Read the Look out! box and underline three examples of ‘of’ with the quantifiers in the article.

                                                 MR CONNECTED

Chris Dancy loves technology. A few years ago, he noticed that he had very little information about his habits, health and lifestyle, and he wanted to lose some weight. So he bought some gadgets that could collect this information and help him understand himself better. Now he is connected to 700 sensors that record every detail of his life. He monitors what he eats and drinks, how long he sleeps, how much he spends, his mood... even the activity of his dogs! Few, if any, people collect as much data about themselves as Chris.

Most of his gadgets are attached to him. He wears gadgets on both arms, a heart rate monitor and a device that counts calories. He has a smartwatch too, which he can wear on either wrist. His house and car are also full of gadgets. Every one of them sends data to his computer, and at the end of each day Chris spends a little time analysing it. The smartwatch is the only gadget he wears all the time. He doesn't wear all of his gadgets 24/7, but he has so many systems that automatically track his activity that there aren't any days when there is no monitoring at all.

Complete the sentences with the quantifiers in the box. There is one extra quantifier.

1. That’s too ______ hungry children.

2. There are ______ hungry people in the world, but only _______ people are trying to do something about it.

3. We’ll need to provide _______ protein.

4. Insects don’t need as _______ space or water.

5. How ________ people will eat insects in the future?

6. How ________ food made with insects will you eat?

Study the plural forms below. Then complete rules a-f in the Learn this! box with the correct endings. Then match each spelling variation (g-i) with one of the nouns below.

Find all the examples of the past simple and the present perfect in the article. Complete the rules in the Learn this! box below with present perfect or past simple. Then underline an example of each rule in the article.

LEARN THIS! Present perfect and past simple

a. We use ¹___________ to talk about a specific occasion in the past.

b. We use ²___________ to talk about a specific period of time that is still continuing.

c. We use ³___________ to say how long a situation has existed, often with for, since, or how long.

d. We use ⁴___________to talk about an event that has a strong connection with the present, often with just, already, or yet.

e. We use ⁵___________to talk about an experience at an unspecified time in the past, often with ever or never.

3. Read the Learn this! box. Then study the highlighted superlative forms in the text and match them with the rules.

(Đọc hộp Learn this! Sau đó nghiên cứu các dạng so sánh nhất được tô nền trong bài khóa và nối chúng với các quy tắc.)

LEARN THIS! Superlative adjectives

a. We add -est to short adjectives. (Chúng ta thêm -est vào các tính từ ngắn.)

rich – richer – richest   slow -slower -slowest

b. Sometimes the spelling changes. (Đôi khi cách viết có thể thay đổi.)

foggy- foggier – the foggiest hot - hotter - the hottest

c. We put the most before long adjectives. (Chúng ta thêm most vào trước các tính từ dài.)

dangerous - more dangerous - the most dangerous

d. There are a few irregular comparative forms. (Cũng có một vài dạng so sánh bất quy tắc.)

good - better- the best bad - worse - the worst for- further - the furthest

e. We can use of after superlative adjectives. (Chúng ta có thể dùng of sau dạng so sánh nhất.)

the sunniest day of the week

f. We use in (not of) with nouns for groups or places. (Ta dùng in (không phải of) cho các danh từ dùng cho nhóm hoặc nơi chốn.)

the tallest boy in the class the biggest lake in the world

5. Read the Look out! box. Complete part 2 of the text with the comparative form of the words in brackets.

(Đọc hộp Chú ý! Hoàn thành phần 2 của bài khóa với thể so sánh hơn của cac từ trong ngoặc.)

LOOK OUT! little - less

Some quantifiers also have comparative forms. (Có vài định lượng từ có thể so sánh hơn.)

few-fewer much/many-more

Part 2

The Tunguska Event of 1908 was (1) _____ (far) from a city so (2) _____ (few) people saw it, but it was much (3) _____ (powerful) than the one in Chelyabinsk. It destroyed more than 80 million trees in the Siberian forest, so it's lucky it was not (4) _____ (close) to a town or city. The night sky became (5) _____ (bright) than normal for a few days, and people a hundred kilometres away could read a newspaper outdoors even at midnight.

Most scientists believe it was a meteor explosion, but there are some (6) _____ (unusual) theories too. Perhaps it was a UFO!

7. Look at the highlighted first conditional sentence in the text in exercise 6, and read the Learn this! box below. Complete rule a with present simple and will + verb. Then find two more examples in the text.

(Nhìn vào câu điều kiện loại 1 được tô nổi lên trong bài đọc ở bài số 6, và đọc hộp Learn this! ở dưới. Hoàn thành quy tắc a với thì hiện tại đơn và will + động từ. Sau đó tìm thêm hai ví dụ khác trong bài đọc.)

LEARN THIS! The first conditional(Câu điều kiện loại 1)

a. We use the first conditional to predict the result of an action. We use the (1) _____ to describe the action, and (2) _____ to describe the result. 

If I get the job, I'll have to move to New York.

b. The if clause can come before or after the main clause. If it comes after, we don't use a comma. 

I won’t take the job if it isn't challenging enough.

Read the Learn this! box. Complete the examples and rules. How many more examples of each tense can you find in the article?

Complete the sentences with the quantifiers below.

any         both          few          little         most        none         some

1 Unfortunately, there are _________ tablets at school, so we don't often use them.

2 _________ of the students use social media. That's how they stay in touch with one another.

3 I downloaded _________ music from Amazon last night.

4 There aren't _________ interactive whiteboards in our school.

5 You need to hold the games console controller with _________ hands

6 _________ of my friends know the answer. I'll have to ask a teacher.

7 Jason's always on his computer. He spends _________ time on other hobbies.