اللغة الإنجليزية 8 فصل ثاني

LESSON 4A – GRAMMAR

1 SPEAKING

In pairs, answer the questions.

1. Who are your favourite authors?
2. What books did they write?

Answers:
(Students’ own answers.)

 

2 What are the most important qualities for an author? Say why. Discuss in pairs.

brave – confident – creative – easy-going – exciting – patient – talented

Answers:
(Students’ own answers.)

 

3 (6.6) Listen to an interview with an author.
Which adjectives from Exercise 2 does she use to describe a good author?

Answer:
creative – confident – brave – patient

 

4 (6.6) Complete the sentences with adjectives from Exercise 2. Listen again to check.

1. That was a very ----------- thriller.
2. I’m sometimes not __________ enough.
3. If you think you’re __________ enough, then just start!
4. Do it right now! Be __________!

Answers:

1. exciting
2. confident
3. talented
4. brave

 

Too, (not) enough

5

Read the sentences then match 1–3 with a–c to make rules.

1. We use too + adjective when
2. We use adjective + enough when
3. We use not + adjective + enough when

a) something is less than you need or want.
b) something is more than you need or want.
c) something is suitable for what you need or want.

Answers:

1 → b
2 → c
3 → a

 

6 (6.7)

Complete the conversations. Use too and enough with pairs of adjectives from the box. Listen and check.

interesting / long
talented / worried

A: Why aren’t you in the school art festival?
B: I’m not 1 __________ and I would be 2 __________ about everybody seeing my work.

A: What’s that book like?
B: The story’s 3 __________, but it’s 4 __________. It took me a month to read it.

Answers:

1. talented enough
2. too worried
3. interesting enough
4. too long

 

7 Rewrite the sentences with too + adjective or (not) adjective + enough.

1. These paintings are too traditional for me.
2. The plot wasn’t original enough.
3. The book was too short.

Answers:

1. (Already correct)
2. (Already correct)
3. (Already correct)

 

LESSON 4B – GRAMMAR

1 Complete the answers with Yes or No.

1. Is this TV OK for you?
   a No, it’s too big.
   b ______, it’s big enough.
   c ______, it isn’t big enough.
2. Is this graphic novel OK?
   a ______, it’s short enough.
   b ______, it isn’t short enough.
   c ______, it’s too short.
3. Was the book a good length?
   a ______, it was too long.
   b ______, it wasn’t long enough.
   c ______, it was long enough.

 Answers:

1
b Yes
c No

2
a Yes
b No
c No

3
a No
b No
c Yes

 

2 Complete the sentences with the correct adjectives from the pairs of words in the box.

big / small
busy / free
difficult / easy
early / late
funny / serious
noisy / quiet
old / young

1. I can’t work when other people are talking at the same time. It’s too noisy to concentrate.
2. I haven’t got time to help you today. I’m too ______.
3. You can’t go into the library. You’re too ______. It closed five minutes ago.
4. I can’t understand this book. It’s too ______ for me.
5. I’m not ______ enough to travel without my parents.
6. You can’t see all the paintings in the museum in one day. It’s too ______.
7. It wasn’t a good comedy. It wasn’t ______ enough.

Answers:

2. busy
3. late
4. difficult
5. old
6. big
7. funny

 

3 USE OF ENGLISH

Complete the second sentence using the word in bold so that it means the same as the first one.
Use no more than three words including the word in bold.

1. I’m too old to climb a mountain.
   YOUNG
   I’m not young enough to climb a mountain.
2. I couldn’t finish the test. I wasn’t fast enough.
   SLOW
   I couldn’t finish the test. I ______.
3. The laptop I wanted wasn’t cheap enough.
   EXPENSIVE
   The laptop I wanted ______.
4. The actors are too quiet and I can’t hear them.
   LOUD
   The actors aren’t ______ and I can’t hear them.
5. This tablet isn’t small enough for my bag.
   BIG
   This tablet ______ for my bag.
6. The old museum is too cold and people don’t like going there.
   WARM
   The old museum isn’t ______ and people don’t like going there.

Answers:

2. was too slow
3. was too expensive
4. loud enough
5. is too big
6. warm enough

 

4 Write about types of literature or types of art that you don’t like and say why using too or (not) enough.

Answer:

(Students’ own answers.)

Example:
I don’t like horror books because they are too scary.
I don’t enjoy very long novels because they aren’t interesting enough.