Period 11: A Closer Look 2

II. Grammar: Comparative forms of adverbs

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
more exciting and (5.convenient)
(4.exciting) ______________
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
safer Perhaps the (10.good) _______
best
and I feel (9.safe) ______.
place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.

2. Complete the sentences with suitable comparative
forms of adverbs in the box.
Traditionally - soundly- generously - slowly - healthily

more slowly
1. Can you speak _______________?
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
more healthily
eat _______________.

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
__________.
better
2. We'll be late for the fair. Can you drive faster
______?
later than usual.
3. On Sunday, we can get up _______
4. The farmers have to work ________
harder at harvest
time.
5. You look tired. Are you feeling ________
worse than
you did this morning?
earlier than us
6. My mother has to get up __________
to milk the cows.

4. 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.

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?

III. Homework:
• Learn by heart new grammar points.
• Do the exercises: 5, 6, 7/p.11/WB.
• Prepare next lesson: Communication