Unit 3 Lesson 1


GRAMMAR

1 Choose the correct answer.

1 To make the comparative of adverbs ending in -ly, eg slowly, carefully, we put more before the adverb / change y to i in the adverb and add -er.

2 Some adverbs have the same form as adjectives, eg fast, hard, high, late, long. To make them comparative we put more before the adverb / add -er to the adverb.

3 Worse is the comparative form of well / badly.

4 Adverbs of manner, eg slowly, carefully, are usually placed before / after adverbs of time, eg today, recently, in a sentence.

5 Adverbs of place, eg here, there, are usually placed before / after adverbs of time, eg then, yesterday, in a sentence.

_____ / 5 points

VOCABULARY

2 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

accurately astonishing equator expanded organisms

rotate spacecraft spacewalk trillion universe

1 After the Big Bang the universe _____ very quickly and is still growing.

2 Different parts of the Earth _____ around the sun at different speeds.

3 The _____ was created by the Big Bang.

4 The _____ is at an equal distance from the North and South Poles.

5 The first _____ took place in 1965 - it lasted a very short time.

6 The Earth weighs very much more than a _____ tonnes.

7 In 1969 two astronauts left their _____ to walk on the moon.

8 Human life developed from _____ that lived in the sea.

9 The speed at which the universe grew is really quite _____ .

10 With today's technology we can measure the speed of light extremely _____ .

_____ / 10 points

FUNCTION

3 Read the text. Complete 1-10 with A, B or C.

Some of nature's surprises

Did you know that …?

• A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour - that's (1) _____! The fastest human beings run only about 30 kilometres per hour.

• There's a kind of crocodile that hears its babies hatching from eggs buried under the sand. When it hears them, it digs them up, then (2) _____ loads them into its mouth and carries them to the river where it lets them go.

• Rats' teeth grow (3) _____ - they need to chew things to stop them getting enormous.

• There once was an ostrich that ate a camera film, a handkerchief, a pencil, three gloves, an alarm clock key, a gold necklace, 90 cm of rope, part of a bicycle and a comb. After which, it was (4) _____ !

• Crocodiles bite 26 times (5) _____ than humans.

• Maybe the sloth moves (6) _____ than any other animal on earth - just 241 metres per hour.

• A scorpion can (7) _____ .

• Dogs can hear much (8) _____ than humans. The frequencies that dogs can perceive and hear are almost twice ours and they can pick up and distinguish sounds that are roughly four times (9) _____ away than humans can.

• There's a kind of frog that carries her baby tadpoles (10) _____ .

1 A incredibly faster B really fast C quite fast

2 A very B gently very C very gently

3 A continuously B more continuously C continuous

4 A full extremely B extremely full C fully extreme

5 A more hard B hardly C harder

6 A more slow B most slowly C more slowly

7 A for a year live without B without food live C live for a year

food for a year without food

8 A well B worse C better

9 A far B father C further

10 A patiently on her back B on her back for two C on her back patiently for two months patiently months for two months

_____ / 10 points

Total : _____ / 25 points

Lesson test Inspiration 4 unit 3, lesson 1

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