SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA PROCEDIMIENTO DE DESARROLLO CURRICULAR SUPPORT MATERIAL Resultado de aprendizaje: Establecer diferencias y similitudes entre sustantivos de acuerdo al uso de los adjetivos comparativos y superlativos COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE WHAT IS A CONSUMER SOCIETY? 1. READ the article about consumer societies. Notice the words in bold A consumer is a person who buys things, and a consumer society is a society that encourages people to buy and use goods.1 Some people think that a consumer society provides people with better lives. People in consumer societies tend to live more comfortably. They eat a wider variety of food. They go to restaurants more often. They also buy a lot of products, maybe more than they need. Products such as TVs, cell phones, and computers used to be luxuries. 2 Today people can buy these things more easily than ever before. The market for these goods is growing faster all the time. Consumer societies encourage people to buy bigger and better products. For example, “smarter” phones come out every year. In a consumer society, people are often buying newer and more advanced products. This creates a lot of waste. Nowadays, many people are thinking more seriously about the effects of consumer societies on the environment, and they are trying to become more responsible consumers. 1 goods: items that can be bought or sold 2 luxury: something that is expensive but not necessary 2.Read each statement. Circle true or false 1. Everyone agrees that consumer products improve TRUE FALSE their lives. 2. These days, consumer goods are hard to find. TRUE FALSE 3. Many people want luxury products these days. TRUE FALSE 4. Consumer societies help the environment. TRUE FALSE 3. Complete the exercises to learn about the grammar in this lesson. A. Find these sentences in the article from exercise 1. Write the missing words. 1. They eat a__________________ variety of food. 2.____________________, and they are trying to become________________________ consumers. B Look at the words you wrote in exercise A. Then circle the correct word to complete each rule. 1. For long / short adjectives, put more before the adjective to form the comparative. 2. For long / short adjectives, add -er to the end of the adjective to form the comparative. 1 SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA PROCEDIMIENTO DE DESARROLLO CURRICULAR SUPPORT MATERIAL 4.Write the comparative form: Write the opposite. 1.New ________________ 10.Younger __________________ 2.Long ________________ 11.Cleaner __________________ 3.Nice ________________ 12.Darker __________________ 4.Big _________________ 13.More Boring ________________ 5.Good ________________ 14.Hotter __________________ 6.Fat __________________ 15.Happier ____ 7.Modern ______________ 16.Easier __________________ 8.Friendly ______________ 17.Famous ______________ 9.Smaller______________ 18.Cheaper_________________ 5.Write comparative sentences using the verbs in brackets 1. My house is (big) _____________than yours. 2. This flower is (beautiful) _________________than that one. 3. A holiday by the sea is (good) ____________than a holiday in the mountains. 4. The weather this summer is even (bad) __________than last summer. 5. I think mathematics is (difficult) _____________than English. 6.Complete the sentences. Use the comparative. 1. Joe’s car isn’t very fast. He wants a __________ one. 2. My job isn’t very interesting. I want to do something ___________________ 3. The weather isn’t very warm today. Yesterday it was ___________________ 4. People aren’t very polite today. In the past they were ___________________ 5. This sofa isn’t very comfortable. That one is _____________________ 6. This coat is nice, but I think the other one is ______________ 7.Write 6 sentences using comparative adjectives 1.______________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________________________ 2 SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA PROCEDIMIENTO DE DESARROLLO CURRICULAR SUPPORT MATERIAL 8. Use the words to make comparisons with as . . . as 1. Magazine ads are as effective as (effective) newspaper ads. 2. Mark plays the guitar___________________________________ (well) Nancy does. 3. Online reviews are_____________________________________ (useful) asking friends about products. 4. I read online reviews___________________________________ (carefully) he does. 5. The coat was just______________________________________(warm) it looked. 6. Your sofa is just______________________________________ (comfortable) Diane’s. 7. My computer is______________________________________ (fast) the newer models. 8. He shops online______________________________________ (frequently) I do. 9.Use the words to make comparisons with as . . . as. 0.Desktop computers / be / popular / laptops Desktop computers are as popular as laptops (are) 1. Microwave ovens / work / well / regular ovens ___________________________________________________________ 2. Motorcycles / go / fast / cars _____________________________________________________________ 3. This hotel room / be / big / my apartment __________________________________________________________ 4. A smartphone / send messages / quickly / a laptop _________________________________________________________ 5. My mother / speak English / well / my father __________________________________________________________ 6. Gabi / go shopping / often / Linda ________________________________________________________ 7. Trains / be / comfortable / airplanes _________________________________________________________ 10.Complete the sentences with the superlative form of the adjective or adverb in parentheses. 1. The biggest (big) piles of trash on Mount Everest are on the lower areas. 2. Trash is one of________________________________________ (bad) problems on Mount Everest now. 3. Many climbers consider K2, a mountain between Pakistan and China, to be_____________________________________________ (difficult) mountain to climb, not Mount Everest. 4. Ted was______________________________________ (experienced) climber on the expedition. 5. Which climber is________________________________________________ (far) from the top? 6. That was____________________________________________ (easy) mountain I’ve ever climbed. 3 SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE SENA PROCEDIMIENTO DE DESARROLLO CURRICULAR SUPPORT MATERIAL 7. Danny climbs_____________________________________________ (quickly) of all of us. 8. Mount Everest is________________________________________ (high) mountain on Earth. 9. That company has____________________________________________________ (good) guides. 10. Climbing Mount Everest in a snowstorm is one of__________________________ (stupid) thing you can do. It’s extremely dangerous! 11. Choose less or least 1.Dr Seuss is ___________ difficult to read than Dr Zhivago. 2 Africa is ____________ developed than Europe. 3 Which country is the ____________ developed in Europe? 4 Statistics is the ____________ interesting subject that we’re studying this semester. 5 Let’s say these t-shirts are the _________ dirty, so I’ll wear these today. 6 Yasmin thinks coffee is __________ tasty when you add sugar. 7 Your house is _______ far, so I’ll take you home first. 8 Answer B is _________ true, I think, so I’ll choose answer A. 9 A lamp in the corner will make the room __________ dark. 10 Of the three horses in the meadow, the brown one is the ___________ shy. 12.Write 6 sentences using superlative adjectives 1.______________________________________________________________ 2.______________________________________________________________ 3.______________________________________________________________ 4.______________________________________________________________ 5.______________________________________________________________ 6.______________________________________________________________ 4
