Lesson 19: Holiday planning

Some ideas for your next journey

SUPERLATIVE PLACES IN THE WORLD

Where would you like to go?

Make suggestions

What about +ing ?

Let's +infinitive

Why don't we + infinitive ?

I'll + infinitive

Shall we + infinitive ?

How (do you feel) about + ing ?

Accepting and refusing

Yes, that's a good idea
Yes, I'd like to do that
Yeah, great!
I'm sorry, I'm busy then
I'm afraid, I can't
I'm sorry. I don't think I can

Making excuses

I'm working
I am busy
I have an English course
I can't afford that holiday. It's too expensive.

Other listening activitites around the theme of planning holidays

http://www.elllo.org/english/0951/T966-Aiste-Swiss.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/0001/041-Adrianna-Weekend.htm

http://www.elllo.org/english/Situations/004S-OtherGuy.htm

Lesson 12: The best pet

Describing animals

Revise animals

Revise

Lesson 11: Do it right!

Lesson 8: Which is bigger, Rome or Venice?

Take a quiz about comparatives:

Watch a video:

A grammar lesson

Vocabulary - Similar words: high or tall? big or large?

Most common irregular comparatives and superlatives

adjective - comparative - superlative
good           better (than)    (the) best 

well            better (than)    (the) best 

bad             worse (than)    (the) worst 

ill                worse (than)    (the) worst 

far              further (than)   (the) furthest 

Lesson 7: Comparing Jobs

Speaking about jobs

What's the best job in your opinion? 
In my opinion the best job is....... , because......

How is your job better than others? (more interesting, funnier, longer holidays,...)

In which way is it worse (than others)? (less paid, harder, more difficult, ....)

What's the worst job in your opinion?

Compare your work with someone else's work: who works longer hours? who is better paid? which work is more interesting/boring? 

..

Lesson 5

Look at the first image of this video: can you predict how the video is?

Short, long, interesting, boring, funny, serious, odd, owesome, surprising, clever, pleasant, stupid, confused,
easy, difficult, good, bad, slow, fast, romantic...

Now watch the video and find out how it really is.

Confirm or correct your statements about the film:

It is more interesting than I expected, shorter..., as funny as...

Watch the video again with subtitles

Grammar

• Comparatives

Comparatives by Marina Priest


Read the title of the following texts: which one could be the most interesting?
and the most difficult? and the worst?

In my opinion the most interesting could be the text about... I think that...

Now read the texts and find if your predictions were correct or if you changed your mind after reading

After reading the text i think that the most interesting one is...

Intelligence pills

Robot birds

Star wars

• Superlatives

Superlatives by Marina Priest

Let's end up with an exercise about comparatives and superlatives