Unit 4 | SETEC

Unit 4
Presented by To Moniyuth, Chhinh Vathanak, Dong Siengly,
Ngul Kimleng, Meas Satya

I. Pronunciation
We can give words extra stress when we want to emphasize
them
Most people can hold their breath for a bit longer than a
minute.
Putting extra stress on ‘a bit’ can emphasize that most people are capable of
holding their breath for just over a minute on average.

Sara Campbell can hold her breath for much more than a
minute.
Putting extra stress on ‘much’ emphasizes that Sara Campbell in particular can
hold her breath longer than just a minute. It might not exceed 2 minutes, but it
does have a significant increase over most people which is just a bit over a
minute.
Another example:

We didn’t know you were there.

Putting stress on ‘We’ would imply that the speaker and his group were not
aware of the listener’s presence, and therefore, were oblivious. The listener
might’ve thought that the speaker and his group at the time knew that the
listener was there, but they didn’t.

We didn’t know you were there.

Putting stress on ‘didn’t know’ would emphasize that the speaker and his group
didn’t know the listener was there and were surprised, it is also used to indicate
that the speaker didn’t expect the listener to be there or the listener surprised the
speaker by being there.

We didn’t know you were there.

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Putting stress on ‘you’ would imply that the speaker and his group did see other
people present, but didn’t know that the listener was among them.

We didn’t know you were there.

Putting stress on ‘were’ would imply that the speaker didn’t know that the
listener was there at a specific time, but perhaps knew the listener was present at
other times.

We didn’t know you were there.

Putting stress on ‘there’ would imply that the speaker was surprised or shocked
upon discovering the listener’s presence, which emphasizes the fact that the
speaker didn’t expect it at all to know that the listener was there.

II. Vocabulary
Math the words and phrases from the box with the underlined
phrases in the sentences.

1. How long do you think you could survive in the wilderness?

2. What survival skills do you have?
3. Could you build a shelter in a forest?
4. What is the biggest challenge in your life at the moment?
5. Do you always push yourself in difficult situations?
6. Do you cope with new situations well?

III. Grammar
Superlative
What is a Superlative Adjective?
Adjective
A superlative adjective is an adjective used in comparisons to describe
something as being of the highest degree or extreme. We use
superlative adjectives when making comparisons of three or more

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people or things. We use superlative adjectives to describe the

extreme quality of one thing in a group of things.
Example:
1/ Ogee is the tallest mouse in the group.

Mike Dave Ogee

2/ He is the happiest person in the group

Sub + to be + the + superlative adj (short adj) +

noun/object
Vowel + Fast -> the fastest
consonants
One
Ending in -e Nice -> the nicest
syllable
1 vowel + 1
Big -> the biggest
consonant

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Example: 1/ The tiger runs the fastest of the cat.

2/ The cake is the nicest of cookies.
3/ Russia is the biggest country in the world.

Ending in - Happy -> the happiest

y

Ending in -
Two syllables Simple -> the simplest
le

Ending in -
Clever -> the cleverest
er

Example: 1/ He is the happiest person in the group.

2/ The jeans are the simplest in the store.
3/ You are the cleverest student in the class.

Sub + to be + the + superlative adj (Long adj) +

noun/object

Two syllables Not Ending in -y Useful -> the most

useful

Not Ending in -le Polite -> the most polite

Not Ending in -er Modern -> the most

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modern

Example: 1/ My book is the most useful book.

2/ He is the most polite waiter in the restaurant.
3/The Hong Kong is the most modern city in China.

Interesting Useful -> the most useful

Comfortable -> the most

Comfortable
polite
Three syllables
Beautiful -> the most
Beautiful
beautiful

Popular -> the most

Popular
popular

Example: 1/ The BMW car is the most interesting of all cars.

2/ The hotel is the most comfortable in the village.
3/The Phnom Penh is the most beautiful in
Cambodia.
4/ The Angkor Wat is the most popular temple in
Cambodia

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Good Good -> the best

Bad Bad -> the worst

Exceptions
Far -> farthest/ the
Far
furthest

Example: 1/ Rock music is the best kind of music.

2/ The food is the worst I have ever seen.
3/The Mondal Kiri is the furthest province in
Cambodia.

Find the mistake in each sentence and correct it

1. That is the hardest I’ve ever pushed myself at work.
2. This is the most big the biggest challenge of the day.
3. Could you survive in the hottest place of in the world?
4. Building a shelter was the the more most difficult thing we did.
5. Lara is the most the best in the class at coping with new
situations.
6. Simon is the most experienced person of in our office.
7. My sister is the bravest person at in our family.
8. That course was the bad worst experience of my life.
Complete the notes with the words from the box. There are two
extra words. Does each person feel positive or negative?

best difficult exciting happy in

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more most noisiest of worst

Dear Dave
Just a quick email to say the whole Sales Team really enjoyed the
weekend. It was the most (1) difficult thing we’ve ever done, but it
was also great fun. Thanks a million for the (2) most fantastic
experience which we will never forget (even though you said our
shelter was the (3) worst you’ve ever seen)!
Best wishes,

Nicholas Morris (Sales Manager – Elite Magazine)

Hi David – a big thank you for helping to make it the most (4)
exciting birthday (5) of my whole life! We all had a fantastic time
and enjoyed it a lot more than we expected. In fact, we loved it all,
but cooking over the open fire was the (6) best activity. Sorry for
being the (7) noisiest bunch of girls (8) in the group!

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