1.2 Practice Exercise 1: Change these adjectives into comparative of adjectives Short... Use comparative to describe pictures Miss Thuy is more beautiful than Miss Huong.[r]
(1)(2) Use an adjective to describe each picture below Old Big Young Beautiful Ugly Small Fat Thin (3) (4) 1- Grammar: 1.1 Comparative a Adjective with a syllable Ex: She is taller than me Sa Pa is colder than Yen Bai +/ General rule: Adj +er + than +/ Large – larger Nice - nicer - With adjective ends ‘e’ we only add ‘r’ after adjective Ex : Her house is larger than mine (5) 1.1 Comparative of adjective +/ Hot - hotter Fat - fatter - With adjective ends as a consonant, that before is a vowel, we double consonant and add ‘er’ Ex: I am fatter than my sister +/ Dry – drier Gay – gayer - Adjective ends ‘y’ that before is a consonant, we change ‘y’ into ‘i’ and add ‘er’ Ex : The weather in Vinh city is drier than the weather in Yenbai city (6) 1.1 Comparative of adjective b Adjective with two or more syllables Ex: My sister is more beautiful than me Girls are more intelligent than boys More + adj + than *- Note : Some adjectives with two syllables end in: ‘ y, er, ow, et’, we use as adjectives with a syllable (7) 1.1 Comparative of adjective Happy – happier Quiet – quieter - She is happier than me - I’m cleverer than him Clever – cleverer Narrow – narrower c Some adjectives have special comparative form : Good – Better Bad – Worse Far - Further In Maths, he is better than me (8) 1.2 Practice Exercise 1: Change these adjectives into comparative of adjectives Short → Shorter Cheap → Cheaper Heavy Young → Heavier → Younger Easy → Easier Expensive → More expensive → Thicker Strong → Stronger → More difficult Fit → Fitter Old → Older Fat Wonderful → Thick Difficult Handsome → More handsome Thin → Thinner Intelligent → More intelligent Fatter → More wonderful (9) 1.2 Practice Exercise Use comparative to describe pictures Miss Thuy is more beautiful than Miss Huong Miss Huong Miss Thuy 70.000.000 Miss Huong is uglier than Miss Thuy 17.000.000 A white motorbike is more expensive than a black motorbike A black motorbike is cheaper than a white motorbike (10) 1.2 Practice Thang is taller than Tuan Thang Tuan is shorter than Thang Thang is stronger than Tuan Tuan Tuan is weaker than Thang (11) 1.2 Practice Exercise 3: Rearrange the words to make true sentences Faster/ runs/ than/ rabbit/ turtle → Rabbit runs faster than turtle Chi Pheo/ handsome/ than/ more/ Dan Truong/ is → Dan Truong is more handsome than Chi Pheo Her sister/ younger/ is/ Mai/ than → Mai is younger than her sister Da Lat/ beautiful/ more/ than/ is/ Yen Bai → Da Lat is more beautiful than Yen Bai (12) Comparative of adjectives Adjective A syllable Two or more syllables Special Form Adj + er + than More + adj + than Note Fat – fatter Nice – nicer Dry - drier Noisy – noisier Quiet – quieter Narrow – narrower Clever - Cleverer Good – Better Bad – Worse Far - Further (13) (14)