Lesson 2

Vocabulary

1. Match to make compound nouns.

1. air, c. pollution

2. bar, d. chart

3. climate, b. change

4. line, a. graph

Language

2. Look at the graphs. Complete the sentences comparing the countries’ weather with (not) as ... as ... and the words in brackets.

1. Saudi Arabia is not as wet as Jordan.
2. Iraq is not as dry as Jordan.
3. Egypt is as dry as Saudi Arabia.
4. Iraq is not as hot as Saudi Arabia.
5. Egypt is as hot as Jordan.

3. Match to make sentences.

1. A train is not as, c. fast as a plane.

2. Nessma writes in English as, d. carefully asshe speaks it.

3. The drought this year is not as, e. dangerous as it was last year.

4. The football players are not playing as, a. well as they did last week.

5. Tamer likes reading as much as, b. he likes playing computer games.