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VOCABULARY Adjectives

3 Read the article again and choose the correct answers. 7 Look at the adjectives below. Decide which picture they
describe, A or B.
1 Spreuerhofstraße is famous because it is very … .
A wide B narrow C long
big / large small / little low high old modern dirty
2 There are places called Å in … . clean narrow wide colourful plain flat hilly
A Poland B Panama C Norway
3 The longest place name in the world has … letters. A
A 58 B 75 C 85
4 The buildings in Puerto Vallarta and Wrocław are
interesting because of … .
A their colour
B their size
C their names

4 Answer the questions.
1 How wide is Parliament Street?
2 Why are visitors to Spreuerhofstraße careful?
3 What type of place is in Russia? B
4 What do visitors usually do in a village in Wales?

5 Read Word Zone. Then write five sentences about the
ages or birthdays of people you know. Include a number
with a hyphen.
My dad is forty-five.
His birthday is on the twenty-fourth of November.

Numbers 8 Listen to four people talking about the places in the
WORD When we write large numbers from 21–99, pictures. Which place is each person describing, A or B?
ZONE
we use a hyphen. Person 1 … Person 2 … Person 3 … Person 4 …
twenty-one
fifty-eight 9 Choose the best adjective to complete each sentence.
We also use a hyphen for ordinal numbers. 1 My brother’s very old / little. He’s only four years old.
twenty-first 2 I’m washing my boots because they’re very dirty / high.
fifty-eighth 3 I need a large / low bag because I’ve got a lot of books.
4 In the old town, the streets are quite little / narrow.
5 We can’t play football on this hill. We need somewhere
6 In pairs, cover the article. What do you remember flat / high.
about the following places? 6 Our school is two years old so it’s very plain / modern.
● A mountain in New Zealand
● A village in Wales 10 Use adjectives to describe some of the places
● Parliament Street in Exeter below. Your partner guesses the place.
● Spreuerhofstraße in Reutlingen
● Some houses in Puerto Vallarta and Wrocław a wall a corridor a window a playground
● Some villages in Norway, Sweden and Denmark a street the school building a shop a park

This place is very wide. It’s
got big green walls. There are
a lot of them in our school. Is it a corridor?

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