unit16-E 10 LF

Listen and repeat: the biggest building a big building a bigger building... Listen and repeat: the smallest house a small house a smaller house... Listen and repeat: the tallest building

Period 2: Language

Focus

Unit 16 Historical Places

I Pronunciation

Listen and repeat

television

pleasure

measure

Asiaillusionmassage

shopmachineSwedish

washingEnglishspecial

Practise these sentences

1.It’s his pleasure to visit Asia

2.You shouldn’t have any illusion 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?

II Grammar

Comparative and superlative

-Short (contain one syllable): Adj-er + than

* If it ending in -e: just add-r

E.g: cute -> cuter

* If it ending in –y: change-y to i and then er

add-E.g: lazy -> lazier, happy -> happier

* If it comes right after a vowel: double the final consonant

E.g: thin -> thinner, big -> bigger

-Long (contain more than one syllable):

more/ less + adj+ than

E.g: more polluted / less polluted

-Short (contain one syllable): the Adj-est

* If it ending in -e: just add-st

E.g: cute -> cutest

* If it ending in –y: change-y to i and then est

add-E.g: lazy -> laziest, happy -> happiest

* If it comes right after a vowel: double the final consonant

E.g: thin -> thinnest, big -> biggest

-Long (contain more than one syllable):

the most/ the least + adj

E.g: more polluted / less polluted

*Comparative with short adjectives:

S1 + be + short adj_+ er + than + S2/ O

*Superlative with short adjectives:

S + be + the short adj + est + in / of

Notes: big

happy

the biggest

bigger happier the happiest new newer the newest

Listen and repeat:

the biggest building

a big building a bigger building

Listen and repeat:

the smallest house

a small house a smaller house

Listen and repeat:

the tallest building

a tall building a taller building

- This is a small house

- This house is a smaller than that one.

- That house is the smallest

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-a sm-all house -a sm-aller house the sm-allest house

* Model sentences:

*Comparative with long adjectives:

S1 + be + more + long adj + than + S2/ O

*Superlative with long adjectives:

S + be + the most + long adj … in / of

beautiful

dangerous

the most beautiful

more beautiful more dangerous the most dangerous boring more boring the most boring

Some irregular adjectives

Adjective Comparative Superlative

goodbadlittlemany, much

far

betterworselessmorefartherfurthest

the bestthe worstthe leastthe mostthe farthestthe furthest

further: information

Some adjectives have two comparative and

more politecommonerMore common

the narrowestthe most narrowthe politest

the most politethe commonestthe most common

Exercise 1 : Write the comparative and

superlative form of the adjectives

messiermore expensive

the youngestthe busiestthe laziestthe most difficultthe friendliest

the messiestthe most expensive

Exercise 2:

Put the words in the

correct order to make sentences or questions

1 family/ the/ am/ my/ in/ I /oldest.

I am the oldest in my family

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

My sister is younger than me

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

Who is the oldest in the class?

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

Concord is the fastest passenger plane

in the world

5 book/ interesting/ than/ my/ your/

more/ is/ 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/ did/ watch?

Did you buy the cheapest watch in the shop?

8 difficult/ German/ English/ is/

than/ more/ much.

9 weather/ better/ today/ than/ much/

is/ yesterday/ the.

The weather today is much better than yesterday

Exercise 3

• Look 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 the line has a word which should not be there, write the word in the space

Learn by heart the model sentences.

III Homework:

Extra activities

1.Bob is more polite than his brother

No, he’s not He’s………

2 I’m the tallest in this class!

No, you’re not You’re ……… ………

3.My homework was worse than yours

No., it wasn’t It was ………

4 The weather today is colder than yesterday

No, it’s not It’s ………

5.Jack’s meaner than Alan

No, he’s not He’s ………

6.She bought the cheapest watch in the shop

No, she didn’t She bought………

7 This is the easiest exercise in this book

1.Bob is more polite than his brother

No, he’s not He’s not as polite as his brother /not as polite as

2 I’m the tallest in this class!

No, you’re not You’re shorter than me/ not as tall as

3.My homework was worse than yours

No., it wasn’t It was better than mine/ not as bad as

4 The weather today is colder than yesterday

No, it’s not It’s warmer than yesterday/ not as cold as

5.Jack’s meaner than Alan

No, he’s not He’s more generous than Alan/ not as mean as

6.She bought the cheapest watch in the shop

No, she didn’t She bought the most expensive one

7 This is the easiest exercise in this book

No, it isn’t It’s more difficult than the previous one/ not as easy as