3. Cutting Edge Upper – Intermediate by Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor. Pearson Education, Longman 2007 (Student’s book)
4. http://www.breakingnews.com
5. http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/257.html
HAND OUT № 99
Discipline: English as a foreign language
Credits: 2
Upper-Intermediate level Practical lesson
Lexical theme: Great cities.
Grammatical theme: Other forms of comparison.
Teacher: assistant professorNurgaliyeva A. Zh.
GRAMMAR COMMENT
Other forms of comparison [5, p.90]
Other forms of comparison
1 Compared to/with, e.g:
Compared to/with New York, London restaurants are quite cheap.
2 The same as, e.g:
Your camera is the same as mine/John’s.
3 Different from, e.g.:
Your camera is different from mine/hers.
4 Whereas, e.g:
We often eat out during the week, whereas at the weekend we usually stay at home.
5 Compared with/to
Compared with London, Oslo is very expensive.
6 More/less + adjectival phrase (than)
You are more likely to get a job in London than in Oslo.
She is less interested in learning to drive than I thought she would be.