UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA

DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

LEVEL 4, 2017-2

Name: ______________________________________ Group: _____________________

LISTENING COMPREHENSION
NATURE

I. Listen to a programme about the environment and choose the best option for the
following questions:

1. How many people live on the planet 2. About water, the audio says that
now? a. theres too much water in the world
a. Six billion fifty b. there is not enough in the world
b. More than six billion c. theres some inequality in the world
c. More than nine billion

3. Which is another problem related to 4. What is happening in the Amazon rain

water? forest?
a. Dry places are getting bigger a. There is not enough space for people.
b. Deserts are getting drier b. There is too much space used in housing.
c. Gambia is getting larger c. Too many animals have become extinct.

5. Why might some cities be under water? 6. What is the purpose of the audio?
Because. a. To prevent problems with nature
a. They get snow every year b. To inform about environmental problems
b. They are surrounded by the sea c. To give tips to save the planet
c. The ice is melting very fast

II. Listen again and complete the following sentences:

1. People now are living longer and _______________ lives than ever before.
2. A person in Gambia uses ________ _________ water _________ someone in the
US.
3. The Sahara desert is one of _________ ___________ places in the world.
4. Now it gets _________ ______________ to find clean water.
5. There is __________ space for animals to live.
6. The Amazon rainforest has ________ ___________ number of plants and animals
species in the world.
7. In the last ten years, people have destroyed a lot of kilometers of forest which is an
area ____________ ________ Greece.
8. The last problem on our list, but not _____________ _____________ important, is
the weather.
9. The world is getting ___________ and the ice is melting ________________
_________ ever before.

III. Read and complete the following tip:

When you want to compare two things in English, use a ________________ form.
However, use a _____________ form of an adjective to differentiate one thing or
person from others or to designate extremes.
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DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES
LEVEL 4, 2017-2

IV. Look at the examples and complete the rules to make comparative and superlative forms.

Type of adjective Example Comparative Rule Superlative Rule

One-syllable Cold Fast _________than adj + _______ The _________- adjectives + ____
Some two-syllable Quiet _________ than adj+ _______ The _________ adjectives + ____
Clever
ending in e Large Nice _________ than adj + _______ The _________ adjectives + ____
Short adjectives Friendly _________than y + _______ The _________ y + _____
ending in -y Crazy
ending in CVC Hot _________than double the final The __________ double the final
consonant + vowel Big consonant +____ consonant +____
+consonant
Long adjectives Interesting More/less ______/_______+adj. The most/least ______/_______+adj.
Beautiful ___________ than ___________
Irregular adjectives Good ___________ than The ________
Bad __________ than The ________
Far __________ than The _________ /
The ___________

V. There are different ways to compare things, look at the examples and complete the rules.

Type Example Rule

Superiority A is much more expensive than B _______ _______+ adjective+ _______
A is a lot more expensive than B __ _____ _______+ adjective+ _______
Equality A is as big as B ____+ adjective+____
A is the same as B the same as
Inferiority A is not as big as B Not ____+ adjective+____
A is not so big as B Not so + adjective+____

With nouns He has more money than we thought ________/_______+ noun

We have less money this week for shopping
Audio taken from Clare, A & Wilson, J. (2013). Speakout Pre-intermediate. (7th ed.). Slovakia: Pearson Education Limited.

Copyright 2016. Universidad de La Sabana, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures. English Language Program. Created by Durn, D. (2016). All Right Reserved, No part of this material shall
be reproduced, transmitted, distributed or commercially exploited, except with express written permission from the copyright holders. Enquiries for permission to reproduced all or parts of this
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