FUN WITH ENGLISH 8A UNIT 1 MY FRIENDS

1. FUN WITH ENGLISH 8AUNIT 1 MY FRIENDS GRAMMAR A&B BY LV HUABING FROM NANJING NO. 13 SECONDARY SCHOOL

2. Tell me something nice about your hometown. • Mountains • Rivers • People • Food(s) • Places • Say proudly(自豪地)! We have _________

3. Tell me something nice about your classmates.

4. Can you choose the right verb to form the structure ‘linking verb+ adj.’ taste, turn, grow, keep, become, get, sound, look, smell • Spring is here. Trees ______ green. • You will understand this, when you ________ older. • Rivers _________ dirty in some places because of the pollution(污染). • They are happy girls. They always ________ happy. • It’s easy for me to ________ tired. • Eat less and exercise more to ________ healthy. • The flowers _________ beautiful. • The stories ________ interesting. • The cakes ________ nice and ________ good. • They __________ (似乎) excited. turn grow become feel get keep look sound smell taste seem

5. Let me learn more about you!

6. shorter shortest rounder roundest smarter smartest closer closest lazier laziest earlier earliest hotter hottest fatter fattest more helpful most helpful more generous most generous Change the adjectives into comparatives and superlatives: • short • round • smart • close • lazy • early • hot • fat • helpful • generous

7. worse worst better best more most older/elder oldest/eldest farther farthest further furthest less least Change the adjectives into comparatives and superlatives: • bad/ ill / badly • good / well • many / much • old • far • little

8. Let’s check! • Simon is taller than Kitty.(tall) • Peter is the tallest student of the six students. • Sandy is heavier than Millie.(heavy) • Peter is the heaviest student of the six students. • Millie is the slowest swimmer of the six students. (slow) • Amy is the fastest swimmer of the six students (fast) • Millie’s drawing is more beautiful than Simon’s. (beautiful) • Sandy ‘s drawing is the most beautiful in the drawing competition. • Millie’s English is better than amy’s. Millie’s English is the best.(good)

9. A CLASS PROFILE the tallest heavier the • Peter is _______(tall) student of the six students. • Sandy is_______(heavy) than Millie.Peter is __ _________(heavy) student of the three. • I think fishing is________________(interesting) than camping. • Which is ______(large),China or America? • Whose handwriting is________(good),Tom,Lucy, Lily or I? • My handwriting is_______(good). Tom’s is____ than Lily’s, but Lucy is________ in our class. heaviest more interesting larger the best good better the best

10. Additional exercises: shorter than • 1. Simon is ______________ (short ) Peter . • 2. Amy and Betty are _____________ ( light ) students of all . • 3. Peter’s English is ______ ( bad ) in his class . • 4. Betty is ___________________( generous ) May . • 5. Sandy is ____________________(helpful) Simon . • 6. Amy is ____________(funny) of the girls . the lightest worst more generous than more helpful than the funniest

11. Homework: • Give a summary to how to change an adjective into comparative and superlative. • Go on talking about the table on P10 and try to make more sentences. • Carry out a survey and collect some information to write a class profile of your own.