Unit 04. Music and Arts. Lesson 3. A closer look 2

10/30/17


KIM’S GAME:
WHAT MUSICAL INSTRUMENT ARE THERE?


Answer key

1. guitar
2. drum
3. Dan Bau (Monochord)
4. violin
5. cello
6. saxophone
7. piano


NEW LESSON

Unit 4:

musIC and art


GRAMMAR

a. Comparisons
We are the same height

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise is as tall as Cameron Diaz.

Cameron diaz


EQUALITIES: (So sánh bằng)
* FORMATION:
(+)

AS

ADJECTIVE /
+

(-)

NOT SO

+ AS
ADVERB

Ex:

Tom Cruise is AS tall AS Cameron Diaz (is).
Be

Adj

Nam drives AS carefully AS I do (me).

Ordinary verb

Adv

My mother is NOT SO fat AS my sister (is).


EQUALITIES: (So sánh bằng)
AS

ADJECTIVE /
+

NOT SO

+ AS
ADVERB

Ex:

My mother is NOT SO fat AS my sister (is).

Note: In spoken English we can also say:
My mother is NOT AS fat AS my sister is.


Examples:
Classical music is not as exciting as rock and roll.
The price of food is the same as it was last year.

City life is quite different from life in the country.


1. John is 1 meter 80cms tall. Dave is 1 meter 80cms tall. (John/be/tall)
……………………………………………………………..
John has
is astemperatures
tall as Dave (is).
2. Seville
of 40ºC. Cordova has temperatures of 40ºC. (Seville/be/hot)
……………………………………………………………..
3. John is not very clever. Mary is cleverer. (John/be/clever)
Seville is as hot as Cordova (is).
……………………………………………………………..
4. The blue car is not expensive. The red car is more expensive. (The blue
car/be/expensive)
John is not so (as) clever as Marry. (is)
……………………………………………………………..
5. Mrs Jones talks very quietly. Mrs Smith talks more loudly. (Mrs Jones/talk/loudly)
……………………………………………………………..
The blue car is not so (as) expensive as the red one.

Mrs Jones does not talk so/as loudly as Mrs Smith (does).


1. Put as, or in the gaps.
1. The music festival this year is as good ______ it was last year.
2. The concert
as will be broadcast 'live': that means it comes on TV at the same
time ______ it is performed.

3. This camera is not as expensive ______ I thought at first.
4. Your taste
as in art is quite different ______ mine.
5. Some people say that Spider-Man 2 is as boring _______ Spider-Man
as 1.
6. My mother is always as busy ______ a bee.

from

as
as


2.

Put one
of these
in the passage.
friendly
as phrases in each gapdifferent
from
(2)
as quiet as
the same as

My

hometown

has

as narrow as

changed
a
lot
MY HOMETOWN
TODAY

–

it’s

definitely

not

(1)____________ it was before. It’s not (2) ___________ it was 5 years ago. It’s much more
noisy, but I prefer it now. There are more shops and restaurants. The restaurants are (3)
_____________ the ones we had before. Now we can eat many different kinds of food – Italian,
French, and even Mexican!
There
are

have
not

been
(4)

so

many

____________

they

changes.

Even

were

the

before.

They

streets
are

wider now to make space for the extra traffic.
One
are

thing
as

hasn’t
warm

changed
and

(5)

one thing that’s (6) ______________ it was before.

though.

The

_____________

people
before.

here
That’s


3. Work in pairs. Compare the two music clubs in the town: Young Talent and Nightingale.

Young Talent

Nightingale

1. old

**

***

2. friendly

***

**

3. safe

**

***

4. large

***

*

5. expensive

***

***

*

***

6. Famous

Example:
Young Talent is not as old as Nightingale.
/ Nightingale is older than Young Talent.


3. Complete the sentences with used to or use to and the verbs in the box
below.

be

ride

play

go

feel

used to ride
1. I ___________
a tricycle when I was a child.
used fewer
to be people and
2. There __________
vehicles on the roads.

used work
to goby motorbike.
3. My father __________to
Now he cycles.
use hide-and-seek
to play
Didyou ___________
4. ____
when you were small?
5. Five years ago people in this town____ not __________ worried about traffic
jams.
use to feel

did


b. too and either

Examples:
A: I like pop music.
B: I like it too.

A: My mum doesn’t like rock and roll.
B: My mum doesn’t like it either.


5. Complete the following sentences with ‘too’
or ‘either’.
1. My friend likes photography, and I like it _____.

too

2. My mother doesn’t enjoy horror films, and my sister doesn’t ______.
3. I was not allowed to go to the
show, and my classmates were not ______.
either
4. I love country music, and I like rock and roll
______.

either

5. When I finish painting my room, I’ll do the kitchen ______.

too

too


5. What music and arts are you interested, or not interested in? Make a list by completing the
rock and roll
dancing
pop music
sentences below. (You can use the words given or your own ideas).
going to the
playing the guitar
painting
art gallery

drawing

1. I’m very interested in _____________.
2. I think ______________ is very boring.
3. What I like to do most in my spare time is
_______________.
4. In my spare time, I often ________________.
5. I never _____________________, even if I have time.

acting


6. Work in pairs. Share your list with your partner. Then, report to the class using
too/either.

Examples:

Nam is interested in drawing and I am too.

Phong doesn’t like folk music and I don’t either.


Report model

Hi, everybody! I am Nguyen Van Teo. I have had an interesting talk with Nam and
now I’ll tell you some information about our talk.

Nam is interested in drawing and I am too. He doesn’t like folk music and I don’t
either. He likes reading novels and comic books, but I don’t. He enjoys watching
films on TV and I do too. He hates playing computer games and I don’t like them
either.

Consolidation: Complete the sentences.
1. "I'm tired!"

“____________”

I am too

2. "I don't go to the cinema very often." "_____________"
I don’t
either “It rains today______"
3. "It rained on
Saturday."
4. "I'll be late for the tennis party." "___________"
5. "I don't like beans." "I don't like beans ______"
6. Pop music is _____________ rock and roll.
7. Nam’s height is ___________ he was last year.
as exciting as
8. City life is quite ___________ life in the country.
the same as
different from

too
I will too
either


Please tell me what you have learnt today.

Yes, through the lesson we can now use equality in

comparison, use ‘too’ to to express agreement with a positive
statement and ‘either’ with a negative statement.


HOMEWORK

- Review the grammatical structure: Equality; too / either.
+

- Do exercises B1-B6 (page 29-31/ workbook).
- Prepare for Unit 4: Communication


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