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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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- p. 171 - the rest of the sentences
- My English skills are improving a little faster than my partner’s.
- My family is much smaller than Daniel’s family.
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- You can use numbers to show how different two things are.
- I am 5 years older than my partner.
- I’m 5 inches taller than my sister. I’m 40 pounds heavier than my cousin. It’s 20 miles farther away.
- I am twice as old as my partner. / My partner is half as old as I am.
- I am three/four/five times as old as my partner. This house is 75% as expensive as that house.
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- p. 172 focus 2 - Comparisons of Noun Quantity
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- I make _____ more money than I did last year.
- (a bit / somewhat / slightly // significantly / far / a lot)
- - With “little”, “few”, “much”, and “many”, it depends on whether the noun is countable:
- I make a little more money than I did. / I make much more money than I did.
- I have a few more friends than I did. / I have many more friends than I did.
- I make as much money as I did last year and I have as many friends as I had last year.
- I have as little money and as few friends as I had last year.
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- p. 175 exercise 8 - Ask your partner about this information. Then make sentences about you and your partner. (Try to think of two sentences for each one, but if you can’t that’s fine.)
- 1 Neither of us has taken the TOEFL.
- 2 I have one more room in my apartment than my partner.
- 3 I know one more language than my partner.
- I know 50% more languages than my partner.
- 4 I want one more child than my partner.
- 5 I have visted 3 more countries than my partner.
- 6 My family has one more person than my partner’s.
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