short close good bad far old short er clos er better worse.. farther / further older / elder..[r]
(1)SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO TPHCM TRƯỜNG THPT BÌNH CHÁNH
(2)vowels
b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w x y z
a e i o u
consonants
Pronunciation: Linking
Understanding vowels and consonants
(3)Pronunciation: Linking
Examples:
care laugh
ends with the letter e h
ends with the sound /keər/ /la:f/
unit hour
begins with the letter u h
(4)Linking consonant to vowel
Examples:
1 Look at these pictures.
2 The plane took off despite the fog.
Pronunciation: Linking
We link words ending with a consonant sound
(5) Listen to the sentences
(Student’s book – Page 145,146)
Practice reading these sentences (Pairwork – minutes)
(6)1 Look at these pictures.
2 The plane took off despite the fog. 3. Mrs Brown’s quite old.
4. She’s from Australia.
5 She has many friends in London. 6. It’s upstairs.
7 Tom used to live here.
8 Put on your helmet, please.
9 I want to move into the new flat with some friends.
10.Don’t forget to turn off the lights.
(7)Revision of comparative
Short adjective Comparative
hard harder
short close good bad far old shorter closer better worse
(8)Revision of comparative
Long adjective Comparative
expensive more expensive complicated
active difficult
more complicated
more active
(9)Revision of comparative
Two-syllable adjective ending in -y
Comparative
busy busier
early heavy
earlier
(10)Revision of comparative
Quantifier Comparative
much more
many more
little less
(11)Look at the pictures and make comparison:
(12)Double Comparison – Structures 1:
S + V + Comparative and Comparative
Short adjectives: Long adjectives:
harder and harder
better and better
bigger and bigger
more and more difficult
more and more expensive
(13)(14)(15)A B Finding a job is
becoming
2 Traveling is becoming As I waited for my
interview, I became That hole in your
pullover is getting As the conversation
went on, he became
6 The suitcase seemed to get
7 Her English is improving; it’s getting
a more and more nervous
b bigger and bigger c more and more
difficult
d more and more talkative
e more and more expensive
f better and better
g heavier and heavier as I carried it
upstairs
Exercise 1: Matching
1 - c 2 - e 3 - a 4 - b 5 - d
(16)1. His visit to New York seemed to get (short) ……… because he was very busy at work.
2 Eating and traveling in this city is getting (expensive)………
3. As the day went on, the weather got (bad)….……
4 We had to stop the discussion because the question was becoming (complicated)……
5 Your English is OK now, your pronunciation has got (good)……
6. Little John is becoming (active)………… 7 As it was getting dark, it was becoming
(difficult)…… …… to see everything in the house without electricity.
8 I feel happy as my birthday is coming (close) …………
Exercise 2: Completing the sentences
shorter and shorter
more and more expensive
worse and worse
more and more complicated
better and better
more and more active
more and more difficult
(17)USE: to say that one thing depends on another thing
Double comparison- Structure 2:
Examples:
1 The earlier we leave, the sooner we will arrive.
2 The more books you read, the more knowledge you will have.
3 The more expensive the hotel is, the better
the service is.
(18)Exercise 3
1.The warmer the weather, _ 2.The more you practice your English, _ 3.The longer he waited, _ 4.The more electricity you use, _ 5.The more I got to know him,
the faster you will learn the more I like him the more impatient he became the better I feel
(19)Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D that needs correcting
1 The fastest (A) you drive (B) , the (C) greater danger you get (D).
2 This exercise is (A) much more (B) easier than (C) the others (D).
3 It’s becoming more (A) difficult (B) and more difficult to find (C) a job (D).
4 They treat women (A) more equally (B) as (C) people in the (D) North.
(20)Free practice
Work in pair, make sentences with these structures:
• comparative + and + comparative
(21)Homework
• Review the structures of double comparative.
• Do exercises in the workbook.
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