English in Mind Starter Student's Book Unit 16. English in Mind is a four-level teenage course. Each level contains four modules, each with clear learning objectives, four units, a review section and a project. The Starter level Student’s Book provides 80-90 hours of classwork and can be used with beginners and false beginners. | Now and then Comparison of adjectives than Vocabulary adjectives and opposites j Listen a i Look at the photographs of London in the 1950s and London in the early 21st century. What things are different and what things are the same bj O Listen to Lucy and her grandfather. They talk about life in the 1950s and life now. Who talks about these things Write G grandfather or L Lucy . Is life better now 1 The streets in the town 2 School life 3 DVDs 4 The shops 5 Television 6 Mobile phones 0 c Listen again. Mark the sentences T true or F false . 1 Lucy s grandfather thinks life is better now than in the 1950s. 2 He didn t watch television when he was young. 3 He thinks Lucy s life at school is easy. 4 Lucy says it is easy for her grandfather to walk in the streets. 5 Lucy says her grandfather is a happy man. no Module 4 gj Grammar Comparison of adjectives V d i Who said these sentences in the conversation Write G grandfather or L Lucy in the boxes. Then listen again and check your answers. 1 Life was good for me when I was younger. 2 Now he s older 3 Some things are easier now. 4 Perhaps she s happier than I was. 5 School life is more difficult now 6 Life is more interesting now. 7 Yes life was good. Is it better now 8 Perhaps life is worse for him now G V Complete the table and the rule. Use the examples in Exercise 2a to help you. Adjective Comparative adjective old big young older. bigger easier difficult interesting easy happy difficult interesting good bad dj Complete the sentences. Use the correct forms of the adjectives. 1 Rio s .hot but Delhi s .hotter. . hot 2 Trains are . but planes are __ fast 3 Mike s joke was . but Annie s joke was . funny 4 Haytown s . but Moreton s . near 5 The Grand Hotel s very . but the Plaza Hotel s. expensive 6 Matt s really. but Andy s tall than fe Look at the examples from the listening on page 110. was freer than her. . she s happier than I was. T Rewrite the sentences in Exercise 2d. Delhi s .
