Friday, April 26 - AM Intermediate
(Emily subbed for Flurina)
Reflect 2, cont. chapter 2
WU: Where do you look for information? (Have students write their answers on the board) What are the most interesting topics?
Hand out the work pages from the last class (stapled together, with the students’ names on them).
Hand out p. 23 (COPY)
Evaluate information p. 23, read together text in box on top of page.
Look at the two findings on p. 22. Which one is stronger? Why?
Students listen to the lecture 2.3 and take notes.
What is the main idea? What are some details?
Students check their predictions from last class on p. 22.
Students will listen again and then complete D DETAILS on p. 23.
Explain the terms tend to and usually/often
Students work in pairs on exercise E APPLY on the bottom of p. 23.
Move to the grammar box on p. 24 (students don’t need this page, they can copy from the board), let the students figure out the examples.
HOVER - COMPARATIVES
Adjectives with one syllable
To make comparative forms with one-syllable adjectives, we usually add -er:
old → older
clean → cleaner
slow → slower
Students can talk about their siblings. Who is older? cleaner? slower?
If an adjective ends in -e, we add -r:
safe → safer
nice → nicer
If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we usually double the consonant:
big → bigger
hot → hotter
Adjectives with two or more syllables
If a two-syllable adjective ends in a consonant and -y, we change -y to -i and add -er:
noisy → noisier
happy → happier
easy → easier
Students can make example sentences (on the board) with the above comparatives.
We use more to make comparative forms for most other two-syllable adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables:
crowded → more crowded
stressful → more stressful
dangerous → more dangerous
Exception: You can either add -er/-r or use more with some two-syllable adjectives, such as common, cruel, gentle, handsome, likely, narrow, pleasant, polite, simple and stupid.
I think life in the countryside is simpler than in the city.
It's more simple to live in the city because everything you need is there.
Irregular adjectives
The adjectives good, bad and far have irregular comparative forms:
good → better
bad → worse
far → further/farther
Than
When we want to say which person or thing we are comparing with, we can use than:
Their house is cleaner than ours.
Traffic is slower in the city than in the countryside.
After the race I was more tired than Anne.
HOVER - SUPERLATIVES
