U13. Language focus

The price of traveling becomes/is becoming more and more expensive... The price of traveling becomes/is becoming more and more expensive... • Work in pairs to match half-sentences 2-5.

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UNIT 13 THE 22nd SEA GAMES

LESSON: LANGUAGE FOCUS

Class: 12A1 Presenter: Le Thi Mi Sa

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PRESENTATION

• Look at the picture.

• Do you like it?

consonant sound

vowel sound

• Look at these pictures.

despite the fog.

• Mrs Brown’s quite old.

• She’s from Australia.

• She has many friends in

London.

SITUATION 1

What will happen to Nam?For breakfast For lunch and dinner

• Nam will get fat.

• Nam is getting fatter and fatter.

• The more he eats, the fatter he will become

SITUATION 2

How is the price of traveling?

The price of traveling becomes/is becoming more and more expensive.

DOUBLE COMPARISON

Comparative + and + comparative

 Form:

• Short adj/adv: adj/adv-er and adj/adv-er

• Long adj/adv : more and more + adj/adv

• Exception:

+ good/well  better and better

+ bad/ badly  worse and worse

 Use: to say that something is changing continuously.

 Meaning: càng ngày càng , m i lúc m t ỗ ộ

h n ơ

Nam is getting fatt er and fatt er.

The price of traveling becomes/is becoming more and

more expensive.

It is becoming harder and harder to find a good job.

The bigger the supermarket is, the wider the choice is

PRACTICE

• Look at exercise 1, page 146 in the textbook.

• Example: 1-c

Finding a job is becoming more

and more difficult.

• Work in pairs to match

half-sentences 2-5.

b bigger and bigger

c more and more difficult

d more and more talkative

e more and more expensive

f better and better

g heavier and heavier

as I carried it upstairs.

• Read Exercise 2 on pages

146-147 in the textbook.

• Examples:

+ The cost of living is very high

It has become …… (high)

 higher and higher

• Work individually, completing the first 4 sentences.

1 His visit to New York seemed to

get

because he was very busy at work.

2 Eating and travelling in this city is

getting

3 As the day went on, the weather

got

4 We had to stop the discussion because

the question was

becoming

shorter and shorter

more and more expensive worse and worse

more and more complicated

Work in pairs: Combine two

sentences, using the structure the +

comparative, the + comparative.

1 I live far I feel homesick.

The farther I live, the more

homesick I feel.

SENTENCE COMBINATION

2 You are young You learn quickly

3 You work hard You earn much money.

4.You practice English much You speak it fluently.

5 She drove fast I became nervous.

6 I have to wait long I get angry.

1 I live far I feel homesick.

 The farther I live, the more homesick I feel.

4.You practice English much

You speak it fluently

The more you practice English, the more fluently you speak it

5 She drove fast I became

nervous

The faster she drove, the more nervous I became

3 You work hard You earn much money.

The harder you work, the more money you earn

6 I have to wait long I get

angry

The longer I have to wait, the angrier I get

2 You are young You learn

quickly

The younger you are, the more quickly you learn

PRODUCTION

Work in groups of 3 or 4, write some sentences about the changes of the city by comparing the pictures, using the 2 structures of double comparison you have just learnt.

Short adj/adv: adj/adv-er and adj/adv-er

Long adj/adv: more and more + adj/adv

Short adj/adv: the adj/adv-er, the adj/adv-er.

Long adj/adv: the more + adj/adv, the more + adj/adv.

Look at these pictures

• Write about: people,

transportations, schools, pollution, streets, markets, etc.

modern, wide, clean, polluted, etc.

The street is wider and wider.

1 Write a short paragraph (50-100 words) about the recent positive changes in Hue city, using the structures of double comparison.

2 Prepare the next unit in advance