Unit 1: Exercise 1

Unit 1: Exercise 7

Complete the sentences. Use the words in the box.

Affordable budget hotels charge closures commuters congestion pollution season ticket

1. 
   Traffic ______________ has increased dramatically in the city centre. As a result, it now takes people over two hours to get to work because there are so many cars.
   
2. 
   The ______________ caused by exhaust fumes has fallen sharply as fewer people are driving to work since a new _________________ was introduced for vehicles entering the city centre.
   
3. 
   The price of a rail __________________ has risen considerably over the last six months. As a result, _________________ are finding it very difficult to afford their travel costs.
   
4. 
   It is predicted that the population of the town will expand gradually over the next few years, now that the proposal to construct a small number of ________________ houses has been accepted by the planning department.
   
5. 
   The number of tourists staying in the area has risen steadily since the recent construction of two ____________________ offering less expensive accommodation.
   
6. 
   ___________________ of small shops in the town centre have risen noticeably since the opening of a new hypermarket with 1,000 parking spaces.
   

Unit 1: Exercise 8

Read the information. Then complete the table with the adverbs in the box.

Try to use a wide variety of adverbs when describing degrees of change. This will help you to achieve a higher Lexical Resource mark in the IELTS test.

Sharply considerably steadily gradually dramatically marginally slowly abruptly significantly