Seeing the worldLesson 3

2n ESO

What can you do in these places?

Crete

Mauritius

The Andes mountainsin Chile

What can you see in Mauritius?

What can you do in Crete?

What can you do in Chile

Narrating a holiday

My summer holidays in Mauritius

Where did you go? How was it? (adjectivesneeded)

How was your holiday?

A peaceful / relaxingholiday Wonderful weather A lively disco

Extraordinary mountains

Anisolatedcountry

An elegant hotel

A calm sea

How was your holiday?

A terrible storm

A rough sea

Feel safe in the water Frightening

A dull holiday

The world’s greatest

KAHOOT GAMES

• IRREGULAR VERBS

• SUPERLATIVES

• Superlative and comparative game

Don’t you?

• I enjoyed my holidays in La Molina, because I love skiing.

• I enjoyed my holidays in La Molina because I love skiing. - no commabefore “because”

• I enjoyed my holidays because were fun.

• I enjoyed my holidays because they were fun. – Subject after because

• These oranges are very sweets.

• These oranges are very sweet. – Adjectives NEVER take the plural

What did you do on Christmas?

Special things you do on Christmas day

Decorate the fir treeMake a homemade giftBake cookiesOpen your Christmas giftsHave dinner with your family

How many more can you think of?

What did Leah, Ruth & Morveen do onChristmas Day?• What time….?• Where…?• When…?• Did you…?• Who?• Why?

•The group who makes them answer more questions wins!

• (In 2nd C Ruths takes one group at a time to the corridor. For the other groups you are three, so we make threegroups in class.)

high higher the

highest

short shorter the

shortest

small smaller the

smallest

fast faster the fastest

One-syllable adjectives form their comparative and superlative by adding –er and –est

Changes in Spelling:

-One syllable adjectives ending CVC C doubled:

Big – bigger – the biggest

Fat – fatter – the fattest

- Final –e only –r or –st are added:

wide – wider – the widest

- C+ y –y is replaced by –ier in comparative and –iest

dry – drier – the driest

Two-syllable adjectives can be divided into groups:

-Those ending in –y, take –er or –est.

lucky – luckier - the luckiest

pretty – prettier – the prettiest

-Those ending in –ful, -less, -ing or –ed add more or the most.

careful – more careful – the most careful

careless – more careless – the most careless

Adjectives of three or more syllables form the comparative and superlative by putting more and the most.

interesting more

interesting

the most

interesting

intelligent more

intelligent

the most

intelligent

exciting more

exciting

the most

exciting

frightening more

frightening

the most

frightening

IRREGULAR COMPARISONS

good better the best

bad worse the worst

far farther

further

the farthest

the furthest

little less the least

+ENOUGH

• ADJECTIVE + ENOUGH + INFINITIVE WITH TO

• She is not rich enough to buy a car.

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+What do you know about us?

• To make potato omelette we useA. Eggs, onion and potatoes

B. Eggs, garlic and potatoes

C. Eggs, chorizo and potatoes

+

Who painted this picture?

A. Diego de VelazquezB. Salvador DalíC. Pablo Picasso

+ENOUGH

• ENOUGH + NOUN + INFINITIVE WITH TO

• I don’t have enough money to buy a car.

• ADJECTIVE + ENOUGH + INFINITIVE WITH TO

• She is not rich enough to buy a car.

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The white wine is not as expensive as the red wine.

Can you read this?

• ˈrəʊzɪz ɑː rɛd, ˈvaɪəlɪts ɑː bluː, ˈʃʊgər ɪz swiːt, ænd səʊ ɑː juː

ɔː• aɪv gɒt ə tɔːʧ,aɪv gɒt ə bɔːlaɪv gɒt ə hɔːsɪn maɪ bæg.huː pʊt ə tɔːʧ,huː pʊt ə bɔːl,huː pʊt ə hɔːsɪn jɔː bæg?