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. (eat out frequently)
4. (be full of energy)
5. (be happy)
6. (get up early)

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. Are there any babies 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 best part of having a baby? And the worst?
6. What memories do you have when you were a baby/child?
7. How old were you when you stopped using the pacifier? Do you remember how it was?
8. Which are the most common reasons a baby cries?
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 had 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 pictures below and write sentences using as...as, more than or the most:

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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 sign language
Baby sign language is the use of manual signing in order to communicate with infants and toddlers. A better term would be "baby signing" since they are not using a full sign language, but a limited number of "stand alone" manual signs. While infants and toddlers have a desire to communicate their needs and wishes, they lack the ability to do so clearly because the production of speech lags behind cognitive ability in the first years of life. Proponents of baby sign language say that this gap between desire to communicate and ability often leads to frustration and tantrums. However, since hand-eye coordination develops sooner than acquisition of verbal skills, infants can learn simple signs for common words such as "eat", "sleep", "more", "hug", "play", "cookie", and "teddy bear" before they are able to produce understandable speech. Each individual infant will develop the ability to sign at slightly varied stages in his or her growth. Before the infant is able to sign it is necessary for him or her to be able to focus on the hand movement and have the cognitive skill to link a certain gesture to an item resulting in why babies will begin signing at various ages.

DT   infants

DT   toddlers

DT   desire

DT   wishes

DT   lack

DT   lag

DT   gap

DT   tantrum

DT   slightly

DT   cognitive

DT   gesture

1. What's the meaning of baby sign language?
2. What's the reason for baby sign language?
3. Why do babies get frustrated?
4. Which signs can babies learn?
5. What's necessary for babies before they start signing?

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