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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- Homework (optional): the rest of the handout
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- Are you a workaholic? Ask your partner the questions on the handout.
- If your answer is no, do you know someone who would answer “yes”?
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- Other -holic words for something like addiction (in order of frequency):
- alcoholic, workaholic, shopaholic, chocoholic, foodaholic, sexaholic, spendaholic
- You can add “aholic” to many other words and people will know what you’re talking about, even if they haven’t seen that word before.
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- Intensifiers and degree complements tell us how much something is true.
- How much does she like her job? She likes her job so much that she never stops talking about it.
- How well does he speak Spanish? He speaks Spanish extremely well.
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- Intensifiers: adverbs that go directly before an adjective or adverb to show how “intense” it is
- Degree complements: use “so”, “such”, “too”, or “enough” to tell a consequence of the degree
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- p. 128 - formal and informal intensifiers for different degrees
- This food is very spicy. I want more! (“very”, “extremely”, “so”, “really” - positive or negative)
- This food is too spicy. I can’t eat it. (“too”, “not enough” - negative)
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- p. 129 exercise 3 - Tell your partner sentences about these things with intensifiers.
- 1 He is a pretty good pool player.
- 2 My partner really likes noodles. / He likes noodles so/too/very much.
- 3 Cooking can be a bit boring.
- 4 I’m not good enough at playing football. I’m terrible at playing American football.
- 5 I drink too much coffee. / I drink coffee too much.
- 6 My students are very good at nothing.
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- Homework: p. 131 exercise 3 - Complete the sentences with “too” or “very”.
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