19 Jan 2015

BFI A2.1 - Mon 19 Jan

Today's lesson:

- book p 41: questions with HOW + adjective/adverb
- book p 41: listening "Sport at school"
- book p 42: listening "A sports star for an energy drink"
- book p 42: grammar - comparatives


Homework:

- Write 7 sentences: compare things/places in your country to things/places in another country (like the examples in student's book, page 42, Grammar 1)




You can compare two things/persons/... using adjectives in two ways:

1) (not) as ... as

I'm as tall as my best friend.
My car is not as fast as your car.

2) more ... than / (comparative) + than

She is more beautiful than her sister.
A Fiat is cheaper than a BMW.

The comparative of adjectives is formed in the following way:

Short adjectives (1 syllable):

ADJECTIVE + er

cheap - cheaper
nice - nicer
safe - safer

Long adjectives (3 or more syllables):

more + ADJECTIVE

beau|ti|ful - more beautiful
ex|pen|sive - more expensive
con|ve|ni|ent - more convenient

Special case - adjectives with 2 syllables:

adjectives ending in "y", "le", "ow", "er" > short adjectives

happy - happier
gentle - gentler
shallow - shallower
clever - cleverer

all other endings > long adjectives

care|ful - more careful
use|less - more useless
com|plex - more complex


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