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REAL ENGLISH Actually
A. (🎧1-34) Listen and read. Then repeat the conversation and replace the words in blue.
B. Practice with a partner. Replace any words to make your own conversation.
1. cat/cats - pet parrot/parrots
I really want a dog.
Yeah, I love dogs.
2. playful - intelligent
Do you have a pet, Stig?
Actually, I do. He's really cute. Do you want to see him?
Sure!
3. gentler than - not as noisy as
He has a funny dog face, but he's cuter than a dog.
Cuter than a dog?
4. more beautiful - more interesting
But... that's not a dog, it's a fish!
It's better than a fish, it's a dogface pufferfish!
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| MAKING COMPARISONS (P. 154) |
| Parrots are as cute as dogs. Hamsters are smaller than rabbits. I think cats are more interesting than fish. |
| Which are more playful, rabbits or turtles? | Rabbits are more playful than turtles, but turtles are friendlier than rabbits. |
| Rabbits are as playful as turtles. |
big → bigger
friendly → friendlier
intelligent → more intelligent
good → better
bad → worse
as big as
as friendly as
as intelligent as
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C. Unscramble the words to make sentences. Use your own ideas.
1. mice / cuter / are / than / rabbits ______________________________________________
2. more / than / intelligent / dogs / are / horses ______________________________________________
3. cats / as / dogs / friendly / as / are ______________________________________________
4. elephants / than / rhinos / bigger / are ______________________________________________
D. (🎧1-36) Complete the conversation. Then listen and check your answers.
Grace: Hey Sam, I heard you have a new pet. What is it?
Sam: It's a rabbit.
Grace: You have a cat, too, right? (1) _______ (playful), your rabbit or your cat?
Sam: My rabbit is (2) _______ (playful) my cat. It likes to follow me around.
Grace: My neighbor has a new pet lizard. He says it's (3) _______ (interesting) a pet dog.
Sam: That's cool. I heard some people have spiders and snakes for pets.
Grace: Wow! (4) _______ (scary), spiders or snakes?
Sam: I think snakes are (5) (scary) _______ spiders. I don't want a snake for a pet. I still like my rabbit and cat best. They're great.
E. Play animal bingo. Work with a partner. Choose nine animals from the box below and place them in a 3 x 3 chart. Don't show your chart to your partner. Take turns to ask your partner questions. Ask questions by picking any two animals from your chart and comparing them. After your partner says an animal, draw a line through it.
| fish cat shark elephant spider lizard dog monkey snake bird |
| fish | monkey | bird |
| cat | elephant | spider |
| shark | dog | snake |
Which are more dangerous, sharks or snakes?
I think snakes are more dangerous.
