Ex. 2. Translate the words in brackets.

1. What beautiful flowers. They (хорошо пахнут) too. 2.  Jack read his new story to me. It (звучало интересно). I hope the editor will like it. 3.I can't eat it. It (ужасно на вкус) and too much salt. 4. I wasn't very well yesterday but today I (чувствую себя прекрасно). 5.Have you been out in the rain? You (выглядишь промокшим). 6. Ann (казалась расстроенной) yesterday. Do you know what had happened?

Ex. 3 Correct the mistakes if there are some:

1. I waited nervous in the waiting hall before the interview. 2. Why were you so unfriendly when I saw you yesterday? 3. It rained continuous for three days. 4. Alice and Stan are very happy married. 5. Tom’s French is not very good but his German is almost fluent. 6. Eve lived in America for five years, so she speaks very well English. 7. Everybody at the party was very colourful dressed. 8.Ann likes wearing colourful clothes. 9. Sue is terrible upset about losing her job. 10. Give the best wishes to your parents. I hope they are well. 11. The children behaved themselves very good. 12. I tried hardly to remember his name but I couldn’t. 13. The company’s financial situation is not well at present. 14. Jack has started his own business. Everything is going quite good. 15. Don’t walk so fast. Can’t you walk more slowly? 16. See you soon. Don’t work too hard.

Ex. 4 Choose two words one from each box to complete the sentences:

ABSOLUTELY             SERIOUSLY        BADLY COMPLETELY            UNUSUALLY       FULLY EXTREMELY               BADLY REASONABLY              SLIGHTLY

CHEAP            ENORMOUS               PLANNED CHANGED     ILL                                  QUIET DAMAGED     INSURED                      SORRY

1. I thought the restaurant would be expensive but it was REASONABLY CHEAP

2. George’s mother is……………………………………………..in hospital.

3. The fire destroyed our house but luckily we were…………………. ……..

4. What a big house! It’s …………………………………….

5. It wasn’t a serious accident. The car was only ………………………………..

6. A lot of things went wrong during our holiday because it was…………………………….

7. The children are normally very lively but they ‘re…………………………today.

8. When I returned home after 20 years, everything had…………………………..

9. I ‘m ……………………….about losing your book. I will buy you another one.

THE COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

We use the comparative (сравнительная степень)when comparing one person or thing with another.

We use the superlative(превосходная степень) when comparing one person or thing with more than one.

THE WAYS OF FORMATION	ADJECTIVES	С omparative	Superlative
I ( for simple adjectives)	a)One-syllable (hot; large) b)two-syllable words ending in-y(busy), - er(clever), - ow( narrow) , - le(able, noble)   c) 5 two- syllable words: simple; polite, severe, common,sincere	adj+er hotter; larger busier; cleverer; narrower abler; nobler	the adj _est the hottest;largest the busiest; the cleverest; the narrowest the ablest;
II (for derivative and compound )	beautiful narrow-minded	more adj more beautiful more narrow-minded	The most adj the most beautiful the most narrow-minded
III     Irregular forms	Good Bad Old Far Little Much(many)	better worse older (elder) farther( further) less more	the best the worst the oldest(the eldest) the farthest (the furthest) the least the most

4. COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORMS OFTEN CONFUSED:

FARTHER — FURTHER

FARTHER refer to distance:      London is five miles farther.
FURTHER means "in addition": There is no further information.

ELDER— OLDER

ELDER ONLY before a nouns only with reference to people in a family. NEVER used in the COMPARATIVE construction :

 my elder brother/son, the eldest child,

OLDER in the COMPARATIVE construction

: □ He is older than I am.

This book is older.

LESS-LESSER

LESS — the COMPARATIVE form of LITTLE

LESSER is formed from less but is not a true comparative. We cannot say lesser than after it.

Lesser means "not so great" and we use it in fixed phrases like: the lesser of two evils.

LATEST — THE LAST

LATEST (последний = недавний )

□ I bought the latest (i.e. most recent) edition of this magazine. We will get the next one in a month.

□ Я купила последний выпуск этого журнала. Следующий будет через месяц..

□ LAST — последний по очереди;

□ I bought the last (i.e. final) edition of today's paper. None of them are left

□ Я купила последнюю газету из это тиража. Больше не осталось.

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