IT HAS A BETTER VIEW A A” = a oO VOCABULARY WORDS & P = fs TOI Repeat after your teacher. e dark/light pretty/ugly noisy/quiet house kitchen street small/big wide/narrow good/bad closet hallway view natural ight neighborhood expensive PRONUNCIATION Listen and repeat after your teacher, Practice the L and R sounds. Touch the words you hear. light right better bottle nature natural intercambioorg/students 25VOCABULARY PRACTICE TOY Match the words to the pictures. 1, _@& anoisy house 3. __ a quiet neighborhood 5.___adark hallway 2.__adarknarrowstreet_ 4. _a pretty view 6. ___ alight kitchen LISTENING TENG Listen again to Track 06/Circléthe words that describe the house. ma» (Cowid’?/ narrower hallways am 4. prettier / uglier kitchen 2. better / worse view 5.noisier / quieter street 3.smaller / bigger kitchen 6.less expensive / more expensive LANGUAGE TOOLS TOO Listen to your teacher and repeat. POEs bad worse IRREGULAR good better quiet quieter dark darker REGULAR light lighter narrow narrower ret rettier ENDING INy | P= pe noisy noisier > ; Which | house bigger? | The | bluehouse | is| bigger than the green house. more expensive? | more expensive 26 Student Book 2 RIGHT NOT FOR DUPLCATIONGRAMMAR PRACTICE Complete the sentences with the correct comparatives. noisy My streetis(1)___nofsier than yourstreet. quiet He has (2) neighbors than | do. dark Their living room is (3) than our living room. light That room is (4) than the hallway. wide My closet is (5) ‘than my husband's closet. narrow This hallway is (6) than my bathroom. expensive The new house is (7) than my old house. Choose the correct words to complete the conversation. Bekah: Andres, which bedroom is (1)__be*ter _ (good/better)? Andres: like the gray room better. The yellow room is (2), (small/smaller) than the gray room. Bekah: But the yellow one has better natural light. Andres: True. like (3) (dark/light) bedrooms. They help me sleep @) (good/better) than light bedrooms. Bekah: You can have that one, then. | like the (5) (dari lighter) bedroom more than the darker bedroom. TNT complete the sentences with the opposite of the bold words. z Ss E zt Oo bes a 2 a a 9S ire E S 2 1.The living room is darker than the kitchen. a The kitchen is lighter than the living room. 2. The apartment has a worse view than the house. The house has a 3. Their neighborhood is noisier than my street. My street is 4, The bathroom is lighter than the hallway. The hallway is 5. The house is more expensive than the apartment. The apartment is 6. The apartment is prettier than the house. The house is 7. The closet is bigger than the bedroom! The bedroom is intercambioorg/students 27REAL LIFE / YOUR LIFE isten to Track 07. Gina wants to buy a home. Read her checklist. Listen to her choices. Which home is better for her? Rank them (1=better, 2=good, 3=bad, 4=worse). I want an apartment that is smaller than my house. «I want a better view in a good neighborhood. +I don't like dark homes. | like homes with lots of natural light. +I need a bigger closet and kitchen than my current home. TOG imagine you can change your home. What do you want to change? Discuss with a partner. Example:__Z. want quieter neighbors. 1 2, 3 CULTURE TIP You can find housing through the internet, talking to friends, housing agencies or realtors, and looking for signs that say “For Sale/Rent’: What kind of home do you live in? How did you find it? How did you find housing in your native country? 28. Student Book 2 RIGHT NOT FOR DUPLCATIONLook at the ads for homes. Answer the questions. House #1 1.Which house is bigger? Housed rorsae Wf : 5 2. Which house is less expensive? "$200,000 a 3. Which house has darker rooms? 4.Which house has a better view? FOR SALE Osis 5. Which house do you like better? Why? outs Or ane TODD compare your house with house #2 above. Check the box. use is smaller NOT FOR DUPLCATION CONNECT WITH CONVERSATION Get to know a partner. Talk about: + Your home now. + The home where you grew up. + What you like about your home. + What you don't like about your home. intercambioorg/students 29eas Fill in the blank with the correct form of the word in parentheses. 1. The old apartment is bigger (big) than my apartment. 2. His living room is light) than the bathroom. 3. Her kitchen is ____ (pretty) than my kitchen. 4. Their neighborhood is, (noisy) than John’s neighborhood. 5. This hallway is (wide) than that hallway. 6. That closet is (good) than yours. TIT] Look at the sentence. Write the sentences with the opposite word. 1, That street is wider than my street. —______That stree+ is narrower than my street, 2. The house is smaller than the apartment. 3. That neighborhood is worse than my neighborhood. 4, The bathroom is darker than the bedroom. 5. This house is prettier than that house. NOT FOR DUPLCATION 6. This kitchen is wider than that kitchen. (f JOURNAL PROMPT ‘Think about your dream house. What kinds of rooms are in it? How is it different than your current home?