Worksheet 1. Nouns and adjectives

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1 Worksheet 1. Nouns and adjectives

Write the nouns and adjectives in the sentences in the correct columns.

1. Do you like Italian food?

2. We sat at the kitchen table and ate dinner.

3. Grammar is an interesting subject.

4. I have a red grammar book.

5. We bought a beautiful rug in China.

6. She has an important job in the police department.

Adjectives Nouns used as

adjectives Nouns

1. Italian food

2. kitchen table, dinner 3.

4.

5.

6.

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2 Worksheet 2. Nouns and adjectives

Complete the sentences. Choose the correct words from the word pool and put it in the blank spaces. Use one word for each space. You may want to use the mini- glossary below.

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1. This car can run on a battery. It has enough energy from the battery to go for 40 miles or 64 kilometers. It is an

_______________ _______________.

2. Tonight we are going to my ____________________

____________________________ restaurant.

I like it because they always serve delicious vegetarian ____________________________ from Vietnam. That’s

good for me because I am a vegetarian.

3. Kate works in the _____________________________

_____________________________. She knows every ____________________ book in the store. Within two

minutes, she can find the history texts, the engineering texts, the poetry books, the _____________________ texts, the reference books -– everything a student or

professor needs.

battery = an object that supplies electricity energy= power from electricity, coal, oil, etc.

vegetarian= a person who doesn’t eat meat within= inside of

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Worksheet 3. Reading: Johnny Appleseed

Read the passage. Then answer the questions on the next page.

Johnny Appleseed

Johnny Appleseed was an American pioneer* and a legend. He loved apples. He grew apple trees and traveled around many places in the United States of America to bring apple trees to the people. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was an imaginary character, but he was a real person. He was born in Massachusetts in 1774 and lived for 70 years.

Johnny had good farming skills. He planted apple trees and took good care of them. He supplied apple seeds to the early settlers in the Mid-west of the USA, the large part of the land in the middle of the country, far from the oceans. He owned tree farms in several states. He sold many trees, but gave away many, too. He was very successful, but he lived a simple life. He was kind and generous and friendly to everyone. And he did funny things! He liked to walk in his bare feet, and he wore his tin cooking pot on his head as he traveled.

His real name was John Chapman, but people called him Johnny Appleseed because of his great love for apples and their seeds. Johnny spent 50 years growing apple trees and spreading them successfully all over the land.

*The people who traveled west in the United States and made their homes in new places were called pioneers.

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4 Worksheet 3, page 2

Circle True if the sentence is true, and False if the sentence is false, according to the passage about Johnny Appleseed.

1. Johnny Appleseed was a real person. True / False

2. He traveled in the eastern part of the USA. True / False

3. He grew vegetables and sold them. True / False

4. He was unsuccessful. True / False

5. He was generous and nice. True / False

6. He always wore shoes. True / False

7. He wore a hat that was really a pot. True / False 8. He spread apples and apple trees all over the

country. True / False

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5 Worksheet 4. Vocabulary review

Complete the sentences. Circle the correct word in parentheses.

1. Something that is not real and is only in your head is (true/ imaginary).

2. An popular old story that may be true, or not, is a (fact / legend) 3. A person in a book, a play, or movie is a (character / comic).

4. Farmers (buy / supply) food to the markets.

5. People call the land that is not near the Atlantic Ocean or the Pacific Ocean, but is in the middle of the United States, the (Midwest / Midnorth).

6. A person who is nice to other people and cares about them is (kind / funny).

7. If you (own / owe) something, it is yours. It belongs to you.

8. Flowers and plants grow from (seeds / fruit).

9. People who are the first to live somewhere are (settlers / cooks).

10. (Tiny / Great) means very large.

11. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, was a kind of (pioneer / farmer) in space travel.

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Complete the sentences. Choose the correct word from the word pool and write it in the blank space.

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1. When you get the result you want, you are ____________________.

