Unit 3: Community service | THCS Thanh Xuân Trung

Through the lesson we can now use equality in comparison, use ‘too’ to to express agreement with a positive statement and ‘either’ with a negative statement. Please tell me[r]

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23TH, 2020

Period 29

A CLOSER LOOK 2

UNIT 4: Music and arts

* JUMBLED WORDS

3 LLOEC CELLO

4 TRAUIG GUITAR

5 LINVOI VIOLIN

6 XOHONEPAS SAXOPHONE

I WARM-UP

II GRAMMAR

1 COMPARATIVES

Watch the following video and give the definition

Classical music is not as exciting as rock and roll The price of food is the same as it was last year City life is quite different from life in the country.

1 The yellow ruler is not _ the

red ruler.

as long as

2 The bag on the left is the

bag on the right.

the same as

3 The toy cat is _ the toy dog different from

Comparison with ‘as … as’:

AS

+ ADJECTIVE / + AS

Tom Cruise is AS tall AS Cameron Diaz (is).

Nam drives AS carefully AS I do (me).

Ex:

My mother is NOT SO fat AS my sister (is).

Tom Cruise is AS tall AS Cameron Diaz (is).

Nam drives AS carefully AS I do (me).

Adj Be

Ordinary verb Adv

* FORMATION:

(+)

(-)

* PRACTICE

Exercise 1 Put as, than, or from in the gaps (P 41)

1 The music festival this year is as good it was last year.

2 The concert will be broadcast “live”: that means it comes on

TV at the same time _ it is performed.

3 This camera is not as expensive _ I thought at first.

4 Your taste in art is quite different mine.

5 Some people say that Spider-Man 2 is as boring Spider-Man 1.

6 My mother is always as busy _ a bee.

as

as

as from

as as

Exercise 2 Put a suitable word in each gap in the following

passage (P.41)

MY HOMETOWN TODAY

My hometown has changed a lot – it’s definitely not (1) it was before It’s not (2) it was 5 years ago It’s much

more noisy, but I prefer it now There are more shops and restaurants The

restaurants are (3) _ the ones we had before Now we can eat many different kinds of food – Italian, French, and even Mexican!

There have been so many changes Even the streets are not (4) _ they were before They are wider now to make space for the extra traffic

One thing hasn’t changed though The people here are as warm and

(5) before That’s one thing that’s (6) _ it was before

MY HOMETOWN TODAY

My hometown has changed a lot – it’s definitely not (1) it was before It’s not (2) it was 5 years ago It’s much

more noisy, but I prefer it now There are more shops and restaurants The

restaurants are (3) _ the ones we had before Now we can eat many different kinds of food – Italian, French, and even Mexican!

There have been so many changes Even the streets are not (4) _ they were before They are wider now to make space for the extra traffic

One thing hasn’t changed though The people here are as warm and

(5) before That’s one thing that’s (6) _ it was before

friendly as the same as as narrow as

different from the same as as quiet as

Exercise 3 Work in pairs Compare the two music clubs

in the town: Young Talent and Nightingale.

Young Talent Nightingale

1 old

2 friendly

3 safe

4 large

5 expensive

6 Famous

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Example:

Young Talent is not as old as Nightingale

/ Nightingale is older than Young Talent

2 too and either

Examples:

A: I like pop music.

B: I like it too

A: My mum doesn’t like rock and roll B: My mum doesn’t like it either

II GRAMMAR

Exercise 4 Complete the following sentences with “too”

or “either” (P.42)

1 My friend likes photography, and I like it .

2 My mother doesn’t enjoy horror films, and my sister doesn’t .

3 I was not allowed to go to the show, and my classmates

were not .

4 I love country music, and I like rock and roll .

5 When I finish painting my room, I’ll do the kitchen

.

too

either

either

too

too

Exercise 5 What music and arts are you interested, or

not interested in? (P 42)

POP MUSIC ROCK AND ROLL DANCING PAINTING

ACTING PLAYING THE GUITAR GOING TO THE ART GALLERGY DRAWING

1 I’m very interested in .

2 I think is very boring.

3 What I like to do most in my spare time is .

4 In my spare time, I often _.

5 I never , even if I

have time.

Exercise 6 Work in pairs Share your list with your

partner Then, report to the class using too/either.

Examples:

Nam is interested in drawing and I am too

Phong doesn’t like folk music and I don’t either

Through the lesson we can now use

equality in comparison, use ‘too’ to

to express agreement with a positive statement and ‘either’ with

a negative statement.

Please tell me what you

have learnt today

III WRAP-UP

- Review the grammatical structure

(P.41) in notebook

HOMEWORK