ENGLISH WORKSHOP TECHNICAL ENGLISH

Teacher: Sandra Rocio Alba Rosas Date: 24/06/2020

Group: 1804605 Student: JEISSON ALEJANDRO LUQUE

1. Comparisons and superlative: Superiority, equality and the superlative

Write the correct comparison or superlative according to the information given
1. Sue is Lazier than John (lazy). He is more hard working than Sue.
(hard-working), but Sue is more funny (funny).
2. Tony is most intelligent boy I’ve ever known (intelligent). He gets best marks in the class, too (good).
3. David is a Baddest driver at the driving school (bad). Nobody is as clumsier and more careless him (clumsy/
careless).
4. Today is even hotter than yesterday (hot). In fact, I think it is hottest day I can remember this summer (hot).
5. Alice and Paul are most popular students in my class (popular) and their parties are noisiest any other
parties, too (noisy).
6. Skiing is more difficult skating (difficult), but it isn’t as most dangerous car racing (dangerous).
7. Andy is Fastest runner in my team (fast). Nobody can run faster than as him (fast). I’m afraid, I’m slowest
one (slow).
8. Everybody thinks Tim is more curious than Sherlock Holmes (curious). He always finds out more incredible
things you can imagine (incredible)
9. Ann is taller than her brother (tall), so Jim is shortest Ann (short) and he is Younger
her, too (young).
10. The elephant is a haviest animal (heavy); the lion is fiercest (fierce) and the giraffe has got longest neck
(long).
11. Yesterday was colder today. In fact, it was the coldest day of January (cold), but our afternoon was far
more exciting today’s(exciting).
12. Mum is most patient person I know, but baby Joe can usually be more patient her (patient); so she
sometimes loses her temper.

2. Comparisons and superlative in past and in negative form

Examples:

1. In 1960 food was healthier than today, there were les preservatives for food
2. The twin towers were two of the tallest buildings in the united states
3. Madonna wasn´t the best singer in 1990
4. In 1970 Baggy jeans weren´t as nice as today´s jeans
5. 10 years ago, technology in agriculture wasn´t the most developed

According to the explanations correct the mistakes:

1.I had the heavier bag in the classroom I had the haviest bag In the classroom

2. Tom wasn´t as best student as Juan Tom wasn´t as good student as Juan

3. Helen was thin than her mother Helen was thinner than her mother

4. My parents weren´t the happier couple in her marriage My parents weren´t the happiest couple in her marriage

5. The USA president wasn´t the oldest than South America _______________________________________

6. Apples in my crop weren´t the sweeter of Tunja _______________________________________

7. your watch wasn´t as cheapest as mine _______________________________________

8. My house was the most expensive than your house My house was the most expensive than your house

9. These animals weren´t most dangerous in the zoo These animals weren´t more dangerous in the zoo

10. That tree was the older in the street That tree was the oldest in the street

11. Lina never got up the earliest than Javier _______________________________________

12. This building wasn´t the more modern in this town _______________________________________

13. February wasn´t as colder as December February wasn´t as cold as December

14. my birthday´s month is the beautiful than December _______________________________________

15. The helicopter wasn´t as fastest as the airplane The helicopter wasn´t as fast as the airplane
3. Talking about your Carrere write:
3. comparisons of superiority in past
The food industry was the most important a few years ago

Food technology is older than the other careers of the seine

The food industry is more powerful than the technological industry

3 negative comparisons of equality in past

The food industry don’t have as many book as technological industry

There aren’t as many men as there are women in that town.

That duck isn’t as fat as this goose

4.. LISTENING
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2u4b13

Listening answers

1 THE BEST
2 TASTIER
3 MORE VARIETY
4 THE FRIENDLIEST
5 MUCH BETTER
6 THE CHEAPEST
7 NEARER THAN
8 THE MOST
DISGUSTING
9 THE MOST AMAZING
10 THE BEST
11 THE CRISPIEST
12 THE WORST
13 GOOD