Do you use any of these ways of communicating? Why?
TEXT MESSAGING
VIDEO CONFERENCING
A WEBCAM
INSTANT MESSAGING
Complete the sentences below the pictures.
Then compare your answers in pairs.
KEEP IN TOUCH
What are the ways to keep in touch with people?
Which of these ways do you prefer? Why?
How do you keep in touch with friends and family?
Do you use a cell phone every day? How often? What for?
*Students take notes and report back to the class when activity ends.
What does Alma say about email?
Do you agree? What else can you say about email messages?
How can you compare them to letters?
Now read about the other four people.
What other words do they use to compare
ways of communicating?
Underline them.
Look at the pictures. Choose the
adjective that best describes each
of them:
intelligent
Violent
expensive
Funny
Fast
short
beautiful
frightening
boring
young
old
romantic
What´s the difference between these two groups?
• quicker
• easier
• slower
• nicer
more personal
more convenient
more interesting
less expensive
Take a look at the comparatives below:
quicker
slower
easier
nicer
bigger
What´s special about this third group?
worse
more fun
better
Comparing things, places and people
beautiful
more beautiful than
young
younger than
frightening more frightening than
old
older than
intelligent
more intelligent than
fast
romantic
less romantic than
expensive
more expensive than
violent
less violent than
boring
more boring than
short
funny
faster than
shorter than
funnier than
What can you notice?
We use MORE/LESS + ADJECTIVE + THAN for:
long adjectives
We use ADJECTIVE + ER + THAN for:
short adjectives
Comparing things, places and people
rude
ruder than
nice
nicer than
cute
cuter than
safe
safer than
large
larger than
What can you notice?...