Sunday 24th November

Good morning class!

How was your weekend? = What was your weekend like?

Today’s lesson 1: describing something e.g. a city using the verb ‘to be like’

Melbourne: cosmopolitan, beautiful, big, hot

Dubai: hot, dry, modern, interesting

Paris: beautiful, wonderful, modern

What was __Hafer Albaten_____ like?

It was desert and dry.

What’s it like now?

There is a lake.

I have a new car.

What’s your new like? What’s it like?

It’s fast, black, a Mercedes, a saloon, a sports car etc.

I have a new boss.

What’s he like?

He’s strict, kind, understanding, patient, impatient etc.

I have a older brother

What’s he like?

He’s ugly, mean, simple, stupid, smart, kind, nice, shy, patient, ambitious, crazy,

ContractionsWhat’s the………like?What’ re the……..like?

Woman: gorgeous (very beautiful), glamorous,

Food: delicious, tasty, mouth-watering

Comparatives and superlatives

1)Small smaller the smallest

Cold colder the coldest

Near nearer the nearest

2)Big bigger the biggest

Hot hotter the hottest

Wet wetter the wettest

3)Busy busier the busiest

Noisy noisier the noisiest

Lovely lovelier the loveliest

Dry drier the driest

4)Beautiful more beautiful the most beautiful

Far further the furthest

Good better the best

Bad worse the worst

Monday 25th November

Lesson 1: 07:40 – 08:25

Lesson objectives:Consolidating the use of adjectives (Synonyms).Pronunciation practice (stress and intonation)

Reorder the following words

bought an car I expensive

Verb subject article noun adjective

What is an adjective?

An adjective describes _________ or _________

Examples

Saad has a ____________ car.

Saad’s car is ____________.

I bought a fast car.an expensive

I saw sunset.

I had meal.

I watched film.

What do we call adjectives that are similar in meaning?

Synonyms

What do we call adjectives that are opposite in meaning?

Antonyms

What examples can you find in the list above?

(Please turn now to page 52 in your student’s book)

STOP & CHECKAdjectives describe s_______ or s________.We use synonyms when we don’t want to __________ words.

1) A rich person = a _______ person.

2) If you are bored in a lesson, you are __________.

3)Your room is _________ if you don’t put things away.

4) He is so _______. He always pays the bill at the restaurant.

5) The new James Bond film is ________. I really enjoyed it. There was a lot of action.

6) I visited the Metropolitan Museum of ________ Art in New York during my last holiday there.

Summary: what we have studied today in class We have consolidated the use of

adjectives; in particular synonyms. We have practised pronunciation focusing

on intonation and stress.

Tuesday 26th November

Good morning class.

How are you today?

What’s the weather like?

What was the match like last night?

Have you had breakfast? What did you have?

To insulate your house, a wire

My house is insulated

Winter = 21st December to 21st March

Primitive - basic – comfortable - luxurious

To warm up a room

Never – rarely/seldom -sometimes - usually– often – very often- always

(bored – boring / excited – exciting / interested – interesting)

London is such an expensive city.

Yes, it’s not very cheap.

Paul and Sue are so mean.

Yes, they are not very generous.

Their house is always so messy.

Yes, it’s not very tidy.

Their children are always so noisy.

Yes, they are not very quiet.

John looks so miserable.

Yes, he’s not very happy.

His sister’s so stupid.

Yes, she’s not very clever, smart.

Mr. Michael Roland

Mr. + family name (=polite)

Good morning Mr Roland

Have a safe journey home.

Take care.

Have a safe trip (=holiday)

Depressed / depressing

Polluted

Financial

Fortunate

Medical

Optimist Pessimist

Optimistic Pessimistic

To lead/have a healthy lifestyle

Wound (noun)

To wound (verb)

Wounded (adjective) = injured but especially in war

Wind /wind/

Wind /waind/ to wind

Wednesday 26th November

Good morning class.

Tomorrow’s quiz covers the following points:o To be like

Weather/ like?What’s the weather like?(Do not confuse with:To likelike/ chess? = Do you like playing chess)

o Comparatives and superlativeso “....as.....as.....” comparisono Adjectives: synonyms & antonyms (page 52

Student’s book)(e.g. rich, wealthy (synonyms); poor, wealthy (antonyms)

o Vocabulary from reading text (Student’s book pages 50-51)

o Adjective formation (Workbook page 36).o Prepositions of movement

_________________________________________________________________________________

New vocabulary

To ___join____ a course / to enrol on a course

To leave a course/ to withdraw from a course

To inherit something from your parents.

To leave / receive an inheritance.

To make a will before you die.

Lake --- pond

River --- stream

City ---- town ---- village

Forest ----- wood ----

Oasis

Valley (between mountains, hills) = vale

_____________________________________________

Workbook page 35

Ex. 5

(Polite -------impolite / rude)

The shortest

Better (than yours)

Warmer / hotter

The most expensive

More generous

Earlier

The hardest / the most difficult

1) as

2) as

3) than

4) as

5) than

6) as

Ex. 7

3)Bill’s not as intelligent as Jill.

4) The moon isn’t as hot as the sun.

5) Are you as old as your husband? (Are you the same age as your husband?)

6) I can’t read as quickly as you (can).

7) Bill didn’t win as much money as Harry. (Bill won less money than Harry.)

(Neither Bill nor Harry won money.)

8) Is Luxembourg as big as Switzerland?

9) My work isn’t as good as Eva’s (work).

10) John isn’t as friendly as Mike.

Ex. 4 page 34

Abigail Jill Graham Robert Me

20 14 20 12 16

Thursday 27th November.

Good morning class.

Pronunciation

Bottle

Environment

Development

Vegetable

Comfortable

What is your friend like?

She is beautiful, tall, kind and intelligent. (Appearance, character etc)

What does your friend like?

She likes travelling, doing sport, studying etc.

2) What’s Amsterdam like?

3) Did you like the food?

4) What’s it like?

5)What’s the countryside like?

6) What was your hotel like?

The worst

He’s not as old as her

He’s not older than her

Noisier

Milan is as hot as Athens.

Mansour is as tall as Hasan

Hani is the shortest in the group.

Hasan is the youngest and the tallest in the group.

Chicago is not as cold as Stockholm.

Stockholm is colder than Chicago.

Friendly friendlier

Happy happier

Crazy crazier

Sunny sunnier

Make a will

Inherit

Your children inherit something

Invest

Arrest

Amputate a limb /lim/, a leg

Live

Open

Spoil a child

Strict father liberal

Wear ragged clothes

Ragged clothes = like rags

Ex. 7

2) Yes , it’s not very smart/clever/intelligent.

3) Yes , it isn’t very clean.

4) Yes , they aren’t (they’re not) very generous.

5) Yes , it wasn’t very nice / good.

6) Yes , she’s not very polite

Adjectives

1)Mean (stingy) generous

2)Mean kind

Verb - To mean “What does this word mean?”

Noun – Meaning “ What’s the meaning of this word?”

Joining sentences

There’s the boy who (that) broke the window.

I bought the coat which (that) was in the shop window.

The hotel was very comfortable. We stayed in it.

The hotel where we stayed was very comfortable.

/kumftabal/

Relative pronouns - for joining sentences

That’s the place where the king lives.

There are the policemen who caught the thief.

He gave her a watch which (that) stopped after two days.

The kebab house is the restaurant where we met for lunch.

Here are the letters which (that) arrived this morning.

That’s the house where I was born.