Level Nine
Unit Two
Anthony K Whelan anthonykwhelan@yahoo.com
The merry fellow swung his bottle carelessly as he began to follow the narrow lane between the little shops. He paused at the ladder, then, to satisfy himself that such superstitions did not matter, he strode boldly underneath it. Suddenly he tripped over a pretty puppy speeding like a bullet from the grocery store with a penny packet of jelly between its teeth.
merry
fellow
bottle
follow
narrow
ladder
matter
pretty
puppy
bullet
penny
jelly
A. Write all of the list words into your dictionaries or work books. B. Which list words contain these smaller words? a). low b). bull c). pen d). mat e). lad
f). pup
C. Which list word has a confused
g). fell
e
h). let ?
Clap your hands ten times and say the letter e.
E
D. Write out all the list words in alphabetical order. E. Unjumble these words: a). eytrtp b). wrorna c). adrdel
d). ljely
e). ynnep
h). upypp
F. Add “
s
f). tatmre
g). ryrme
” to words ending in “
9.2
y”
If there is no vowel before the “y” then change the ‘y’ to ‘i’ and add ‘es’.
penny jelly puppy
G. Write out the opposites of these words: a). wide b). ugly c). sad H. Positive
d). lead e). anti-matter
Comparative
Superlative
wide
wider
widest
ugly
uglier
ugliest
early
earlier
earliest
pretty narrow merry
Study this chart of adjectives (describing words) and complete the last three adjectives in the Comparative and Superlative columns. See if you can work out what the rule is. It is similar to F.