Guinness World Records is all about big, bigger, biggest.
Assignment 1
a You’ve got “big – bigger – biggest”. Now do the same with the following words (adjectives).
Write your answers down.
Make comparisons and superlatives with:
1 bad
2 crazy
3 fat
4 good
5 happy
6 heavy
7 large
8 lucky
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Assignment 2
Find the words in the text.
Connect the words and expressions that have the same meaning.
| 1. giant | a. to find out how heavy something is |
| 2. (to) weigh | b. greater, higher, better, etc., than any other in the past |
| 3. occasionally | c. the length of a line that goes around something |
| 4. (to) smile | d. much larger than normal |
| 5. record-breaking | e. oranges, grapefruits, lemons, etc. |
| 6. citrus fruits | f. a person who grows plants and takes care of them |
| 7. circumference | g. a piece of land used for growing plant products or raising animals |
| 8. farm | h. put away somewhere to use later |
| 9. stored | i. sometimes; now and then |
| 10. gardener | j. to turn up the corners of your mouth because you are happy or amused |
Assignment 3
a Choose all fruit and vegetable names that are in the text.
1 apples
2 berry
3 butternut squash
4 chihuahuas
5 cucumber
6 lemons
7 sandwich
8 strawberry
b True or false?
1 Normal blueberries weigh about one to three grams.
2 The world’s heaviest blueberry was grown in Costa Rica.
3 The world’s heaviest strawberry has been sitting in a freezer since 2021.
4 The heaviest pumpkin weighs almost 1247 kilo.
5 The heaviest pumpkin was grown by a man in Italy.
6 The record for the heaviest watermelon was set in 2013.
c Choose the best summary.
1 Chihuahuas and baby elephants are getting heavier each year.
2 Fruits and vegetables are bigger in Australia because of climate change.
3 Giant fruits and vegetables break records all over the world.
4 Turns out it is impossible to smash record-breaking watermelons.
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