KEY to homework exercises

Hello dear students,

Here is the answer key to the last exercises that I gave you in class (unit 2C)

 Check your homework:

 

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives (REVISION)

One-syllable adjectives.

Form the comparative and superlative forms of a one-syllable adjective by adding –er for the comparative form and –est for the superlative.

One-Syllable Adjective	Comparative Form	Superlative Form
Tall Old Short	taller (than) older shorter	(the) tallest (the) oldest (the) shortest

Examples:

• Mary is taller than Jane.
• Mary is the tallest of all the students.
• Mary is older than Jane.
• Of the three students, Max is the oldest.
• My hair is longer than your hair.
• Max’s story is the longest story I’ve ever heard.

If the one-syllable adjective ends with an e, just add –r for the comparative form and –st for the superlative form.

large     larger      largest

wise       wiser       wisest

• Mary's car is larger than Max's car.
• Mary's house is the tallest of all the houses on the block.
• Max is wiser than his brother.
• Max is the wisest person I know.

If the one-syllable adjective ends with a single consonant with a vowel before it, double the consonant and add –er for the comparative form; and double the consonant and add –est for the superlative form.

big       bigger     biggest

thin      thinner    thinnest

fat         fatter      fattest

• My dog is bigger than your dog.
• My dog is the biggest of all the dogs in the neighborhood.
• Max is thinner than John.
• Mary is the fattest person I've ever seen.

Two-syllable adjectives. 

If the two-syllable adjectives ends with –y, change the y to i and add –er for the comparative form. For the superlative form change the y to i and add –est.

happy      happier       happiest

angry         angrier      angriest

busy           busier        busiest

• John is happier today than he was yesterday.
• John is the happiest boy in the world.
• Max is angrier than Mary.
• Mary is the busiest person I've ever met.

With most two-syllable adjectives, you form the comparative with more and the superlative with most.

peaceful      more peaceful      most peaceful

pleasant      more pleasant       most pleasant

careful         more careful         most careful

thoughtful   more thoughtful    most thoughtful

• This morning is more peaceful than yesterday morning.
• Max's house in the mountains is the most peaceful in the world.
• Max is more careful than Mike.
• Of all the taxi drivers, Jack is the most careful.


Two-syllable adjectives ending in –er, -le, or –ow take –er and –est to form the comparative and superlative forms.

narrow      narrower     narrowest

gentle        gentler        gentlest

• The roads in this town are narrower than the roads in the city.
• This road is the narrowest of all the roads in California.
• Big dogs are gentler than small dogs.
• Of all the dogs in the world, English Mastiffs are the gentlest.

Adjectives with three or more syllables. 

For adjectives with three syllables or more, you form the comparative with more and the superlative with most.

generous      more generous      most generous

important      more important     most important

intelligent      more intelligent      most intelligent

• Jean is more generous than Joan.
• Jean is the most generous of all the people I know.
• Health is more important than money.
• Of all the people I know, Mark is the most important.
• Women are more intelligent than men.
• Martha is the most intelligent person I've ever met.

*Exceptions.  Irregular adjectives.

good     better     best

bad      worse     worst

far      farther     farthest

little      less       least

many     more     most

• Italian food is better than American food.
• My dog is the best dog in the world.
• My mother's cooking is worse than your mother's cooking.
• Of all the students in the class, Kevin is the worst.


MORE EXCEPTIONS
Two-syllable adjectives that follow two rules. These adjectives can be used with -er and -est and with more and most.

clever      cleverer           cleverest

clever       more clever    most clever

gentle         gentler            gentlest

gentle         more gentle    most gentle

friendly            friendlier       friendliest
friendly       more friendly     most friendly

quiet      quieter               quietest

quiet        more quiet       most quiet

simple         simpler          simplest

simple       more simple    most simple

• Big dogs are gentler than small dogs.
• Of all the dogs in the world, English Mastiffs are the gentlest.
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Now you PRACTICE

• Activity 1 (click)

• Activity 2 (click) 

SOURCE > http://www.eflnet.com/tutorials/adjcompsup.php

You Should LOOK at this!!!

Visit
this LINK
to go further in your practice of
 the items seen in class!

 

QUANTIFIERS

Look at these tables to see the different quantifiers we use in English:

Uncountable nouns	Countable nous	Other
HOW MUCH water do you drink?	HOW MANY people were there?
A LITTLE (and that's OK, I don't need more)	A FEW (and that was enough)
I drink LITTLE water (not enough, I think I should drink more)	There were FEW people (not enough, e.g. the party was boring)
I drink ENOUGH water (sufficient)	There were ENOUGH people (sufficient, just the right number)	I'm tall ENOUGH to play basketball
I don't drink MUCH water (negative sentence)	There weren't MANY people (negative sentence)
I drink A LOT OF water	There were A LOT OF people	He eats A LOT.
I drink TOO MUCH water (more than necessary)	There were TOO MANY people (more than necessary)	I'm TOO tired I'm going to bed.

