English Grammar with Kudjo. Part 4. Понятная и забавная грамматика для детей и взрослых

9 The only problem was that the corridor was rather/quite dark, which made it quite/pretty impossible to go fast.

10 After a couple of hours the dogs were quite/pretty sure that they had been going around the mountain all the time.

EXERCISE 9

Fill the gaps in the story with missing words:

At the point the dogs realised they had ***** going round in a circle, they bumped into Kit, who was ***** and speaking to somebody excitedly. The dogs could ***** believe their ears and eyes – there was ***** lying in a kind of wooden cage. He looked ***** but happy at the same time. Of course, everybody was flurried and couldn’t help ***** interrupting each other.

After calming down the friends tried ***** to break the cage and at this moment Kudjo suddenly saw the ***** hiding cowardly behind the dogs. Never before had the friends ***** Kudjo so furious! He roared absolutely ***** at the lynx and made such an incredibly ***** effort to attack her that broke the *****. The lynx was rather ***** than the dogs, who seemed deeply ***** by Kudjo’s behaviour, so she was able to make a quick get-away. After ***** the cage Kudjo was quite exhausted to follow her and lay down ***** to his friends and closed his eyes. He looked ***** worn-out. Luna immediately took out a bottle with ***** and poured it right into his *****. Everybody could hardly breathe with ***** anxiety. Kudjo opened his eyes very ***** and said that a piece of meat would make a miracle as well. After such words the friends sighed with ***** relief and gave him a ***** hug.

EXERCISE 10

Find and correct 15 mistakes in the sentences:

1 The story that Kudjo told his friends sounded absolutely unbelievably.

2 Everything started that night when last Chilly saw Kudjo following the blue glowing ball into the middle of nowhere.

3 Actually, at that time Kudjo hadn’t got very far, not farer than a kilometre from the car until he tripped over something and fell down into a very huge pit.

4 Having tried quiet hard to get out of the trap, Kudjo started barking as loud as he could, but nobody seemed to hear him.

5 Feeling very helpless, Kudjo lay down to sleep on a very enormous pile of leaves, which, actually, had helped cushion his fall.

6 The morning came with somebody’s loudly purring above. He looked up and saw a pretty huge wild cat watching him close.

7 The lynx looked nicely and friendly and helped him get out of the trap.

8 She told him the story about a crazy scientist and promised to take him to his underground secret laboratory.

9 Before going there, she suggested having breakfast in her cave near and Kudjo agreed wholehearted to follow her.

10 In the cave while having a hearty breakfast, openly Kudjo told her everything about the curse attached to Luna’s family, the ghost of Luna’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother and his plan to break that curse.

EXERCISE 11

Choose the correct option:

1 Leaving the cave, the lynx wanted Kudjo to follow her *****, but he stopped to look around, feeling something *****.

a immediate / suspicious

b immediately / suspicious

c immediately / suspiciously

2 He couldn’t help feeling *****.

a quitely strange

b quite strange

c quite strangely

3 Kudjo had ***** feeling that he knew this place very well.

a quite a fun

b a quite funny

c quite a funny

4 He kept looking around *****, but couldn’t understand what the place was.

a very carefully

b rather carefully

c very careful

5 Finally, he realised it was the smell that made him feel *****.

a rather weird

b very weird

c rather weirdly

6 Everything around smelt ***** as if he were in his own garden with his friends.

a extremely nicely and pleasantly

b absolutely nice and pleasant

c extremely nice and pleasant

7 ***** he smelt everything, ***** he wanted to be with his friends.

a Longer / more desperately

b The longer / the more desperate

c The longer / the more desperately

8 When Kudjo told the lynx about his feelings, she said she was ***** his friends must have been caught by the insane scientist.

a quite certainly