LIFTED

Today is your 3rd chance to write some subtitles for a cartoon. You need to be creative and imaginative with the focus on using as much recyclable vocabulary as possible: especially

superlatives and comparatives (but also question words, adverbs, commands and exclamations) See slides 3-9

The aim is to use as many comparatives (I am more annoyed than a hippo) and superlatives (you are the biggest idiot) as you can. You’ll write your dialogues onto a PowerPoint and the

best 3 will be chosen to play to the class on Friday afternoon using movie maker (don’t worry – I’ll do all the technical stuff).

As well as the vocab that appear within this slide show, try to use the vocabulary presentation embedded below (Press SHIFT + F5) and click it

On the next slide you should be able to see the short movie of ‘Lifted’ or there are links underneath if the stream is broken. After that you have all the vocab + the photos from the

movie to write on to: Green for the little alien, Red for the fat alien and Blue for the sleeping man (you’ll just have to do his thoughts)

Vocabulary for writing

ROUTINE

FOOD - 1 FOOD - 2

ENTER SLIDE SHOW VIEWAND CLICK ON A SECTION TO GO THERE

CONNECTIVES & COMMON

WORDSOPINIONS REASONS COLOURS FEELINGS

WEATHERLEISURE ACTIVITIES CHORES

PEOPLE DESCRIPTIONS INSTRUCTIONS

‘HOW OFTEN’ ADVERBS

‘WHO WITH’WORDS

NUMBERS & TIME

DIRECTIONS & POSITIONS

TRANSPORT

PLACES TO LIVE

HOUSE VOCABULARY FURNITURE

SCHOOL VOCABULARY

COMMON VERBS

FUTURE TENSE PLACES IN TOWN PERSONAL

DESCRIPTION CLOTHES

COMMANDS EXCLAMATIONS! BODY PARTS

ADVERBS Comparatives & Superlatives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY1_HrhwaXU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYQOzSMsRQ&feature=related

ComparativesTo say that something is ‘more useful / taller..’ you use más + adjective + que.

Madiya es más alta que Zak – Madiya is taller (more tall) than ZakLos chicos son más honestos que las chicas – Boys are more honest than girls

NOTE THE ADJECTIVE AGREES WITH THE 1ST NOUN

To say something is ‘less entertaining’….you use menos + adjective + queLa leche es menos sana que el agua – Milk is less healthy than water

To say something is ‘as long as’….you use tan+ adjective + comoNo soy tan rico como tú – I am not as rich as you

There are also 2 other comparative phrases: mejor que (better than) + peor que (worse than)

…as well as ‘mayor’ (older) + ‘menor’ (younger)

SuperlativesTo say that something is ‘the tallest’ ‘/ the most clever’… you use ‘el/la/los/las + más + adjective

Safiyyah es la más traviesa – Safiyyah is the naughtiestLos tigres son los más feroces – Tigers are the most ferocious

NOTE - THE ADJECTIVE AGREES WITH THE NOUN AND YOU NEED TO CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORD FOR THE (EL/LA/LOS/LAS) ACCORDING TO MASCULINE/FEMININE/PLURAL

To say that something is ‘the least stupid’… you use ‘el/la/los/las + menos + adjectiveFernando Torres es el menos feo – Fernando Torres is the least ugly

There are also 2 other superlative phrases: el mejor (the best) + el peor (the worse)

…as well as ‘el mayor’ (the oldest) + ‘el menor’ (the youngest)

InterrogativesThe words you have just learnt are called interrogatives (question words) . They are very recyclable and very important to help you ask for information or initiate conversations in Spanish. Remember that when you write a question, you need to surround it with question marks ¿?. You can use Insert/Symbol to do this.

1. ¿Qué….? What ?2. ¿Quién….? Who?3. ¿Cuántos…? How many? 4. ¿Dónde……? Where?5. ¿Hay….? Is there/ Are there?6. Por qué….? Why?7. ¿Puedes..? Can you?8. ¿Cuándo…? When?9. ¿A qué hora…? At what time…?10. ¿Cómo…? How…?

Many of these can be combined to make questions: ¿Por qué hay..? = Why are there? ¿Cuándo puedes..? = When can you?

Here are a few key words which you can use to help form your own questions in the next exercise…..tienes? = do you have eres? = are you? Es = is son = are tiene? = does it have debo? = must I tengo…? Do I have?

ExclamationsMmm really Zoya ! How interesting!

Hi Atheeqa , I’m a Kangaroo, How cool!

In English exclamations sound like this ‘How cool’ / ‘How stupid’

In Spanish we use Qué + an adjective (Qué raro! = How weird) (Qué tonto! = How stupid)

There are also some good ones with nounsQué desastre! – What a disaster! Qué pena – What a shameQué lástima – What a pity Qué idiota – What a dimwit!Qué casualidad – What a coincidence Qué suerte – How lucky!

Exclamations with nouns

Qué gatito más hermoso

Sometimes you’ll want to give an exclamation about a noun (What a pretty cat)

In this case you’ll need to use ‘Qué + Noun + Más + Adjective’

Qué sitio más interesante What an interesting place!

Qué chicas más aburridas What boring girls!

Qué casa más lujosa What a luxurious house

Giving instructions

We can also use these two phrases: Debes / Hay que + A verb

-Debes comer menos chocolate – You must eat less chocolate-Hay que ir al gimnasio – You have to go to the gym-No hay que fumar – You mustn’t smoke

If the words that follow your instruction phrase don’t end in –er/-ar/-ir then they are not verbs.

EXTRA – TO SAY WHO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING TO …ADD LO FOR HIM / LA FOR HER / LOS FOR THEM

Debes salvar (you must save)

Debes dejarme – You must leave me alone Debes salvarla – You must leave her alone Debes salvarlos – You must leave them alone

Adverbs describe how you do something: ‘he walked slowly’

To make them: 1st find the adjective for your adverb (find slow if you want to say slowly)

If this adjective is not the same, for example when the masculine singular form ends in an o, then the -o should be changed to an -a. Here are some examples:

Adjective Feminine singular Adverb

triste triste tristemente

alegre alegre alegremente

furioso furiosa furiosamente

normal normal normalmente

rápido rápida rápidamente

lento lenta lentamente

fácil fácil fácilmente

Adverbs

Normalmente tengo todo bajo

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