Unit 13 sea games (e language focus)

From the song “Five little ducks Five little ducks _____ one day.... But the important thing in linking is the sound, not the letter... Pronunciation: LinkingExamples: care laugh ends w

Monday, March 9 th , 2009

UNIT 13

LANGUAGE FOCUS

look at arrive in get up turn off went out put on

1 Remember to your hat when you go out

in the sun

2 Please _ the light before you go out

3 Ring me as soon as you _ Ho Chi Minh City

6 (From the song “Five little ducks)

Five little ducks _ one day

4 Today is Sunday Tom doesn’t want to _ early

5 Do not _ your friends’ papers during the test

b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z

consonants

Pronunciation: Linking

Understanding vowels and consonants

Note: The table shows the letters that are vowels and consonants

But the important thing in linking is the sound, not the letter

Pronunciation: Linking

Examples:

care laugh

ends with the letter e h

ends with the sound /keər/ /la:f/

unit hour

begins with the letter u h

begins with the sound /’ju:nit/ /auər/

Linking consonant to vowel

Examples :

1 Look at these pictures.

2 The plane took off despite the fog.

Pronunciation: Linking

We link words ending with a consonant sound

to words beginning with a vowel sound

 Listen to the sentences

(Student’s book – Page 145,146)

 Practice reading these sentences sentences

(Pairwork – 2 minutes)

Pronunciation: Linking

“ Con gì càng lớn, càng bé ?”

60 year-old 120 year-old

20 years ago now

Revision of comparative

Short adjective Comparative

short close good bad far old

shorter

closer better worse farther / further older / elder

Revision of comparative

Long adjective Comparative

complicated active difficult

more complicated

more active

more difficult

Revision of comparative

Two-syllable adjective ending

early heavy

earlier

heavier

Revision of comparative

Quantifier Comparative

Grammar: Double comparison

1 Finding a job is becoming

2 Travelling is becoming

3 As I waited for my interview, I

became

4 That hole in your pullover is getting

5 As the conversation went on, he

became

6 The suitcase seemed to get

7 Her English is improving; it’s getting

a more and more nervous

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

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

1 His visit to New York seemed to get _ because he was very busy at work (short)

2 Eating and travelling in this city is getting _ (expensive)

3 As the day went on, the weather got _ (bad)

5 Your English is OK now, your pronunciation has got

(good)

6 Little John is becoming (active)

7 As it was getting dark, it was becoming to see everything in the house without electricity (difficult)

8 I feel happy as my birthday is coming (close)

LUCKY NUMBER!

1

closer and closer more and more expensive

more and more active

worse and worse

better and better

more and more difficult shorter and shorter

Use: to say that one thing depends on another thing

Grammar: Double comparison

Examples:

Exercise 3

The warmer the weather, _ The more you practice your English, _ The longer he waited, _ The more electricity you use, _ The more I got to know him,

the faster you will learn the more I like him

the more impatient he became the better I feel

the higher your bill will be the taller he is

1

2

3

4

5

Translate into Vietnamese

Why study?

The more I study, the more I know The more I know, the more I forget The more I forget, the less I know.

So why study?

Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting

1 The fastest you drive, the greater danger you get

2 This exercise is much more easier than the others

A B C D

3 It’s becoming more difficult and more difficult to find a job

A B C D

4 They treat women more equally as people in the North

A B C D

5 The Amazon and the Nile are the two larger rivers in the world

Free practice

Work in pair, make sentences with these

structures:

comparative.

the workbook.