Unit 2《School life》（3）
Grammar：比较级和最高级
+er stronger smaller taller colder warmer
+r nicer finer
辅音+y ier prettier heavier angrier easier
双写+er bigger slimmer thinner fatter redder hotter
more+多音节形容词 more beautiful more important
 more poisonous more careful
 more useful more helpful
 more slowly more quickly more quietly
不规则 bad/ill worse worst
 good/well better best
 far farther/further farthest/furthest
 much/many more most
形容词的比较级
heavy/strong/lovely/much
heavier/stronger/more lovely/more
The elephant is stronger than the cat.
Which is stronger, the elephant or the cat?
happy/angry/big/delicious
happier/angrier/bigger/more delicious
 white dog black dog grey dog
The white dog is more beautiful than the other two dogs.
The white dog is the most beautiful of the three.
Which is the most beautiful, the white dog, the black dog or the grey dog?
 fat big small lovely
The pig is the fattest of the five.
The chicken is the smallest of the five.
填空
1. Pingping is ________ than Tom. And he is ________ in our class. (tall)
2. Millie's Chinese is ________ than Sandy's. Her Chinese is ________ in their class. (good)
3. Which is ________, the sun or the earth? (big)
4. Today is much ________ than yesterday. (hot)
5. I think English is much ________ than Chinese. It is ________ one of all the subjects. (important)
6. Tom jumps ________ than Jack. He jumps ________ of all the boys. (high)
7. This coat is too expensive. Do you have a ________ one? (cheap)
8. He is a little ________ today than he was yesterday. (bad)
9. I think this book is ________ of all the books. (interesting)
10. The old man looks ________. He must be sent to hospital at once. (bad)
11. I am very ________ these days because I passed the exams. (happy)
12. Our teachers are friendly and ________. (help)
13. We must try our ________ to learn all the subjects well. (good)
14. I think climbing is ________ than diving. (excite)
Integrated Skills
Complete the article
Woodland School is smaller the Rocky Mountain High School. There are (1)______(more, fewer, less) teachers and (2)______(more, fewer, less) students at Woodland School than at Rocky Mountain High School. Sunshine Middle School has(3)______(more, fewer, the most) teachers and students of the there.
Chinese students have (4)______(more, fewer, less) weeks off for the summer holiday than British students. British students spend (5)______(more, fewer, less) time doing their homework than Chinese students.
Among the three schools, students in the American school spend (6)______(the least, few, less) time on homework, and they have (7)______(long, longer, the longest) summer holiday.
Chinese students spend (8)______(the most, the fewest, the least) time on homework. They work (9)______(hard, harder, the hardest).
summertime = the season of summer
have 8 weeks off = to be away from work or school for 8 weeks
Homework
1. Talk to your friend about your school and school lives.
2. Write an article about your school.
Study skills
A suffix is a letter or a group of letters that we add to the end of a word to form a new word.
We can add -ly to some adjectives to form adverbs.
We can also add -ly to some nouns to form adjectives.
-ly是一个后缀，如果加在名词的后面，这个词就变成了形容词；如果加在形容词的后面，这个词就变成了副词。
adjectives → adverbs
形容词变副词通常是加ly，其变化有规律可循，请记住以下口诀：
一般直接加，“元e”去e加，“辅y”改i加，“le”结尾e改y。
 quick-quickly, sad-sadly
 true-truly
 happy-happily, noisy-noisily
 possible-possibly, simple-simply
nouns → adjectives
For example:
love lovely
father fatherly
love lovely
order orderly
man manly
year yearly
coward cowardly
beast beastly
ghost ghostly
sight sightly
Add -ly to each of the words in the box on the left. Then put them in different groups. You may use a dictionary.
 careful day
 easy love
 month quick
 slow usual
 week year
Millie is writing in her diary. Complete her entry with the correct forms of the words in brackets.
Today we had an English test. We have a (1)______(month) test on each subject. I looked through the questions (2)______(quick). I could (3)______(easy) answer all of them.
To me, learning foreign languages is (4)______(real) fun. I read English newspapers and magazines every day. I read very (5)______(slow) at first, but I am doing better now. I also keep writing in English about my (6)______(day) life. I learn to use English better this way. (7)______(usual) I watch English videos at weekends. I always have a (8)______(love) time!
Main task
Read Daniel's article about his ideal school.
 My ideal school
My ideal school starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 3 p.m. We do not need to get up early, and we have lots of time for after-school activities. We only have an hour of homework every day.
We have an hour for lunch. There is a big, clean dining hall. We have lunch and chat there. We listen to music at lunchtime. We wear school uniforms, but we do not wear ties.
Our classes are quite small. There are about 20 students in each class. We can choose subjects to study. I have Maths because I think Maths is very interesting. I love computers, so I have computer lessons every day.
There is a big library, a football field and a swimming pool. We have lots of clubs and after-school activities. Every month, we go on a school trip. We always have fun.
Complete the passage
 John's ideal school
 My ideal school is very beautiful. There is a big library _____________(有许多有用的书) in it. Our classrooms are very small.
 Our school day is very short, so we _____________(为课外活动有了大量的时间). I do not like Maths so there are no Maths lessons. I love computers _____________(因此我们有电脑课) every day.
 There are lots of clubs and after-school activities. We have no homework every day. We only have _____________(半小时的家庭作业) at weekends.