Lesson:Essentials/53

Grammar

1. Compare the questions to the answers given in parenthesis using as...as:

• How much is a pound of apples? (pear)
  • It´s as much as a pound of pears.

1. How strong are you? (Superman)
2. How heavy is that couch? (bed)
3. How tall is your mother? (her sister)
4. How big is your apartment? (your house)
5. How much is a computer? (tablet)
6. How large is a watermelon? (pumpkin)
7. How high is your car? (truck)

2. Compare youself today with the way you used to be five or ten years ago. Use the phrases in parentheses in affirmative or negative sentences with as...as:

• (be poor)
  • I´m not as poor as I was ten years ago.

1. (work hard)
2. (feel healthy)
3. (eet out frequently)
4. (be energic)
5. (be happy)
6. (get up early)

Pronunciation

Examples

Vocabulary

Babies

• Baby
• Diaper
• Safety pin
• Rattle
• Pacifier
• Baby bottle
• Birth certificate
• Cradle
• Crib
• Carriage
• Stroller
• Car seat
• Bib
• High chair

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/babies/

Conversation

1. Is there any baby in your family?
2. Do you like babies in general? Why? Why not?
3. Is it easy to raise a baby nowadays? Why?
4. Do you know how to change a diaper?
5. What's the bast part on having a baby? And the worst?
6. What memory(ies) do you have when you were a baby/child?
7. How old were you when you stopped using the pacifier? Do you remember how was it?
8. Which are the most common reasons a baby cry?
9. What's the best way to entertain babies?
10. Do you have a baby? Would you like to have one?

Review

1. Use either as … as or not as … as in the sentences below.

1. The blue car is __________ the red car. (fast)
2. Peter is __________ Fred. (not/tall)
3. The violin is __________ the cello. (not/low)
4. This copy is __________ the other one. (bad)
5. Oliver is __________ Peter. (optimistic)
6. Today it's __________ yesterday. (not/windy)
7. The tomato soup was __________ the mushroom soup. (delicious)
8. Grapefruit juice is __________ lemonade. (not/sweet)
9. Nick is __________ Kevin. (brave)
10. Silver is __________ gold. (not/heavy)

2. Rewrite the sentences following the model.

• Could you get the pacifier? / stroller / when you get home
  • Could you get the stroller?
  • Could you get the stroller when you get home?

1. This restaurant isn't as expensive as the other one. / good / the fast food one
2. He forgot the birth certificate at the hospital. / with the nurse / to get
3. This baby doesn't sleep in the crib. / anymore / with her dolls
4. He will get the car seat for his baby / to go for a ride / They /
5. My grandmother always have cute bibs / at home / for her grandchildren
6. Don't use that high chair! / Get / for the baby
7. We have no more safety pins / need to buy / forgot
8. Few people still use cloth diapers nowadays / mothers / parents
9. Her baby is too big for that cradle / isn't / carriage
10. Some babies can't sleep without a pacifier / having a baby bottle / a lullaby song

3. Compare the three pticures below and write sentences using as...as, more than or the most:

1. 
   
   
2. 
   
   
3. 
   
   

4. Sentence listening

Answers

1. She is not as excited as her sister.
2. If they bring the baby we will need to make the bed.
3. Are there enough safety pins in the bag?
4. We can´t leave without the car seat.
5. Her sister has a nice stroller to lend you.

5. Read the text and answer the questions below:

Baby

A baby is a very young human who is usually born after coming out of a woman. A baby is called a newborn for the first 1 to 3 months of life. They are then called a child until about the age of three years old, and a preschooler between 3 years old and school.
An infant is a human child at the youngest stage of life. Some people say that infancy is until someone can walk, while some say infancy is the time before the age of one. An infant less than 1 month old is a newborn. Newborns can be premature infants, post-mature infants and full term newborns. The word infant comes from Latin, meaning "unable to speak".
After learning to walk, infants are called toddlers, usually when they are 1-3 years old. Sometimes, a woman may miscarry a baby and the baby (no matter what gender) is given the name stillborn or is called a miscarried child.

DT   newborn

DT   preschooler

DT   toddlers

DT   miscarry

DT   gender

DT   stillborn

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