The most extraordinary life Language in use: Comparing people by using adjectives a) Read the sentences and compare the extraordinary people. Use the adjectives below. 1. Oprah Winfrey was born in 1954, Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984. Mark Zuckerberg is younger 1 than Oprah Winfrey. 2. Mary Shelley wrote and travelled a lot. Steve Irwin was famous for getting very close to poisonous snakes and crocodiles. Steve Irwin’s life was 2 than Mary Shelley’s life. 3. Oprah Winfrey owns 4 billion $, Mark Zuckerberg owns 70 billion $. Mark Zuckerberg is 3 than Oprah Winfrey. 4. Mary Shelley’s mother died when she was a baby. Later, two of her children and her husband died very young. Steve Irwin married the love of his life, Terri. They had two children, Bindi and Robert. Steve Irwin’s family life was 4 than Mary Shelley’s family life. 5. Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 years, Steve Irwin died when he was 44 years old. Stephen Hawking got 5 than Steve Irwin. 6. Mark Zuckerberg is 1,71m tall, Oprah Winfrey is 1,69m tall. Mark Zuckerberg is 6 than Oprah Winfrey. b) Fill in the gaps. Use the superlative form of the adjectives. Steve Irwin, the 1 crocodile hunter ever, got close to the most dangerous 2 animals there are on Earth – he touched the 3 snakes. But there were some animals even he was quite nervous about. The animal he found the 4 to work with was actually the parrot. The parrot is one of the 5 pet birds because it can “talk” and is clever. It really is one of the 6 birds. But Steve Irwin got some of his 7 bites1 from parrots. 7 young dangerous happy old rich tall dangerous bad difficult intelligent poisonous popular good 1 bite – Biss 12 Revision twelve Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum d s Verlags öbv
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