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Match the questions (1–6) to the answers (a–f).
1 Does Carlos write well? d
2 How fast can you run?
3 Do your friends work hard?
4 How well can you speak German?
5 Could you speak more slowly, please?
6 How early do you want to leave?

a Sorry, I didn’t realise I was speaking so fast.
b Yes, they do. Very hard!
c About 7.00 a.m., so we don’t arrive late!
d I think he writes very clearly.
e I can do a kilometre in ten minutes!
f Not so well, but I’m getting better all the time.


2 Complete the sentences with the opposite adverb.

1 Jim plays the guitar well, but he sings badly .
2 She always drives carefully, but last night she drove..................................
.
3 The children played happily on the floor, but their mother looked.................................
at the news flash.
4 Magda reads fast in her own language, but she reads............................................
in English.
5 I like to get home early – but sometimes the bus is .............................................!
6 Mum! Don’t speak so loudly on the phone! We’re trying to work.................................
in our room.


3 Choose the correct options.
A So, Alan. What’s it like to be a blog writer?
B It’s a lot of fun! I can be sitting
1 carelessly / quietly at the
computer when my mobile phone rings
2 slowly / loudly and it’s
a friend with a good idea for a story. So I check the details
3 early / carefully , and then upload my comments. I don’t like to
work too 4 fast / angrily , because that’s when I make mistakes.
A So do a lot of people write back?
B It depends, really. Sometimes I can wait
5 patiently / sadly at the
computer and nothing happens. Other times people will
6 happily / late upload a dozen comments in ten minutes!


4 Complete the text with the adverb form of the words.

I was waiting 1 patiently (patient) for a bus the other day, when a dog
appeared and started barking
2.............................(loud). I’m usually a
bit scared of dogs, and there was no one else around. I thought
3 ..........................(hard) for a moment, and then remembered I had
a biscuit in my pocket. So I took it out
4..........................(careful) and gave it to the animal. It stopped barking at once and wagged its tail
5.................. (happy). So then I touched it and talked to it, and
6.............. (slow) we became friends. The dog’s been at
home now for three weeks!
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