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Unit 10 bigger and better - comparative - superlative adjectives
The document contains teaching materials for an English vocabulary lesson, including lists of words to learn (e.g. wood, village, park), adjective charts showing comparative and superlative forms, examples of sentences using adjectives and noun combinations, and explanations of rules for forming comparatives using -er and more. It provides instruction on key grammar points about adjectives in English.
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- 1. BELINDA BAARDSEN, AMERICANEX PAT, TEFL CERTIFIED ESL INSTRUCTOR, KING SAUD UNIVERSITY
- 2. Unit 10 ~Vocabulary Wood Village Park Museum Mountain School Cottage Hospital Building Farm Bridge River bank Tractor Car park Port Factory Field Library lake
- 3. Unit 10 ~Vocabulary Wood Village Park Museum Mountain School Cottage Hospital Building Farm Bridge River bank Tractor Car park Port Factory Field Library lake
- 4. Unit 10 -Vocabulary Wood Village Park Museum Mountain School Cottage Hospital Building Farm Bridge River bank Tractor Car park Port Factory Field Library lake
- 5. Unit 10 -Vocabulary Wood Village Park Museum Mountain School Cottage Hospital Building Farm Bridge River bank Tractor Car park Port Factory Field Library lake
- 6. Unit 10 ~Vocabulary Adjective Fast Big Dirty Dangerous Noisy Modern Unfriendly Exciting Expensive
- 7. Unit 10 ~Vocabulary Opposite Adjectives Fast Big Cheap Dirty Slow Dangerous Friendly Noisy Quiet Modern Old Unfriendly Safe Exciting Boring Expensive small
- 8. Comparative and superlativeadjectives Adjective Comparatives Superlative Old Older The oldest One-syllable Safe Safer The safest adjectives Big Bigger The biggest hot hotter The hottest
- 9. Comparative and superlativeadjectives Superlatives Adjective Comparative Adjectives ending in - y Noisy Noisier The noisiest Dirty Dirtier The dirtiest
- 10. Comparative and superlativeadjectives Adjectives with The most boring Boring two or more More boring beautiful syllables More beautiful The most beautiful
- 11. Comparative and superlativeadjectives Good Better The best Irregular Bad Worse The worst adjectives Far further The furthest
- 12. Comparative and superlativeadjectives *Adjectives which end in one vowel and one consonant double the consonant. **You’re older than me. New York is dirtier than Paris. Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
- 13. Adjective + Noun (nice)+ (day) (blue) + (eyes) Sentences with adjectives. Sentences without adjectives. It’s a nice --------day today. It’s today. Laura has got brown -------------eyes. Laura has eyes. There’s a very old ----------- bridge in this village. There’s a bridge in this village. Do you like Italian -------------food? Do you like food? I don’t speak any foreign ---------------languages. I don’t speak languages.
- 14. The Adjective isbefore the Noun. They live in a modern house. They live in house modern.
- 15. The adjective isplaced where? Have you met any famous people? Have you met people famous? James Bond, Sky Fall
- 16. The ending ofan Adjective is always the same. “a different place…” “different places..” Different- (not) -- differents
- 17. The Comparative: UsingER and More When we use adjectives (e.g. old, important) to compare two people , or two things, the adjectives have special forms. In (a): We add – er to an adjective, or In (b): we use more in front of an adjective. *The use of -er and more is called the comparative form. The horse is bigger than the dog.
- 18. The comparative: using–ER and More Notice in the examples: than follows the comparative form: Older than More important than He is older than Abdullah.
- 19. The comparative: using–ER and More Assistant Prince Turki Al Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Prince Turki Al Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia I is more important than his Assistant.
- 20. ADJECTIVES WITH ONESYLLABLE BIG Add: ‘er Bigger *If an adjective ends in one vowel and one consonant, double the consonant: big – bigger, fat—fatter, thin-thinner, hot-hotter. The Fox is bigger than the rabbit.
- 21. ADJECTIVES THAT ENDIN -Y If an adjective ends in – y, change the – y to I and add –er. The dove is pretty. The dove is prettier than the monkey.
- 22. ADJECTIVES WITH TWOOR MORE SYLLABLES Use more in front of adjectives that have two or more syllables, except adjectives that end with –y. Getting sleep is more important than watching a movie all night. Important
- 23. IRREGULAR COMPARATIVE FORMS Thecomparative forms of good, bad, and far are irregular. ``````````````` Better, worse, farther Vegetables are better for you than junk food.
- 24. More Examples Cities arebigger than towns.
- 25. Important Breathing is moreimportant than you understand.
- 26. Old Egypt is olderthan Paris.
- 27. Tall A giraffeis taller than a horse.
- 28. Kind A mother iskinder than a stranger.