Practice

1. PHOTOCOPIABLE © Cambridge University Press 2015
Vocabulary practice
PV
Unit 6
Comparatives and superlatives
1 Complete the sentences with a comparative form of the
words in brackets.
1 Smartphone screens were
(small) a few years ago.
2 Television shows are (much /
interesting) than they were.
3 People are (less / polite)
today.
4 Video games are (popular)
today compared to 20 years ago.
5 There were (few) books
about vampires back then.
2 Rewrite the sentences using comparative forms of the words in
brackets and following the pattern getting bigger and bigger.
1 Our electricity bill is increasing. (expensive)
2 The cat is putting on weight. (fat)
3 The weather is improving. (good)
4 Video games are becoming popular. (popular)
3 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the
adjectives in the box.
expensive good intimate long
1 The more famous the star, the
the tickets are.
2 The smaller the venue, the
the concert will be.
3 The bigger the artist, the the
queue to get in.
4 The smaller the venue, the
the view.
4 Write sentences using the prompts in brackets and as … as.
1 Channing Tatum / Ryan Gosling (handsome, just)
2 last year’s game / the new version (difficult, nowhere near)
3 hip-hop / pop music (interesting, not)
4 international calls / local calls (expensive, three times)
5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the
adjectives from the box.
not enjoyable funny interesting long
1 Edinburgh must be the city
in the world because of the comedy festival.
2 The place I visited during my
year off was New Zealand.
3 This is the book I’ve read for a
long time – I don’t recommend it.
4 The audience liked it. It could have been the
round of applause I’ve ever
heard.
Entertainment
6 Replace phrases 1–8 with alternative phrases a–h.
The show last night was wonderful. As the lights 1 went
down, a sense of anticipation came over the audience.
The lady is 2 very well known and as she came on from
3 the side she received great 4 clapping. For the next
hour everyone was entranced as she showed why she is
such a great 5 artist. She obviously enjoys being
6 centre stage. It’s hard to believe she’s just 19 years old.
She 7 became famous very quickly due to the success
of her first single Let me love you. Now she’s always in the
8 public eye but it doesn’t seem to have affected her.
a a household name e performer
b catapulted to fame f spotlight
c dimmed g the wings
d in the limelight h applause
7 Choose the best answers to complete the sentences.
1 The celebrity turned up / turned into at exactly the right
moment.
2 The main actors turned up / slipped away after their
performances.
3 The actor turned into / went on to direct several successful
films.
4 After some initial doubts, the play turned into / turned up
a huge success.
Compound adjectives
8 Match the sentence beginnings 1–4 with their endings a–d.
1 This computer game has some cutting-
2 That play was so mind-
3 We’re going to see a full-
4 I can see why this is a best-
a length film today, so we’ll be back in three hours or so.
b numbing I fell asleep after the interval!
c edge animation scenes.
d selling book – I couldn’t put it down.