MAKING CHANGES

Making Changes

• Compare houses and apartments

• Discuss life changes.

Compare houses and apartments
Ideal homes
Listen and complete.
◦ I don’t like living in an apartment. We don’t have as (1)_____ as we had in our old place.
◦ I just can’t sleep at night. The neighbors make too much noise. The building isn’t as
(2)______ as the old one.
◦ The new apartment is too dark and too hot. There aren’t enough (3)______.
◦ Our new apartment isn’t (4)______ enough for our family. We don’t have a (5)_____ kitchen
anymore, so
cooking is difficult.
◦ The location is just as (6)______ as the old one, but there aren’t as many good restaurants
around
Evaluations and comparisons
• Both are judgments

• Comparison – evaluates one thing against

another.
Eg. My old apartment isn’t as spacious as the new
one.
• Evaluation – judges one thing how useful, good it
is.
Evaluations
Evaluations with adj Evaluations with nouns

◦ Enough – after the adjective ◦ Enough – before the noun

adj + enough enough + noun
big enough enough closets
Eg. The apartment isn’t big enough. Eg. Houses don’t have enough closets.
◦ Too – before the adjective.
too + adj
too small
Eg. Apartments are too small for pets.
Comparisons
Comparisons with adj Comparisons with nouns

◦ as + adj (+ as) ◦ as many + count noun (+ as)

Eg. The location is just as convenient as the Eg. We don’t have as many bedrooms as we
old one. had.
The building isn’t as quiet as our old one. There aren’t as many good restaurants
around.
◦ as much + non-count noun (+as)
Eg. We don’t have as much privacy as we had
in our old place.