8A

望亭中学 王林方

Unit 1 Friends Grammar

Step 3 Compare things

Step 1 Review

Step 2 Grammar A

Step 4 Grammar B

Step 5 Comparatives and Superlatives ： Step 6 Groupwork Step 7 Homework

Step 1 Review

Free talk

Who is your best friend?

What makes him/her so special?

Do you know how to describe someone

or something with adjectives?

Describing things with adjectives

Step 2 Grammar A

3 A lazy cat is sleeping on the chair.

The cat _____ _____.

1 The girl is lovely.

She is a ______ ____.lovely girl

2 She has short hair.

Her hair ____ ______.is short

is lazy

Rule out ： We can put an adjective befo

re a noun or after a linking verb.

She is a lovely girl.She has short hair.A lazy cat is sleeping on the chair.

The girl is lovely.Her hair is short.The cat is lazy.

形容词在句中的位置

Rule out

We can use adjectives after these linking verbs.

be become feel

get grow keep

look seem smell

sound taste turn

Rule out

nice great tired

green healthy

sad

happy strong angry

…Please make sentences using these linking verbs with adjectives.e.g. I feel tired today. It sounds great.

Rewrite the following sentences.1 He is a strong man. =The man ____ ______.2 Tom’s hair is long. =Tom has _____ _____.3 He has small eyes. =His eyes _____ _____.4 This book is interesting. = This is an __________ ______.

is strong

long hair

are small

interesting book

Practice

Step 3 Compare things

The boy is as tall as the girl.

The girl is tall, too.

The boy is tall.

Compare things

Kate is taller than Lily.

Kate Lily

Lily is shorter than Kate.

Lily is not so tall as Kate.

Do you know how to compare things?

Comparatives and Superlatives adjectives

Step 4 Grammar B

When we compare 2 things,

there are 2 results:1. The same in some ways

2. Different

Kate Lily

The boy is as tall as the girl.

Kate is taller than Lily.

Lily is shorter than Kate.

Lily is not so tall as Kate.

We use adjectives to compare 2 people/things if the

2 people/things are the same in some ways.

Rule out

The boy is __ _____ __ the girl.

A + linking verb + as + adjective + as + B.

as happy as

We use negative sentences and comparatives to

compare two people/things if the 2 people/things

are different.

Rule out

￥ 50.00 ￥ 100.00

The white bag is ____ ________ ____ the green one.

The green bag is _______ ____ the white one.

A + linking verb + not so + adjective + as + B.

A + linking verb + adj.( 比较级 ) + than + B.

The green bag is ___ __ ________ __the white one.

more expensive than

cheaper thannot so expensive as

Compare things

Kate Lily Ann

Kate is the tallest girl of the three.

Ann is the shortest girl of the three.

We use superlatives to compare three or more

people/things.

Rule out

￥ 50.00 ￥ 100.00

￥ 150.00

The purple bag is __________________ one of all the bags.

The green bag is ____________ one of all the bags.the cheapest

the most expensive

A + linking verb + the +adj.( 最高级 )+ of / in….

Rule out

A + linking verb + as + adjective + as + B.

A + linking verb + not so + adjective + as + B.

A + linking verb + adj.( 比较级 ) + than + B.

A + linking verb + the +adj.( 最高级 )+ of / in….

Regular adjectives( 规则形容词 )

Irregular adjectives/Special adjectives（不规则形容词）

多音节词(long adjectives)

双音节词

单音节词(short adjectives)﹛

Step 5 Comparatives and Superlatives ：

beautiful-more beautiful-most beautiful

most +more +long adjectives

slim-slimmer-slimmest

double the consonant+est

double the consonant+er

short adjectives ending in a vowel + a consonant

early-earlier-earliest

-y+iest-y+iershort adjectives ending in a consonant + y

fine-finer-finest

+st+rshort adjectives ending in e

fast-faster-fastest

+est+ermost shortadjectives

examplessuperlativecomparativeadjective

superlativecomparative

farthestfurthest

fartherfurther

far

least lesslittle

mostmoremany/much

worstworsebad/ill

bestbettergood/well

adjective

Special adjectives:

oldesteldest

olderelder

old

adjective comparative superlative

funny

happy

interesting

large

smart

thin

Complete the table below.

funnier funniest

happier happiest

more interesting most interesting

larger largest

smarter smartest

thinner thinnest

Practice

adjective comparative superlative

red

closer

most polite

more generous

best

famous

worst

redder reddest

polite more polite

generous

good/well better more famous most famous

bad/ill worse

most generous

close closest

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Practice

Lily’s cake is big.

Han Mei’s cake is

______ than Lily’s.

Jim’s cake is the _______ of all.

Li Lei’s box is heavy.

Han Mei’s box is ______than Li Lei’s.

Jim’s box is the _______ of all.

bigger biggest

heavier heaviest

Today, we are going to choose a new monitor. There are 4 students: Huang Fengguang, Tan Jianzhe, Wang Yifei and Cai Zhengting. Who will you vote for? Why?

(smart, musical, handsome, tall, good-looking, polite, helpful …)

Step 6 Groupwork

Step 7 Homework

Finish the exercises on P14. Preview the next part. Write down the short article.