Hello! This video is about differences, about one syllable adjectives: 'Some things are
bigger than others' and 'one thing is (sometimes) the biggest. Hope you enjoy it!
Here's scene one with three planets from our solar system, the one in the middle is called
'Earth', the one where we live, I'll just write 'earth' there. And what can we say about
earth? We can say 'the earth is big, but Neptune is bigger', the earth is big but Neptune is
bigger. About Mars we can say (that's the little one) 'Mars is smaller than earth' and
'Neptune is bigger than earth', so we have three examples of '-er than'. '-Er than' and
again, down below '-er than but with an extra 'g' there, notice that extra 'g' - double
'g', I'll talk about that later. And then the middle one 'earth is bigger' with no 'than'
and no object after it. Let's move on now to scene two.
And here we see somebody you may recognise, it's Usain Bolt from the London Olympics and
Usain Bolt, I'll just write his name here 'Usain Bolt' is the 'fastest' - he's the fastest,
he is the fastest, in fact, he is the fastest man (oops, sorry) on the planet. So it's 'the
fastest', 'the f-n-est'. And at 100m in 9.63 seconds, that's certainly fast!
Now let's move on to the next thing, here is a tall building, it's the tallest building
in London, 'Canary Wharf is (or was) the tallest building in London', 'the tallest building
in London'; at 140m we Londoners think that's pretty tall! However, if we just look into
the mists of another country and we see something emerging here which is a bit different, look
at that! Now that is tall! At 828m the Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world,
'Burj Khalifa is the tallest building in the world'. And I'll just underline 'the' and
'-est'. Now let's move onto the summary of all of this.
So, adjectives with one syllable like 'long' and 'big' and so on. So we'll start on the
left with '-er' and 'than' and remember that is comparing, normally comparing two things;
one is longer than two, so I'll underline the '-er' and 'than' and put 'than two' in
brackets because you don't have to use that and there are two words that have some spelling
issues: 'big', 'bigger' doubling the consonant and 'wide', 'wider', it's already got the
'e'. Now I'll do a list of the doubling consonant ones here's 'bigger', the first one and here's
another one 'hot' (there about half a dozen altogether) 'hot' goes ot 'hotter'; and then
I've got five, four others, 'wet', 'thin', 'fat' and 'sad' which go to 'wetter', 'thinner',
'fatter' and 'sadder'. Now let's move on to the next set '-est' (of all) or 'in the set',
there are several ways you can finish it, I'll just put 'in the set' there and here
are some examples - don't forget that now there have to be several lines and number
one is the 'longest' of all the lines, 'is the longest of all' or 'the longest in the
set' and some spelling irregular (oh, 'the' and '-est' I'll just underline there and some
spelling irregularities 'biggest' and 'widest', just like on the other side and I'll just
list the 'big' and 'biggest' ones and all the others 'hot', 'wet', 'thin', 'fat', 'sad'
and 'hottest', 'wettest', 'thinnest', 'fattest' and 'saddest'.
That's the end, hope you found it useful! Bye for now!