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- Greg Malivuk
- gmalivuk@staffordhouse.com
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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- Homework (optional): part B of the handout (write questions with “how many” or “how much”)
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- Quantifiers (last week) - how much or how little of a noun you’re talking about (“I have a little money.”)
- (some, many, a few, several, a little, etc.)
- Intensifiers (this week) - adverbs for how strong or weak an adjective or adverb is (“I feel a little cold.”)
- (very, somewhat, a little)
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- Extreme Sports Worksheet (https://www.teach-this.com/downloads/2950-extreme-sports-worksheet/file)
- part A - Underline all the intensifiers you can find in the text.
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- Note: If you intensify something, you make it stronger, and if you mitigate it, you make it weaker. For this reason, “weak intensifiers” are sometimes called mitigators.
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- Intensifiers and Mitigators worksheet (https://www.teach-this.com/downloads/2952-intensifiers-and-mitigators-worksheet/file)
- part A - With your partner, put the words in order, from weakest to strongest
- (“completely” is also a bit different from the others)
- extremely
- (“too” works differently from the others)
- so
- really/very
- quite/rather
- pretty
- kind of/a little
- slightly
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- “too” is different because it means there’s some problem with the intensity; it prevents something
- If I have $100, then something that costs $101 is slightly too expensive. I can’t buy it.
- Something can be cheap, but too expensive for me.
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- “completely” is different (along with “totally”) because it doesn’t work with some kinds of adjectives
- These words mean something like 100%, but you can’t have a price that is “100% expensive”
- You can be “100% focused” on something, so “totally focused” or “completely focused” are fine.
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- “I learned too much.” = This causes some problems for me. I want to forget some things.
- “I met too many people.” = It’s a problem. For example, I can’t remember everyone’s name.
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- Homework: “too and very” handout from EnglishForEveryone.org
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