Contents:
Vocabulary: Acquaintance, Neighbour, Manager, Lecturer, Tutors, Classmate, Roommate, Housemate, Colleague, Co-worker, Employer, Look after, Take after, Get on with, Bring up, Fall out with, Look up to
Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives
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1. VOCABULARY:
Bé hãy bấm vào tranh để nghe âm thanh của từ nhé!
Someone you know, but not very well
Someone who lives near you
The person who is responsible for organising a team of people
Someone who teaches at a university or college
Someone who gives private lessons to one student or a group of students
Someone who is in your class at school or college
Someone you share a room with
Someone you share a house with
Someone you work with
A person who you work with, especially someone with a similar job or level of responsibility
A person or a organization that pays people to work for them
To take care of or be in charge of someone or something
To be similar to an older member of your family in appearance or characte
To start or continue doing something, especially work
To care for a child until it is an adult
To argue with someone and stop being friendly with them
To admire and respect someone
2. GRAMMAR:
a. as… as…
We use as + adjective/adverb + as to make comparisons when the things we are comparing are equal in some way:
- The world’s biggest bull is as big as a small elephant.
- The weather this summer is as bad as last year. It hasn’t stopped raining for weeks.
- You have to unwrap it as carefully as you can. It’s quite fragile.
b. not as… as…
We use not as … as to make comparisons between things which aren’t equal:
- It’s not as heavy as I thought it would be, actually.
We can modify not as … as by using not quite as or not nearly as:
- The second race was not quite as easy as the first one. (The second race was easy but the first one was easier.)
- These new shoes are not nearly as comfortable as my old ones. (My old shoes are a lot more comfortable than these new shoes.)
We can also use not so … as. Not so … as is less common than not as … as:
- The cycling was good but not so hard as the cross country skiing we did
c. as… as + possibility
We often use expressions of possibility or ability after as … as:
- Can you come as soon as possible?
- Go to as many places as you can.
- We got here as fast as we could.
d. as much as, as many as
When we want to make comparisons referring to quantity, we use as much as with uncountable nouns and as many as with plural nouns:
- Greg makes as much money as Mick but not as much as Neil.
- They try to give them as much freedom as they can.
We can use as much as and as many as before a number to refer to a large number of something:
- Scientists have discovered a planet which weighs as much as 2,500 times the weight of Earth.
- There were as many as 50 people crowded into the tiny room.