Comparatives and Superlatives

More and Most...er and ...estirregularwell, bien---better, mejor---best, lo mejorbadly, mal---worse, peor---worst, lo peorlate, tarde---later, más tarde---last, lo más tardelittle, poco----less, menos---least, lo menosmuch, mucho---more, más---most, lo másfar, lejos---further / farther, más lejos---farthest, lo más lejos 1. I like most music, but jazz is the best 2. How far is the station from here?3. I speak Spanish worse than any of my friends. 4. 6 o’clock is too early. Can you come later ?5. Don’t buy anything here, it’s the most expensive shop in town.
CLASES DE COMPARACIÓNCLASES DE COMPARACIÓN
-COMPARATIVO DE IGUALDAD
I'm as young as you / soy tan joven como tú; He is as young as her / Él es tan joven como ella; She does not work as much as she should / Ella no trabaja tanto como debería; I have as much work as my boss / Tengo tanto trabajo como mi jefe; We have as many books as them / Tenemos tantos libros como ellos
- COMPARATIVO DE INFERIORIDAD
He's less young than you / Él es menos joven que tú He's not as young as you / Él no es tan joven como tú (más usual)
- COMPARATIVO DE SUPERIORIDAD
Have to
to have como auxiliar
I have played / He jugado I had played / Había jugado
Futuro-will
Sujeto + will + verbo
Podemos encontrarnos con otra forma auxiliar, válida también para expresar el futuro, que es 'shall'. En este caso, 'shall' sirve como auxiliar para la primera persona del singular y plural empleándose 'will' para todas las demás. Tanto 'shall' como 'will' pueden contraerse en sus formas afirmativa y negativa (You will You'll).
EL FUTURO PROGRESIVO
sujeto+ futuro de 'to be' + gerundio del verbo a conjugar---You will be flying to Paris tomorrow at this hour
EL FUTURO PERFECTO
sujeto + futuro de 'to have' + participio---They will have written the novel by next month
FUTURO PERFECTO PROGRESIVO
sujeto + futuro de 'to have' + participio de 'to be' + gerundio---Next year I shall have been studying ten years

COMPARING RESTAURANTS

COMPARING RESTAURANTS

There are many restaurants available for people who work and study at La Sabana University. Two of the most important are el Meson de La Sabana and El Humero, which are very well know for almost everybody in the University.

Although these two restaurants are good options if you want to give up food made at home or when you do not want to cook for yourself, there are several differences between them. El Meson is located in the Sabana University while El Humero is located in the town centre. Besides, El Meson opens from 8 to 5 while El regards to the food that they offer, El Meson offers more married food than el Humero since they have a bar salads which is made of fresh vegetables and fruit. In contrast, El Humero doesn’t have this service. Food en Humero is not as varied as in El Meson. Considering the prizes it is woeth saying that El mason has better prizes for students than El Humero, which is a lot more expensive. Taking into account the place, it is clear that both restaurants are big, however, El Meson is more comfortable than El Humero and we could say that El Humero is not as gig El Meson since there are three different sections very well distributed. El Humero has more tables and chairs than El Meson but it has a Self service area, which makes it faster and easier.

People from La Sabana University have significant places to eat out. El Meson and El humero are two restaurants where people can have a good time eating good food.

CONNECTORS

INTRODUTIONS

What I ´ d like to do is (to) 1.
I am going to
I want to
I Intend to
I ´ d like
To
The purpose of today ´ talk is to
This afternoon I am going to
I will begin by

1. Talk about
Consider
Explain
Tell you about
Analyse
Look at
Describing how
Explaining how
Surveying
Presenting



STRUCTURING

I have divided my talk into the following sections
I will start of with… then move on to … look briefly at… and finally
There are two points I ´d like to make
The most important point seem to me to be consider
There are four characteristic I need to take a look


STAGE MARKERS

I ´d like to explain first
I ´d like to begin by… (verb + I ing) 1.
I ´d like to comment first on …
What I want to do first is…
First of all, I want to…
To begin with, I am going to
Firstly … secondly… thirdly
Finally, I will
I ´d like to

1. Examine in some detail
Describe
Explain
Draw your attention to
Focus on
Turn to
Move on to
Come to

The next issue / point I ´d like to focus on is
Turning now to…
Moving now to…
Looking now at…
Having looked at (x), let ´s now consider /turn to (y)
This brings me to…
Finally/lastly/last of all/my final point…