How Was Your Weekend? = What Was Your Weekend Like?
Sunday 24th November
Good morning class!
How was your weekend? = What was your weekend like?
Today’s lesson 1: describing something e.g. a city using the verb ‘to be like’Melbourne: cosmopolitan, beautiful, big, hot
Dubai: hot, dry, modern, interesting
Paris: beautiful, wonderful, modern
What was __HaferAlbaten_____ like?
It was desert and dry.
What’s it like now?
There is a lake.
I have a new car.
What’s your new like? What’s it like?
It’s fast, black, a Mercedes, a saloon, a sports car etc.
I have a new boss.
What’s he like?
He’s strict, kind, understanding, patient, impatient etc.
I have a older brother
What’s he like?
He’s ugly, mean, simple, stupid, smart, kind, nice, shy, patient, ambitious, crazy,
ContractionsWhat’s the………like?
What’ re the……..like?
Woman: gorgeous (very beautiful), glamorous,
Food: delicious, tasty, mouth-watering
Comparatives and superlatives
1)Small smaller the smallest
Coldcolderthe coldest
Nearnearerthe nearest
2)Bigbiggerthe biggest
Hothotterthe hottest
Wetwetterthe wettest
3)Busybusierthe busiest
Noisy noisierthe noisiest
Lovelylovelierthe loveliest
Drydrierthe driest
4)Beautifulmore beautifulthe most beautiful
Farfurtherthe furthest
Goodbetterthe best
Badworsethe worst
Monday 25th November
Lesson 1: 07:40 – 08:25
Lesson objectives:Consolidating the use of adjectives (Synonyms).
Pronunciation practice (stress and intonation)
Reorder the following words
bought / an / car / I / expensiveVerbsubject articlenounadjective
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes ______or ______
Examples
Saad has a ______car.
Saad’s car is ______.
I bought / a fast / car.an expensive
I saw / sunset.
I had / meal.
I watched / film.
What do we call adjectives that are similar in meaning?
SynonymsWhat do we call adjectives that are opposite in meaning?
AntonymsWhat examples can you find in the list above?
(Please turn now to page 52 in your student’s book)
STOP & CHECKAdjectives describe s______or s______.
We use synonyms when we don’t want to ______words.
1) A rich person = a______person.
2) If you are bored in a lesson, you are ______.
3)Your room is ______if you don’t put things away.
4) He is so ______. He always pays the bill at the restaurant.
5) The new James Bond film is ______. I really enjoyed it. There was a lot of action.
6) I visited the Metropolitan Museum of ______Art in New York during my last holiday there.
Summary: what we have studied today in classWe have consolidated the use of adjectives; in particular synonyms.
We have practised pronunciation focusing on intonation and stress.
Tuesday 26th November
Good morning class.
How are you today?
What’s the weather like?
What was the match like last night?
Have you had breakfast? What did you have?
To insulate your house, a wire
My house is insulated
Winter = 21st December to 21st March
Primitive - basic – comfortable - luxurious
To warm up a room
Never – rarely/seldom -sometimes - usually– often – very often- always
(bored – boring / excited – exciting / interested – interesting)
London is such an expensive city.
Yes, it’s not very cheap.
Paul and Sue are so mean.
Yes, they are not very generous.
Their house is always so messy.
Yes, it’s not very tidy.
Their children are always so noisy.
Yes, they are not very quiet.
John looks so miserable.
Yes, he’s not very happy.
His sister’s so stupid.
Yes, she’s not very clever, smart.
Mr. Michael Roland
Mr. + family name (=polite)
Good morning Mr Roland
Have a safe journey home.
Take care.
Have a safe trip (=holiday)
Depressed / depressing
Polluted
Financial
Fortunate
Medical
OptimistPessimist
OptimisticPessimistic
To lead/have a healthy lifestyle
Wound (noun)
To wound (verb)
Wounded (adjective) = injured but especially in war
Wind /wind/
Wind /waind/ to wind
Wednesday 26th November
Good morning class.
Tomorrow’s quiz covers the following points:- To be like
What’s the weather like?
(Do not confuse with:To like
like/ chess? = Do you like playing chess)
- Comparatives and superlatives
- “....as.....as.....” comparison
- Adjectives: synonyms & antonyms (page 52 Student’s book)(e.g. rich, wealthy (synonyms); poor, wealthy (antonyms)
- Vocabulary from reading text (Student’s book pages 50-51)
- Adjective formation (Workbook page 36).
- Prepositions of movement
______
New vocabulary
To ___join____ a course / to enrol on a course
To leave a course/ to withdraw from a course
To inherit something from your parents.
To leave / receive an inheritance.
To make a will before you die.
Lake --- pond
River --- stream
City ---- town ---- village
Forest ----- wood ----
Oasis
Valley (between mountains, hills) = vale
______
Workbook page 35
Ex. 5
(Polite ------impolite / rude)
The shortest
Better (than yours)
Warmer / hotter
The most expensive
More generous
Earlier
The hardest / the most difficult
1) as
2) as
3) than
4) as
5) than
6) as
Ex. 7
3)Bill’snot as intelligent as Jill.
4) The moon isn’t as hot as the sun.
5) Are you as old as your husband? (Are you the same age as your husband?)
6) I can’t read as quickly as you (can).
7) Bill didn’t win as much money as Harry. (Bill won less money than Harry.)
(Neither Bill nor Harry won money.)
8) Is Luxembourg as big as Switzerland?
9) My work isn’t as good as Eva’s (work).
10) John isn’t as friendly as Mike.
Ex. 4 page 34
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Thursday 27th November.
Good morning class.
Pronunciation
Bottle
Environment
Development
Vegetable
Comfortable
What is your friend like?
She is beautiful, tall, kind and intelligent. (Appearance, character etc)
What does your friend like?
She likes travelling, doing sport, studying etc.
2) What’s Amsterdam like?
3) Did you like the food?
4) What’s it like?
5)What’s the countryside like?
6) What was your hotel like?
The worst
He’s not as old as her
He’s not older than her
Noisier
Milan is as hot as Athens.
Mansour is as tall asHasan
Hani is the shortest in the group.
Hasan is the youngest and the tallest in the group.
Chicago is not as cold as Stockholm.
Stockholm is colder than Chicago.
Friendly friendlier
Happyhappier
Crazycrazier
Sunnysunnier
Make a will
Inherit
Your children inherit something
Invest
Arrest
Amputate a limb /lim/, a leg
Live
Open
Spoil a child
Strict fatherliberal
Wear ragged clothes
Ragged clothes = like rags
Ex. 7
2) Yes ,it’s not very smart/clever/intelligent.
3)Yes ,it isn’t very clean.
4)Yes , they aren’t (they’re not) very generous.
5)Yes , it wasn’t very nice / good.
6)Yes , she’s not very polite
Adjectives
1)Mean (stingy)generous
2)Meankind
Verb - To mean“What does this word mean?”
Noun – Meaning “ What’s the meaning of this word?”
Joining sentences
There’s the boy who (that) broke the window.
I bought the coat which (that) was in the shop window.
The hotel was very comfortable. We stayed in it.
The hotel where we stayed was very comfortable.
/kumftabal/
Relative pronouns - for joining sentences
That’s the placewhere the king lives.
There are the policemenwho caught the thief.
He gave her a watchwhich (that) stopped after two days.
The kebab house is the restaurantwhere we met for lunch.
Here are the letterswhich (that) arrived this morning.
That’s the housewhere I was born.