Unit 02. Life in the Countryside. Lesson 3. A Closer Look 2

Period 11: A Closer Look 2
UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Sometimes I hear adults around me say that it is (0.good) better for children to grow up in the city than in the countryside. They say that the city offers a child more opportunities for (1. high) _______ education, and (2. easy) _______ access to (3.good) _______ facilities. Life there is (4.exciting) ______________ and (5.convenient) _________________.
They may be right, but there’s one thing they might not know. I feel (6.happy) _________ here than in a crowded and noisy city. Country folk are (7.friendly) ______________ than city folk. I know every boy in my village. Life here is not as (8. fast) _____ as that in the city and I feel (9.safe) ______. Perhaps the (10.good) _______ place to grow up is the place where you feel at home.
I. Review: Comparative forms of adjectives
safer
higher
easier
more exciting
more convenient
happier
more friendly
fast
best
better
II. Grammar: Comparative forms of adverbs
Complete the sentences with suitable comparative forms of adverbs in the box.
1. Can you speak _______________? My English is not good.
2. After a hard working day, we usually sleep _______________.
3. Nowadays, people dress __________________, so it’s difficult to say which country they are from.
4. It’s not always true that rich people donate __________________ than poor people.
5. If you want to stay slim, you have to eat _______________.
more generously
more soundly
more healthily
less traditionally
more slowly
Finish the sentences below with a suitable comparative form of hard, early, late, fast, well and badly.
1. Your exam score is low. I am sure you can do __________.
2. We’ll be late for the fair. Can you drive ______?
3. On Sunday, we can get up _______ than usual.
4. The farmers have to work ________ at harvest time.
5. You look tired. Are you feeling ________ than you did this morning?
6. My mother has to get up __________ than us to milk the cows.
worse
earlier
later
faster
better
harder
Underline the correct comparative forms to complete the sentences.
People in rural areas of Britain talk optimistically /more optimistically about the future than city people.
In India, rural areas are more popularly/ popular known as the “countryside”.
A village is less densely populated/ more densely populated than a city.
City people seem to react quickly/ more quickly to changes than country people.
Medical help can be less easily/ more easily obtained in a city than in the countryside.
A buffalo ploughs better/ more well than a horse.
Write the answers to the questions below
1. Which place is more peaceful, the city or the countryside?
2. Which works faster at calculus, a computer or a human being?
3. Which one is harder, life in a remote area or life in a modern town?

4. Which city is more expensive, Ho Chi Minh City or Hue?
5. Who can smell better, animals or human beings?
 The countryside.
 A computer.
 Life in a remote area.
 Ho Chi Minh City.
 Animals.
III. Homework:
Learn by heart new grammar points.
Do the exercises: 5, 6, 7/p.11/WB.
Prepare next lesson: Communication
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