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3. TIME


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TODAY WE ARE GOING TO:
•practise what we learnt last time (indirect speech + vocabulary + paraphrasing)
•talk about geologic time scale and learn some basic terms
•practise listening and reading skills
•learn how to compare (new phrases + grammar)
•talk about the early history of our planet
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PARAPHRASING
•ORIGINAL
•many ways
•in order to suit our needs
•for millennia
•what traditional farming is about
•twentieth century
•ways of speeding up the proces
•Within the past generation
•PARAPHRASE
•many techniques
•with the characteristics we want to see
•for thousands of years
•the most basic
•the last century
•more efficient techniques
•The latest form of these manipulations

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PRACTISE
•Fortunately, no harm was done to the village.
•We can reduce the negative impact on our environment.
•You can learn a lot by watching.
•This was an interesting attempt to explore the effects of radiation exposure.
•He has shown the genuine interest in the topic.
•English exam might be extraordinarily difficult for some students. J
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COMPARISON  - BASIC RULES
•high – higher – the highest (adj)
•narrow – narrower – the narrowest
•gentle – gentler – the gentlest
•clever – cleverer – the cleverest
•hard – harder – the hardest (adv)
•slowly – more slowly – the most slowly (adv)
•boring – more boring – the most boring/less boring – the least boring J
•seriously – more seriously – the most seriously
•big – bigger – the biggest
•noisy – noisier – the noisiest
•good – better – the best
•well – better – the best
•bad – worse – the worst
•badly – worse – the worst
•far – further/farther – the furthest/farthest
•common – commoner/more common - the commonest/the most common
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COMPARISON – OTHER STRUCTURES
•Our planet is not as old as other planets.
•This organism was too weak to survive.
•This organism was not strong enough to survive.
•Other planets are older than our planet.
•The longer we live, the more we know.
•The driest place in the world is in Antarctica.
•We have been experiencing the coldest days of the year.
•The Niger is one of Africa‘s longest rivers.
•Steel is three times heavier than aluminium
•The procedure could be carried out twice as quickly.
•He conducted the experiment at the same time as you did.
•This procedure is the same as the one you showed me.
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HOMEWORK
•Learn and revise the grammar (see the website with exercises in the sources below)
•Learn the vocabulary
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SOURCES
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/geologic_time_scale#/media/file:geological_time_spiral.png (picture)
•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWp5ZpJAIAE&t=70s (listening)
•https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/teachers/resources/flojoe_free/fce/worksheets/transfrm/print.htm
(grammar - self-study)
•Paterson, Ken. Oxford Grammar for EAP, Oxford, OUP, 2013 (grammar - the class)
•Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar in Use (intermediate), 3rd ed., Cambridge, CUP, 2004 (grammar –
in the class)
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