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This document provides an overview of a class on comparative and superlative adverbs. It discusses regular and irregular adverbs and how to form comparatives and superlatives. Examples are given for comparative and superlative adverbs. The document then covers topics like too and enough, quantifiers, gerund phrases, expressing likes and preferences, future possibility, infinitives of purpose, and a review of future forms.

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This document provides an overview of a class on comparative and superlative adverbs. It discusses regular and irregular adverbs and how to form comparatives and superlatives. Examples are given for comparative and superlative adverbs. The document then covers topics like too and enough, quantifiers, gerund phrases, expressing likes and preferences, future possibility, infinitives of purpose, and a review of future forms.

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Welcome to our

class.
Friday,November 25th,2022
UNIT 6
Comparative and superlative adverbs.

Regular adverbs Irregular adverbs

Happily Enthusiastically Hard Early


Quietly Noisily Straight Daily
Sloppily Terribly Well Badly
Carefully Duly Fast Late
Easily Drastically Often High
Beautifully Efficiently Far
Slowly
Comparative adverbs.

It is used more or less: Short adverbs are modified:

Regular adverbs Irregular adverbs

More happily Fast Faster

More slowly Well Better

Less noisily Badly Worse

Less carefully Hard Harder


Comparative adverbs.

● Planes go faster than trains.


● Joe won because he played better than Jane.
● He hit the ball more powerfully than his competitor.
● I forget things more often than I used to.
● Girls usually work harder than boys.
Superlative adverbs.

It is used the most or the least: Short adverbs are modified:

Regular adverbs Irregular adverbs

The most happily Fast The fastest

The most slowly Well The best

The least noisily Badly The worst

The least carefully Hard The hardest

Exception: Often
Superlative adverbs.

● Bobby talks the loudest of all the boys.


● Jill danced the best.
● Caroline smiles the most sweetly.
● Our rotary telephone is the least frequently used device in our
house.
UNIT 7
Too and enough

Too: More than it should be. Not … enough: Less than it should be.
Example:
There is too much sugar in this tea. Example:
This food seems too good to be true.
My coffee is not thick enough.
My sauce was delicious but it was not
spicy enough.
Enough: Sufficient.
Example:
I think the milk is sweet enough.
You should eat now, your soup is cold
enough to eat.
Quantifiers

There is a little sugar on the table.

There are few apples there.

I eat soup with lots of vegetables./I like my coffee with a lot of sugar.

I love eating many pupusas.

Don’t you think is too much water?

Is there any pizza for me?/I don’t eat any food with meat in it.
UNIT 8
Gerund phrases as subject and object.

AS SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE:


● Building a career as an artist was one of her biggest goals.
● Buying a house is his dream.
● Living in the city centre can be stressful.
● Smoking cigarettes is bad for you.
● Writing a poem was harder than he expected.
● Listening to music is very relaxing.
● Sleeping is hard when your mind is full of thoughts.
Gerund phrases as subject and object.

AS OBJECT OF THE SENTENCE:

● I like being a teacher.


● I would hate directing the news.
● I'd love working in the media.
● Sophia likes jumping on the trampoline.
Expressing likes, desires and preferences:
To express likes:

Love, enjoy and like.


● I like visiting new places when I go out with my fiends during my free
weekends.
● Many people enjoy spending time with their family on vacations to
have a pleasant time.
● Do you love going to restaurants for dinner?
Expressing likes, desires and preferences:
To express dislikes:

● Mary doesn’t like going to cinemas in the first dates because she
can't really know people that way.
● Peter hates meeting people on the internet. He considers it a
dangerous thing to do.
● Do you hate staying at home?
Expressing likes, desires and preferences:
To express desires:

● I’d love to do something different, like go for a hike.


● Would you like to go to my graduation the next month?
Expressing likes, desires and preferences:
To express preferences:

Would prefer:
● I’d prefer to go out tonight to see the new park in the city.
● Tania would prefer to do the lunch now before she returns to the work.
● Would you prefer to take a video or a photography class?

Would rather:
● Rudy would rather take an art class than study a foreign language.
● Would you rather learn an Asian Language or a European one?

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UNIT 9
Future possibility
We use may or might when we are not very certain about something:

● She has gone through very difficult times in her life. Maybe
she might forget the problems by working.
● In the news, heavy rains have been forecast for Friday and
Saturday. So you may not be able to visit me.
● Do you think it might/may rain tomorrow?
Future possibility
We use probably will/will probably when we are not
very certain:

● It might be too cold tomorrow, so my sister probably won't


be wearing her sandals.
● Due to weather conditions you probably will be indoors all
day.
● Will my aunt wear that bracelet? Yes, she probably will.
Future possibility

We use will or will definitely when we are very certain:

● I am sure it won’t rain today.


● Samantha has a lot of homework to do this weekend.
However, the first thing she will definitely be do is going to
the gym on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
● Will you definitely go to the park? Yes, I definitely will.
“Will” and “going to”
UNIT 10
Infinitives of purpose:
TO/IN ORDER TO

In negative form:
To = not to
In order to = in order not to
Review of future forms

We're playing tennis next week.


I’m meeting my friend for coffee.
I’m flying to New York on Friday
He's visiting her parents on Sunday.

We have a lesson next Monday.


The holidays start next week.
I start work at 8 tomorrow.
The film starts at 7pm.
Good luck!

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