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UNIVERSITE DE LOME/ ANGLAIS SCIENTIFIQUE-I

Session7-Study of scientific text: DIFFERENT AREAS OF PHYSICS


VOCABULARY:

Explain the underlined words through definition, synonym, antonym or translation.

eg.

tumble = fall; purview = view, scope; continental drift ==>dérive continentale; a


pacemaker==>un stimulateur cardiaque; tiny = very small; decade = a period of ten years;
unproven = unverified; breakthrough = discovery

Practice

Build a sentence with each of the followings : decade, tiny, unproven

TEXT: See reading book, pages 48-49

Grammar: Comparatives and Superlatives (continued)

III-How to form comparative and superlative adjectives

We usually add –er and –est to one-syllable words to make comparatives and superlatives:

Old Older the oldest


Long Longer the longest

If an adjective ends in –e, we add –r or –st:

Nice Nicer the nicest


Large Larger the largest

If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant:

Big Bigger the biggest


Fat Fatter the fattest

If an adjective ends in a consonant and –y, we change –y to –i and add –er or –est:

Happy Happier the happiest

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Silly Sillier the silliest

We use more and most to make comparatives and superlatives for most two syllable
adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables:

Careful more careful the most careful


Interesting more interesting the most interesting

However, with these common two-syllable adjectives, you can either add –er/–r and –
est/–st or use more and most:

common narrow
cruel pleasant
gentle polite
handsome simple
likely stupid

eg.

He is certainly handsomer than his brother.


His brother is handsome, but he is more handsome.
She is one of the politest people I have ever met.
She is the most polite person I have ever met.

The adjectives good, bad and far have irregular comparatives and superlatives:

Good Better the best


Bad Worse the worst
Far farther/further the farthest/furthest

PRACTICE
2 Complete the following sentences with the appropriate comparative or
superlative forms

(a) An Ocean is …………… a Sea (large)


(b) Afi is ……………… Tanya (beautiful)
(c) The Mercedes Benz is …………….. car in Lome (expensive)
(d) Test all the students and choose ………….. (good)
(e) I prefer this chair to the other one. Its …………. comfortable
(f) Everest is ………….. mountain in the world (high)
(g) We had a great holiday. It was one of the …………….. holiday we’ve ever
had (enjoyable)
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Mathematical Tools: Percentages, Number of Times, Multiples

PERCENTAGES

25% =twenty-five percent, 30.56% = thirty point five six percent.

eg. Twenty –five percent of the students in this class are girls.

NUMBER OF TIMES

These expressions are used to say the number of times something happens.

Once, twice, thrice (or three times), n times, two and a half times

a- N times a day b-N successive times

c-N times as many or as much d-N at a time e-Increases n times or n fold

MULTIPLES

Single, Double (two fold or 2-fold) , Triple (three fold or 3-fold)

SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS

Expressions with ‘once’

Once upon a time, Once more, Once again, At once

PRACTICE

Build sentences with the expressions: single, two at a time, once

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