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Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Giuridiche e Politiche
CdL Economia e Gestione Aziendale
UNIT 8
a.a. 2015/2016
Outline
Future forms: Will/be going to (pags.80 & 142);
Adjectives: Comparatives & Superlatives
(pags.76-77 & 142);
Personality Adjectives
Word formation: Adverbs (pags. 84 & 144);
Would…like / do…like?
Future Forms: Introduction
• Will + infinitive – instant decisions, offers,
promises, predictions
• To be going to – plans, predictions
Contracted
I’ll cook
Negative
I won’t cook
(I will not
cook)
You/he/she/it You/he/she/it
/we/they’ll
/we/they
cook
won’t cook
Interrogative Interrogative
negative
Will I cook?
Won’t I cook?
Will
you/he/she/it
/we/they
cook?
Won’t
you/he/she/it
/we/they
cook?
• Instant decisions: I’ll give you a ride to the
party
• Offers: I’ll help you with that homework
• Promises: I’ll do it tomorrow
• Predictions: I think sales will increase
Be going to
In English, there are many ways of expressing
future time. One of the most common is the
"be going to" construction.
Be going to
How to form "be going to"
sentences.
To make a verb form with “be
going to”, you first put the verb
“be” into the correct form to
agree with the subject, then add
“going to”+ the simple form of
the verb.
Examples: I am going to study
Is she going to study?
They aren’t going to study.
Contracted
Negative
I’m going to
travel
Interrogative Interrogative
negative
I’m not going Am I going to Aren’t I going
to travel
travel?
to travel?
he/she/it’s
going to
travel
he/she/it
Is he/she/it
isn’t going to going to
travel
travel?
Isn’t he/she/it
going to
travel?
You//we/they You//we/they Are
Aren’t
’re going to
aren’t going you//we/the you//we/they
travel
to travel
y going to
going to
travel?
travel?
Be going to
1.We use 'going to' when we talk about
plans for the future.
Example: I'm going to see my friends later
today.
2.We use 'going to' when we want to
make a prediction based on evidence
we can see now:
Look at those black clouds. It's going to
rain soon.
• Future plans – I’m going to go to the US next
month, I’m going to talk to him tomorrow
• Predictions – I think it’s going to rain (because
it’s cloudy and it’s very possible/probable that
it’s going to rain)
Be going to
Signal Words:
in one year, next week, tomorrow..
Examples: She's going to the exhibition
tomorrow.
I am going to study harder next year.
I'm going to retire next month.
Pagina 80
Pagina 144
Pag.144 (bis)
Be going to
Be going to
Comparative & superlative forms
Adjectives in the base form
1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES TALL
SMALL
NICE
Double Consonant (CVC)
THIN
FAT
2 SYLLABLES ADJS WITH Y
HEAVY
TASTY
TINY
2/3/4 or MORE SYLLABLES
COMFORTABLE DANGEROUS
Comparatives
+ -ER
Superlatives (THE +)
TALLER
SMALLER
NICER
+ -EST
THE TALLEST
THE SMALLEST
THE NICEST
THINNER
FATTER
THE THINNEST
THE FATTEST
+ -IER
HEAVIER
TASTIER
TINIER
CRAZIER
+ -IEST
THE HAVIEST
THE TASTIEST
THE TINIEST
THE CRAZIEST
+ MORE
MORE COMFORTABLE
MORE DANGEROUS
+ MOST
THE MOST COMFORTABLE
THE MOST DANGEROUS
Irregular comparatives and superlatives
GOOD – BETTER – THE BEST
BAD – WORSE – THE WORST
FAR – FURTHER – THE FURTHEST
MUCH/MANY – MORE – THE MOST
Remember:
we ALWAYS have to use than after the
comparative to introduce the person or
thing we compare to.
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
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
Same degree comparatives: as … as, so …
as
E.g., Tom is as intelligent as his sister
Comparatives a pag.74
Pag.73
Pag.142
Pag.142 (bis)
Superlatives
Superlatives
Pag.78
Reading pag.78
Careful
Serious
Quiet
Generous
Stylish
Aggressive
Friendly
Rude
Careless
Funny
Nervous
Kind
Polite
Ruthless
Unfriendly
Fashionable
Personality Adjectives
•A. Would you like to go to a pizzeria? B. I love
eating pizza!!!
•I’d like to drink a cup of coffee v I like drinking
(a cup of) coffee : what is the difference?
•I’d like to expresses something I’d like to do in
the future or now while I like to expresses a
general statement
•In the interrogative form, would like to
expresses offer – e.g., Would you like to go
shopping?
Contracted
Negative
Interrogative Interrogative
negative
I’d like to
I wouldn’t
like to
Would I like
to?
Wouldn’t I
like to?
You/he/she/it You/he/she/it Would
Wouldn’t
/we/they’d
/we/they
you/he/she/it you/he/she/it
like to
wouldn’t like /we/they like /we/they like
to
to?
to?
•We use adverbs to express manner (how):
quickly, slowly
•While adjectives qualify nouns, adverbs qualify
verbs: e.g., I speak English very well
•We form adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective:
e.g., sad-ly, bad-ly
•Some adjectives go through a morphological
change: e.g., happy – happily
•Irregular adverbs: fast-fast, good-well, hardhard
Grammar Reference pag.145
Pag.146
Pag.146 (bis)
Travel blogs (pag. 85)
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Pag.86 –(1)
Pag.86 (2)
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
aggressive
COMPLETE:
stylish
nicely
dangerous
polite
carefully
quiet
healthy
wealthily
well
badly
Adjective & Adverb
ADJECTIVES
ADVERBS
aggressive
aggressively
stylish
stylishly
nice
nicely
dangerous
dangerously
polite
politely
careful
carefully
quiet
quietly
healthy
healthily
wealthy
wealthily
good
well
bad
badly
Adjective or Adverb?
Activity 1.
Fill in the correct form – Adjective or Adverb
1. Jack is a very_________ learner. (quick)
2. Don’t talk so___________ ! (loud)
3. Temperatures are going to be very______
today. (high)
4. I am cold, tired and_______ . (hungry)
5. He closed the door _________ . (angry)
Activity 1.
ANSWERS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Jack is a very quick learner.
Don’t talk so loudly!
Temperatures are going to be very high today.
I am cold, tired and hungry.
He closed the door angrily.
Task 2.
Choose the correct forms among the given ones:
1) He played
a. Beautiful b. beautifully c. the most beautiful
2) The TV is too…
a. Loud b. louder c. loudly
3) English people speak…
a. Fast b. fastly c. the faster.
Task 2.
4) He reads………in class.
a. Good b. welly c. well
5.She will go on holiday…
a. Short b. shorter c. shortly.
6. Our students don’t think English is
an…..language
a. Easily b. easy c. the easiest.
Task 2
ANSWERS
1b
2a
3a
4c
5c
6.b
Adverbs
Adjective or Adverb?
Write an advert about your town /city.
Follow the instructions and read the example on page 78.
Send it to [email protected] for correction.