16 APRIL

When learning a new language, it's always a good idea to identify words and phrases that mother tongue people use and copy them. This will help you to sound more natural.

We looked at some phrases in exercise 1 on page 48 of Insight into Pet and tried to adapt them to make them true for us.

Then we had a closer look at comparative and superlative forms on page 109.

Comparative and superlative forms are useful in the interactive task of the speaking test, where you are given a situation to discuss with the other candidate. You must talk about the possible solutions and choose the best one.

Look at page 79 exercises 3 and 4 to practise.

Comparatives and superlatives are also tested in the sentence transformation part of the writing test. 

Try exercise 3 on page 39 of Insight into Pet.

You can find exercises of this type on pages 25, 46, 68 and 90 of PET extra. Ask me for the answer sheets.