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7 Choose the correct verb to complete each of Ibn Battuta’s sentences about
Chapter 6.
a 
You 
can / must
meet old friends in the strangest places.
b 
You 
can / can’t
see a salt mosque in Taghaza.
c 
You 
can / must
never drink bad water.
d 
You 
must / can’t
go into the desert without a water bottle.
e 
You 
can’t / must
stay with the caravan when you journey across the desert.
f 
You 
can’t / can
always remember your way easily in the desert.
g 
You 
must / can
die quickly under the hot desert sun.
h 
You 
can
/ must
never play with dangerous snakes.
i 
You 
must / can’t
eat meat when it’s old and bad.
j 
You 
can’t / must
go to bed when you are ill.
k 
You 
must / can’t 
speak carefully when you talk to 
a king.
l 
You 
must / can 
see lots of hippopotamuses in the 
rivers of Mali.
m 
You 
must / can’t 
say ‘No’ to the Sultan when he 
asks for you.
n 
You 
must / can’t 
travel quickly across mountains 
in winter when it’s snowing.
o 
You 
can’t / can 
learn more about my travels from 
my book.
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G R A M M A R
GRAMMAR CHECK
Superlative adjectives
We add 
the
+ 
–
est
to make the 
superlative form of most short 
adjectives.
rich the 
rich
est
When adjectives finish in consonant + y, 
we change y to
 
i
 
and
 
add 
–
est
.
hungry 
the
 hungr
iest
When adjectives finish in e, we add 
the
+ 
–
st
.
nice 
the
 nice
st
With longer adjectives we put 
the most
before the adjective.
interesting 
the most
 interesting
When adjectives finish in a short 
vowel + consonant,
 
we double the final 
consonant and add 
the
+ 
–
est
.
big 
the
 big
gest
Some adjectives have an irregular 
superlative form.
good 
the best
bad 
the worst
8 Complete Ibn Battuta’s text about his travels using the superlative form of the 
adjectives in brackets.
I met many rich men on my travels. But a)…………………… (rich) of them all was 
the Sultan of Delhi. He was often b)…………………… (angry) man in the world, too. 
I visited lots of holy places many times on pilgrimage. Of course Makkah, for me, was 
c)…………………… (holy) of all. I saw many dangerous animals in different countries, 
but d)……………………(dangerous) of all these was the rhinoceros, I think, and it was 
e)…………………… (strange) animal, too. f)…………………… (famous) buildings 
of all time are of course the pyramids, and I was very happy to see them in Egypt. I sailed 
to many countries on my travels, but g)…………………… (bad) sea journey of all was 
my first time on a ship – when I sailed from Jeddah to Yemen. h)…………………… 
(hot) times of all were when I travelled across deserts. What were i)…………………… 
(happy) days of my time away from home? When I lived in the Maldives with my wife, 
perhaps. Of course, I have lots of good friends now, but j)…………………… (good) of 
them all is Ibn Juzayy. And home is k)…………………… (nice) place in the world, I feel.
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