2º Ano Ensino Médio - Noturno - Língua Inglesa - Recepção e Produção de Textos Orais e Escritos de Gêneros Textuais variados em Língua Estrangeira.

Let’s review some grammar rules!! 

THE COMPARATIVE AND THE SUPERLATIVE FORMS 

Comparative adjectives 

We use comparative adjectives to compare differences between the two objects or people. 

Short adjectives: Noun (subject) + verb + adjective -er + than + noun (object). 

Add -er for the comparative, if the adjective has a consonant + single vowel + consonant spelling, the final consonant is doubled before adding -er. 

For adjectives ending in y, change the y to an i before adding -er. 

Examples: 

• My car is faster than your car. 

• Susie is busier than Vicky. 

• São Paulo is bigger than Belo Horizonte. 

Long adjectives: Noun (subject) + verb + more adjective + than + noun (object). 

Examples: 

• New York is more beautiful than Washington. 

• Ferrari is more expensive than Honda. 

• Fay is more intelligent than Robert.

Superlative adjectives 

We use superlative adjectives to describe an object or person which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality. 

Short adjectives: Noun (subject) + verb + the + adjective -est + complement 

Add -est for the comparative, if the adjective has a consonant + single vowel + consonant spelling, the final consonant is doubled before adding -est. 

For adjectives ending in y, change the y to an i before adding -est. 

Examples: 

• My car is the fastest of all. 

• Susie is the busiest person at my office. 

• São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil. 

Long adjectives: Noun (subject) + verb+ the most adjective+ complement. 

Examples: 

• New York is the most beautiful city in the United States. 

• Ferrari is the most expensive cars on the market. 

• Fay is most intelligent student in class. 

The adjectives good and bad have irregular comparative and superlative forms:

On a scale of 0 to 10, Brazilians gave a rating of 6.2 to their satisfaction with life in 2018. It is the lowest point of the series, which started in 2006. The fall began in 2013, year of the Brazilian street demonstrations, when the mean grade was 7.1. 

When comparing Brazil with 143 other countries, the country has had one of the three worst global declines and ranks 37th in the biennium 2017-2018. The podium is composed of the Nordic countries: Finland, Denmark and Norway; wealthy and egalitarian. The lowest ranking countries were: Tanzania, Yemen and Afghanistan; countries not only poor, but also unstable. Regarding the South American neighbors, Chile and Uruguay are ahead of Brazil, but Colombia and Argentina are behind (see the interactive chart). In 2013-2014, Brazil ranked 17th in the global rankings, ahead of all its South American neighbors. What draws most attention in these statistics is Brazil’s drop in the happiness rankings in the last four years. In the happiness loss rankings in the period, Brazil ranks near Yemen and behind only Malawi and Zimbabwe in terms of loss of current happiness.

ATIVIDADES

1 — Usando o texto e o quadro, com o ranking dos países em grau de felicidade, responda as perguntas: 

a. Qual era a posição do Brasil no quadro de felicidade, quando comparado a outros 143 países, em 2013/2014? Qual era a nota de satisfação nessa época? 

b. Qual a sua posição em 2017/2018? Qual a nota de satisfação dessa época? 

c. De acordo com o texto, quando essa insatisfação começou? 

d. Quais os três países estão no topo do ranking da felicidade? 

e. Quais os países menos satisfeitos do mundo? Justifique sua resposta. 

2 — Usando as formas comparativa e superlativa, construa frases: 

a. Para comparar Brasil e Argentina em 2013-2014 (use adjetivo feliz). 

b. Para falar da situação da Dinamarca em 2017-2018 (use adjetivo satisfeito). 

c. Para comparar a qualidade de vida na Dinamarca e Afeganistão (use o adjetivo bom). 

d. Para comparar a situação do Brasil em 2013-2014 e a de 2017-2018 (use o adjetivo triste). 

e. Para comparar a Noruega e o Yemen (use o adjetivo pobre). 

f. Para falar que a Finlândia tem o melhor sistema educacional do mundo (use o adjetivo bom). 

g. Para comparar o tamanho do Brasil e do Chile (use adjetivo big).