ACTIVITIES

REVIEW (Past simple) regular and irregular verbs and auxiliaries (negative and interrogative)

SOCRATIVE INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE

WHOLE GROUP EXERCISE (Rewrite text)

SEASONS, ORDINAL NUMBERS, MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND COMPARATIVE

EXPLANATION

COMPARATIVE EXAMPLES

COMPARATIVE INDIVIDUAL EXERCISES

SOCRATIVE INDIVIDUAL EXERCISE

HOMEWORK (PLATFORM 4, COMPARISONS AND LISTENING EXERCISE AND LINKS)

REVIEW
PAST SIMPLE

REGULAR VERBS IREEGULAR VERBS

(ED) (CHANGE – SAME)

Work – worked go – went

Auxiliaries
Negative sentences did not (didn’t)

Interrogative sentences Did

I had to go to Canada last year.

I didn’t have to go to Canada last year.

Did you have to go to Canada last year?

Yes, I did. I had to go to Canada last year.

No, I didn’t. I didn’t have to go to Canada last year.

REWRITE THE FOLLOWING TEXT IN PAST
Hello. I am a student. I have several subjects at school
like you. I have Math, English, Music, History, and
Science. Physical Education and English are very easy
but French isn´t. I don’t like French! My mother is a
French teacher and helps me when I have tests. Even
so I don’t get good marks. It`s really difficult. I have
French on Mondays and Fridays at a quarter past
eight.

Hello. I was a student. I had several subjects at school

like you. I had Math, English, Music, History, and
Science. Physical Education and English were very
easy but French wasn´t. I didn’t like French! My
mother was a French teacher and helped me when I
had tests. Even so I didn’t get good marks. It was
really difficult. I had French on Mondays and Fridays
at a quarter past eight.
 SEASONS

Spring months are March, April and May.

Summer months are June, July and August.

Fall – Autumn months are September, October and November.

Winter months are December, January and February.

First Second Third

ve(f): five – fifth twelve – twelfth

nine – ninth

Compound numbers

26th – twenty-sixth

45th – forty-fifth

• 38th: thirty-eighth

• 87th: eighty-seventh

• 23rd: twenty- third

• 72nd: seventy- second

• 51st: fifty-first

• 49th: forty-ninth

• 65th: sixty-fifth

A. ninety-second

B. fifty-nineth

• 1. 25th F C. seven-third

• 2. 47th D D. forty-seventh

• 3. 92nd A E. fourty-seventh

• 4. 34th I F. twenty-fifth

• 5. 73rd H G. fifty-ninth

• 6. 59th G H. seventy-third

I. thirty-fourth

J. twenty-fiveth
 COMPARATIVES
Than: que

adjectives

Short adjectives (er) Long adjectives (more-less) irregular

Cold: colder Beautiful: more beautiful Good: better
Happy: happier Dangerous: more dangerous Bad: worse
Monosylables Expensive: more expensive Far: further - farther
Hot: hotter Intelligent: more intelligent
Thin: thinner
Fat: fatter
Example:

Neiva is hotter than Ibague.

Neiva is more expensive than Ibague.

Neiva is better than Ibague.

HOMEWORK

1. PLATFORM UNIT 4 – DATE APRIL 14 2020

2. COMPARISONS (Students will write 10 sentences with images using comparatives of all
categories) look at the following example. DATE APRIL 14 2020
3. LISTENING EXERCISE AND LINKS. DATE APRIL 14 2020

4. Students will introduce a family member in terms of his/her daily routine in past.
Then they will say theirs. DATE APRIL 14 2020
UNIVERSIDAD COOPERATIVA DE COLOMBIA
ENGLISH LEARNING CENTER – LEVEL III – LISTENING ACTIVITY
NAME: __________________________________________ DATE: ___/___/___/
Listen the following recording about three different countries.
I. Listen and complete the sentences.

1. The weather in ________________ is often very cold.

2. In ______________ it’s much hotter.
3. _______________ food, this was probably the healthiest food.
4.

II. Match column A with column B.

Mexico has the coldest weather of the three countries.

Japan is the hottest of the three countries.
England has the healthiest and most delicious food of the three countries.

III. Read the text and underline the countries mentioned and the
comparisons you find on it.

Now I live in England, but I’ve lived and worked in several countries. I think my
favourites were probably Japan and Mexico, mainly because of the food and
because of the weather. As you know, the weather in England is often very cold,
very grey and quite wet. In Mexico it’s much hotter, the skies were much bluer and
there was less rain there, so it was lovely. And that was most of the year even in
winter. Japan was lovely, also. It got more humid than Mexico in the summer and
colder than Mexico in the winter, but it was still very, very sunny there – sunnier
than in England.
The food … well, I know some people eat to live, but I don’t; I live to eat. I love my
food, so Japan and Mexico were both wonderful countries for me. I know the food
in Britain is maybe more varied than in other countries, because we’ve got so many
different types of cooking here, with all of our Indian restaurants, Chinese, Thai,
Italian… the list is endless. But Mexican food was definitely the spiciest food I’ve
had, so that even on fruit we often had chilli. Japanese food – this was probably
the healthiest food and the most delicious, and I became a bit of an addict to sushi
by the end of my time there.

Language in the countries … for me Spanish was easier – that’s the language of
Mexico – because I’d studied it at university before, and it’s more similar to English.
Japanese was extremely difficult – the most difficult language I’ve ever come
across. And the more I learned, the more difficult it seemed to get.

So, overall, choosing between Mexico, England and Japan, I think Mexico is my
favourite. It’s the most relaxed country, and the weather is beautiful. It’s the
sunniest and hottest country, and it has beautiful beaches. So if I chose, I’d live
there.

IV. Answer the following questions according to the text.

1. What country has the bluer skies?

2. Which country has the spiciest food?

3. Which language is easier?

4. Which language is the most difficult?

5. What’s her favourite country?

Go to the following links and do the exercises, after that take a screenshot of the results
and add them in a word document to be sent to my e-mail address.
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/comparison/comparatives-1

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/comparison/comparison-multiple-1
https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/comparison/comparison-match

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/comparison/comparison-multiple-2

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/comparison/comparison-write-1

http://suz.digitaleschulebayern.de/english/grammar/comp1.htm

Date: April 15th 2020.