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Book 4A
Chapter 3
Key Structures
How much is …? It’s … dollars.
Comparative and superlative
adjectives (long adjectives)
We can use ‘How much …?’ to ask about prices.
How much is …?
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A: How much is a bunch of bananas?
B: It’s fifteen dollars.
A: How much is a tin of sardines?
B: It’s twenty-two dollars.
$15
$22
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How much is …?
Special
Offers
$8.90
$11.50
$19.20
It’s eleven dollars fifty.
It’s nineteen dollars twenty.
It’s eight dollars ninety.
How much is a carton of blackcurrant juice?
We can also say ‘It’s eight dollars ninety cents.’
How much is a packet of raisins?
How much is a jar of honey?
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Let’s compare the prices of these items.
Making comparisons
Merry Sardines is cheap.
Sky Sardines is cheaper.
Happy Sardines is the cheapest.
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Happy Sardines
Sky Sardines
Merry Sardines
We can add ‘er’ and ‘est’ to some short adjectives to form their comparatives and superlatives.
What about long adjectives?
Do we add ‘er’ and ‘est’?
No!
$9.20
$8.60
$13.60
$12.50
$15.10
$13.80
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We use ‘more … than’ for long adjectives with three or more syllables to form their comparatives.
Comparatives (long adjectives)
Happy Chocolate is delicious.
Star Chocolate is more delicious than Happy Chocolate.
Merry Chocolate is more delicious than Star Chocolate.
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Happy Chocolate
Star Chocolate
Merry Chocolate
We don’t change the word ‘delicious’.
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We use ‘the most …’ for long adjectives with three or more syllables to form their superlatives.
Superlatives (long adjectives)
Happy Chocolate is delicious.
Star Chocolate is more delicious than Happy Chocolate.
Merry Chocolate is the most delicious.
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Happy Chocolate
Star Chocolate
Merry Chocolate
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Review
Most adjectives that have two syllables
(especially those ending in -ful / -less / -ing /
-ed / -ous):
All adjectives that have three syllables
Some two-syllable adjectives take the -er / -est or - ier / -iest form:
clever cleverer cleverest
healthy heathier healthiest
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Key Structures
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1. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
Sunny Supermarket
Receipt
Seaweed
Bread
Peanut butter
$5.80
$13.20
$19.30
A: How much is a packet of seaweed?
B: It’s ________________ .
A: ________ is a loaf of bread?
B: _______________________
five dollars eighty.
How much
It’s thirteen dollars twenty.
Or: five dollars eighty cents
Or: It’s thirteen dollars twenty cents.
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2. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
Sunny Supermarket
Receipt
Grapes
Sardines
Honey
$22.20
$16.50
$32.90
A: ___________________ grapes?
B: It’s _____________________ .
A: _________________________
B: _________________________
twenty-two dollars twenty
How much is a jar of honey?
It’s thirty-two dollars ninety.
Or: twenty-two dollars twenty cents
Or: It’s thirty-two dollars ninety cents.
a
b
How much is a bunch of
a
b
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more expensive than
the most expensive
3. Choose the correct answers.
Practice
The tin of nuts is the packet of seaweed.
The packet of raisins is .
$13.50
$29.10
$18.40
more expensive than
the most expensive
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more delicious than
4. Choose the correct answers.
Practice
Merry Seaweed is Top Seaweed.
Friends Seaweed is .
TOP Seaweed
FRIENDS Seaweed
the most delicious
more delicious than
the most delicious
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5. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
Best Buy Supermarket
Receipt
Sunny Juice
Earth Juice
$18.50
$12.10
A: How much is Earth Juice?
B: __________________
A: Sunny Juice is _________________ . Sunny Juice is
________________ (expensive) Earth Juice.
It’s twelve dollars ten.
more expensive than
Or: It’s twelve dollars ten cents.
eighteen dollars fifty
Or: eighteen dollars fifty cents
(price)
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6. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
Jumpy Bread is ________________ (popular) Freshness Bread. Daily Bread is ______________ (popular) bread.
Which brand of bread do you like?
Jumpy
Daily
Freshness
more popular than
the most popular
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7. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
A: Let’s buy Friends Nuts. It’s _______________ Royal
Nuts.
B: No, let’s get Crunchy Nuts. It’s _______________ .
more delicious than
the most delicious
Which brand of nuts do you think is delicious?
Friends
Crunchy
Royal
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8. Fill in the blanks.
Practice
M: What are you bringing to the school picnic?
S: I’m bringing __________ bananas and _______ nuts.
M: Your food is so heavy! I’m bringing some strawberries.
They’re _______________ (popular) bananas.
S: I don’t like strawberries. I like bananas. They are ________
________ (delicious) fruit on the earth!
M: You shouldn’t bring so many bananas. They’re ___________ (heavy) strawberries. In fact, they’re ___________ (heavy) snack anyone will pack in their bag for the school picnic!
Mary (M) and Sam (S) are packing for tomorrow’s school picnic …
a bunch of
a jar of
the most
delicious
heavier than
more popular than
the heaviest
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The End
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