Adverbs and comparative adverbs

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1. Adverbs and comparative adverbs
2. quick  quick good  polite  polite bad
3. Mr Bradford speaks more clearly than
4. I know that film well – I’ve
5. Ana: Come on! Can’t you walk more quickly
6. Friday is the better day of the
7. To form the comparative of most regular
8. Some adverbs are irregular – they don’t
9. 6 people1 Taylor Swift_2 __________3 __________4 __________5
10. 1 His English is worse than mine.2
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quick  quick good  polite  polite bad  careful  careful easy  tidy  tid fast  © Cambridge University Press 2015Adverbslylylyilybetterworseeasilyfaster

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Слайд 1Adverbs and comparative adverbs
© Cambridge University Press 2015

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quick  quick good 
polite  polite bad 
careful  careful easy


tidy  tid fast 

© Cambridge University Press 2015
Adverbs
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better
worse
easily
faster

quick  quick good  polite  polite bad  careful  careful easy  tidy  tid fast  © Cambridge

Слайд 3Mr Bradford speaks more clearly than
Mr James.
My

little brother plays more quietly than his cousin.
You should listen

to your teacher
more carefully than that.

Regular comparative adverbs

Mr Bradford speaks more clearly than Mr James. My little brother plays more quietly than his cousin.You

Слайд 4I know that film well – I’ve seen it three

times!
He plays football better than me.
The sitcom was worse than

I expected.
The cinema is further than I thought from the station.
She finished the race faster than me.

Irregular comparative adverbs

I know that film well – I’ve seen it three times!He plays football better than me.The sitcom

Слайд 5Ana: Come on! Can’t you walk more quickly than that? We’re

going to miss the film.
Ellie: Sorry, you always walk faster than

me. Can you walk more slowly, please?
Ana: Well, I want to get better seats than we did last time. The film starts at 6 pm, but if we get there earlier we’ll get the best seats.

1 How many irregular adverbs can you find?
2 Who is walking quickly?
3 What sort of seats do you think they got last time?

Language in action

three

Ana

not very good

Ana: Come on! Can’t you walk more quickly than that? We’re going to miss the film.Ellie: Sorry, you always

Слайд 6Friday is the better day of the week.
Friday is

day of the

week.

Could you talk more quietlier?
Could you talk ?

She works more hardly than me in class.
She works me in class.

GET IT RIGHT!

the best

more quietly

harder than

Friday is the better day of the week.Friday is

Слайд 7To form the comparative of most regular adverbs, add the

word more before the adverb.
If an adverb has one syllable,

make the comparative by adding -er
soon  sooner hard  harder fast  faster
With longer adverbs, we use more (+ adverb) + than.
She does things more easily than me.

Can you remember the rules?

To form the comparative of most regular adverbs, add the word more before the adverb.If an adverb

Слайд 8Some adverbs are irregular – they don’t have an -ly

ending
good  well fast  fast hard  hard
early

 early late  late
To compare adverbs, we use the same rules as we do when we compare adjectives. With short adverbs, we add -er or -r, and than after the adverb.
I worked hard, but Sue worked harder than me!
To compare the adverbs well and far , we use better than and further than.
He cooks better than me.
London to Mumbai is further than London to New York.

Can you remember the rules?