2. Parents take ____________________ of their children.

3. Something that is easy to do is ____________________.

4. A person who is willing to give time, money, or things to others is a ____________________ person.

5. You cook food in a ____________________.

6. Cans with food in them are ____________________ cans.

7. I got my hat from Aunt Bessie. She gave ____________________

all her old hats.

8. Things that you do well are ____________________.

9. Fire quickly ____________________ through the building.

10. The sun burned his ____________________

skin.

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7 Worksheet 6. Apples

Here are three common sayings about apples. Read each one, and guess the meaning of the saying. Circle the letter of your choice.

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

a. If you eat one apple every day, you will be healthy and you won’t need a doctor.

b. Give away an apple to the doctor every day.

c. If you eat too many apples, you’ll get sick.

2. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

a. It’s easy to pick apples because they fall very near the tree. So, do things that are easy for you.

b. Apples come from seeds, and new apples turn out like old apples. In the same way, a

person turns out to be like his or her parents.

c. It may be harmful to sit under an apple tree because an apple might fall on you. So, always be

careful of danger.

3. One bad apple ruins the whole barrel!

a. A barrel of apples always has a few bad apples in it. So, don’t worry if things aren’t perfect.

b. If a barrel of apples has one bad apple in it, it’s OK. In the same way, if only one person in a group is bad, the group is OK.

c. If a barrel of apples has one bad apple in it, all the apples are bad. In the same way, one bad person in a group ruins the whole group.

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Complete the sentences. Choose a word from the word pool and write it in the blank space.

away barrel danger group pick ruin

1. A sign in the zoo says, “Keep ________________

from the big turtles.” It means, “Don’t go near the turtles.”

2. The farm workers _______________ apples in the summer and oranges in the winter.

3. This sign on the highway means,

“__________________! Falling

rocks!”

4. If you put more salt in this soup, it will

________________ it. It is just perfect now.

5. A _________________ of oil equals 159 litres of oil.

6. A small _________________ of children crossed the street. Their teacher followed them.

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Worksheet 8. Vocabulary review: Opposites

Complete the sentences in Column A with words that are opposites. Write the letter of the correct word in Column B in the blank space in Column A.

Column A Column B

1. The opposite of bare is ____. a. real

2. The opposite of imaginary is ____. b. difficult

3. The opposite of nice is ____. c. safe

4. The opposite of great is ____. d. come near

5. The opposite of simple is ____. e. rude

6. The opposite of successful is ____. f. awful

7. The opposite of harmful is ____. g. improve

8. The opposite of ruin is ____. h. small

9. The opposite of wonderful is ____. i. covered

10. The opposite of keep away is ____. j. failing

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10 Worksheet 9. Using nouns as adjectives Check all possible completions.

1. Mom baked a delicious apple _______.

^tree

^pie

^farm

2. I bought a new battery at a place that sells automobile _______.

^parts

^licenses

^accidents

3. My aunt and uncle have 1,200 chickens on their chicken _______.

^soup

^farm

^salad

4. John is a famous football _______.

^game

^player

^field

5. We bought a new kitchen _______.

^table

^sink

^bush

6. I read about the university _______.

buildings

^students

professors 7. There are serious problems with the city _______.

^streets

^traffic

government 8. I like summer _______.

^weather

^vacation

^rivers

9. Yes, I know the office _______.

^building

^manager

^farm

10. Do you have a new computer _______?

^problem

^desk

^screen

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Worksheet 10. Which word doesn’t belong?

Check the word that does not belong in each group.

1. O kind O cold O nice O generous 2. O big O great O huge O little

3. O want O possess O own O have 4. O ruin O fix O spoil O hurt

5. O harmful O unsafe O easy O dangerous 6. O seed O skill O ability O knowledge 7. O single O group O class O crowd 8. O barrel O box O onion O can 9. O pioneer O settler O last one O first one 10. O battery O energy O tree O electricity

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12 Worksheet 11.Vocabulary review

Cross out the word or words that do not go with the adjective in bold. In some items, all words are correct.

