WRITING ACTIVITIES

A. Answer the following questions in your notebook.

 Do you prefer to eat in or out? Why?

 How often do you eat out?
 Do you prefer to go out for breakfast, lunch or dinner? Why?
 Why are the cafés in these photos unusual? Would you like to visit them? Why?

B. Use the following adjectives to fill in the spaces in the next activity.

bright cool comfortable crowded dark expensive strange

fresh healthy nice noisy modern popular small

1. I like quiet places, not ______________ ones like this one.

2. The menu looks OK, but that’s a lot of money for a pasta dish. This restaurant is very ______________.

3. It’s difficult to get a table at the Grand Café. It’s really ________________.

4. The café doesn’t sell chocolate or cakes. It only sells _______________ food.

5. The place is so ______________. It’s difficult to see my food.

6. There’s nowhere to sit and the place is so _______________.

7. Are those vegetables ___________ or did they come from a tin?

8. This seat isn’t very ________________. I need to stand up.

GRAMMAR TOPIC

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES
The comparative adjectives are used to compare two people, ideas, or things.

They are normally followed by the word “than” before the other noun.

FORM: adjective + er/r/ier

Adjective Comparative (ER/R/IER)

One syllable adjective Small Smaller
Fast Faster
Adjective with the order: Big Bigger
consonant + vowel + consonant, double the Fat Fatter
last consonant
note: do not double “x”
Most two or three syllable adjectives not Thoughtful More thoughtful
ending in “y” wonderful Less wonderful
Two syllable adjectives ending in “y” Happy Happier
sleepy Sleepier
Two syllable adjectives ending with: Narrow Narrower
“-er”, “-le”, “-or”, “-ow” Gentle Gentler
Adverbs ending in -ly Carefully More carefully
Slowly Less slowly

Two-syllable adjectives that follow two rules (either form is correct)

Clever More clever
Cleverer
Simple More simple
Simpler
Friendly More friendly
Friendlier

IRREGULAR ADJECTIVES
Good Better
Bad Worse
Far Farther/further
Little Less
Few fewer

To form comparative sentences, use the comparative with the word "than."

Here are some examples:
 Fewer participants volunteered for the study than I had anticipated.  
 Business school was less expensive than law school.

  His application was processed more quickly than he thought.