Cover of the textbook English File Pre-Intermediate - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5A - I want it NOW! for the textbook English File Pre-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Circle the correct words.
  2. Complete the sentences with a correct comparative adjective or adverb.
  3. Rewrite the sentences with as ... as.
  4. Look at the chart comparing life today and five years ago. Complete the sentences.

Answer

a)

  1. quickly
  2. fluently
  3. good
  4. carefully
  5. easy
  6. bad
  7. well
  8. clearly

b)

  1. more patient
  2. more slowly
  3. hotter
  4. harder
  5. further
  6. better
  7. more dangerous
  8. more quickly

c)

  1. go as fast as my new one
  2. as expensive as her shoes
  3. as big as my sister's (office)
  4. play as well as Spain
  5. drive as carefully as you
  6. look as relaxed as Harry

d)

  1. more expensive than
  2. more popular than
  3. expensive as
  4. smaller than they were five years ago
  5. is worse than it was five years ago
  6. are less happy than they were five years ago / aren't as happy as they were five years ago