Unit 5/6 - Y3 - everything you need to know for the test

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

Unit 5/6

Test:
Thursday 20-05 at 14:00

What to learn for the test?

Vocabulary:
unit 5 & unit 6
Extreme adjectives
Make & Do

Grammar:

Relative pronouns

Defining & non-defining relative clauses

Passive voice: present & past passive

Vocab

Extreme adjectives

Match the gradable adjectives (1-5) with the extreme adjectives (a-e)

1. good

2. funny

3. happy

4. big

5. small

a. hilarious

b. delighted

c. enormous

d. tiny/minute

e. wonderful

Gradable vs non-gradable (extreme)

Gradable	Non-gradable
Most adjectives are gradable. This means we can have different levels of that quality. For example, you can be a bit cold , very cold or extremely cold . We can make them weaker or stronger with modifiers.	Some adjectives are non-gradable. For example, something can't be a bit finished or very finished. You can't be a bit dead or very dead. These adjectives describe absolute qualities . To make them stronger we have to use modifiers like absolutely, totally or completely .
Examples of gradable adjectives: angry, big, boring, cheap, cold, expensive, frightening, funny, hot, interesting, old, pretty, small, tasty, tired, etc. Examples of modifiers to use with gradable adjectives: Very, really , a little bit, a bit, pretty, quite, extremely	Examples of non-gradable adjectives: acceptable, dead, destroyed, finished, free, impossible, necessary, perfect, ruined, unacceptable, etc. Examples of modifiers to use with non-gradable adjectives: absolutely , totally, completely, really

Complete the text with the correct adjectives.

minute

enourmous

fantastic

delighted

funny

huge

sad

Vocab

Make & Do

Look at the verbs, choose if you "make" or "do" them

Make

Do

an experiment

your way

sense

time

money

well

housework

Grammar

Relative pronouns

Complete these sentences from the text.

A group of Neanderthals are sitting around the fire in a cave, [ ... ] they've just finished eating a big meal together.

He wants to get some berries, [ ... ] wants to share with everybody.

Everybodyhas always respected storytellers, [ ... ] have been important members of many societies.

These stories come from previous generations, [ ... ] wisdom and knowledge they contain.

whose

which

who

where

The rule - Relative pronouns

whose

which

who

where

Grammar reference Cambridge Think

Relative pronouns
exercises

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Link 5

Link 6

Grammar

Defining and non-defining relative clauses

Defining + non-defining relative clause

Grammar reference Cambridge Think

Defining and non-defining relative clauses
exercises

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Grammar

Passive voice

Active vs Passive

The penguins are the ones doing the action, they are active.

My sister is not doing the action, she is passive.

Present passive

I wash the car every week.	The car is washed (by me) every week.
You make the pizza every Sunday.	The pizza is made every Sunday.
We read the newspapers online.	The newspapers are read online.

How to form a present passive voice?

am / are / is + past participle

(form of be) + voltooid deelwoord

Past passive

I washed the car yesterday.	The car was washed (by me) yesterday
You made pizza last Sunday.	The pizza was made last Sunday.
We read the newspapers on paper in the past.	The newspapers were read on paper in the past.

How to form a past passive voice?

was / were + past participle

(past form of be) + voltooid deelwoord

Grammar reference Cambridge Think

Present & past passive

exercises:

Present passive:

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Past passive:

Link 1

Link 2
Link 3

Present + past passive combined:

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Link 4