Progress check

Read 1–15 and evaluate your learning in Unit 4. Give yourself a mark from 1 to 3. How can you improve?
1 I can't do this.    2 I have some problems with this.    3 I can do this well.

A  Moving house

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 1Name one good and one bad thing about living in the 1940s.

I can understand a text about life in the 1940s.

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• 2Read the sentences. Which adverb tells us how something is done, and which one gives an opinion?

  aI forgot my homework, so I ran home very quickly.

  bLuckily, my homework was on the kitchen table.

I can form and use adverbs of manner and comment.

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• 3Name two compound adjectives you can use to describe a house.

I can describe places and things with compound adjectives.

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B  A room of my own

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 4Write the comparative and superlative form of these adjectives:

  ■ quiet  ■ big  ■ busy  ■ good  ■ comfortable

I can form comparatives and superlatives.

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• 5Complete the sentence below with the missing words.

  Our living room isn't ..................... big ..................... the Oval Office.

I can use (not) as … as to compare people, places and things.

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• 6Rewrite the sentence below using the word enough.

  My room is too small!

I can use too and enough to talk about degree.

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C  House rules

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 7Name five household chores.

I can talk about household chores.

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• 8Give three reasons why chores are good for children.

I can understand a talk about household chores.

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• 9How would you ask permission to go away for the weekend?

I can ask for permission and respond.

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D  Historic homes

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 10Why is it important to look at the title, the layout and the photos before you read a text?

I can predict the content and purpose of texts.

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• 11Which phrasal verbs mean

  a learn some information?  b become an adult?  c take care of someone?

I can use phrasal verbs.

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• 12Give two facts about Highclere Castle.

I can understand a text about a historic building.

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• 13Which of these verbs are followed by an infinitive and which are followed by -ing?

  ■ need  ■ agree  ■ avoid  ■ don't mind  ■ promise

I can recognize and use different verb patterns.

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E  An email: description of a room

Mark (1–3)

How can I improve?

• 14Give two ways of starting a description.

I can use different types of opening sentences to make my descriptions interesting.

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• 15Give three adverbs of degree that mean a little and a lot.

I can use adverbs of degree to make the meaning of an adjective stronger or weaker.

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