Wednesday, November 10,
2015
Announcements
• Test on Units 19-21 Thursday
Agenda
• Song- Stronger
• Homework check/ Unit 20 review
• Unit 21
• Listening
• Pronunciation
• Review Unit 21
• Start Unit 22
• Writing evaluation- comparing adjectives
Unit 22
What are some names of sports?
What two teams are playing?
Who is winning?
Who are the star players?
Why can’t the sports commentators predict a winner?
Vocabulary
• Aggressively (adv)• Consistently (adv)
• Effectively (adv)
• Frequently (adv)
• Intensely (adv)
Vocabulary exercises
• A and B
Vocabulary – match the numbers with the
letters
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
If you play intensely,
If you play aggressively
If you play consistently
If you play frequently
If you do something effectively
a) You do it quite often
b) You achieve the desired results
c) You do all you can do to try to
win
d) You do it with a lot of energy
and attention
e) You play the same way
throughout the game
Grammar charts
The Australians played as well as the French.
• Did the French play well?
• Did the Australians play equally well?
• How do you know?
• How can you make the comparisons to show that two actions are the
same?
Grammar charts
The French didn’t cheer as loud as the Australians.
• Did the Australians cheer loud?
• Did the French cheer equally loud?
• How do you know?
• How can you make comparisons to show that two actions are not the
same?
• Not + as + adverb + as
• The negative verb is necessary
Grammar charts
At first, the Australians played harder than the French.
The Australians cheer the loudest of any fans in the game.
Name the comparative and superlative adverbs in the examples.
How do you form the comparatives of short adverbs such as hard.
(short adverb + er)
What comes after harder? (than + the second part of the comparison)
How do you form the superlative of short adverbs such as loud?
(the + adverb + est)
Grammar charts
• The Italians blocked Nixon more effectively than any other team.
• Nixon got the ball less consistently than in other games.
• Trigs scored the most consistently of anyone on the team.
• Nixon played the least intensely of anyone on the team.
Name the comparative and superlative adverbs in the examples.
How do you form the comparative of long adverbs?
How do you form the superlative of long adverbs?
Grammar Charts
Trigs played better than Nixon.
Trigs scored the most of her team.
• What are the comparative and superlative adverbs in the examples?
• What is better the comparative of?
(well)
• What is the most the superlative of?
(a lot)
Some adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms.
• Some adverbs have irregular comparative and superlative forms.
Adverb
Comparative
Superlative
Well
better
the best
A lot
more
the most
Note 1
• Nixon ran as fast as Jones.
• Did Nixon run fast?
• Did Jones run equally fast?
• Insert just between ran and as.
• Is the comparison weaker or stronger now?
• (stronger)
• Trigs didn’t score as frequently as Jones.
• Did Jones score frequently?
• Did Trigs score with the same frequency?
(no)
Note 2
• Jones played more intensely than Trigs.
• Did Jones play intensely?
• Did trigs play as intensely as Jones?
• (no)
• Insert even between played and more.
• Is the comparison weaker or stronger?
• (stronger)
Note 2
• The Tigers didn’t cheer as loud as the Vikings.
• The Vikings cheered louder than the Tigers.
• The Tigers cheered less loud than the Vikings.
We don’t use less…than with short adverbs such as loud.
• The Tigers played less consistently than the Vikings.
We don’t less…than with long adverbs such as consistently.
Note 2
a) Riley played intensely. Nixon played just as intensely.
b) Trigs played patiently. Jones played less patiently.
When the meaning is clear, it is not necessary to mention both parts of
the comparison.
Note 3
The whole team played skillfully, but Riley played the most skillfully.
• Did Riley play skillfully?
• Who is Riley compared with in the example?
• Did any of the other players play more skillfully than Riley?
• (no)
• The superlative compares one action with the action of other people
in a group.
• In this example, the superlative compares the way Riley played with
the way the other players on the team played.
Note 3
• The superlative compares three or more things. It should not be used
to compare only two things.
Brad scored more frequently than Rost.
Brad scored the most frequently of anyone on the team.
(comparison of more than two people).
Note 3
• She runs the fastest of all the players.
• She runs the fastest of anyone on the team.
• She runs the fastest of all.
• She runs the fastest of the team.
What preposition is used in expressions that are used with the
superlative.
Note 4
Adverb
One syllable
adverbs
Irregular adverbs
Long Adverbs
Soon
Late
loud
Little
A lot
far
Cooperatively
patiently
Comparative
Superlative
Note 4 adverbs of manner
a) Jones played more skillfully than Whine.
b) Jones blocked more skillfully his opponents than Whine.
c) Jones blocked his opponents more skillfully than Whine.
Exercise 1,3,4