U3 - Comparative/Superlative

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Making

comparisons

What we're going to do:

During this lesson, you got an explanation about Comparative and Superlative. You are going to read an article, after which you'll use Comparative and Superlative in some exercises.

Please open your book on page 31.

Quickly read the text on page 31 in your book. What do you think the article is about?

1. The high price of horror films
2. The salaries of famous film actors
3. A film that was made very cheaply
4. The latest big-budget film that was released

Now read the article carefully. Find two examples of very expensive films. Type them here.

Give two reasons why it is possible to say that 'Monsters' was successful.

Give four reasons why 'Monsters' wasn't expensive to make.

What was the amount (hoeveelheid) of time Gareth Edwards worked on the movie after filming.

Again, what you've just heard

short words:       +er/+est.  short-shorter-shortest

long words:         more/most. expensive-more expensive-most expensive

inbetweeners:    words with two syllables (lettergrepen)

exceptions:

- good-better-best

- bad-worse-worst

- far-farther-farthest/far-further-furthest

- little-less-least

To practise...

You are going to do four exercises on how to make comparisons. Please turn to page 32 in your book.

Do exercise Grammar 1 on page 32. Please put your answers here.

Put the answers to exercise Grammar 2 (page 32) here.

Please put the eight answers to exercise Grammar 3 (p. 32) here.

And finally, the answers to exercise Grammar 4 (p. 32) go here.

You are now done.

Remember to save your notes about Comparative and Superlative forms.