Vocabulary Unit 1 1 Write adverbs of degree in the table. 4 Imagine what the people below are doing at the moment. Write affirmative (9) or negative (8) present continuous sentences. zzzzz (1) i___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ zzzz (2) r___ ___ ___ ___ (3) v___ ___ ___ 1 (8) The Spanish prime minister ______________ zzz (4) q___ ___ ___ ___ 2 (9) My favourite actor ______________________ zz (5) n___ ___ v___ ___ ___ z (6) a b___ ___ _________________________________________ . _________________________________________ . 3 (9) My best friend __________________________ _________________________________________ . 2 Order the words to make sentences. Use the adverbs of degree from exercise 1 and the present simple form of the verbs. 1 zzzz sometimes / be / funny / this programme ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 2 zzzzz always / beautiful / look / Jessica 4 (8) The other students in my class ___________ ______________________________________. 5 (8) I __________________________________ ______________________________________. 5 Correct the mistakes. Two sentences are correct. 1 We don’t getting up early every day. ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ 3 zzzz not eat / I / late / usually 2 I am never listening to her when she complains. ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ 4 zzz a lot / usually / James / eat 3 What are you thinking about Jen’s personality? ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ 5 z occasionally / Vicky / sad / feel / can 4 Who is sitting next to you today? ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ __________________________________________ 6 zzzz hardly ever / talkative / they / be ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 3 Write present continuous questions for the answers. 1 __________________________________________? 5 The boys tease Ben because he’s got a black eye. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ 6 She doesn’t like him because he’s arrogant. __________________________________________ __________________________________________ I’m reading a magazine. 2 __________________________________________? No, he isn’t because he hasn’t got any 7 I’m eating in a restaurant about three times a year. __________________________________________ homework today. 3 __________________________________________? __________________________________________ They’re talking to the teacher. 4 __________________________________________? She’s crying because she failed the maths exam. PHOTOCOPIABLE © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1 Vocabulary Unit 1 1 Complete the word puzzle with the personality adjectives in the box. Then find the mystery adjective by reordering the letters in the grey boxes and tick (9) the correct definition. creative determined disruptive loyal paranoid pessimistic sensitive studious 1 A ______ person works very hard at school. 2 A ______ person always thinks that bad things 3 Match 1–6 with verbs of similar meaning a–f. 1 cry a grin 2 hug b giggle 3 laugh c weep 4 complain d cuddle 5 smile e brag 6 boast f moan 4 Choose the correct words. will happen. 3 A ______ person works hard to get what they 1 Ella started to brag / grin when she heard the good news. want. 4 A ______ person thinks nobody likes them. 5 A ______ person causes trouble and arguments. 6 A ______ person will always be a good friend. 7 A ______ person has good ideas for new things. 8 A ______ person gets upset easily. 2 You always start giggling / cuddling before I finish the joke! 3 Karen is staring / sulking because we ate all the chocolate. 4 Dan is bragging / weeping to everyone about his new mp3 player. 1 5 What a sad story. I want to grin / weep! 2 6 You’re always giggling / moaning. What’s wrong now? 3 7 My baby brother always cuddles / moans his 4 teddy in bed. 5 8 Why are you joking / staring at that boy? 6 5 Complete the text with the verbs in the box. 7 8 Mystery word: An ____________ person bragging cuddled giggle grinning moaned weeping a doesn’t have much experience of life. Grandma and Grandad were back after a long b gives lots of presents and money to charity. holiday in Australia. We went to the airport to meet them. When they saw us, we all felt so happy we 2 Read the descriptions of people’s behaviour. Then write an adjective from exercise 1. 1 Lindy thinks her best friend is laughing about her with another girl. Lindy is ______________. 2 Dominic often shouts at people in lessons. The couldn’t stop (1) _____________. Then Grandma ran towards us and (2) _____________ us. It was lovely to be near her again. Grandad started (3) _____________ about his suntan. ‘Look how brown I am!’ he said, again and again. In the car he teachers can’t continue. Dominic is made us (4) _____________ with his Australian ______________. jokes, but Grandma was fed up with them. ‘That’s 3 Jessica spends hours on her homework and the tenth time I’ve heard that joke!’ she revising for exams. Jessica is ______________. (5) _____________. My younger sister Chloe was a 4 Tina is always there for me when I need someone bit upset. She’s a sensitive girl, and although she to talk to. Tina is ______________. 5 My mother writes beautiful poems and paints very well. My mother is ______________. was happy to see her grandparents again, she started (6) _____________ in the back of the car. ‘We’re home again now,’ said Grandma. ‘Be happy. Don’t be sad.’ PHOTOCOPIABLE © OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2
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