1. Verbs associated with the five senses.

A photo of three monkeys carved out of wood. On monkey is covering its eyes, one is covering its mouth and one is covering its ears.

The verbs look, sound, feel, taste and smell are used to talk about the information you receive when you use your senses.

Put the missing words into the correct place in the table below. Drag the words to the gap, or you can click the word and then click the gap.

2. Missing verbs.

Complete the sentences using the verbs below.

3. Using verbs associated with the five senses.

The verbs look, feel, taste, sound and smell can be followed directly by an adjective phrase:
You look worried. Is everything OK?
I've taken an aspirin and I feel better already.

The same verbs are followed by like before a noun phrase:

These veggie burgers really taste like hamburgers.
My brother looks like me.
Who's that on the radio? It sounds like Bob Dylan.
This feels like the worst cold I've ever had.

Complete the sentences. Type in the correct form of the verbs look, feel, taste, sound or smell and like if necessary.

For more information about stative verbs go to the Grammar Reference.

4. Pronouns.

A close-up photo of a woman smiling.

Choose the right reference for the pronouns in bold.

5. Pronouns that refer to an indefinite person or to people in general.

They and them can refer to a singular indefinite person without needing to say he or she:
If someone looks happy, we tend to believe they are happy.

You can refer to people in general:

When you put on a false smile, this doesn't happen.

We or us can refer to everybody, including you (the listener) and me (the speaker):

If someone looks happy, we tend to believe they are happy.

Complete the sentences with the words in the box. You may use the words more than once.

See explanations of the answers.

6. Using it and this to refer back.

It and this can both be used as pronouns to refer back to something mentioned in a clause, a sentence or sentences before.

It is used to refer back to a specific thing mentioned in the clause or sentence before:

I went to a party at the weekend. It finished at 6 a.m.
(It refers to the party.)

This is normally used to refer back to a complete clause, sentence or group of sentences:

In a real smile, a muscle around the eye contracts, which causes the skin around the eye to tighten and create lines. When you put on a false smile, this doesn't happen.
(This refers back to the whole of the sentence before.)

Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentences.

7. Saying how difficult or easy you find it to do things, and how well you do them.

The structure find + it + adjective + to + infinitive can be used to say if something is easy or difficult for you to do:
Even experts in lie detection find it hard to tell when someone is lying.

Adjectives that can be used in this structure include easy, hard, difficult and impossible.


The structure be + adjective + at + noun or verb + -ing can be used to say how well you can do something:

We are bad at telling whether someone is lying.

Adjectives that can be used in this structure include good, bad, terrible, fast and slow.

 

Put the words in the right order to form sentences.

8. Sentence completion.

Change the word in brackets to complete the sentence. Say and record the complete sentence.

For example:  
You see:           He’s good (learn) ______ languages. 
You say:           He’s good at learning languages.

 

8. The structure be + adjective + at.

Use the word in brackets and at to complete the sentence.

9. Saying how difficult or easy you find it to do things.

Complete the second sentence using find + it so that it means the same as the first sentence.

For example:

It's hard for me to believe what you're saying.

I find it hard to believe what you're saying.

 

10. Missing pronouns.

Here is the READING text again. Type the correct pronoun in the gaps.

11. Agreeing and disagreeing.

Read the short exchanges and match the statements to the responses. This exercise is in two parts. Scroll down to see Part 2.

Part 1

Now complete Part 2.

Part 2

12. Agreeing and disagreeing.

Agree and disagree are verbs in English.
I agree.
I disagree. / I don’t agree.

Put the responses into the correct box.