Cha Ching Chapter 7 (Comparatives Grade 8) A: Video watch Shopping wisely

1) If you want to save money what should you do? a. Buy drinks from a shop or drink water at home? b. Buy only things you need or buy everything you want? c. Eat in a restaurant or cook at home. d. Buy something in an expensive shop or buy in a shop with a sale? 2) Check with your partner 3) Now watch the video clip (18.00 -19.00) and see what cha ching do to save money. 4) Check with your partner

B: Grammar - Comparatives
1) In pairs, ask your partner the following questions about the pictures:

Which speaker is bigger? Which speaker is cheaper?

Which drink is more expensive? Which drink is healthier?

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Which food is tastier? Which food is cheaper?

Which keyboard is more beautiful? Which keyboard is more colourful?

2) The words in bold are called comparative adjectives or comparatives. In pairs, answer the following questions about comparatives: a) b) c) d) e) f) How do you make comparatives using short adjectives e.g. cheap? What about big? Why is it different? What about adjectives ending in y? What about long adjectives? What about good? Complete the sentence: a. A is bigger ________ B b. X is more expensive ____________ Y

3) Put the base and comparative forms of the adjectives above into the table. The first one has been done for you:

Short adjectives

Adjectives ending in one vowel, one consonant

Adjectives ending in y

Long adjectives

cheap-cheaper

4) Now add the adjectives below to the table above:

Good hot short popular small safe friendly

Fashionable Modern Crowded fast far bad

sunny strong interesting boring happy cold

C: Pronunciation
1) Look at the following sentences and predict the stress: a. Honda is more expensive than Yamaha. b. Hanoi is bigger than HCMC. c. Dalat is colder than HCMC. d. My brother is taller than me. e. Reading makes me happier than playing games. f. Justin Bieber is cuter than Miley Cirus.

C: Speaking Which is/are better?

1) In pairs, choose topics from below and talk about which is better. e.g. A: Which are better, cats or dogs?

B: I think cats are better because theyre more beautiful and lovely. A: I dont think so. I think dogs are cuter. Cats are dirtier!

Honda / Yamaha HCMC / Hanoi My Mum / My Dad HCMC / Nha Trang Apple / Samsung The City / the countryside Reading / Playing games Playing sports / Playing computer games Vietnamese food / Western food

Cats / Dogs Dalat / HCMC My brother / my sister going by bicycle / going by motorbike Kpop /Vpop

Justin Bieber / Miley Cirus

D: Writing practice:

Write some sentences about the topics above. e.g. V pop is worse than K pop.

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