G2 - Unit 3 Elementary Grammar

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What are your new year's resolutions?

Would you rather have more time or more money?

Friday 26 January

• Test Unit 3 + 4

Today

• Read your book (last 25 minutes)
• Finish Unit 3

Would you rather be able to sing beautifully or speak fluently in a chosen language?

Grammar Unit 3 Elementary

‘Desert Island Discs’ is a BBC Radio 4 programme, which each week asks an interviewee which eight pieces of music they would take with them to a desert island. The presenter then asks them which song or piece of music they would save if a big wave came to wash them all away.
Imagine you are a guest on this show. Write the names of eight songs or pieces of music, including the artists that perform them, that are important to you and that you would like to have with you on a desert island.
Work in pairs and interview each other. Find out which music your partner would not want to
live without, and why.

Grammar Unit 3 Elementary

• Comparatives and Superlatives
  
• Order of Adjectives
  

Grammar Unit 4 Elementary

• Questions About the Past
  
• Using If

Give another example of a comparative and a superlative.

Comparative and superlatives

• That elephant is big, but the other one is bigger.
  
• The elephant over there is the biggest!
  
• My brother is rich, but my father is richer.
  
• My grandfather is the richest of them all!
  

Bigger and richer are comparatives. 

Biggest and richest are superlatives.

Short words

fast         faster         fastest

cheap    cheaper    cheapest

small      smaller     smallest

Longer adjectives

famous       more famous          most famous

expensive   more expensive     most expensive

dangerous more dangerous    most dangerous

important  more important     most important

happy happier happiest

easy easier easiest

funny funnier funniest

Words ending with -y

happy     happier     happiest

easy         easier        easiest

funny      funnier      funniest

Irregular forms

good       better        best

well         better         best

bad          worse         worst

far            further/farther       furthest/farthest

old           elder           eldest

The orange is ___ than the apple.
(heavy)

The man on the right is the ___ person in the office. (strong)

The man on the right has a _____ suit than the one on the left. (beautiful)

The man on the right is _____ than the man on the left. (famous)

This is the ____ sum I know.
(easy)

This is the ____ guy I know.
(funny)

He is my parents' first child.
He is the e__ son. (old)

He plays ______ than I do.
(good)

This is the _____ car I know.
(expensive)

He is the ____ fighter ever.
(great)

How did you do?

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O             Opinion                           nice, lovely, awful

S              Size                                   big, huge, small, tiny

A              Age                                   old, young, new
S              Shape                               round, circular, square

C              Colour                              blue, red, green 

O              Origin                              English, American 

M              Material                           leather, paper 

P              Purpose                            sports, learning 

Opinion

Size

Age

Shape

Colour

Origin

Purple

Enormous

American

Old

Oval

Wonderful

Multi-coloured

Miniscule

Square

Terrible

English 

Which order of adjectives is correct?

1. I picked up the yellow three tallest flowers for my banquet.
2. I picked the three tallest yellow flowers for my bouquet.

Which order of adjectives is correct?

1. Stephen King is my favourite horror American writer.
2. Stephen King is my American favourite horror writer.
3. Stephen King is my favourite American horror writer .

Which order of adjectives is correct?

1. He gave me an expensive leather brown bag for my birthday.
2. He gave me an expensive brown leather bag for my birthday.
3. He gave me a leather brown expensive bag for my birthday.
4. He gave me a brown leather expensive bag for my birthday.

Which order of adjectives is correct?

1. They live in a cute little wooden house.
2. They live in a little cute wooden house.
3. They live in a wooden cute little house.
4. They live in a wooden little cute house.

How did you do?

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She __________

1. sings
2. sing
3. is singing
4. singing

This man _______ the saxophone.

1. play
2. plays
3. playing
4. is playing

This man ______ (dance)
(give the complete form)

These people _____ a tennis match. (watch)

Present Continuous: the rule

You make the present continuous with to be + -in

I am singing                       We are singing

You are singing               You are singing

He/She/It is singing         They are singing

When do we use the present continuous/present simple?

Evan plays football every Saturday. -> it happens a lot 

Evan is playing football. -> it is happening now

So choose:

The girl plays tennis / The girl is playing tennis