UNIT 1: LANGUAGE PRACTICE

To be
1 Complete the sentences with the correct word.
1 Madrid is the capital of Spain.
2 I ___________ from Cambridge in the south of England.
3 Sydney and Canberra ________________ in Australia.
4 __________ you from America? No, I’m _______. I’m from Canada.
5 ___________ Edinburgh in Scotland or Wales?
6 _____________ Canberra and Sydney in New Zealand?
7 Arsenal and Chelsea __________ big football clubs in London.
8 Where is Rome? ____________ in Italy.

There is, there are ( + any)

2 Underline and correct the mistake in the sentences.
1 Are there a airports in Manchester? Are there any airports in Manchester?
2 Yes, there are an airport in Manchester.
3 There aren’t no parks in this town.
4 There is a school in Oxford?
5 No, it isn’t a beach in Madrid.
6 There are any cinemas in New York?

Adjectives
3 Choose a word from the box to complete each sentence.
expensive quiet dry cheap cold noisy wet big

1 It is always very cold in the Arctic and Antarctic.

2 Nightclubs and discos are ____________ places.
3 Libraries are usually ___________ places.
4 This watch isn’t cheap. It’s very _____________ .
5 Where is my umbrella? It’s raining and _____ today.
6 Chicago is a _________ city in The USA.
7 In the Sahara Desert it’s hot and ___________ .
8 There are some good __________ restaurants in London.

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