grammar unit 3 1b1

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Grammar unit 3 

Comparisons 

Present continuous 

Present simple versus present continuous 

Comparisons

Vergelijkingen

Comparisons

1 lettergreep 

meer dan twee lettergrepen

vergrotende trap    overtreffende trap 

...er than 

more ....than 

the ...est 

the most ...

Uitzonderingen korte woorden

1 lettergreep (woord eindigt op -e) +r of +st                 cute - cuter

1 lettergreep (woord eindigt op -y) + ier of iest         early - earlier 

1 lettergreep (woord eindigt op klinker + medeklinker) = dubbel medeklinker                                                                                                              big - bigger 

Onregelmatige woorden:                       Good-better-best  and  bad-worse-worst

stappenplan

1. Is het woord een uitzondering?  -e/ -y /onregelmatig/ kl+mdkl  

2. Hoeveel lettergrepen heeft het woord?

1 (+er of +est) / meer dan 2 (more of most)

3. Welke trap heb je nodig? (Lees de zin)

Vergrotende (+er of more) / Overtreffende (+est of most) 

3. 

Vul de juiste vorm van de trap van vergelijking in:


You can see James Bond doing the ................. (exciting) stunts.

1. Excitinger
2. Excitingest
3. more exciting
4. most exciting

Vul de juiste vorm van de trap van vergelijking in:



I think the scripts are the .............. (bad) in the world.

1. Badest
2. Baddest
3. Worst
4. More bad

Is Peter (big) than Amber?

1. Biger
2. Bigger
3. bigest
4. biggest

present contiNUous 

iets is bezig (at the moment, right now, today)

(+) I am working 

(+) you are working

(+) he/she/it is working 

(+) we/they/you are working 

present contiNUous negatief

(-) I am not walking 

(-) you are not walking

(-) He/she/it is not walking 

(-) we/they/you are not walking 

Present continuous vraag

(?) Am I walking?

(?) Are you walking?

(?) Is he/she/it walking?

(?) Are we/they/you walking?

Uitzonderingen 

1. live = living move = moving 

2. -ie = +yng    lie - lying 

3. laatste klinker verdubbeld: get - swim - begin - model - travel

Look! They .............(buy) the house.

(-) She ........... (play) the piano.

(?) ....... Paul ......... (live) in Polen?

present simple - present continuous 

present simple: als iets vaak, regelmatig, soms of nooit gebeurd.

Shit-rule  (I walk - he/she/it walks) 

present continuous: als iets nu bezig is

I am walking 

Present Simple or Present Continuous?
"I am searching for the deer."

1. present simple
2. present continuous

Present Simple or Present Continuous?
'He looks at the helicopter'

1. present simple
2. present continuous

I'm working at the moment.

Tense?

1. Present simple
2. Present continuous
3. Present perfect
4. Present perfect continuous