My mother and her sisters are all (short) than their children. 4. I think Annie is (intelligent) person in our class. 5. Let’s meet in the library – it’s (quiet) than all the other rooms. 6. My bedroom is (cold) room in the house. 7. A 3-year-old’s voice is (loud) that 200 people in a busy restaurant. 8. Brazil is (big) South American country.

ENJOY YOURSELF

Which is the correct word in these sentences?

I have to do /make an exam tomorrow.

I’m sorry. I’ve done / made a mistake.

We should say do an exam and make a mistake and not vice versa. Words which often go together (like do+an exam, and make+mistake) are called collocations.

a) Match the verbs (A) and nouns (B) that usually go together.

A: do, draw, fall, go, have, lose, save, tell, watch

B: weight, on holiday, money, a story, your homework, TV, pictures, in love, a good time

b) Use your expressions in the appropriate form in the following sentences:

1. Why haven’t you … homework? 2. She … in love with him the moment she saw him. 3. If you hadn’t … so much TV, your eyes wouldn’t be hurting now. 4. You look fabulous! Have you … weight? 5. ‘Where is Eva?’ ‘She has … on holiday.’ 6. The children love … pictures. 7. I wish he wouldn’t … the same stories over and over again. 8. Did you … a good time at the party? 9. We need to keep more money if we want to buy a car.

U N I T 5

Grammar: Sequence of Tenses. Indirect Speech

Pronouns Some, Any, No and their Derivatives

Expressions of Quantity

Text: Railway Construction: Tunnels and Bridges

Supplementary text A: Various Types of Passenger Stock

Supplementary text B: Freight Cars and Containers

Word Building: trans-, inter-, re-, under-, sub-; -ary, -ar, -ish; -dom, -hood

READING RULES

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