UNIT 4: Our world: Group 3: Đinh Hoàng Giang Đặng Văn Việt Phan Đức Minh Luân Cao Tấn Thuyết Nguyễn Văn Long
UNIT 4: Our world: Group 3: Đinh Hoàng Giang Đặng Văn Việt Phan Đức Minh Luân Cao Tấn Thuyết Nguyễn Văn Long
UNIT 4: Our world: Group 3: Đinh Hoàng Giang Đặng Văn Việt Phan Đức Minh Luân Cao Tấn Thuyết Nguyễn Văn Long
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Vocabulary Travel, journey and trip
1. PET candidate often make mistake with travel, journey and trip.
Look at this extract from the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary
- The noun travel is a general word which means the activities of travelling
Ex: Air travel has become much cheaper
- Use journey to talk about when you travel from one place to another
Ex: He fell asleep during the train journey
Did you have a good journey?
- A trip is a journey in which you visit a place for a short time and come back
again
Ex: A business trip
A 3-day trip to Spain
2. Circle the correct option tin italics in sentences 1-5 written by
PET candidates
7. Lively
Grammar Comparative and superlative adjective; (not) as…as…
1. Work in pairs. Look at these sentences about the island of Borneo
and say if they are true or false
T
F
F F T
2. Work in small groups, PET candidates often make mistakes
with the form and spelling of comparative and superlative
adjectives. Complete this table correctly
4. Correct one mistakes made by PET candidates with the form or
spelling of the comparative or superlative adjective in sentences 1-6
5. Work in pairs, talk about facts 1-12 below and complete using comparative
or superlative adjective made from one of the words in brackets.
7. How different are these places and animals? Use a bit, a little, much, far or a
lot and the word in brackets as a comparative adjective to write one complete
sentences for 1-5
1. George is 2 metres tall. Fred is 1,98 metres tall. (tall)
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2. Mount Everest, in thr Himalayas, is around 8850 metres high. K2, also in the Himalayas, is around
8611 metres high. (high)
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3. Africa, Chile, gets 0,76mm of rain per year. Death Valley in Arizona, USA, gets less than 50mm per
year. (dry)
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4. 84 million people travel through Atlanta International Airport, USA each year. 67 million people travel
through London’s Heathrow Airport. (busy)
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5. The sperm whale’s brain weights about 78kg. A human adult’s brain weights about 1,3kg.
(heavy)
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8. Read these sentences about Borneo and arang-utans and
say if you think they are true or false
1. Borneo is not quite as big as its neighbour New Guinea
2. Orang-utans can move more quickly in the trees, but on the ground,
human are as fast as orang-utans
3. A female orang-utan can grow to be as large as a male orang-utan
10. For each sentence about animals 1-5, use (not) as… as to complete the
second sentence so that it means the same as the first. Use no more than three
words
1. Orang-utans are more intelligent than dogs. => Dogs are not as intelligent as orang-
utans
2. African elephants have larger ears than Asian elephants. => Asian elephants’ ears
are not as …………………. than African elephants’ ears
3. Goats belong to the same family as sheeps but their hair is straighter. => Sheeps
belong to the same family as goats but their hair is not …………………. goats’ hair
4. The mosquito is the most dangerous creature in the world. => There is no other
creature in the world …………………. the mosquito
5. I’d expected dogs to be more intelligent. => Dogs aren’t ………………………
I’d expected
Thanks!