Olga Denti & Luisanna Fodde

FACOLTÀ DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE, GIURIDICHE E POLITICHE

CdL Economia e Gestione AziendaleUNIT 8

a.a. 2013/2014

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OUTLINE

Review of Unit 7: pp. 86-87Unit 8:

Comparative & superlative forms Personality adjectives The weather Would like to / like Future tenses: to be going to (plans &

predictions

REVIEW UNIT 7

1.B2.B3.B4.A5.B6.A7.B8.A

9.B10.A

REVIEW UNIT 7

1. Dessert (meals)2. Strawberries

(vegetables)3. Sugar (drinks)4. Tomatoes (potatoes)5. Coffee (desserts)

REVIEW UNIT 7

1. in2. Of3. for4. with5. on

REVIEW UNIT 7

UNIT 8 -

1. T2. F3. T4. F5. T6. F7. F8. F

healthier thanhotter than more popular thanbetter thanshorter thansafer thanmore common than

RULESubj. Verb (mono/bi-syllable) adj. + -er than Obj.

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COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE FORMS 1

Adjectives in the base form

Comparatives Superlatives (THE +)

1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVESTALL SMALL NICE Double Consonant (CVC)HOTTHIN FAT

+ -ERTALLERSMALLERNICER

HOTTERTHINNERFATTER

+ -EST THE TALLESTTHE SMALLESTTHE NICEST

THE HOTTESTTHE THINNESTTHE FATTEST

2 SYLLABLES ADJS WITH YHEAVY TASTY TINY CRAZY

+ -IER HEAVIERTASTIERTINIERCRAZIER

+ -IEST THE HAVIESTTHE TASTIESTTHE TINIESTTHE CRAZIEST

2/3/4 or MORE SYLLABLES COMFORTABLE DANGEROUS

+ MOREMORE COMFORTABLEMORE DANGEROUSMORE COMMON

+ MOSTTHE MOST COMFORTABLETHE MOST DANGEROUSTHE MOST COMMON

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COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS 2

Irregular comparatives and superlativesGOOD – BETTER – THE BESTBAD – WORSE – THE WORSTFAR – FURTHER – THE FURTHESTMUCH/MANY – MORE – THE MOSTRemember: ALWAYS use than after the comparative to introduce the second element to compare.E.g., John is taller than Jim.London is more expensive than Cagliari.Superlatives are used to compare one person or thing to a group

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COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS 3

Lower degree comparatives & superlatives: they are introduced by less and the least

E.g., - She is less tall than her brother - That is the least bright colour

Same degree comparatives: as … as, so

… as

E.g., Tom is as intelligent as his sister

careful

serious

quiet

generous

stylishaggressive

friendly

white careful

black serious

red

blue

aggressive

green

silver stylish

quiet

generous

What color is your Car?

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PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

Careful Serious Quiet Generous Stylish Aggressive Friendly Rude

Careless Funny Nervous Kind Polite Ruthless Unfriendly Fashionable

Bolivia

Mali

Siberia

Siberia

Bolivia

The weather

Very hot

SUPERLATIVES

the highest

the hottest

the most dangerous

the best

the worst

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THE WEATHER

Q.: What’s the weather like? A.: It’s …

Adjectives: cold, hot, cool, warm, good, bad, nice, rainy, sunny, cloudy, windy, snowy, wet, dry, foggy, misty, humid

THE WEATHER

WHAT’S THE WEATHER LIKE IN CAGLIARI?

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WOULD LIKE TO / LIKE

A. Would you like to go to a pizzeria? B. I love eating pizza!!!

I’d like to drink a cup of coffee vs. I like drinking (a cup of) coffee :

what is the difference?

I’d like … to expresses something I’d like to do in the future or now

While:

I like a general statement

In the interrogative form: to expresses an offer:

e.g., Would you like to go shopping?

Contracted Negative Interrogative

Interrogative negative

I’d like to … I wouldn’t like to …

Would you like to …?

Wouldn’t you like to …?

You/he/she/it/we/they’d like to

You/he/she/it/we/they wouldn’t like to

Would I/he/she/it/we/they like to?

Wouldn’t I/he/she/it/we/they like to?

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ADVERBS Adverbs express manner (how):

quickly, slowly - Adjectives qualify nouns: brown hair- Adverbs qualify verbs: go slowlye.g., you speak English very well

form adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective: e.g., sad-ly, bad-ly

Some adjectives go through a morphological change: e.g., happy – happily

Irregular adverbs: Fast fast, Good well, Hard hard

ADVERBS

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ADJECTIVES ADVERBS

aggressive

stylish

nicely

dangerous

polite

carefully

quiet

healthy

wealthily

well

bad badly

COMPLETE THE TABLE

aggressivelystylishly

dangerously

politely

nice

careful

quietly

heartly

wealthy

good

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HOMEWORK

Making a reservation: complete the three exercises on p. 97 & write an email

Send it to me: marongiuma@gmail.com