6   Things are changing
Change; Present progressive tense; comparatives and superlatives; get + comparative;
 

1. What is happening to food prices in Fantasia? Look at the graph and make sentences.

The price of   bananas
  potatoes
  bread
  fish
  sugar
  chicken
  is going up
  (is rising)

  is going down
  (is falling)
 
  fast
  slowly.

2. What is happening to prices in your country?

3. Listen to the figures and complete the table.

4. Pronunciation of the letter i. Say these words after the recording or after you teacher.

  1. fish   chicken   million   big
  2. price  time rising   night   right
  3. thirty   first   shirt

Now decide how to pronounce these words. Are they in group 1, 2 or 3? Check with your teacher or the recording. Can you write rules for the pronunciation of i?

a. girl
b. size
c. arriving
d. tights
e. white
f. thirsty
g. light
h. with
i. fin
j. bird
k. stir
l. bright
m. slight
n. excite
o. tide
p. fifty

5. Do you remember how to make comparative and superlative adjectives? Look at the examples:

old >>>> older >>>> oldest
cheap >>> cheaper >>>> cheapest
fat >>>> fatter >>>> fattest
fine >>>> finer >>>> finest
happy >>>> happier >>>> happiest
interesting >>>> more interesting >>>> most interesting
good >>>> better >>>> best
bad >>>> worse >>>> worst

Now write the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives:

boring     clear     cold     dangerous     dark       expensive     fair      heavy     hungry     large     late     lazy     nice     quiet     rich     sleepy     slim

6. How are things changing in Fantasia? Look at the table and make sentences.

The population   The army     Holydays   The post      The housing problem      People      The climate      The working week      The unemployment problem      The population of San Fantastico      Families   is getting
  are getting
bigger/smaller faster/slower
longer/shorter taller/shorter
warmer/colder better/worse

7. How are things changing in your country?

 

Learn/revise: banana; potato (plural potatoes); sugar; chicken; post; problem; unemployment; height; price; country; population; number; temperature; holyday; size; army; percentage; up; down; go up; go down; fall (fell, fallen); rise (rose, risen); change; get (=become) (got, got); average; cheap; clear; dangerous; hungry; large; lazy; rich; sleepy; better; worse; unemployed; fast (adverb); slowly; without;

 

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                                         Lesson 5

Summary A                           

 
 

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