X. Compound terms for towns. XI. These compound terms describe different types of town. How would you define each one? Border town is a town which is near the border with other country. Coastal town . College town . Industrial town Mountain town Port town . Resort town . Rural town . Suburban town . Tourist town . Order of the adjectives When two or more adjectives modify a noun, they must follow a particular order. OPINION XII. HOW HOW WHAT WHERE WHAT IS IT BIG? OLD? COLOR? FROM? MADE OF? NOUN Put the adjectives in brackets in the correct position. 1. A beautiful table (wooden / round) . 2. An unusual ring (gold) . 3. A new pullover (nice) . 4. A new pullover (green) . 5. An old house (beautiful) . 6. Black gloves (leather) . 7. An exciting new city (large) . 8. A metal box (black / small) . 9. A little resort town (picturesque) . 10. A little village (old / lovely) . 11. A run down port town (old) . 12. An old painting (interesting / French) Elaborado por: Lic. Ma. Del Rosario Ladrón de Guevara Araiza . Inglés III 9 XIII. XIV. Put the words in the correct order 1. He bought a red / house / brick / little in the center of town. 2. They’re rentinga a cottage / pink / traditional / square beside the river. 3. He hated living in a boarder / town / remote / little with its wooden / houses / run-down. 4. The town had many old / buildigns / cement with steel / dirty / black / roofs. Put the adjectives in brackets into the correct position. 1. A big taxi (yellow) a big yellow taxi. . 6. An expensive Italian racing car (red) 2. A beautiful wooden desk (old) 7. A big leather sofa (comfortable) 3. Some blue flowers (plastic) 8. An ugly glass vase (pear-shaped) 4. A funny old film (American) 9. Some little brown insects (horrible) 5. A concrete building (huge) 10. A mysterious triangular object (metal) READING XV. Read the text below and thing of the word which best fits each space. A coincidence. A coincidence is an occasion (0) when two or more things happened at the same time in an unusual or surprising way. Most people (1) (2) experienced coincidences. For example, a friend may telephone you the exact moment you were thinking about him. Coincidences happen all the (3) as remarkable (4) , but few have been the one experienced by King Umberto 1 of Italy. On 28 July 1900, King Umberto went into very surprised to find that the restaurant owner, (6) a restaurant in Monza. He (5) called Umberto, looked, and spoke exactly (7) was also him. It was soon discovered that they were (8) Turin on the same day. The restaurant owner had married a woman called Margherita, (9) born in was also the name of the Queen Whom King Umberto had married on the same day. What is more, the owner had opened his restaurant on the day (10) The king was (11) the King’s coronation. impressed that he invited the owner to an athletics meeting (12) Unfortunately, Umberto the restaurant owner died (13) morning. Later that same day, King Umberto 1 was shot dead (15) Elaborado por: Lic. Ma. Del Rosario Ladrón de Guevara Araiza following day. a mysterious shooting accident (14) an anarchist. Inglés III 10
