12 Identify the degree of comparison of the highlighted word in each sentence by writing полож. (положительная), сравн. (сравнительная), or превосх. (превосходная).

Example: Andrew sleeps on the lower bunk. - сравн.

a) We are hoping for better weather tomorrow.

b) Lucy interviewed a famous movie star.

c) Jesse is the strongest player in the team.

d) This is the juiciest orange I ever ate.

e) Cheetahs run more swiftly than any other animal.

f) That is the largest pizza I have ever seen.

g) The patient seems worse today.

h) That singer has a loyal fan club.

13 Write the missing degrees of comparison.

	fast	-	the fastest
	far	farther	-
	-	older	the oldest
	-	bigger	the biggest
	good-looking	better-looking	-
	-	busier	the busiest

14 Complete the sentences with the comparative form of the adjectives in brackets.

Example: Bred is slimmer than Bob.

a) The CN Tower is _____ than the Empire State Building. (tall)

b) A motorcycle is _____ than a bicycle. (expensive)

c) Train goes _____ than bus. (fast)

d) A bird can travel _____than a horse. (far)

e) Roses smell _____ than onions. (nice)

f) A mobile phone is _____ than an ordinary telephone. (small)

g) A Hummer is _____ than an Oka. (big)

h) An orange is _____ than a lemon. (sweet)

15 In groups of four complete the sentences with the correct superlative of the adjectives from the box.

Example: The driest place on Earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. It gets no rain at all.

tall crowded cold wet old hot small busy large new

a) The _____ lake is the Caspian Sea. It's about 371,000 km².

b) The _____ place is Dallol, Ethiopia. Its average temperature is about 34.5 degrees Celsius.

c) Polus Nedostupnosti, Antartctica, is the _____ place with an average temperature of minus 58 degrees Celsius.

d) People first saw 'Surprise Rock Island' on the 14th of April, 1988, so it is called the world's _____ island. It is in Sabah, Malaysia.

e) The _____ bridge is over the Meles River in Izmir, Turkey. People built this bridge in 850 B.C.

f) The Howrah Bridge in Calcutta, India is the _____ bridge. Every day, 57,000 vehicles and hundreds of thousands of people cross it.

g) The _____ place is probably Chirapunji, India. It gets 1,187 centimeters of rain every year.

h) In Bangladesh, there are about 768 people to every km². It is the _____ country in the world.

i) The _____ country is Vatican City. It is only about 44 hectares.

j) Today, the Sears Tower in Chicago is the _____ building in the world. It has 110 storeys and is 443 meters high.

16 Insert the appropriate degree of comparison of the adjective in brackets.

Example: The apple is _____ than the orange. (small) - The apple is smaller than the orange.

a) The orange is _____ than the apple. (big)

b) The yellow ball is _____ than the blue one. (small)

c) The red ball is _____ than the green one. (big)

d) The blue ball is the _____ of all. (big)

e) The green ball is the _____ of all. (small)

f) The girl on the right is _____ than the one on the left. (short)

g) The girl on the left is _____ than the one on the right. (tall)

h) The flower on the left is _______ than the one on the right. (beautiful)

i) Rome is _____ from Venice than from Florence. (far)

j) Bari is ____ to Brindisi than to Trento. (close)

k) The distance from Brindisi to Aosta is the _____. (far)

l) The distance from Potenza to Bari is the _____ (short)

Take-home assignment