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FACOLTÀ DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE, GIURIDICHE E POLITICHE
CdL Economia e Gestione Aziendale
UNIT 8
a.a. 2013/2014
Olga Denti & Luisanna Fodde
OUTLINE
Review of Unit 7: pp. 86-87
Unit 8:
 Comparative & superlative forms
 Personality adjectives
 The weather
 Would like to / like
 Future tenses: to be going to (plans &
predictions
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REVIEW UNIT 7
1.B
2.B
3.B
4.A
5.B
6.A
7.B
8.A
9.B
10.A
REVIEW UNIT 7
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Dessert
Strawberries
Sugar
Tomatoes
Coffee
(meals)
(vegetables)
(drinks)
(potatoes)
(desserts)
REVIEW UNIT 7
1. in
2. Of
3. for
4. with
5. on
REVIEW UNIT 7
UNIT 8 -
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
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8.
T
F
T
F
T
F
F
F
healthier than
hotter than
more popular than
better than
shorter than
safer than
more common than
RULE
Subj.
Verb
(mono/bi-syllable) adj. + -er
than
Obj.
COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE FORMS 1
Adjectives in the base form
1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES
TALL
SMALL
NICE
Double Consonant (CVC)
HOT
THIN
FAT
2 SYLLABLES ADJS WITH Y
HEAVY
TASTY
TINY
CRAZY
2/3/4 or MORE SYLLABLES
COMFORTABLE DANGEROUS
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Comparatives
+ -ER
Superlatives (THE +)
TALLER
SMALLER
NICER
+ -EST
THE TALLEST
THE SMALLEST
THE NICEST
HOTTER
THINNER
FATTER
THE HOTTEST
THE THINNEST
THE FATTEST
+ -IER
HEAVIER
TASTIER
TINIER
CRAZIER
+ -IEST
THE HAVIEST
THE TASTIEST
THE TINIEST
THE CRAZIEST
+ MORE
MORE COMFORTABLE
MORE DANGEROUS
MORE COMMON
+ MOST
THE MOST COMFORTABLE
THE MOST DANGEROUS
THE MOST COMMON
COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS 2
Irregular comparatives and superlatives
GOOD – BETTER – THE BEST
BAD – WORSE – THE WORST
FAR – FURTHER – THE FURTHEST
MUCH/MANY – MORE – THE MOST
Remember:
ALWAYS use than after the comparative to introduce
the second element to compare.
E.g., John is taller than Jim.
London is more expensive than Cagliari.
Superlatives are used to compare one person or thing
to a group
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COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS 3
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Lower degree comparatives & superlatives:
they are introduced by less and the least
E.g., - She is less tall than her brother
- That is the least bright colour
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Same degree comparatives: as … as, so … as
E.g., Tom is as intelligent as his sister
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careful
serious
quiet
generous
stylish
aggressive
friendly
white
red
blue
green
careful
aggressive
quiet
generous
black
serious
silver
stylish
What
color
is
your
Car?
PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES
Careful
 Serious
 Quiet
 Generous
 Stylish
 Aggressive
 Friendly
 Rude
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Careless
 Funny
 Nervous
 Kind
 Polite
 Ruthless
 Unfriendly
 Fashionable
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Bolivia
Mali
Siberia
Siberia
Bolivia
SUPERLATIVES
T
h
e
w
e
a
t
h
e
r
V
e
r
y
h
o
t
the highest
the hottest
the most dangerous
the best
the worst
THE WEATHER
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Q.: What’s the weather like?
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A.: It’s …
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Adjectives: cold, hot, cool, warm, good, bad,
nice, rainy, sunny, cloudy, windy, snowy, wet,
dry, foggy, misty, humid
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THE WEATHER
WHAT’S THE WEATHER LIKE IN CAGLIARI?
WOULD LIKE TO / LIKE
A. Would you like to go to a pizzeria?
 B. I love eating pizza!!!
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I’d like to drink a cup of coffee
vs.
 I like drinking (a cup of) coffee :
what is the difference?
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I’d like …
to expresses something I’d like to do in the
future or now
While:
I like
a general statement
In the interrogative form: to expresses an offer:
e.g.,
Would you like to go shopping?
Contracted
Negative
Interrogative
Interrogative
negative
I’d like to …
I wouldn’t like Would you like Wouldn’t you
to …
to …?
like to …?
You/he/she/it You/he/she/it Would
Wouldn’t
/we/they’d
/we/they
I/he/she/it/w I/he/she/it/w
like to
wouldn’t like e/they like to? e/they like to?
to
ADVERBS
Adverbs express manner (how): quickly, slowly
- Adjectives qualify nouns: brown hair
- Adverbs qualify verbs: go slowly
e.g., you speak English very well
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ADVERBS
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form adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective: e.g.,
sad-ly, bad-ly
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Some adjectives go through a morphological
change:
e.g., happy – happily
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Irregular adverbs:
Fast
 Good
 Hard

fast,
well,
hard
ADJECTIVES
aggressive
COMPLETE THE TABLE
stylish
nice
aggressively
stylishly
nicely
dangerous
dangerously
polite
politely
careful
carefully
quiet
quietly
healthy
heartly
wealthy
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ADVERBS
good
bad
wealthily
well
badly
HOMEWORK
Making a reservation: complete the three
exercises on p. 97 & write an email
Send it to me: [email protected]
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