Lesson: Essentials/CP42

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Past Continuous - Construction
Comparative adjectives - The Bedroom
Adverbs of frequency - Land Travel
Adjective + Noun order - Colors
Countable and uncountable nouns - Days of the week

1. Answer the question using the words given:

  • What were you doing last night?
  • study for the test
  • I was studying for the test.

What were you doing last night?

  1. watch TV with my friends
  2. go home after my work
  3. prepare dinner for my family
  4. read a book
  5. buy new pair of shoes
  6. try to fix my computer
  7. walk the dog
  8. talk to my neighbors
  9. take a shower

2. Say how often you do each activity and after write a sentence connecting everything:

  • Go swimming in the sea (always, sometimes, never)
  • I always go swimming in the sea.


  1. Read the news on the internet (constantly, occasionally, seldom)
  2. Talk to your father about your life (usually, rarely, hardly ever)
  3. See your friends (normally, infrequently, never)
  4. Read a good book (often, regularly, never)
  5. Buy clothes at the mall (always, occasionally, seldom)
  6. Do outside activities (usually, constantly, never)
  7. Check your Facebook account (nomrally, often, never)
  8. Chat on Whatsapp (awlays, frequently, rarely)
  9. Study for the tests (normally, sometimes, hardly ever)

3. Choose the right answer:

1 Where is the best place to study?:

Dinner table
Desk
Bed

2 If your car break down in the middle of the street, you'll need a:

Tow truck
Taxi
Bike

3 Every project needs a:

Blueprint
Cement
Wheel barrow

4 What are the seven colors of the rainbow? :

Red, orange, amber, green, aquamarine, blue purple
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet
Rubi, red, yellow, turquoise, light blue, purple and magenta


4.Complete the following sentences with the correct comparative form of the words listed below

  • bad - important - crowded - good - high - heavy - convenient - difficult
  • cheap - expensive - quiet - easy - thin - healthy - dangerous - cold


  1. In Canada, January is _________________________ than March.
  2. I think that good health is ___________________________ than money.
  3. I can’t carry my suitcase. It’s much _________________________ than yours.
  4. I can afford to buy a new bike but not a new car. A car is ___________________________ than a bike.
  5. You look _______________________ than the last time I saw you. Have you lost weight?
  6. I couldn’t get a seat in the restaurant. It was ____________________________ than usual.
  7. Mountains are __________________________ than hills.
  8. He got a very good mark on his exam. The exam was _______________________ than he had expected.
  9. You should go to the doctor. Your cold is _____________________________ than it was a few days ago.
  10. There is a lot of crime in the big cities. They are _____________________ than the small town where I live.
  11. I don’t understand this lesson. It is ______________________________ than the last one we did.
  12. I can’t study in this room. It’s too noisy. I’m going to find a _____________________________ place.
  13. Our apartment is far from everything. We want to move to a _____________________________ location.
  14. Orange juice is __________________________ than Coke.
  15. The store is having a great sale today. Most televisions are 25% _____________________ than they were yesterday.
  16. The doctor told me that I can go back to work if I feel ______________________ tomorrow.

5. Drills

6. Listen to the sentences and write them down:

  1. They were building a new house last year.
  2. Her alarm clock is much better than mine.
  3. We will have classes on Mondays and Wednesdays.
  4. He bought a light green blanket for his bedroom.
  5. She was painting her room last weekend.
  6. Jeff and Tom are always riding their bikes.
  7. Where did you buy these bricks?
  8. This apartment is larger than yours.
  9. How often do you work on weekends?

7. Look at both cars below and write sentences comparing them. At the end tell us which one you would buy and why:

  1. Car 1
40 years old
U$ 25,000
4-5 passengers
Red color
No rust
Leather seat

1955-Mercury-red


  1. Car 2
33 years old
U$ 20,000
4-5 passengers
Station wagon
Orange color
Small amount of rust
Fabric seats

Renault 12 TL (3)






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