4 Degrees of comparison Using the language in the boxes below, complete the comparisons between the two couples as in the example. slightly nearly much/far about twice as much as morelless/fewer half considerably exactly five times as many as a great deal over MARTIN FIONA RUPERT RACHEL | Me ~ 2 7 le Height | Lm77em | Im68em | Im 76em | Im 65cm Weight 96kg 48k | T5kg«SOkg. Working day [Shs |SShrs | hrs 3hrs Annual income | £42,000 £32,000 | £8,000 Exercise per week | Ihr ths | 1Shrs Superlatives 1. (AGE) Rachel is considerably yourger than Fiona 2. (AGE) Martin is ...omsonsenone Rupert 3. (WEIGHT) Fiona weighs Martin 4 (WEIGHT) Martin weighs .. Rupert. 5 (HEIGHT) Rupert is Martin, 6 (HEIGHT) Fiona is Rachel. 7 (WORK) Martin works Rachel. 8 (WORK) Fiona works. v» Rupert 9 (INCOME) Rachel earns... Fiona, 10 (INCOME) Martin earn asm Rachel 11 (EXERCISE) Rupert takes... Martin 12 (EXERCISE) Rachel takes... Fiona Read the information about Poland, Norway, and Mexico . Using superlatives, write sentences comparing them. ER Poland CO aa Norway Mexico Ea SRoGCORETC — parMrtovmen 1 (number of McDonalds restaurants/great) Mexico has the greatest number of McDonalds restaurants: v McDonalds restaurants (life expectancy/long) (life expectancy/short) (GDP per capita/high) z (GDP per capita/low) (unemployment rate/good) (unemployment rate/bad) eVonew (number of McDonalds restaurants/small) Norway has the smallest number ofexercise © st Mood et od ute ‘er yeh vvooarone Hoo edt ts oops ato egal Cora Src ra en 237% nance as rat ag: oar ooo Neantve ages exercise @ ‘Comparing countable/uncountable nouns {Look at the information about the three Telecoms companies and complete the exercises below. ‘TELECOMS DEBT A Complete the sentences using the words in the box. The most the fewest —~—satmany as —~more than 1 Of the three major shareholders in mm02, Merrill Lynch has the wort shares, 2 Of the three major shareholders in mmO®, CGNU OWNS cern SAKES 3 In mmO®, Legal and General owns shares nn CGNU 4 Of the three companies, Vodafone has customers 5 mmO? does not have customers Orange. B Complete the sentences using the words in the box. ‘more. than 8 much theleast the most ‘ist than 1 Orange has lost value mmo 2 Orange has lost — value Vodafone. 3 mmO® has not lost, value Vodafone. 4 mmO2 has lost value. '5 The Moody’s outlook suggests that ofthe three companies, Orange i in a trouble Review: comparing countable uncountable nouns ‘Complete the sentences with more, less, much, many’ or fewer. 1 Eurotunnel had to spend... money than it had expected to deal with the "unforeseen problem of illegal srumigrants, 2 Recause of ATMs, banks don’t have as —_____. branches as they used to 3 They made 2,000 staff redundant, so now they employ people than they did last yea 44 Now that 'm in management, I don't spend as time at home as 1 would like, 5 Thanks to the new ring road, there is much ——-. talc inthe town cente