Comparing countries
describing places/ comparing contrasting/ countries and nationalities
New Cutting Edge Intermediate Module 3
Choose at least two countries that you both know or know about and compare that place or those places to the country that you are in now (depending on the sentence below). Agree on at least one sentence for each of the phrases below.
- ____________________ is a little/ a bit/ a little bit ______________________________
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- ____________________ is a tiny bit ________________________________________
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- ____________________ is far/ a lot/ much ___________________________________
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- ___________________ is by far ___________________________________________
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- __________________ is the second ________________________________________
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Share one sentence with the class and see if they have any comments or questions.
Try to make similar sentences about France, Ireland and the UK.
Look at the data on New Cutting Edge Intermediate page 138 and check if what you said was correct.
How would you pronounce the numbers in that table?
Listen to the New Cutting Edge Intermediate Module 3 recording and say whether the sentences match the table or not.
Make similar true or false sentences and see whether your partners can identify which one they are with their books closed.
Agree on similar comparisons between the city that you are in now and how it was in the past.
You are going to hear people talking about the changes in Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover and Moscow after the end of communism. What do you think they will say? Listen to New Cutting Edge Intermediate T3.4 and check.
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