Period 11: A Closer Look 2
UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
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) _______ education, and (2. easy) _______ access to (3.good) _______ facilities. Life there is (4.exciting) ______________ and (5.convenient) _________________.
They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6.happy) _________ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly) ______________ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) _____ as that in the city and I feel (9.safe) ______. Perhaps the (10.good) _______ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
I. Review: Comparative forms of adjectives
safer
higher
easier
more exciting
more convenient
happier
more friendly
fast
best
better
II. Grammar: Comparative forms of adverbs
2. Complete the sentences with suitable comparative forms of adverbs in the box.
1. Can you speak _______________? My English is not good.
2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep _______________.
3. Nowadays, people dress __________________, so it’s difficult to say which country they are from.
4. It’s not always true that rich people donate __________________ than poor people.
5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat _______________.
more generously
more soundly
more healthily
less traditionally
more slowly
Traditionally - soundly- generously - slowly - healthily
3. 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 __________.
2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ______?
3. On Sunday, we can get up _______ than usual.
4. The farmers have to work ________ at harvest time.
5. You look tired. Are you feeling ________ than you did this morning?
6. My mother has to get up __________ than us to milk the cows.
worse
earlier
later
faster
better
harder
4. Underline the correct comparative forms to complete the sentences.
People in rural areas of Britain talk optimistically /more optimistically about the future than city people.
In India, rural areas are more popularly/ popular known as the “countryside”.
A village is less densely populated/ more densely populated than a city.
City people seem to react quickly/ more quickly to changes than country people.
Medical help can be less easily/ more easily obtained in a city than in the countryside.
A buffalo ploughs better/ more well than a horse.
5. 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?
 The countryside.
 A computer.
 Life in a remote area.
 Ho Chi Minh City.
 Animals.
III. Homework:
Learn by heart new grammar points.
Do the exercises: 5, 6, 7/p.11/WB.
Prepare next lesson: Communication
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