Which of these tasks or exercises
do you normally see in coursebooks?
- Look at the highlighted
verbs in the text and match them with the following synonyms: investigate, find, catch,
escape
- Match the adjectives
with their opposites, e.g. tall
/ short
- Underline in the text
all the expressions with OF
- Group the words
according to categories, e.g. vehicles: car,
motorcycle; musical instruments: guitar, piano etc
- Underline all the
adverbs in the text. Now underline the verbs they go with.
- Rick says "the
journey was long and tiring". What other adjectives can be used to
describe journeys?
- Which is the odd word
out? gaze - smile - stare
- look
You probably answered 1, 2, 4 and 7 and to a lesser extent 3, 5 and
6
Now read on to find out why...
