Unit 4: DESERTS

Vocabulary:

• Adjetives: Hot/cold, big/small/, high/width, wet/dry..
• Wild animals: Ravens, coyotes, lizard, camel, Volture, scorpions, snakes, elephants, lions..
• Desert Landscape: oasis, palm tree, rocks, sand, sand dune, cactus, 
• Desert: Sahara, Sonora, Atacama, Gobi..
• Data: Size, temperature-average summer day, temperature-average winter night, rainfall, 40ºC, -15ºC, 15 mm/year, km2,  ...
• Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, sometimes, hardlyever, never
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STRUCTURES:  

• How big/(hot/wet..) is ...?
• What is the temperature- average summer day in Shara Desert?

Do camels live in the desert?

Do lion sleep on rock?

Do lizard sit ..?

GRAMMAR:  

• Comprarative an superlatives
• Use of frequency adverds
• There is /there are ..
• Prepositions

comparatives:

Adjective with one and two syllable :   bigger than  

Polysyllabic adjective :   more  importantthan

Superlatives:

Adjective with one and two syllable : The biggest  

Polysyllabic adjective :   The most important

LITTLE/BIG - LONG/SHORT - TALL/SHORT - YOUNG /OLD - PRETTY/UGLY - STRONG/WEAK - DIRTY/CLEAN - SLOW/FAST - 

  BIG--> BIGGER THAN 

 Agreeable (agradable) - grateful (agradecido) - friendly (amable) - elderly (anciano) - authentic (auténtico) - expensive (caro) - confortable (cómodo) - careful (cuidadoso) - important (importante) - interesting (interesante) - beautiful (bella) - difficult (difícil) - polite (educado) - selfish (egoísta)

 MORE important THAN