Word building: measurements (exercise)

 noun

 verb

 adjective

height - височина

heighten - извисявам се

high - висок

width - ширина

widen - разширявам 

wide - широк 

weight - тежест, тегло 

weigh - тежа 

heavy - тежък 

depth - дълбочина 

deepen - задълбочавам 

deep - дълбок 

lenght - дължина 

lengthen - удължавам 

long - дълъг 

Use the words from the table to complete the sentences:

1. The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, built in 1996, are 452 metres ............... .

2. Lake Baikal, Siberia, has a ................ of 1.63 kilometres (it's the world'd deepest lake).

3. The River Nile is 6,670 kilometres ............... (it could stretch all the way from New York to Berlin). 

4. The ............est point in the ocean is nearly 11 kilometres down, 25 times the ................... of the Empire State Building.

5. The largest iceberg was approximately 335 kilometres .................. and 100 kilometres ................., an area three times as big as Cyprus.

6. Some of the stones at Stonehenge ................... over 45 tonnes.

 

Answers:

  1. high
  2. depth
  3. long
  4. deep
  5. long...... wide
  6. weigh

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