Bài giảng Tiếng anh Lớp 8 - Unit 2, Lesson 3: A closer look 2 - Năm học 2019-2020

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1. Period 11: A Closer Look 2
2. I. Review: Comparative forms of adjectives Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0.good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) ___higher education, and (2. easy) ___easier access to (3.good) ___better facilities. Life there is (4.exciting) ___more exciting and (5.convenient) ___.more convenient They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6.happy) ___happier here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly) ___more friendly than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) ___fast as that in the city and I feel (9.safe) ___.safer Perhaps the (10.good) ___best place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
3. II. Grammar: Comparative forms of adverbs
4. Complete the sentences with suitable comparative forms of adverbs in the box. 1. Can you speak ___?more slowly My English is not good. 2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep ___.more soundly 3. Nowadays, people dress ___,less traditionally so it’s difficult to say which country they are from. 4. It’s not always true that rich people donate ___more generously than poor people. 5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat ___.more healthily
5. Finish the sentences below with a suitable comparative form of hard, early, late, fast, well and badly. 1. Your exam score is low. I am sure you can do ___.better 2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ___?faster 3. On Sunday, we can get up ___later than usual. 4. The farmers have to work ___harder at harvest time. 5. You look tired. Are you feeling ___worse than you did this morning? 6. My mother has to get up ___earlier than us to milk the cows.
6. Underline the correct comparative forms to complete the sentences. 1. People in rural areas of Britain talk optimistically /more optimistically about the future than city people. 2. In India, rural areas are more popularly/ popular known as the “countryside”. 3. A village is less densely populated/ more densely populated than a city. 4. City people seem to react quickly/ more quickly to changes than country people. 5. Medical help can be less easily/ more easily obtained in a city than in the countryside. 6. A buffalo ploughs better/ more well than a horse.
7. Write the answers to the questions below 1. Which place is more peaceful, the city or the countryside? 2. Which works faster at calculus, a computer or a human being? 3. Which one is harder, life in a remote area or life in a modern town? 4. Which city is more expensive, Ho Chi Minh City or Hue? 5. Who can smell better, animals or human beings?
8. III. Homework: • Learn by heart new grammar points. • Do the exercises: 5, 6, 7/p.11/WB. • Prepare next lesson: Communication