2. Напишите следующие прилагательные в сравнительной и превосходной степени.

Long, warm, large, thick, thin, difficult, good, bad, small, light, comfortable, rich, many, serious, necessary, beautiful, deep, interesting, pleasant, dangerous, gentle, pretty, strong, tall, informative, handsome, dry, sensitive.

3. Хотите верьте, хотите не верьте (Believe it or not). Прочтите следующую ин-формацию со словарём.

Fair beards grow faster than dark beards.

The most common family name in the world is Chang: there are about 75,000,000 people called Chang in China. The most common first name in the world is Mohammed.

The oldest map was made 5,000 years ago: it shows the River Euphrates.

Rats can live longer without water than camels.

Nearly three times as many people live in Mexico City as in Norway.

Loud-louder-loudest: you can hear alligators calling mile away. You can hear the clock bell “Big Ben” (on the Houses of Parliament, London) ten miles away. When the volcano Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it was heard 3,000 miles away.

Cold-colder-coldest: There was ice on the River Nile in 829 AD and 1010 AD. On average, New York is colder Than Reykjavik (Iceland). The coldest place in the world, in Antarctica, has an average temperature of -57.8° C.

4. Проверьте себя, составляя правильные предложения.

The

highest mountain smallest continent largest ocean largest sea farthest spot from land longest river highest lake largest active volcano

in the world is

Titicaca, in Peru. the South China Sea in the South Pacific. K2, not Everest. the Nile or the Amazon. Australia. Mauna Loa, in Hawaii. the Pacific

5. Составьте предложения по образцу (Degrees of Comparison – степени сравнения)

Model: text A – easy – text B

Text A is easier than Text B.

Car racing – dangerous – boxing

Car racing is more dangerous than boxing.

1. January – cold – March. 2. Bill – attentive – Kate. 3. Garden – beautiful – park. 4. Sofa – comfortable – bed. 5. Writing – difficult – reading. 6. Dress – long – skirt. 7. Sea – deep – lake. 8. Rockefeller – rich – president. 9. Volkswagen – reliable – Volga. 10. Newspapers – informative – book. 11.Women – sensitive – men. 12. Men – strong – women. 13. April – warm – February. 14. Air – light – water. 15. Airplanes – fast – cars. 16. Cars – slow – airplanes. 17. Our chief – experienced – me. 18. The business center building – high – the kindergarten. 19. Secretary – qualified – cleaner. 20. Cabbage – good for health – chips. 21. Coca-cola – bad for health – coffee. 22. Girls – polite – boys. 23. Steve – tall – me.

6. Подберите больше сравнений, попытайтесь найти необычные или шуточные варианты. Образцы:

The sea is older then cities.

Love is more expensive than food

a car, life a teacher, love, work, a cat, food, a pencil, a computer, a boss, a week, a month, a year, a head, a city, the sun, the sea, a mountain, a politician, a child