Grammar: A room of my own

Comparative and superlative adjectives

1Read the information. Write sentences with the comparative form of the adjectives in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

	The Oval Office	The State Dining Room
Built in	1934	1902
Width	about 11 m	about 15 m
Size	75.8 m2	165 m2
Busy	used every day	used on special occasions only
Comfortable	***	****
Beautiful	****	*****

• 1(old)

• 2(wide)

• 3(small)

• 4(busy)

• 5(comfortable)

• 6(beautiful)

Comparative and superlative adjectives

2Write questions using the superlative form of the adjectives in brackets. Then answer the questions. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• 1Which is  (large): The Pentagon, the White House or the Chrysler Building?

  The PentagonThe White HouseThe Chrysler Building

• 2What is  (tall) building in the world?

• 3Which is  (far) from London: New York, Los Angeles or Chicago?

  New YorkLos AngelesChicago

• 4What is  (polluted) city in the world?

• 5How much is  (expensive) room in the Ritz-Carlton hotel, Moscow: $18,000, $1,800 or $180?

  $18,000$1,800$180

(not) as … as

3Write sentences using (not) as … as and the words in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task. You also need to use correct punctuation.

• 1Our TV and our neighbour's TV are the same size. (big)

• 2My bedroom is really untidy, but my sister's is worse! (messy)

• 3Both the kitchen and the bathroom in our house are old-fashioned. (old-fashioned)

• 4It costs 200,000 euros to buy a three-bedroomed flat or a terraced house in this town. (expensive)

• 5The cooker isn't clean, and the fridge isn't clean! (dirty)

• 6The streets in Paris are wider than the streets in my town. (narrow)

too and enough

4Complete the answers to the questions. Use too or enough and the words in brackets. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

• 1Why is nobody sitting in that old chair? (comfortable)

  Well, because it isn't .

• 2Why don't you want to visit the old castle? (far)

  I think it's  away.

• 3Why do you hate your bedroom? (narrow)

  It's .

• 4Why can't you hear the DVD player? (loud)

  It isn't .

• 5Why did your sister buy a small terraced house? (rich)

  She isn't  to buy a mansion.

• 6Would you like to sit in the garden? (cold)

  No! It's  to go outside.

too and enough

5Write one word in each gap to complete the article. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

The little house in Conwy

In Conwy, which is one of the prettiest and ¹ popular tourist towns in North Wales, you can find ² smallest house in Great Britain. The house is only about two metres wide. In fact, it's only ³ big ⁴ a small bus. There's hardly any furniture and it wouldn't be comfortable ⁵ for most people to live in. Surprisingly, its last owner, Robert Jones, was 1.9 metres tall! He couldn't stand up in the rooms because he was ⁶ tall, and the ceilings weren't high ⁷.

Conwy is also famous for its thirteenth-century castle, which is older ⁸ the town itself. There are two bridges near the castle – a suspension bridge, built in 1826, and a ⁹ modern railway bridge.

6  Compare the bedroom and living room in the photos to your bedroom and living room. Speak for no longer than one minute.

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