Bài giảng Tiếng Anh Lớp 8 - Unit 2: Life in the Countryside - Lesson 3: A Closer Look 2

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1. Welcome All the teachers visiting our class!
2. Mr. Brown is Mr. Peter.
3. beautiful than princess Maria.
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5. - Adjectives ending in mute “e” , drop “e” then add “_ER”. Ex: safe → safer nice → nicer - Adjectives ending in a consonant, preceded by a vowel, double the ending consonant, then add “_ER”. Ex: big → bigger fat → fatter - Adjectives with 2 syllables ending in “y”, drop “y” then add “_IER”. Ex: happy → happier lucky → luckier - Adjectives ending in _w, _er, _le, add “ER”. Ex: new → newer clever → cleverer
6. 1. Complete the passage below with a suitable comparative form of the adjectives provided. Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0. good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) ___higher education, and (2. easy) ___easier access to (3. good) ___better facilities. Life there is (4. exciting) ___more exciting and (5. convenient) ___.more convenient They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6. happy) ___happier here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7. friendly) ___more friendly than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) ___fast as that in the city and I feel (9. safe) ___.safer Perhaps the (10. good) ___best place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
7. 1. The horse isfast than / slowly the car. 2. The car is than the horse.
8. 2.Complete the sentences with suitable comparative forms of adverbs in the box. Traditionally, soundly, generously, slowly,healthily 1. Can you speak ___?more slowly My English is not good. 2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep ___.more soundly 3. Nowadays, people dress ___,less traditionally so it’s difficult to say which country they are from. 4. It’s not always true that rich people donate ___more generously than poor people. 5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat ___.more healthily
9. 3.Finish the sentences below with a suitable comparative form of hard, early, late, fast, well and badly. 1. Your exam score is low. I am sure you can do ___.better 2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ___?faster 3. On Sunday, we can get up ___later than usual. 4. The farmers have to work ___harder at harvest time. 5. You look tired. Are you feeling ___worse than you did this morning? 6. My mother has to get up ___earlier than us to milk the cows.
10. 4.Underline the correct comparative forms to complete the sentences. 1. People in rural areas of Britain talk optimistically /more optimistically about the future than city people. 2. In India, rural areas are more popularly/ popular known as the “countryside”. 3. A village is less densely populated/ more densely populated than a city. 4. City people seem to react quickly/ more quickly to changes than country people. 5. Medical help can be less easily/ more easily obtained in a city than in the countryside. 6. A buffalo ploughs better/ more well than a horse.
11. 5. Write the answers to the questions below. 1. Which place is more peaceful, the city or the countryside? → The___ countryside is more peaceful than the city. 2. Which works faster at calculus, a computer or a human being? →A ___ computer works faster at calculus than a human being 3. Which one is harder, life in a remote area or life in a modern town? → Life___ in a remote area is harder than that in a modern town 4. Which city is more expensive, Ho Chi Minh City or Hue? → Ho___ Chi Minh City is more expensive than Hue. 5. Who can smell better, animals or human beings? → ___Animals can smell better than human beings.
12. 1. My mum often wakes up at 5.30 am while I often wake up at 6.30 am. (early) => My mum often wakes up ___. 2. According to a survey, 70% of city teenagers use their mobiles every day. The rate in the countryside is only 30%. (frequently) => City teenagers use their mobiles ___. 3. Jack and Jim are both excellent at riding horses but Jim is a bit better than Jack. (excellently) => Jack rides ___. 4. The boys in the village can fly kites very high; I’m not that good. (high) => The boys in the village can fly ___.
13. III. Homework: • Learn by heart new grammar points. • Do the exercises: 5, 6, 7/p.11/WB. • Prepare next lesson: Communication
14. Complete the sentences with comparative forms of the adverbs in brackets 1. Farmers collect fruit ___than others. (fast) 2. That young nomad herds his livestock ___ than his father. (well) 3. City children seem to react ___ than those in the countryside. (quickly) 4. After the summer holiday in a remote area, Jim studies ___. (hard) 5. My cousin painted his own room ___ than I did. (skillfully)