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HoChiMinh City University of Transport
Navigation Department

Unit 6:
Describing A Process
Group 3
Class No.HH07D
Exercise 5a: From sail to steam
Paragraph 3 and 8:
What should we remember ?
1. Word often confused:
Succeed and Success
- Succeed /sзk`si:d/ :(v) attain success, reach a goal, do what one is trying to do or well.
Eg. 1.If you want to succeed in your life, you should broaden your relationships.
2. He succeeded in inventing the new power.

- Success /sзk`ses/ :(n) achievement of one’s aim, fame, wealth.
Eg. 1.Your success always depends on you.



2. Word definition:
The paddle steamer
is a ship or boat driven by a steam engine that use one or more paddle wheels to thrust for propulsion.



Paddle wheel
Two type of paddle steamer:
Side wheeler
Stern wheeler
3.Language focus:
……of steamship in providing faster and more regular services…..(p3)
……steamers has to be bigger and better than ever before…(p8)
Do you remember?
Comparative: comparative are used when comparing one person or thing with another.
Form:
Eg. 1.
2. This book is more expensive than that one.
How to add –er to short adj and adv
( 1 syllable) ?
Be careful.
But : irregular adj
good better, far  further
bad worse, little  less
But : adj or adv ending in –y, -er , -ow .
easy  easier , heavy  heavier , early  earlier
clever  cleverer, narrow  narrower

Eg. She is cleverer than he.
( “she is more clever than he” is also right)
Comparative can be emphasis by add
far, much, a (little) bit, a little, a lot before comparing phrase.
Eg. That car is far better than yours.
Eg. Your watch is far more expensive than mine.
Nouns can also be used in comparative.
Eg. I have more books than she.
February has fewer days than March.
Their job allows them less freedom than ours does.
Thank you for your listening.
Have a nice day.
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