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level 5. Unit 2 Worldlink

Welcome to Unit 2 for your level 5.

These are the contents of this unit:

Topic: Food
Vocabulary: Adjectives describing foods; restaurants experiences
Grammar: The comparative and superlative form of adjectives.
 Functions: Offering and Suggesting

Unit 2 Bk 2-Presentation

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A. Topic: Food
Talking about food and the food we like

Describing Food: Write a food description:

Example:

My favorite food is Tacos.  This is a popular Mexican dish.  It is hot and spicy.  It has yellow corn shells.  They are filled with meat, cheese, tomatoes, and salsa.  We eat it with our hands.  It is a popular summer meal in Canada.

Answer these questions:
What type of food is it?, How does it taste?, Is is a hot/cold food?, What is in it?, How do you eat it?, When do you eat it?

Now, it's your turn to describe your favorite dish..

More Exercises:
Adjectives for Describing Food
Food taste, international food English vocabulary, printable worksheets

Food adjectives- how to describe food

World food text maze and comprehension exercise

A reading: Describing Food by BBC
Adjectives to describe the tastes of foods

B. A conversation: Offering and Suggesting

Read the following conversation about offering and suggesting food

Maria: Where do you wat to go for dinner?
Jose: I don't know. Why don't we go yo the pizza place on the corner?
Maria: Pizza again? I don't like their pizza. It's too spicy.
Jose: You are right. It's spicier than the pizza at Pizza House.
Maria: Well, I still want to go out tonight. How about the new Japanese restaurant downtown?
Jose: OK! Let's go!

Now, it's your turn .. write and practice a conversation like tis with your classmate.

C. Grammar: Why don’t we - How about 

Formula                                                 Verb Form
Why don't we go to a restaurant?             Use the base form of the verb in a question
We could go to a restaurant.                     Use the base form of the verb in a statement
Let's go to a restaurant.                             Use the base form of the verb with 'let's'
What about going to a restaurant?            Use the '-ing' form of the verb in a question
How about going to a restaurant?             Use the '-ing' form of the verb in a question
I suggest we go to a restaurant.                 Use suggest object verb in the base form in a statement.

Making and responding to suggestions

D: Grammar Comparative form of Adjectives

 

    * one-syllable adjectives (clean, new, cheap)
    * two-syllable adjectives ending in -y or -er (easy, happy, pretty, dirty, clever)

• Adjectives have inflections. That is, adjectives change in spelling according to how they are used in a sentence.

• Adjectives have three forms: positive, comparative, and superlative.

• The simplest form of the adjective is its positive form. When two objects or persons are being compared, the comparative form of the adjective is used. When three or more things are being compared, we use the adjective’s superlative form.

• A few adjectives, like good and bad form their comparatives with different words: That is a good book. This is a better book. Which of the three is the best book? He made a bad choice. She made a worse choice. They made the worst choice of all.

• The comparative forms of most adjectives, however, are formed by adding the suffixes: -er and -est, or by placing the words more and most in front of the positive form.

RULES FOR FORMING COMPARATIVES

Comparative Form of Adjectives 

Superlative

adjectives of three or more syllables (and two-syllable adjectives not ending in -y/-er)

Exercise on Comparison of Adjectives (5 random adjectives)
Exercise on Comparison of Adjectives (comparative, superlative)

Comparatives: Matching exercise
SUPERLATIVES

Let's Learn Comparatives  Listening to this Song: Deeper Than The Holler

Here we have another video to practice listening to songs..

Homework.

1. design a collage with different kind of foods and describe then. use adjectives to describe food. You can create a slide show.. (slide.com or animoto.com). Use images and text.
2. Writing: Restaurant review
Choose two restaurants and compare then. Use comparatives and superlatives. Describe the food. talk about prices, location, and service.

Level 5. Unit 1 Worldlink

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FIFA World Cup 2010 K'naan & David Bisbal - Waving Flag + Lyrics On Screen

Well, we are almost there... The World Cup is about to start... According to Wikipedia...

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the culmination of a qualification process that began in August 2007 and involved 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams. As such, it matches the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.
This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation, after South Africa beat Morocco and Egypt in an all-African bidding process. This decision left the Oceania Football Confederation as the only confederation yet to host the FIFA World Cup. Italy are the defending champions. The draw for the finals took place on 4 December 2009 in Cape Town.

This is the English/Spanish version of the official song for the cup... Enjoy it.. I think is brilliant...and the message is wonderful.. I specially like the first stanza:

Give me freedom
Give me fire
Give me reason
Take me higher
See the champions
Take the field now
You’ll be fighters
Make us feel proud




I will be rooting for my favorite team... Brazil!!!!! what about you? who will you be rooting for?

Let's us know...and Keep o shining Love and Peace!