Comparative & Superlative Adjectives

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Slide 1 - Slide

Today's programme
- Check the homework (4 & 5a)
- Do some reading exercises
- Learn about comparative & superlative adjectives

Slide 2 - Slide

Exercise 4 - p. 104
1. kind
2. intelligent
3. lazy
4. cheerful
5. responsible
6. quiet
7. serious
8. hard-working

Slide 3 - Slide

Write down one of the sentences
you wrote about yourself in 5a.

Slide 4 - Mind map

Go to page 105
Step 1: 

Step 2:    Do exercise 2 (who says what)

Step 3:     Do exercise 4 (definitions for underlined words)
Read along

Slide 5 - Slide

Jake23
June8
Marion 11
Luke52
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
Sentence 4
Sentence 5
Sentence 6
Sentence 7
Sentence 8

Slide 6 - Drag question

Ex. 4
care = be interested in

gadgets = electronic devices such as mobile phones or MP3 players

lucky = good things happen because of chance

dangers = things that might cause harm or damage

relationship = the way people behave towards and are involved with each other

Slide 7 - Slide

Which word is an adjective?
I like today's lovely weather.

Slide 8 - Open question

Which word is an adjective?
She is wearing a long dress.

Slide 9 - Open question

Which word is an adjective?
The fast car is broken.

Slide 10 - Open question

What are syllables?
A
An outline of the contents of a curriculum, lecture series, text, or the like.
B
A word naming an attribute of a noun.
C
A a part of a word that contains sounds of a word. It is also called a 'beat'.
D
A word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things.

Slide 11 - Quiz

Slide 12 - Slide

Which letters are vowels?
A
A E I O U
B
C D F G K

Slide 13 - Quiz

So, AEIOU are vowels. What are the other letters called?

Slide 14 - Open question

Vowel
Consonant
One syllable word
Multi-syllable word
U
K
E
A
P
S
Y
R
i
Old
Beautiful
Interesting
Happy
Cheerful
Important
Fast
Good
Kind
Thin

Slide 15 - Drag question

Comparatives and superlatives
- Comparative: comparing 2 items
- Superlative: comparing 1 item to all the rest
Box A is small.
Box B is smaller than box A.
Box C is the smallest of all.
A
B
C

Slide 16 - Slide

How does it work?
One syllable:          old / older / the oldest

One syllable ending in vowel+consonant:   sad / sadder / the saddest

One or two syllables, ending in -y:      happy / happier / the happiest

Two or more syllables:      important / more important / the most  important

Irregular:
good / better / the best
bad / worse / the worst

Slide 17 - Slide

Turn to page 106
Try working with the comparatives:
ex. 1a, 1b, 2, 4a, 5a, 6a

Slide 18 - Slide