Facoltà di Scienze Economiche, Giuridiche e Politiche CdL Economia e Gestione Aziendale UNIT 8 a.a. 2015/2016

Outline Future forms: Will/be going to (pags.80 & 142); Adjectives: Comparatives & Superlatives (pags & 142); Personality Adjectives Word formation: Adverbs (pags. 84 & 144); Would…like / do…like?

Will + infinitive – instant decisions, offers, promises, predictions To be going to – plans, predictions Future Forms: Introduction

ContractedNegativeInterrogativeInterrogative negative I’ll cookI won’t cook (I will not cook) Will I cook?Won’t I cook? You/he/she/it /we/they’ll cook You/he/she/it /we/they won’t cook Will you/he/she/it /we/they cook? Won’t you/he/she/it /we/they cook?

Instant decisions: I’ll give you a ride to the party Offers: I’ll help you with that homework Promises: I’ll do it tomorrow Predictions: I think sales will increase

Be going to In English, there are many ways of expressing future time. One of the most common is the "be going to" construction.

Be going to How to form "be going to" sentences. To make a verb form with “be going to”, you first put the verb “be” into the correct form to agree with the subject, then add “going to”+ the simple form of the verb. Examples: I am going to study Is she going to study? They aren’t going to study.

ContractedNegativeInterrogativeInterrogative negative I’m going to travel I’m not going to travel Am I going to travel? Aren’t I going to travel? he/she/it’s going to travel he/she/it isn’t going to travel Is he/she/it going to travel? Isn’t he/she/it going to travel? You//we/they ’re going to travel You//we/they aren’t going to travel Are you//we/the y going to travel? Aren’t you//we/they going to travel?

Be going to 1.We use 'going to' when we talk about plans for the future. Example: I'm going to see my friends later today. 2.We use 'going to' when we want to make a prediction based on evidence we can see now: Look at those black clouds. It's going to rain soon.

Future plans – I’m going to go to the US next month, I’m going to talk to him tomorrow Predictions – I think it’s going to rain (because it’s cloudy and it’s very possible/probable that it’s going to rain)

Be going to Signal Words: in one year, next week, tomorrow.. Examples: She's going to the exhibition tomorrow. I am going to study harder next year. I'm going to retire next month.

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Comparative & superlative forms Adjectives in the base formComparativesSuperlatives (THE +) 1 SYLLABLE ADJECTIVES TALL SMALL NICE Double Consonant (CVC) THIN FAT + -ER TALLER SMALLER NICER THINNER FATTER + -EST THE TALLEST THE SMALLEST THE NICEST THE THINNEST THE FATTEST 2 SYLLABLES ADJS WITH Y HEAVY TASTY TINY + -IER HEAVIER TASTIER TINIER CRAZIER + -IEST THE HAVIEST THE TASTIEST THE TINIEST THE CRAZIEST 2/3/4 or MORE SYLLABLES COMFORTABLE DANGEROUS + MORE MORE COMFORTABLE MORE DANGEROUS + MOST THE MOST COMFORTABLE THE MOST DANGEROUS

Irregular comparatives and superlatives GOOD – BETTER – THE BEST BAD – WORSE – THE WORST FAR – FURTHER – THE FURTHEST MUCH/MANY – MORE – THE MOST Remember: we ALWAYS have to use than after the comparative to introduce the person or thing we compare to. E.g., John is taller than Jim. London is more expensive than Cagliari. Superlatives are used to compare one person or thing to a group

Lower degree comparatives & superlatives: they are introduced by less and the least E.g., she is less tall than her brother, that is the least bright colour Same degree comparatives: as … as, so … as E.g., Tom is as intelligent as his sister

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Superlatives

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Careful Serious Quiet Generous Stylish Aggressive Friendly Rude Careless Funny Nervous Kind Polite Ruthless Unfriendly Fashionable

Personality Adjectives

A. Would you like to go to a pizzeria? B. I love eating pizza!!! I’d like to drink a cup of coffee v I like drinking (a cup of) coffee : what is the difference? I’d like to expresses something I’d like to do in the future or now while I like to expresses a general statement In the interrogative form, would like to expresses offer – e.g., Would you like to go shopping?

ContractedNegativeInterrogativeInterrogative negative I’d like toI wouldn’t like to Would I like to? Wouldn’t I like to? You/he/she/it /we/they’d like to You/he/she/it /we/they wouldn’t like to Would you/he/she/it /we/they like to? Wouldn’t you/he/she/it /we/they like to?

We use adverbs to express manner (how): quickly, slowly While adjectives qualify nouns, adverbs qualify verbs: e.g., I speak English very well We form adverbs by adding –ly to the adjective: e.g., sad-ly, bad-ly Some adjectives go through a morphological change: e.g., happy – happily Irregular adverbs: fast-fast, good-well, hard- hard

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Travel blogs (pag. 85)

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COMPLETE: ADJECTIVESADVERBS aggressive stylish nicely dangerous polite carefully quiet healthy wealthily well badly

Adjective & Adverb ADJECTIVESADVERBS aggressiveaggressively stylishstylishly nicenicely dangerousdangerously politepolitely carefulcarefully quietquietly healthyhealthily wealthywealthily goodwell badbadly

Adjective or Adverb? Activity 1. Fill in the correct form – Adjective or Adverb 1.Jack is a very_________ learner. (quick) 2.Don’t talk so___________ ! (loud) 3. Temperatures are going to be very______ today. (high) 4. I am cold, tired and_______. (hungry) 5. He closed the door _________. (angry)

Activity 1. ANSWERS 1.Jack is a very quick learner. 2.Don’t talk so loudly! 3.Temperatures are going to be very high today. 4.I am cold, tired and hungry. 5.He closed the door angrily.

Task 2. Choose the correct forms among the given ones: 1) He played a. Beautiful b. beautifully c. the most beautiful 2) The TV is too… a. Loud b. louder c. loudly 3) English people speak… a. Fast b. fastly c. the faster.

Task 2. 4) He reads………in class. a.Good b. welly c. well 5.She will go on holiday… a. Short b. shorter c. shortly. 6. Our students don’t think English is an…..language a. Easily b. easy c. the easiest.

Task 2 ANSWERS 1 b 2 a 3 a 4 c 5 c 6.b

Adverbs

Adjective or Adverb?

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