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Unit 10 Communication

Unit 10 Communication. Keeping in touch. Brainstorm ways to keep in touch message in a bottle tin cans on a string carrier pigeon. Keeping in touch P98. Read each person's story. Decide who you are most similar to. Discuss with your partner. What's the pattern?.

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Unit 10 Communication

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  1. Unit 10 Communication

  2. Keeping in touch Brainstorm ways to keep in touch message in a bottle tin cans on a string carrier pigeon

  3. Keeping in touch P98 Read each person's story. Decide who you are most similar to. Discuss with your partner.

  4. What's the pattern? 1. Email is quicker than regular mail. 2. Video conferencing is less expensive than business trips. 3. Skype video calls are better than regular phone calls. noun 1 + BE + comparative adj + than + noun 2

  5. What's the pattern? It's nice to get a card. It's nicer to get a real card than an e-card. It's + adj + infinitive + noun 1 + than + noun 2

  6. Grammar Point: Comparative Adjectives USAGE • used to talk about differences between 2 things, people, events • The spaghetti is more delicious than the pizza. • She's taller than he is. • The second lecture was longer. • comparative form often used with “than”

  7. Grammar Point: Comparative Adjectives FORM • Most 1 syllable adjectives and some 2 syllable adjectives adjective + -er • most other adjectives of 2 or more syllables more + adjective • “less” used with adjectives in comparisons • less + adjective • Desktop computers are less expensive than laptops.

  8. SPELLING RULES • adjs ending in -e, add -er nice-->nicer • adjs ending in a consonant + -y, change “y” to “i” and add -er busy-->busier • most adjs ending in vowel + consonant, double the final consonant and add -er big-->bigger thin-->thinner • DO NOT double consonants in words ending in -w slow-->slower

  9. Exceptions IRREGULAR FORMS: good --> better bad --> worse far --> farther little --> less many --> more

  10. Exceptions Two-Syllable Adjectives which take -er or more clever cleverer more clever gentle gentler more gentle friendly friendlier more friendly quiet quieter more quiet simple simpler more simple wealthy wealthier more wealthy healthy healthier more healthy

  11. Common Mistakes • adding -er AND more to the same adj Assignment 2 was more harder. x • adding more to irregular adjs Vanilla cake is more good then chocolate. x

  12. Try it out! • P 99 2A and B

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