To practise a little more, please visit tolearnenglish (lots of links here), grammar.ccc or esl-lounge. For longer sentences go to grammarbank.

PAST SIMPLE OR CONTINUOUS?

The PAST CONTINUOUS indicates actions that were in progress at a specific time in the past:
When the Twin Towers fell, I was eating some pizza and my mother was driving home from work

The PAST SIMPLE indicates finished actions and finished time. It also indicates a sequence of events, one after the other:
When I saw the news, I got up, looked at the TV and phoned my brother in New York.

Revise this point with this presentation:

simple past vs. past continuous

More PowerPoint presentations from Beth Bogage

For online exercises on the past simple go here and here. for exercises on the past continuous, go here and here.

Present simple or Present continuous?

Present Simple or Present Continuous?

Click HERE to practise.

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Revision unit 8A

Dulce is ill. But still you can work on this!

COMPLETE WITH some/any/no- body/where/thing

1) I've got _____________ in my eye. 2) There is ______________ at the door. 3) We haven't heard____________about Peter. Is he ill? 4) Do you live ______________ near Mandy? 5)________________ wants to see you. 6) Has ________________ seen my bag?    - I haven’t, but it must be ________________. 7) My teacher asked me _____________ funny. 8) Can I have ________________to drink? 9) Don't worry. _____________ can tell you where the post-office in this town is. 10) I don't know________________ about it. 11)  Sorry. There is _____________ I can do. 12) This summer I’d like to go _______________ far away from Spain.

Fill the gaps with the adjectives in brackets.

1 He's such a monotonous speaker. I was so ________________ that I fell asleep (bored / boring)

2 Most sequels (film second parts) are really__________________. (disappointed / disappointing)

3 I had such a ________________ day I went straight to bed. (tired / tiring)

 4 Everyone's very ________________ about the news. (excited / exciting)

5 That lamp produces a very ________________ effect. (pleased / pleasing)

6 The whole school was ________________ by the tragic event. (shocked / shoking)

7 I don't like watching ________________ films on my own. (depressed / depressing)

 8 I was really________________ when she told me she'd got divorced. (surprised / surprising)

 9 He's such a ________________ man. He only ever talks about himself. (bored / boring)

10 I'm very ________________ in films and theatre. (interested / interesting)

ANSWERS, next day,  IN CLASS!

I'd like to buy a hamburger

This is a short explanation (in Spanish) with examples and with a small exercise.

You can also visit this page, it will help you understand the difference between WOULD LIKE TO + INFINITIVE  and LIKE + ING. Finally, you can also do some exercises here and here.

For some fun, watch this video from the film "The Pink Panther", where inspector Cousteau tries to learn how to pronounce properly so that he can avoid suspicion in the USA... he tries to say... "I would like to buy a hamburger". Really funny!

comparatives & superlatives

Watch this presentation:

Comparative and Superlative

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For exercises to practise comparatives go here and here. For superlatives go here and here.

FILE 6

Maybe you would like to revise some of the topics we're studying in this file; if so, click here for all the grammar points in English File.
To revise modals, watch this presentation first, then look at these pages:
- MAY: explanation, exercise,
- MIGHT: explanation,difference may/might,
- SHOULD: explanation, quiz, 

 Try to complete this text with the appropriate modals and choose the best modal here , here and here.

For a complete list of animals (translated and with pronunciation), click here. Obviously they're too many, but just in case you're interested.... Then you can try these pastimes. For an extra listening on animals, go here. Please do not read the text until you have heard it at least twice and do the activities online (on the right).

What would you say if you had to ask for a medicine? Check it here.

FILE 6: CONDITIONALS

For further explanation of the FIRST CONDITIONAL ("probable"), click here. There are exercises at the end. For the SECOND CONDITIONAL ("hypothetical") click here. 
Let's now check if you can tell the difference: do this exercise. this one and this text.

Remember that in hypothetical conditionals with TO BE, we use WERE for all persons. Now let's see if you'd survive these situations... I told you about the conditionals being used in songs. This is the song we heard in class and these are just two more examples. Enjoy them!


What would you do if you were rich?  This man has it very clear!


Beyoncé tells you what she would do... if she were a boy!

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