1. These things can be harmful:

fire wind hair

2. These things can be simple:

tin apples problems

3. These things can be bare:

trees skin clouds

4. These things can be delicious:

fruit cake vegetables

5. These things can be successful:

trips careers chickens

6. These things can be tin:

cans roofs water

7. These things can be great:

music times oceans

8. These things can be electric:

stoves doors cars

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Worksheet 12. Linking verbs and adjectives

Complete the conversations. Write the letter of the correct phrase from the word pool in the blank space.

a. feel really terrible b. sounds good c. seem very happy

d. taste delicious e. smells good f. tastes awful

1. A: What’s cooking, Chef Arnaldo?

B: Some beautiful white bean soup. Do you want some?

A: Yes, please! It sure _______!

2. A: Have a chocolate chip cookie!

B: Thanks! … Mmm … they _______!

3. A: What do you want to do tonight?

B: Well, there’s a funny French movie at the University Cinema.

A: Let’s see it. It _______.

4. A: Rita and Andy finally got married!

B: They did? After all these years? Well, how are they?

A: They _______.

5. A: What’s up, Josh?

B: I flunked the math test. I _______.

6. A: Oh, waiter, I can’t eat this fish.

B: What’s wrong with it?

A: It _______!

awful = terrible chef = professional cook flunked = failed

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Worksheet 13. Word search game

Find 8 words from Chapter 14. The letters of the words may be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.

All the words are from Chapter 14. Clues to the words are under this puzzle. The gray shading shows the first letter of a word.

CLUES:

1. Terrible

2. Without a cover 3. Fail a test

4. Some people together 5. Easy

6. You cook in this.

7. Make something bad

8. A metal

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15 Answer Key

Worksheet 1

Adjectives Nouns used as adjectives Nouns

1. Italian food

2. kitchen table, dinner

3. interesting grammar, subject

4. red grammar book

5. beautiful rug, China

6. important police job, department

Worksheet 2 1. electric car

2. favorite Vietnamese / dishes

3. university bookstore / every / chemistry Worksheet 3

1. True 2. False 3. False 4. False 5. True 6. False 7. True 8. True

Worksheet 4 1. imaginary 2. legend 3. character 4. supply 5. mid-west 6. kind 7. own 8. seeds 9. settlers 10. Great 11. pioneer

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1. successful 2. care 3. simple 4. generous 5. pot 6. tin 7. away 8. skills 9. spread 10. bare

Worksheet 6 1. a

2. b 3. c

Worksheet 7 1. away 2. pick 3. danger 4. ruin 5. barrel 6. group Worksheet 8

1. i. covered 2. a. real 3. e. rude 4. h. small 5. b. difficult 6. j. failing 7. c. safe 8. g. improve 9. f. awful 10. d. come near Worksheet 9

1. pie 2. parts 3. farm 4. player 5. table /sink

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17 7. streets / traffic / government

8. weather / vacation 9. building / manager 10. problem / desk / screen Worksheet 10

1. cold 2. little 3. want 4. fix 5. easy 6. seed 7. single 8. onion 9. last one 10. tree

Worksheet 11 1. hair

2. problems 3. clouds

4. [All three are correct.]

5. chickens 6. water

Worksheet 12 1. e.

2. d.

3. b.

4. c.

5. a.

6. f.

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1. awful 2. bare 3. flunk 4. group 5. simple 6. pot 7. ruin 8. tin

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awful bare barrel beautiful bookstore building care character chemistry chicken China Chinese city classes cloud cold college come near covered danger day desk difficult dishes easy electric car every excellent failing farm favorite fix flunk food generous government great group hair heavy highway

history imaginary important improve Italian job kind last legend little manager Midwest onion own part pick pie pioneer player pot problem professor rainy real rude rug ruin sad safe screen seed settler simple single sink skill small spread street student successful supply

table tin traffic tree

university vacation Vietnamese want

water weather