Cover of the textbook English File Elementary - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9C - Facts and figures for the textbook English File Elementary - Workbook with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Write the comparative forms of these adjectives in the correct circle.
  2. Rewrite the sentences using the opposite adjective.
  3. Look at the pictures. Use the adjective to compare the two items.

Answer

a)

  1. cheaper, colder, higher
  2. sadder, thinner, wetter
  3. dirtier, drier, hungrier
  4. more beautiful, more difficult, more comfortable
  5. further, better

b)

  1. is faster than a lion
  2. is bigger than China
  3. is drier than Manchester
  4. is shorter than January
  5. is safer than skiing
  6. are worse than Fridays
  7. is colder than Spain
  8. is harder to learn than Spanish

c)

  1. shorter than the train journey
  2. drier than Istanbul
  3. is more expensive than the women's watch
  4. is bigger than the townhouse
  5. Lamborghini is faster than the Mercedes