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Presenter: Lê Thị Ngọc Dung Huỳnh Thị Kim Hoàng

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Content

Compound adjectiveWarm up

About compound adjective

Practice

Double comparativeWarm up

About double comparative

Practice

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Warm-upPut these following words under appropriate heading:

Exchange, exchangeable Account, accountable, accountant, accountancy Protect, protection, protective, protectivelyMoney, monetary, monetaristFinance, financial, financer, financially, finance

Nouns Verb Adjectives Adverbs

Answer

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Nouns Verb Adjectives AdverbsFinance

Financer

Exchange

Account

Accountant

Accountancy

Protection

Money

Monetarist

Finance

Exchange

Account

Protect

Financial

Exchangeable

Accountable

Protective

Monetary

Financially

Protectively

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Example:

Customer: I’d like to open a high-interest account

Bank teller: How much would you like to deposit?

“high-interest” is a compound adjective

Definition:

A compound adjective is formed when two or more words work together to modify the same noun. These terms should be hyphenated to avoid confusion or ambiguity.

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Example Mary bought a second-hand BMW.

She had a full-time job in a bank, but after the baby was born she changed to a part-time job and just worked in the mornings.

That department store sells expensive high-tech equipment.

We offer good-quality products, and we’ll have many customers.

My parents complained about the poor-quality service of the hotel they stayed last month.

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PracticeComplete these sentences with the words in the box.

1. There has been a housing subsidy program for the families in this area.

2. Most people want to have a diet nowadays.3. This factory produces goods for export.4. Most of the population are , but about 10% are left-handed.5. My brother had a nervous breakdown because he worked in a

job.

6. They have constructed many buildings in that part of the city .

More exercises

high-quality high-rise right-handed

low-income low-fat high-pressure

low-income

low-fathigh-quality

right-handed

high-pressurehigh-rise

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Warm-up Choose appropriate sentences for A, B, C, and D in

order to have a logical chart. Try to guess the meaning.

1. The more experienced you are

2. The more things you want to buy

3. The more money you earn

4. The harder you have to work

5. The more you grow up

Answer: 1-C, 2-E, 3-D, 4-B, 5-A

B

D

A

C

ED

C

B

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Study the following examples:

1. A: How much interest does this saving account earn?

B: It depends. The longer period you put your money in, the more interest you earn.

2. He gets older and older.

3. Jane becomes more and more beautiful.

4. Our lesson are less and less difficult.

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Double comparative with short adjective

Example:

Electronic equipments comes cheaper and cheaper.

She does the work better and better.

Short Adjective + ER and Short Adjective + ER

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Double comparative with short adjective

Example:

He writes more and more interesting fictions so he becomes more and more famous.

Living in a foreign country, she feels more and more lonely.

MORE and MORE + long Adjective

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Double comparative with both short adjective and long adjective

Example:The hotter it is, the more miserable I feel.

The longer hours you work, the more exhausted you’ll be.

The more honest we are in trade, the more customer we have.

The harder you work, the better result you can get.

THE Short adjective + ER …, THE MORE Long adj /adv/ noun…THE MORE Long adj/adv/noun …, THE Short adjective + ER …

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• The harder you try

• The more exercise you do

• The more often we practice speaking English

• The harder my uncle work

• The older my father gets

• The less he wants to travel

• The more fluently we will use it

• The more hope you will have

• The less time he has for his family

• The fitter you are

Practice Match sentences in column A with sentences in column B appropriately. A B

Answer More exercise

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Answer:The harder you try, the more hope you will have.

The more exercise you do, the fitter you are.

The more often we practice speaking English, the more fluently we will speak it

The harder my uncle work, the less time he has for his family.

The older may father gets, the less he wants to travel.

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