Olá!

 

Quando fazemos o tipo de exercício que se segue  e não estamos certos sobre o mais adequado a se usar, devemos tentar decidir se a palavra faltante é um adjetivo (como em 1), um substantivo (como no 2), um verbo (como no 3), um advérbio (como no 4) ou um artigo (como no 5).

 

 

Fill the gaps

 

 

 

A – What words are missing in each of these sentences?

 

1 – If you have flu you often have a___________headache.

2 – I spent a sleepless _______________ worrying about my problems.

3 – It’s safest to ____________the street at a pedestrian crossing.

4 – We ___________ arrived after a long journey.

5 - ____________beach holiday is _________most boring kind of holiday I can imagine.

 

• When you’re doing this kind of exercise and you’re not sure what word fits best, try to decide if the missing word is an adjective (as 1 above), a noun ( as 2 above), a verb ( as 3), an adverb (as 4) or an article (as 5).

 

 

B - Fill each gap in this story with one word only. The first is done as an example:

 

We were late as (1) usual. Michael had insisted on doing his packing by (2) _____, and when he discovered that he couldn’t manage he’d asked me for help at the last (3) _____. So now we had an hour to get to the (4) _______. Luckily, there wasn’t much traffic on the (5) _______and we were able to get there just in (6) ______. We checked in and went straight to the departure (7) ______to wait for our (8) _______to be called. We waited and waited but no announcement was (9) __________. We asked at the information (10) ________and the girl there told us that the plane hadn’t even arrived yet. In the (11) ________there was another announcement telling us that passengers waiting for flight LJ 108 could collect a (12) _______meal voucher and that the plane hadn’t left Spain because of (13) ______problems. We thought that meant that it wasn’t safe for the plane to (14) _________. We waited again for (15) _________until late evening when we were asked to report to the (16) ___________desk again. They told us we would be spending the (17) ____________in a hotel at the airline’s (18) ________.

The next morning after a sleepless (19) _________because of all the planes taking off and landing, we reported back to the airport. Guess what had (20) __________while we were (21) ________! Our plane had arrived and taken off again leaving us (22) _______. All the

Other (23) ____________had been woken up in the night to catch the plane, but for some (24)________or other we had been forgotten. You can imagine how we felt!