Week 10 Comparatives Gold Experience B2 Unit 1

Week 10

Can you remember what we learnt last week?

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Let's refresh our memony!

Do you remember the condition we learnt about?

Do you know anyone with the same condition?

Let's listen to the recording again and fill in the gaps on exercise 5 page 12 on your Student's Book

How to form comparatives

By Nora Arregui

We use comparative adjectives to show change or make comparisons:

I'm feeling happier now. We need a bigger garden.

Comparatives

We usually add –er to one-syllable words to make comparatives: old older

If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant:big bigger

If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r:nice nicer

However, with these common two-syllable adjectives, you can either add –er/–r and or use more :common narrow cruel pleasant gentle polite handsome simple likely stupid

If an adjective ends in a consonant and –y, we change –y to –i and add –er:happy happier

We use more and most to make comparatives and for most two syllable adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables: careful more careful

Irregular comparatives

The adjectives good, bad and far have irregular comparatives: good better bad worse far farher/further

Homework: write 10 sentences using comparatives then read 'explore grammar' on the Student's Book page 13 and complete exercise 1.

See you on Monday!

Comparatives

We use the most common to compare one item in a group with other items in the same group'Maite is the most common name in the Basque Country'

We use not enough when something is not sufficient'My basketball skills are not good enough to be a profesional player'

We use too when something is more than necessary 'The restaurant was too expensive'

We use much with comparatives to exagerate the degree 'My hair is much longer than yours'

We use as...as when we compare two equal things'My nose is as red as Rudolph's the reindeer' and we use not as...as when we compare two different things 'My house is not as big as yours'

We use double comparatives to exagerate or to show continual change 'The harder we study, the likelier we are to pass the essay'

Now is your turn!

Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the comparative

• Can you turn on the light please? the room is ..................
• The ................. it gets, the .................. the flowers are
• I do not think my French is ..................... yours.
• The Harry Potter book is ........................ than the movie.
• English tea is the ........................... type of tea in the UK
• Manchester is ........................... London

1. sunnier, more colorful
2. not as big as
3. most common
4. as good as
5. too dark
6. much more interesting

Yeah, you are doing a great job! Keep up the hard work.