Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Travel partners for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at audio script 7.2 on page 172 and complete the sentences.
  2. Underline the stressed words in the sentences above. Listen and check. Notice the pronunciation of than /ðən/. Then listen again and repeat.
  3. Complete the table.

Answer

a)

  1. faster than
  2. hotter than
  3. more; than

b)

  1. Planes are faster than trains.
  2. Summer's hotter than spring.
  3. A hotel's more expensive than an apartment.

c)

  • short adjectives → -er; -er
  • long adjectives → more; more