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Q GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY: common adjectives with somebody etc. Check that you know all
the adjectives in the box. Use a dictionary if necessary.

big boring fast high hot intelligent interesting nice old red rich
round small sour/ sweet tall thin useful useless young warm

Now find these in the picture. Write the letters.

► something high ..... 4 something round...... 8 somebody tall .
1 something b ig ...... 5 something fast...... 9 somebody thin
2 something small...... 6 somebody o ld ...... 10 somebody rich
3 something red...... 7 somebody young......

Now write your own examples for:

► something sour ..?. .......... 5 somebody intelligent

1 somewhere very hot ..................... 6 something interesting
2 somewhere warm ........................ 7 something useless ..
3 something sweet .......................... 8 something boring ...
4 something useful ......................... 9 somebody nice ......

^ Grammar in a text. Circle the correct forms.

SOME STATISTICS
Those who always know better: perhaps half us /(h alf o f u s .
Those who are not sure: most the rest / m ost o f the rest.
Those who don't know how to be bad: very few / few of.
Those who think they are important: a lo t / a lo t of.

Those who are always afraid of someone or something: m ost us / most o f us.
Those who are glad to help, if it doesn't take too long: nearly half/ h a lf of.
Those who can be happy: some us / some o f us, not very many.
Those who are kind alone but cruel in crowds: half or more.
Those who will kill you ifthey think they have to: it's best not to know how m any / how m any of.
Those who only take from life and give nothing: maybe 30% (I wish I were wrong).
Those who are lost and ill in the dark: nearly everybody, sooner or later.

Those who are good: a lo t /a lo t of.
Those who are good and understanding: hardly anybody.

Those that we should feel sorry for: almost everybody.
Those who are dead at the end: all us / a ll o f us.
adapted from a poem by Wislawa Szymborska

0 Internet exercise: checking correctness. Use a search engine (e.g. Google).
How many hits are there for these expressions? So which are correct?
"too much fast" ..(tPPPfPP............................. "too fast" ..k.PPP/P.P.'P.P.P}.
"everybody is" ............................................. "everybody are" ............................
"everything are" ............................................. "everything is" ..............................
"most people" ............................................. "most of people" ..........................

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