STARTER UNIT 6 : GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

Match the activities with the places.

sports centre         museum        station             hotel            park           police station           post office            library             restaurant               supermarket

• hotel

• 1. send a parcel

• police station

• 3. speak to a policeman

• post office

• 2. stay for a few days

• sports centre

• 5. have a meal

• restaurant

• 4. exercise

Match the following

sports centre         museum        station             hotel            park           police station           post office            library             restaurant               supermarket

• library

• relax on the grass

• park

• catch a bus or a train

• station

• do some food shopping

• supermarket

• borrow a book

• museum

• look at things from the past

Complete the table using the words in the box.

Visitors      driver      table     plane      neighbours     road      floor      museum     fast      coffee      snack      houses      history       pilot      lift      bikes      flight      platform      clothes      ticket machine

Groups:

(a) Train

,

(b) Motorway

,

(c) Department store

,

(d) Street

• road

• bikes

• coffee

• fast

• neighbours

• lift

• ticket machine

• snack

• table

• flight

• houses

• clothes

• history

• platform

• museum

• driver

• pilot

Across      behind       between       in front of        next         on your left       on your right    opposite

 

1.      The park is  ___​ (a)   _________ the cinema.

2.      The petrol station is  ____​ ​ (b)   _______   the road from the cinema.

3.      The post office is  ___​ ​ (c)   ________  the café and the hotel.

4.      The museum is  ___​ (d)   ​ ________  to the petrol station.

5.      The café is  ____​ (e)   ___  the post office.

• behind
• opposite
• between
• next
• in front of
•   on your left 
•   on your right 

1.      When you come out of the hotel, the post office is _____​ __​ (a)   ____ .

2.      The bus stop is __​_​ __​ (b)   ______  the park.

Whenyoucomeout ofthemuseum,thepetrolstationis ____​ ​ (c)   _____

Look at the map. Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

 

Across      behind       between       in front of        next         on your left       on your right    opposite

• on the left
• across
• on the right

Complete the sentences with the adjectives in the box.

Comfortable       famous       friendly       high      interesting      modern      old

1.      I didn’t enjoy the flight because my seat was not at all .................​ ​ (a)  

2.      The library looks very ______​​ (b)   _____ – the building is made of glass and it is an unusual shape.

3. The staff at the hotel werealway spolite and ____​​ (c)  

4. _​ _______ .

• comfortable
• modern
• friendly
• famous
• high 

1.      I’m reading a very ____​ (a)   _______  book at the moment about the future of the planet.

2.      I bought some beautiful ____​ (b)   _​ _______  jewellery from the market. It’s from the 19th century.

3.      The mountain isn’t very ____​ _​ ​ (c)   ______  but the views from the top are still amazing.

4.      I sat next to a well-known actor on the train. I had never seen a ____​ __​ (d)   ______person before that.

• interesting
• old
• high
• famous
• friendly 
• comfortable

I think trains are __________  (safe) and _________  (fast) than cars.

The traffic is usually ___________  (bad) in the city than in the countryside.

Complete the sentences with the comparative forms of the adjectives in brackets.

In London, the bus is _____________   (cheap) than the train