2016-05-10 Core: 7 homes and comparatives

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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p. 81 parts 2-3 in groups of three - Do you have experience with the living situations in part 2? Tell your partners about them. Then answer the questions in part 3.
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p. 82 part 1 in pairs - Which of these things are important for you in a home? What other things are necessary for you, when you’re looking for an apartment or house to live in?
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This building houses three people.
house/house
use/use
excuse/excuse
(noun and verb have the same spelling, but the noun is pronounced with /s/ and the verb with /z/)

People need to have food, clothing, and housing.
Society should feed, clothe, and house people who can’t afford it for themselves.
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You should not use a translator to learn new words, because it might not help you understand the difference. (In many languages, “porch”, “balcony”, “terrace”, and “veranda” have just one word, but they are different in English.)
You should use a dictionary instead.
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“terrace” can also mean a row of houses with the same roof
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p. 82 part 2 - Look at the pictures. What are the advantages of the first three types of home?
The more common English name for “ger” is “yurt”.

Are there traditional or ancient types of houses from your country?
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part 3 - Listen and match Marta’s answers to the questions in your book.
a 1
b 5
c 4
d 2
e 3

What is the difference between a shelter and a house?
- A basic shelter just protects you from the elements (= weather and climate), and a house is used for many other life activities as well (it usually has different parts for different purposes).
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p. 83 part 4 - Listen again and complete the sentences.
1 bad weather
2 more basic
3 shelter
4 brick or stone
5 house
6 your house
7 design
8 cities
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Grammar: Comparatives
- To compare two things.
You are taller than me. (short adjective: +er)
You are more experienced than me. (long adjective: more + ___)
I am less experienced than you. (long adjectives can also be with “less” for the opposite meaning)

Houses are getting smaller and smaller and more and more expensive.
- We can use repeated comparatives to show that something continues to change.

The colder the climate, the warmer your house needs to be.
- We can use double comparatives to show that two things change together.
The bigger your house is, the more expensive it is to heat.
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Grammar: Equatives
- We can use “as...as” to show that two things are the same (or “not as...as” to show that they’re different)
I am as tall as you. = We are the same height.
I am not as tall as you. = I am shorter than you.
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Grammar: Superlatives
- To compare something to many other things.
He is the tallest student in the class. (There are more than two students in the class.)
He is the most experienced employee in the company.
He is the least experienced employee in the company.
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We use “much” and “many” or “little” and “few” to compare quantities of nouns:
I have more friends than you. = You have fewer friends than me.
You don’t have as many friends as me.
I have more money than you. = You have less money than me.
You don’t have as much money as me.
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part 7 - Rewrite the sentences with the words in parentheses, with the bold word as the subject
1 Houses are less appropriate for local conditions.
2 A cave house is not as small as you think.
3 An igloo is not as cold inside as you might think.
4 New houses are more and more expensive every year.
5 My tent is the best in camp.
6 This house is the oldest.
7 A house on stilts more easily survives in floods (than a house without stilts)
  A house on stilts survives more easily in floods.
8 You can put up a ger more quickly than a brick house.
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Irregular comparatives and superlatives:
good - better - best
well - better - best
bad - worse - worst
much - more - most
many - more - most
little - less - least (as a quantifier; “little” = “small” is regular: little - littler - littlest)
far - farther/further - farthest/furthest
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With your partner, write sentences that compare Boston and New York City. (Use some comparatives and some as...as sentences.)
New York is not as quiet as Boston.
The buildings in NYC are taller than in Boston.
The sales tax is more expensive in NYC.
Boston is not as crowded as NYC.
Living in Boston is less expensive than living in NYC.
NYC is bigger than Boston.
Bostonians are friendlier than New Yorkers.
	(We can also say “more friendly”.)
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Participial Adjectives (-ed and -ing adjectives)
I feel bored because this teacher is boring.
I am confused because this grammar is confusing.
I am tired because the activity was tiring.
I am excited because the game is exciting.

-ed adjectives are often feelings, and -ing adjectives are for the things that cause those feelings

I eat boiled eggs that I cook in boiling water.

More generally, -ing adjectives describe what does the action and -ed adjectives describe what receives the action. (It’s not always -ed, because it’s the past participle: stolen, eaten, known.)
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Homework: p. 84 part 2 - Complete these sentences about New York with the words from the box.