10B – WHAT’S THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE

IN THE WORLD?

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LISTENING
a. Ask and answer the questions.

1 Which languages can you speak?

2 Which languages would you like to learn?

3 Look at the languages in the box. Where do

people speak these languages?

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

LISTENING
b. Listen to Professor Ryan Hunter talking about languages on the
radio. Tick (✓) the languages in 1a that he talks about.

✓ ✓
✓ ✓
✓ ✓

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LISTENING
c. Match sentences 1–4 with the languages
Professor Hunter talks about. Listen and check
your answers.
Italian

Japanese

Spanish
Mandarin
Chinese

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

LISTENING
d. Listen again and answer the questions.
Italian
more than 20
in parts of Spain and France
14%

e. Choose one thing Professor Hunter said

which you think is …

interesting surprising

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives

Comparisons
Các loại so sánh

So sánh bằng So sánh hơn So sánh nhất

We use the superlative form of

adjectives to talk about extremes.
• The tallest building in Vietnam is Landmark 81.
• The easiest language is Spanish.
We usually use the before
superlatives.

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives

Rules

1 2 3

good and bad are irregular:

good  the best
bad  the worst

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives

a. (p.157) Write the superlative form of the adjectives.

1 clean _____________
the cleanest 8 good _____________
the best
2 fit _____________
the fittest 9 big _____________
the biggest
3 funny _____________
the funniest 10 nice _____________
the nicest
4 dry _____________
the driest 11 safe _____________
the safest
5 pretty _____________
the prettiest 12 exciting _____________
the most exciting
6 bad _____________
the worst 13 tiring _____________
the most tiring
7 friendly _____________
the friendliest 14 hot _____________
The hottest

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives

a. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. Listen and
check your answers.

best

musical
hardest
easiest
biggest

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

GRAMMAR Superlative adjectives

b. Read the sentences below and put the languages in order (1 =

very easy, 4 = very difficult).

1 Spanish 2 French 3 Japanese 4 Basque

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READING
a. Ask and answer the questions.

1 Do you read any blogs online? What are they about?

2 Do you use any language websites?

3 What do you think this blog is about?

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

READING
a. Ask and answer the questions.

1 Do you read any blogs online? What are they about?

2 Do you use any language websites?

3 What do you think this blog is about?

b. Read the blog post and check your answer to question

3 in 3a.

 3 It has interesting facts about languages and learning languages.

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

READING
c. Complete the blog post with the superlative forms of the
adjectives in the box.

1 the best
2 the fastest
3 the most popular
4 most expensive
5 the biggest
6 the heaviest
7 the shortest
8 the longest
9 the most difficult
10 the most difficult

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

READING
d. Read the blog post again. Who or what are these people
talking about?
 Harold Williams
 Quechua
 Khmer
 the Oxford English Dictionary
 Fran Capo

 English

1 Which fact do you think is the most interesting? Why?

2 Do you know any other language facts?

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VOCABULARY High numbers
a. Find these numbers in 1c and the blog post. What do they refer to?

Now say the numbers:

45 800 2 000 670 15 680 430

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

SPEAKING
a. Complete the questions with the superlative forms of the adjectives.
What or who is … ?

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

SPEAKING
a. Complete the questions with the superlative forms of the adjectives.
What or who is … ?
The nicest
The most beautiful
The best
The longest
The hardest
The most difficult
The most interesting

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin

SPEAKING
a. Ask and answer the questions in 5a with other students.

‘Well done is better than well said.’- Benjamin Franklin