Grade 12 General - Reading Exam - Grammar

What is the English Reading Exam about?

• Jobs

• Health

• Exercise

• Holidays

The vocabulary in the exam will relate to which topics?

• The gym and healthy eating

• Careers and vocations

• Holiday destinations and tourist attractions

• Exercise and medicine

How many grammar points do you have to know for the reading exam?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

How many functional language topics should you know for the exam?

• 6

• 7

• 8

• 9

Grammar Point 1. You have 1 minute to study the picture. Why do we use comparatives?

• To talk about something in the future.

• To compare things.

• To tell a story.

• To talk about something in the past.

What is comparing?

• When you talk about something in the future.

• When you talk about something in the past.

• When you say things are similar or different.

• When you say something is old.

What words we use / modify to show large or small differences, or no difference at all?

• than

• much, a lot, no, exactly and just

• similarly, differently and the same

• much and a lot

What is the structure of grammar point 1? (Look at the picture to help you).

• comparative + than

• comparative + if

• comparative + now

• comparative + when

Having good friends is much more important ____ being wealthy.

• then

• than

• when

• if

The interview for the job was ____ demanding ____ the actual work itself.

• more than

• than more

• than than

• more more