The lesson started with a quick revision of comparatives and superlatives:
1 syllable adjectives
fast faster the fastest
big bigger the biggest
2 syllable adjectives ending in -y
frienly friendlier the friendliest
2 or more syllable adjectives
interesting more friendly the most friendly
Irregular adjectives
good better the best
bad worse the worst
far further the furthest
We also saw some adverbs to express big differences (a lot, mch, far) and small differences (a little, a bit, slightly); these adverbs are placed before the comparative: Your bedroom is much more spacious than mine.
There are some other structures to express comparison:
the same + noun + as > My car is the same colour as yours.
as + adjectives + as > My mobile phone is as good as yours.
different from > This dress is different from the one we saw earlier.
similar to > This song is very similar to one I heard on the radio.
We also looked at the opposites of more and the most: less and the least. These are not usually used with one syllable adjectives since it's preferred to use an adjective meaning the opposite.
To practise the use of comparatives we talked about two houses we knew well and we had to compare them using these structures.
Then we corrected the homework on page 40, exercises 1 and 2, and we explained the meaning of the phrasal verbs. This was followed by a discussion about how organised we are and whether women are more organised that men or the opposite.
The idiom of the day this time was given at the end of the lesson: skeletons in the closet.
For homework students must do exercises 7 and 8 from page 39, and exercise 3 from page 42.
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