Name: Sonya Arini C

Class: XA3
Topic: Compound Adjective
Task 1
Decide whether the sentence true or false . (4 points each number)
1. I work an eight-hours day. : False
2. I want you to perform a five-minute talk . : True
3. You have to write a three-pages story. : True
4. My cousin brought me some mouth-watered pizza. : False
5. The electricity is generated form wind-powered generators. : True
6. Indonesia is a densely-populated country. : True
7. His wife always buys ready-made meals. : True

Task 2
Pair the words to make compound adjectives and then use them to complete the gaps in the
paragraph. (5 points each number)

Absorbing Capped Chocolate Coloured Leisure

Snow Filled White Pure Shock

All the husky dogs had ….. (0) fur which showed up against the … (1) YOUR ANSWER
beauty of the freshly fallen snow. The dogs had to climb from the 1. Chocholate-coloured
green fields of the lower hills to the peaks of the … (2) mountains. On 2. Pure-white
their paws they wore … (3) specially made leather boots, due to the 3. Snow-capped
pounding their legs would receive from the constant trekking. The 4. Schock-absorbing
dogs were used to a … (4) life living at ground level on the plains and 5. Leisure-filled
rolling in the white sands of the freshwater lakes near their homes.

Task 3
Make a compound adjective in the second sentence from the underlined information in the
first sentence (8 points each number)

Example: Many of the roads in Britain are lined by trees.

There are many tree-lined roads in Britain.

a. I live in a country where Indonesian is spoken.

Your answer: I live in an Indonesian-speaking country.
b. Shakespeare is an author who is known very well.
Your answer: Shakespeare is a well-known actor.
c. She never cooks and only buys food that is already made and ready.
Your answer: She never cooks and only buys ready-made meals.
d. He lives in a building which is 20 storeys.
Name: Sonya Arini C
Class: XA3
Topic: Compound Adjective
Your answer: He lives in a twenty-storey building.
e. The cat is only two years old and already it’s fat.
Your answer: The cat is only two-years old and already it’s fat.
f. The room is lit too brightly – I don’t like it.
Your answer: The room is too brightly-lit – I don’t like it.
g. She can only work part time because of the children.
Your answer: She can only work part-time because of the children.