A Geography Lesson- Faster, Faster!

Week 23^rd- 25^th March

Happy Easter! I hope you are enjoying your holidays!

What did we do the week before Easter in class?

We worked on comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

Remember:		ADJECTIVE	COMPARATIVE	SUPERLATIVE
1-Syllable		hot long	hotter longer	the hottest  the longest
2 -syllable ended in “y”		dirty	dirtier	the dirtiest
	REST OF ADJECTIVES
1-syllable not ended in “y”		violent	more violent	the most violent
More than  2- syllable adj.		expensive	more expensive	the most expensive
		IRREGULAR
		good	better	the best
		bad	worse	the worst

And the same rule applies to adverbs.

		ADVERB	COMPARATIVE	SUPERLATIVE
1-Syllable		fast near	faster nearer	the fastest  the nearest
	REST OF ADJECTIVES
More than  2- syllable		slowly	more slowly	the most slowly
		IRREGULAR
		much / many	more	the most
		little/few	less	the least
		far	further/farther	the furthest /the farthest

You can also intensify your comparisons:

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• The T-shirt with the star is a bit cheaper than the yellow T-shirt.
• The yellow T-shirt is a bit more expensive than the  T-shirt with the star.
•  The grey Bugs Bunny  T-shirt is much more expensive than the yellow one.
• The orange T-shirt with the star is much more cheaper than the grey Bugs Bunny T-shirt.                                                                                                                                

We also had a ‘Geography’ competition.
Our two teams had to guess the right answer

·         Which country’s population is bigger, Brazil or Bangladesh?

·         Which mountain is lower, Annapurna or Makalu?

·         Which city is more crowded, Mexico City or Brazil?

·         Which is smaller, North America or South America?

·         Which river is longer, the Yangtze or the Nile?

Can you remember the words which match these definitions?

·           It’s a body of water narrower than a river.

·           It’s higher than a hill and has a pointed end.

·           It’s bigger than the sea.

·           It’s like a mountain but the temperature is much hotter because it’s got fire inside.

·           It’s a shallow place between two or more mountains.

·           It’s a place hotter than a valley or a mountain and with no vegetation.

And we finished the week reading a text and commenting on it “We are living faster, but are we living better?”

We don’t have enough time to read articles, only the headlines! Bedtimes stories are shorter for the parents who want to save time! We can’t waste time listening to people speaking at normal speed! Baseball is not so popular as before because it’s a slow game and matches take a long time! We spend more time sitting in our cars, feeling stressed because we are worried that we won’t arrive on time.

 And that was our week!

See you after Easter! Tuesday 7^th April! Have fun!