10*. Supply the correct plural forms.

What does it come under?

If you’re dieting there are certain (food) foods you really have to avoid: (cake) _____ and (biscuit) _____ are out for a start, but you can’t live forever on (tomato) _____ and (orange) _____ . There are (man) _____ and (woman) _____ who spend their entire (life) _____ counting the calories they take in each day. Some national (cuisine) _____ make you fat. The (Japanese) _____ have a high protein diet, while the (Swiss) _____ eat a lot of milk (product) _____ . Personally, I’m lucky not to have to diet, but my friend, John, can’t eat anything without looking it up in his Calorie Chart. This is carefully organized so that (strawberry) _____ and (peach) _____ are under ‘Fruit’; (potato) _____ and (spaghetti) _____ come under ‘Starchy Foods’, and so on. I entertained John to a nice low calorie meal yesterday and at the end I offered him some jelly. ‘What does “jelly” come under?’ he asked looking at his chart. ‘Half a liter of double cream’, I said, pouring the stuff over my plate!

Revision Test on Noun

Choose the correct variant.

1. Our two _____ are crying all the time.

a) babies b) babys c) babyes

2.It is rather dangerous to walk on _____ after the rain.

a) roofs b) roofes c) rooves

3. Dentists recommend using _____ twice a day: in the morning and in the evening.

a) tooth’s paste b) toothpaste c) teethpaste

4. _____ are flowers of life.

a) childs b) children c) childrens

5. Those were the happiest days of our _____ .

a) lifes b) lives c) lifees

6. Rock music of the 1970s is an extremely interesting cultural _____ .

a) phenomen b) phenomena c) phenomenon

7. I don’t like going by car. If I have a chance, I always go on _____ .

a) foot b) feet c) foots

8. _____ in our house are so annoying. We definitely need a cat.

a) mouses b) mices c) mice

9. _____ usually fall from trees in autumn.

a) Leaf b) Leaves c) Leafs

10. No news _____ good news.

a) is b) are c) am

Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives

1. Fill in all the gaps with the correct forms of the adjectives. Model: ____ - newer - _______ =new – newer – the newest

1) _____ - longer - _____	6) _____ - _____ - the flattest
2) _____ - _____ - the worst	7) popular - _____ - _____
3) modern - _____ -_____	8) _____ - happier -_____
4) _____ -_____ -the nicest	9) many / more -_____ -_____
5) _____ -_____ -the nearest	10) _____ -_____ -the cleverest

2. Fill in the missing words into the gaps. Mind the first two words in each task.

1) strong - stronger; good - _____	6) more interesting - most interesting; worse - _____
2) the coldest - colder; the happiest - _____	7) hard – the hardest; new -_____
3) nice - nicer; bad - _____	8) the most expensive - expensive; the cleanest - _____
4) angry - angrier; much - _____	9) fast – the fastest; old -_____
5) more boring - boring; sunnier - _____	10) the shortest - short; the most difficult - _____

3. Put in the adjective in bold from the first sentence into the second sentence in its correct form (comparative or superlative). Model: I have a fast car, but my friend has a ______ car. – I have a fast car, but my friend has a faster car.

1. This is a nice cat. It’s much _____ than my friend's cat.

2. Here is Emily. She’s six years old. Her brother is nine, so he is _____ .

3. This is a difficult exercise. But the exercise with an asterisk (*) is the _____ exercise on the worksheet.

4. He has an interesting hobby, but my sister has the _____ hobby in the world.

5. In the last holidays I read a good book, but father gave me an even _____ one last weekend.

6. School is boring, but homework is _____ than school.

7. Skateboarding is a dangerous hobby. Bungee jumping is _____ than skateboarding.

8. This magazine is cheap, but that one is _____ .

9. We live in a small house, but my grandparents’ house is even _____ than ours.

10. Yesterday John told me a funny joke. This joke was the _____ joke I've ever heard.