Unit 3.2 Large-scale projects

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• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

English week 47

• Have you formulated 3 learning goals? (unit 3/grammar/general portfolio?)
• For today: Make sure you have clear what assignments you are going to do this week. 
• Have you completed your study planner? It is okay if you have to reorganise your study planner once in a while. Make sure to keep an overview of time and amount of work that needs to be done.

3.2 Large scale projects

Lesson outcome: Learners can understand and practise making comparisons

GSCE Learning objectives

• Can extract key factual information such as dates, numbers and quantities from a presentation.
• Can make comparisons using (not) as.........as with adjectives and adverbs.
• Can use all forms of comparatives and superlatives of adjectives.
• Can make direct comparisons between two or more people or things using known adjectives.

Warm up

Why are ships so important in today's economy?

What do they carry?

They transport raw materials and goods all over the world.

Oil, gas, minerals, cars, toys - almost anything you can think of.

Lead-in Assignment 1: Discuss in pairs of 2/3 (p 52. teacher's guide)

1. Why do governments decide to build shipping canals? What are the benefits?

2. What kinds of jobs does this sort of building projects create? Who works on a big canal-building project?

3. Can you name any other shipping canals?

Large-scale projects generally require workers from a wide range of fields. Here are a few examples:

• Accountant
• Designer
• Engineer
• labourer
• manager

Answers:

1. easier trade, shorter journeys for ships, revenue fom charging canal users

2. engineers, labourers, cooks to feed the workers, specialised machine operators

3. Some of the longest shipping canals in the world: Quaraqum Canal, Russia; Saimaa Canal, Finland; Euresia Canal, Russia; Erie Canal, USA; nara canal, Pakistan; Rhone-rhine Canal; France; Gota Canal; Sweden

Assignment 2, 3

Teacher gives you assigment's on paper. 

Five                             33

375                               1,900

four 

30,000

12

1,900

1,700 (2x)

190

55

4

77 

Grammar rounds:

1. Comparatives/superlatives (15 minutes)

2. Present perfect/past simple (15 minutes)

If you are going to work on your own study planner and come across questions, first ask a classmate and try to figure it out together.

Comparatives/superlatives

Grammar reference 3.2 p.120 (zie teams)

• The new computers are as good as the old ones.
• The new computers are not as good as the old ones.
• Doing calculations on paper isn't as easy as using a calculator.

Comparatives: used to say how two or more people or things are different.

To form comparative adjectives (bijvoeglijk naamwoorden), we use -er or more/less:

• Having a meeting on Skype will be easier than talking face to face.
  
• Finishing the project in six weeks will be more difficult than finishing it in eight or ten weeks.
  
• For this project, the schedule is less important than the budget.

one-syllable/two-syllable:

new --> newer, short --> shorter, narrow --> narrower

two or more syllables use 'more' or 'less':

expensive---> more expensive, less expensive

modern --> more mordern, less modern

irregular adjectives:

good --> better, bad

worse, far--> further

Change of spelling:

happy --> happier

big --> bigger

Comparatives adverbs (bijwoorden) formed in the same way as comparative adjectives.

You work harder than I do

They finished less quickly than we did.

Some adverbs are irregular:

well--> better

badly ---> worse

 

Superlatives:

Used to say that one thing has more or less of a quality than any other thing in the same group.

To form superlatives adjectives, we use -est or most/least.

The Amazon is the longest river in the world.

This is the most expensive hotel in Lisbon.

Driving my car is the least convenient way to get to work because there's no parking.

Note: we use 'the' in front of superlatives! 

one-syllable adjectives use -est

new --> newest

short --> shortest

two or more syllables use 'most' or 'least'

expensive --> the most expensive, the least expensive

Some adjectives are irregular

good --> best, bad --> worst

Change of spelling:

happy --> happiest, big --> biggest

Superlative adverbs (bijwoorden) formed in the same way as superlative adjectives.

• He ran the fastest.
• She worked the most efficiently of anyone in the office.
• They responded the least quickly to my e-mails.

Irregular adverbs:

well --> best, badly --> worst

Correct the mistakes:

a) Our main competitor's brochure is badder than ours. 

b) This hotel is moderner than the one we stayed in last weekend. 

c) Fridays are gooder than Mondays. 

d) Germany is the bigest country in the EU. 

e) This machine isn't as complicated than the old one. 

 

a) Our main competitor's brochure is badder than ours

Our main competitor's brochure is worse than ours

b) This hotel is moderner than the one we stayed in last weekend

This hotel is more modern than the one we stayed in last weekend

c) Fridays are gooder than Mondays

Fridays are better than Mondays

d) Germany is the bigest country in the EU

Germany is the biggest country in the EU

e) This machine isn't as complicated than the old one

This machine isn't as complicated as the old one

 

Past simple/present perfect

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