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Unit 13: Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
Comparatives and superlatives
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- 1 Nice to meet you!
- 2 What to wear
- 3 Like this, like that
- 4 The daily grind
- 5 Christmas every day
- 6 Great achievers
- 7 The Titanic
- 8 Travel
- 9 The big wedding
- 10 Sunny's job hunt
- 11 The bucket list
- 12 Moving and migration
- 13 Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
- 14 New Year, New Project
- 15 From Handel to Hendrix
- 16 What's the weather like?
- 17 The Digital Revolution
- 18 A detective story
- 19 A place to live
- 20 The Cult of Celebrity
- 21 Welcome to your new job
- 22 Beyond the planets
- 23 Great expectations!
- 24 Eco-tourism
- 25 Moving house
- 26 It must be love
- 27 Job hunting success... and failure
- 28 Speeding into the future
- 29 Lost arts
- 30 Tales of survival
Session 5
A murder takes Viktor Frankenstein back to his hometown in the latest episode of our dramatisation of Mary Shelley's famous novel. And it's also time to find out what you've learnt about comparatives and superlatives from Unit 13 in our weekly quiz.
Activity 2
The Weekly Quiz
What have you learnt?
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What a Unit! We've taken a tour of Broadcasting House, we've discovered some similar words, we've talked about change in our neighbourhoods and we've seen a tragedy in this week's episode of Frankenstein. And we've learnt how to use comparatives and superlatives.
So - before we get to the end of this unit, it's time to test yourself! Do the Weekly Quiz to discover what you really know. Good luck!
Test yourself!
15 Questions
Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at the text in Session 1 againQuestion 1 of 15
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What year was the BBC's original Broadcasting House built?
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1922
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b
1932
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1942
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at the text in Session 1 againQuestion 2 of 15
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Is this sentence grammatically correct? "The redevelopment of Broadcasting House in the centre of London is the larger capital project ever undertaken by the BBC."
a
Correct
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Incorrect
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Listen to the audio in Session 1 againQuestion 3 of 15
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Which language was the BBC’s first foreign broadcast in?
a
French
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b
Chinese
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c
Arabic
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 2 againQuestion 4 of 15
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Which word is an example of a comparative?
a
Bigger
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b
Biggest
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c
Most big
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 2 againQuestion 5 of 15
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To make a superlative when the adjective ends with a consonant + y, how do we change the word ending?
a
Change the y to i and add –est
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b
Change the y to i and add –er
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c
Double the final consonant and add -est
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 2 againQuestion 6 of 15
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Which word is an example of a superlative?
a
Better
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b
Good
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c
Best
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 2 againQuestion 7 of 15
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What is the superlative form of the adjective 'far'?
a
Further
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b
Farer
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c
Furthest
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 2 againQuestion 8 of 15
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When do we use ‘more’ before the adjective to make a comparative form and ‘the most’ to make a superlative?
a
When regular adjectives have 2 syllables or more and they don’t end in ‘y'
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When adjectives begin with a vowel sound
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c
When the adjective comes before a countable noun
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at the vocabulary reference for Unit 13Question 9 of 15
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What word means 'the central or main place where there is most activity'?
a
redevelop
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b
capital project
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c
hub
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at the video in Session 3Question 10 of 15
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In John Escolme's tour of Broadcasting House, which superlative did he not use?
a
greatest
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b
busiest
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c
most famous
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 3 againQuestion 11 of 15
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True or false? We use the structure 'as + adjective + as' to describe two things that are different
a
True
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b
False
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 3 againQuestion 12 of 15
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Which one of these sentences did John Escolme not say in his tour of Broadcasting House?
a
"It's busier because there's so much activity going on here"
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b
"It contains some of the latest technology so we can broadcast across the world"
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c
"Broadcasting House, the BBC's newest and the BBC's oldest building"
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Look at Session 4 againQuestion 13 of 15
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In the vox pops we heard in Session 4, what did Christine describe as being "one of the biggest of the chain in the UK"?
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a hospital
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b
a pub
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c
a supermarket
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Listen to News Report in Session 4 againQuestion 14 of 15
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In News Report, what was the name of the virtual city a 19-year-old student from Delaware has built?
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Minecraft City
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Tiger Town
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Titan City
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Answer the 15 questions about Unit 13
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Go to Session 5 and listen to episode 3 of Frankenstein againQuestion 15 of 15
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In our drama, Frankenstein, who is accused of killing William?
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Elizabeth
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Justine
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Viktor
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Excellent! Great job! መጥፎ እድል ነጥብ አስመዝግበዋል :
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x / y
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Excellent!
Great job!
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1
What year was the BBC's original Broadcasting House built?
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Is this sentence grammatically correct? "The redevelopment of Broadcasting House in the centre of London is the larger capital project ever undertaken by the BBC."
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3
Which language was the BBC’s first foreign broadcast in?
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4
Which word is an example of a comparative?
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5
To make a superlative when the adjective ends with a consonant + y, how do we change the word ending?
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Which word is an example of a superlative?
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7
What is the superlative form of the adjective 'far'?
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When do we use ‘more’ before the adjective to make a comparative form and ‘the most’ to make a superlative?
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What word means 'the central or main place where there is most activity'?
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10
In John Escolme's tour of Broadcasting House, which superlative did he not use?
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11
True or false? We use the structure 'as + adjective + as' to describe two things that are different
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12
Which one of these sentences did John Escolme not say in his tour of Broadcasting House?
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In the vox pops we heard in Session 4, what did Christine describe as being "one of the biggest of the chain in the UK"?
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In News Report, what was the name of the virtual city a 19-year-old student from Delaware has built?
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In our drama, Frankenstein, who is accused of killing William?
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End of Session 5
That's it for Unit 13. Don't forget to visit us on our Facebook page to tell us how you did in the quiz! In the next Unit we'll be talking about New Year's resolutions. We hope you haven't decided to give up learning for this year - because we're going to tell you all about the three little words yet, just, and already. See you in Unit 14!