Unit 13 sea games (e language focus)

Monday, March 9th, 2009

UNIT 13
THE 22nd SEA GAMES
LANGUAGE FOCUS


Warm-up

get upin turn
of
arrive
put on
look at
went
out


Warm-up
1. Remember to ______ your hat when you go out in
the sun.

2. Please _____ the light before you go out.
3. Ring me as soon as you _____ Ho Chi Minh City.
4. Today is Sunday. Tom doesn’t want to _____ early.
5. Do not _____ your friends’ papers during the test.
6. (From the song “Five little ducks)
Five little ducks _____ one day...


Pronunciation: Linking

Understanding vowels and consonants
vowels

a b c d e f g h i j k l mn o p q r s t u v w x y z

consonants
Note: The table shows the letters that are vowels and consonants.
But the important thing in linking is the sound, not the letter.
Often the letter and the sound are the same, but not always.


Pronunciation: Linking

Examples:
care

laugh

ends with the letter

e

h

ends with the sound

/keər/

/la:f/

unit

hour

begins with the letter

u

h

begins with the sound

/’ju:nit/

/auər/


Pronunciation: Linking

Linking consonant to vowel
We link words ending with a consonant sound
to words beginning with a vowel sound

Examples:
1. Look at these pictures.
2. The plane took off despite the fog.


Pronunciation: Linking

 Listen to the sentences
(Student’s book – Page 145,146)

 Practice reading these sentences
(Pairwork – 2 minutes)


“Con gì càng lớn, càng bé?”
1=> càng ngày càng
trẻ

60 year-old 120 year-old

2=> càng già thì càng
ốm

20 years ago

now


Revision of comparative
Short adjective

Comparative

hard

harder

short

shorter
closer
better
worse
farther / further
older / elder

close
good
bad
far
old


Revision of comparative
Long adjective

Comparative

expensive

more expensive

complicated
active
difficult

more complicated

more active
more difficult


Revision of comparative
Two-syllable adjective ending
in -y

Comparative

busy

busier

early

earlier
heavier

heavy


Revision of comparative
Quantifier

Comparative

much

more

many

more

little

less

few

fewer


Grammar: Double comparison
Exercise 1

A
1. Finding a job is becoming
2. Travelling is becoming
3. As I waited for my interview, I
became
4. That hole in your pullover is getting
5. As the conversation went on, he
became
6. The suitcase seemed to get
7. Her English is improving; it’s getting
Structure 1:
Use:

B
a.
b.
c.
d.

more and more nervous
bigger and bigger
more and more difficult
more and more
talkative
e. more and more
expensive
f. better and better
g. heavier and heavier as I
carried it upstairs

Comparative + and + comparative

To say that something is changing continuously


Exercise 2

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

LUCKY NUMBER!
closer and closer(close)
8. I feel happy as my birthday is coming ________________.
2. Eating and travelling in this city is getting _____________________.
(expensive)
more and more expensive

and more active
6. Little John is becoming more
____________________.
(active)
worse and worse (bad)
3. As the day went on, the weather got _______________.
5. Your English is OK now, your pronunciation has got
better and better (good)
______________.

more and more difficultto
7. As it was getting dark, it was becoming ____________________
see everything in the house without electricity. (difficult)
1. His visit to New York seemed to get _________________
shorter and because
shorterhe was very
busy at work. (short)

LUCKY NUMBER!
4. We had to stop the discussion because the question was becoming
_______________________.
(complicated)
more and more
complicated


Grammar: Double comparison
Structure 2: the+comparative, the+comparative
Use: to say that one thing depends on another thing

Examples:
1. The earlier we leave, the sooner we will arrive.
2. The more you have, the more you want.
3. The more expensive the hotel, the better the service.


Exercise 3
the faster you will learn
the more impatient he became
the higher your bill will be

1
2
3
4
5

the more I like him
the better I feel
the taller he is

The warmer the weather,___________________________
The more you practice your English, _________________
The longer he waited, _____________________________
The more electricity you use, _______________________
The more I got to know him, ________________________


Translate into Vietnamese
Why study?
The more I study, the more I know.
The more I know, the more I forget.
The more I forget, the less I know.
So why study?


Choose the underlined part among A, B, C or D
that needs correcting
1. The fastest you drive, the greater danger you get.
A
B

C
D
2. This exercise is much more easier than the others.
A
B
C
D
3. It’s becoming more difficult and more difficult to find a job.
A
B
C
D
4. They treat women more equally as people in the North.
A
B C
D
5. The Amazon and the Nile are the two larger rivers in the world.
A
B
C
D


Free practice
Work in pair, make sentences with these
structures:
 comparative + and + comparative
 the + comparative, the + comparative

Homework






Review the 2 structures of double
comparative.
Do exercises 1,2,3,4 (page 86-87) in
the workbook.
Prepare Unit 14 - Reading