FAMILY AND FRIENDS 5 UNIT 3

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Comparative and superlative adjectives
Too and enough

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can't believe it. these decorations are prettier
than the others!

:{t,ii,u$tt This band's as toud as the last band!
{:r*l]::i lt's louder!
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Those decorations qre

i-l#g1g

The music's very loud.

the most
beautiful in the carnivall

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S' Co*porotive

odjectives

We use comporotive odjectives with thon to
compore one person or thing with onother.

Short odjectives hove one or two sgLlob[es.
Loud hos one sgLtobte. Prettg hos two
sgLLobLes.

loud

-r louder pretty + prettier

We don't chonge the ending of odjectives
with three or more sgtLob[es. We put more
before the odjective insteod.
This book is

more interesting than that book.

The opposite of more is [ess. We use less in
the some wou os more.

That book is less interesting than this book.

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q Su perLotive odjectives
T We use superlotive odjectives to compore o person
or thing with o group of other peopte or things.
loud - the loudest prettg - the prettiest
We don't chonge the ending of odjectives with three
or more sg[[obLes. We put most beJore the odjective.

the most beautiful
The opposite of the most is the Leost. We use the
leost in the some wog os the most.

the least beoutiful

As... os... ond not os ... os...
If two people or things ore equol we

use

os... os ... . When theg ore not equoL, we soU
not os ... os ... .
This band's as

loud as the last band!(Both bonds ore

equo[[g toud.)
London is not as big as Cairo. (Coiro is bigger.)

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Unit

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Superlotive

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the thlnnest

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Look of the toble ond reod the sentences. True orfotse? Write T or

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The sporklers ore cheoper thon the streomers.
The boLloons ore more beoutifuL thon the foirg

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The streomers ore the Leost beoutifuL.

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The boltoons ore the most expensive.

The

foirg

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Lights ore os cheop os the botloons.

The sporklers oren't os sofe os the

boL[oons.

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Thefoirg Lights ore the most beoutifut.
The streomers ore the Leost
The

foirg

expensive.

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l-ights ore os sofe os the streomers.

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The boL[oons ore os sofe os the streomers. ,..-..

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Complete the sentences. Use comporotive or superlotive odjectives.

1

The sporklers ore

- -chg-Q-F,gr lh.en*!he-JorU

-LightS-

(cheop)

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4e Rewrite the sentences with the opposite meoning. Use the odjectives in the box.

pW short hoppg boring colm big interesting expensive

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Mr Iohnson is the goungest teocher in the school.
-Mr- J-ohnsonjs- the--.o-ldes t

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oeher in

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Our clossroom is the smotlest in the school.

3

Mrs Rogers is the soddest of mg teochers.

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Yosmin is the to[[est person in the closs.

5

EngLish is the most boring lesson.

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Mg ort teocher

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VoL[egbo[L is the most exciting sport ot school.

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A sports cor is cheoper thon o normoL cor.

the most stressed person I know

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G Write sentences. Use comporotive

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Theo

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old

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bog

or supertotive odjectives.

in the closs.

Ihe sls-Lhe- *oldesl

b-o-g

un-

the eloss.

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Birds

3

MU sister

4

Geogrophg Lessons

/l,ong/

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Mg school

the town.

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Februorg

/ short/

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Februorg

/ shortl month of the yeor.

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Mg dod /drives /

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beoutifuL

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toLL

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big

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cLr-o_o-L -

/ elephonts.
SnL

/in

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in her closs.

French Lessons.

September.

fostl

mg mum.


Complete the sentences. Use os ... os ... or not cs ... os ...

cteon tong curtg

Jetf new to[t

short

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Thefootbo[Ler

is

ctS

tgl[qs

the runner.

The runner's hoir is

the bosketbo

The bosketboLL ploger's troiners

ore..

pto ger's.

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The runner isn't

the runner's.

the bosketbo[L ploger.

The footboLler's hoir is

the runner's.

The runner's hoir isn't

the bosketbo

The JootboLLer's shorts oren't

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plo ger's.

the bosketbo

Ll.

plo ger's.

Comp[ete the sentences. Use os ... os ... or not os ... os ... .

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FootboL[ is verg popuLor. Rugbg is not verg popu[or.
Rugbg -tsnlt- as p-o-p,uJor qs

Jaa-!b-qt[

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FootboLLs

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Ptoging chess is soJe. Riding o horse is not.
Ploging

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.

(populor)

costfour pounds. BosketboLLs oLso costfour pounds.

chess

Footboll is o verg old gome.

. (dongerous)
VoLLegboLL is

o new gome.

Men run Jost. Horses run foster.
You con run fost. I con otso run fost.

Unit

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Mother's Doy in Englond started more thon 4oo yeors
ago. Young men ond women went home once o yeor
to visit their families and show their love for their
mothers. Now people celebrate Mother's Doy ail over
the worid, including in Greece, Iron, Chino, Japon ond
the USA. Sons ond doughters usuoliy send o card or
some flowers ond a present to their mothers.

think thot flowers ore too expensive or
who hoven't got enough money to buy o present con
People who

make something insteod. The ingredients to moke o
cake, for example, ore cheop enough for children to
buy. Cakes oren't too difficult to make and they're
good enough to give to any mother.

We con use enough beJore nouns or

ofter

too before odjectives.It shows thot
something is more thon enough.
We con use

odjectives.It shows thot something is os rnuch ss
we need.
There's enough cakefor eyergone.

That h,at is too big for goul

It sm€tls good enough to eat!
Comp[ete the sentences. Write too or enough.

1 He's too "_""."." old to be in the teom.
2 These shoes oren't big . .- _
-_ for me.
3 Are gou strong
" to Lift thot bog?
4 UnJortunotelg, mong rivers ore -......-..,...
pol[uted to swim in.

5 Those clothes ore .-. -, ..---.
bigJor me to weor.
6 Is there
JoodJor evergone?
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Write the words in the correct order to moke sentences ond questions.

1

/too

the portg / is / loud
Tfte po"11g is_ Ioo [osd.

3 the Lights / bright / are /enough /

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the decorotions / too /heovg / are /7

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isn't /there

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enough

/light

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enough

4

the food

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are

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is

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/ isn't /the room / big
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is

/ expensive / too

bolloons

/Loud

/the

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enough /there

music

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/too /?

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The music

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/loud.

The mus[e's ,too
The mon's stiLts

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The womon's stiLts

/ short.

Lou:d

Long.

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The clown's costume

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The microphone /toLL.

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The stoge

/big.

The doncer's costume

smoLL.

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The gir['s dress

/

big.

/long.
Unit

3

2'