Unit 16 - Hítorical places - Language focus

Eg: This house is bigger than my house..6. Cheaper more expensive younger happier bigger more intelligent more beautiful worse farther newer more dangerous Exercise 1: Write the comparat

E.g: Is there anything special on television tonight?

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I Pronunciation

1 Listen and repeat.

I Pronunciation

1 It’s his pleasure to Asia.

2 You shouldn’t have any illusions about television.

3 A massage can be a good measure to help you relax.

4 Does this shop sell washing machines?

5 Is he English or Swedish?

6 Is there anything special on TV tonight?

2 Practise these sentences

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Eg: This house is bigger than my house.

II Grammar and vocabulary

• Comparative and superlative adjectives

• 1 Comparative (so s¸nh h¬n)

• Form: ( be) + short adj +ER + than

• Form: (be) + more +long adj +than

Note: double the final consonant if it comes right after a vowel.

E.g: big – bigger thin – thinner

- For adjectives ending in –y, change –y to –i and then add - er.

Eg: Duy is the tallest in the class Eg: Duy is the most intelligent in the class.

2.Superlative (So s¸nh h¬n nhÊt)

Form: (be) + the + short adj + est.

(be) + the most + long adj

II Grammar and vocabulary

Note: good – better – the best

bad – worse – the worst

far – farther/further – the farthest/ the furthest.

many(much) – more – most

litte – less - least

Cheaper more expensive younger

happier bigger more intelligent more beautiful worse

farther newer more dangerous

Exercise 1: Write the comparative and superlative

forms of the adjectives

Adjective

1 cheap

2 expensive

3 young

4 happy

5 big

6 busy

7 intelligent

8 beautiful

9 bad

10 far

11 new

12 dangerous

Superlative

The cheapest The most expensive The youngest

The happiest The biggest The most intelligent The most beautiful The worst

The farthest The newest The most dangerous

Exercise 2 Put the words in the correct order to make

sentences or questions.

• E.g: 1 family/the/am/my/in/I/oldest

I am the oldest in my family

2 sister/me/my/than/younger/is

3 class/Who/oldest/the/the/in/is/?

4 passenger/plane/used to be/Concord/world/fastest/the/in/the

5 book/interesting/than/my/your/more/is/book

Your book is more interesting than my book

6 bought/expensive/shop/the/in/watch/most/Peter/the

Peter bought the most expensive watch in the shop

7 cheapest/buy/you/shop/in/the/the/did/watch?

Did you buy the cheapest watch in the shop?

8 difficult/German/English/is/than/more/much

German is much more difficult than English

9 weather/better/today/than/much/is/yesterday/the

The weather today is much better than yesterday

Exercise 3 Look at carefully at each line Some of the lines are

correct, and some have a word which should not be there Put a tick (√) for each correct line If a line has a word which should not be there,

write the wors in the space

First of all, walking is obviously the cheapest

means of travelling, and can be the quicker

in a city centre Of course, the further you have

to go, the more so tired you will become

In some ways walking is more healthier than

travelling by bus or car, but it can be just as the

unhealthy because cities are the much more

polluted than they used to be Cars are faster

of course and more than convenient, but as cities

become more of crowded, parking is getting

harder Sometimes public transport is better,

even though buses don’t go as fast as cars do it

Cars are a lot more and convenient but as they

cause most pollution, it is the better to avoid

using them if possible In a city the fastest way

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Do exercises in workbook, and do test yourself F