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Students form adverbs from adjectives, nouns and verbs, spell the endings and the common spelling traps correctly, and practise them in two exam-style Part 3 texts.
Word formation · Adverbs · Spelling
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Download all (ZIP, 2 PDFs)Match each adverb with its meaning. There is one extra meaning.
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How does each adjective change when it becomes an adverb? Put each word in the right group.
careful
busy
gentle
basic
extreme
terrible
lucky
dramatic
complete
noisy
realistic
incredible
Use the word in capitals to form an adverb that fits the gap. Watch the spelling.
She picked up the injured bird and put it in a box.
GENTLE'Who left the gate open?' my neighbour shouted .
ANGRYIt rained all night, and by morning the garden was flooded.
HEAVYOur team won , by five goals to nil.
EASYMy grandparents have been married for fifty years, and they still hold hands in the park.
HAPPYI'm sorry, but I've lost the book you lent me.
TERRIBLEDon't worry about the details: tell us what happened.
SIMPLEThe lights switch off when nobody is in the room.
AUTOMATICThe word in capitals is a verb or a noun. Make an adjective first, then an adverb that fits the gap. Some need a prefix.
Prices have gone up since last year, so we've stopped taking taxis.
CONSIDERNobody had told us they were coming, so when my cousins arrived , the house was a mess.
EXPECTAfter months of training, Leo completed his first marathon last Sunday.
SUCCEEDIt is becoming difficult to find a cheap flat in the city centre.
INCREASEThe building was a school, but it has been a hotel since 1995.
ORIGINI've asked him to turn his music down, but he never listens.
REPEAT, the weather will be better tomorrow, because we're having a picnic.
HOPEWe don't eat out much, but we have dinner at the Thai restaurant round the corner.
OCCASIONEach sentence has one spelling mistake. Find it and write the correction.
I'm truely grateful for all your help.
Basicly, the plan is to leave early and avoid the traffic.
The number of visitors has fallen dramaticly this year.
Please read the contract carefuly before you sign it.
We had an arguement about whose turn it was to cook.
Please write your name, age and hight on the form.
Read the text. Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits each gap.
Exam task: Reading and Use of English, Part 3
Tip: When a gap comes just before an adjective or a verb, it often needs an adverb. Write it, then check the spelling of the ending letter by letter.
For years, the old wooden footbridge in our town had needed regular 1MAINTAIN, but the money was always spent on something else. Last spring, engineers tested it 2SCIENCE and found that parts of it were no longer safe, so the council closed it 3IMMEDIATE.
Older residents, who used the bridge every day to reach the shops, were 4UNDERSTAND upset. At a meeting in the town hall, the council gave a detailed 5DESCRIBE of the new bridge, and the mayor 6PUBLIC promised that it would open within a year.
She kept her promise. The new bridge is 7COMFORT wide enough for two bicycles to pass, and even the people who complained most now agree that closing the old one was the 8SENSE thing to do.
Read the text. Use the word in capitals to form a word that fits each gap.
Exam task: Reading and Use of English, Part 3
Tip: Decide what kind of word each gap needs from the words on both sides. Then read the sentence again with your word in it: does it make sense, and is every letter right?
When I joined a choir at the age of forty, I could 1HARD read music, and I felt 2EMBARRASS every time I sang a wrong note. Luckily, our conductor never lost her temper; she corrected our mistakes kindly and 3PATIENT.
Most of our songs were in Italian, so we spent a lot of time on 4PRONOUNCE, because Italian vowels are very different from English ones. At first I found the breathing exercises boring and 5POINT, but I soon understood why we did them.
Over the next few months, my confidence increased 6STEADY. Last December, the conductor gave me 7PERMIT to choose a song for our concert, and, to my 8AMAZE, the audience asked us to sing it twice.
Write 80–110 words.
Write about a skill that you learnt slowly: an instrument, a sport, a language or something else. Say how it went at first, what helped you and how you feel about it now. Use at least six adverbs from this lesson, including two from 'Adverbs in two steps' (for example gradually, unexpectedly, occasionally).
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