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3 Grammar

Comparative Forms
POSITIVE COMPARATIVE Complete the sentences with the
clean cleaner correct form of the adjectives in
easy easier brackets.
big bigger 1. Cities today have got
large larger (many) problems than they had
important more important fifty years ago.
good better 2. The air is (little)
bad worse clean than it used to be.
far farther/further
3. Bellview Park is
My room is cleaner than my (large) than Belmont Park but it
Earth Day! • as + adjective + as 4. Earth Day is
brother’s.
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isn’t as (large) as
NOTE:
Greenfield Park.

Maria is as beautiful as her
mother. (popular) than other special
days in our school.
• not as + adjective + as
Jeremy is not as hard- 5. My house is (far)
working as his brother. from the city centre than Tina’s
• less + adjective + than house.
Geography is less
interesting than history. 6. Are you as (old)
as your cousin Peter?

4 Listen 

B. Read again
and answer Listen to a radio programme and look at the pictures below. Tick () the
the questions. topics that are mentioned in the radio programme.

1. When do
Canadians
celebrate
Earth Day?
2. How many 1 2 3
Canadians take
part in
Earth Day?

3. What do groups
of people do on
clean-up day? 4 5 6

4. Where are they
planning to plant 5 Write Write sentences about how different your city
1,000 trees? was five years ago. Use the ideas given.

5. Can children many / parks
take part in streets / clean
Earth Day? many / recycling bins
Five years ago, Five years ago,
6. What can my city was OR my city wasn’t
people build? greener than as green as it
it is today. is today.

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