Cover of the textbook English File Intermediate Plus - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1B - Life in colour for the textbook English File Intermediate Plus - Workbook with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Correct the mistakes in the highlighted phrases.
  2. Complete the sentences with the correct comparative or superlative form of the adjective in brackets. More than one answer may be possible.
  3. Complete the conversations with one, ones, or ✗ if neither word is necessary.
  4. Complete the sentences with much or a bit + the comparative form of an adjective from the list.
  5. Complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence. Use the word in brackets. Write 3-5 words.

Answer

a)

  1. a stressful job
  2. those purple flowers
  3. taller than her sister
  4. as expensive as gold
  5. the most reliable person
  6. the most intelligent student

b)

  1. less powerful
  2. more tired
  3. narrower
  4. the least considerate
  5. most stressed
  6. simplest
  7. less expensive

c)

  1. ✗
  2. ones
  3. one
  4. one
  5. ✗
  6. ones
  7. ✗
  8. ones

d)

  1. a bit better
  2. a bit shorter
  3. much more polite
  4. much more thoughtful
  5. much more spacious
  6. a bit less active
  7. a bit tidier
  8. much less stressful

e)

  1. is less ambitious than
  2. the stupidest / most stupid idea
  3. are the smartest ones
  4. a bit less sensitive than
  5. the one at the end
  6. 's quieter than
  7. 're more bored today than
  8. the one on the corner
  9. 's much more sociable than
  10. 's the most frightened