2. UNIT 1
THE WAY WE ARE
Introducction.
In Unit 1, you learn how to……
• Use manner and adjectives to talk about people’s
behaviour and personality
• Use adverbs like extremely to make adjectives and
adverbs stronger
• Add prefixes to adjective to make opposites
• Use always with a continous verb to decribe individual
habits
• Use at least to point out the positive side of a situation.

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5. d
Manner adverbs vs adjectives
Structure verb + manner adverb
Example
I drive carefully in the city.
Structure adjective + noum
Example
I´m a impatient person
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6. Regular adverbs (Add ly)
Patient
patiently
Careful
carefully
Easy
easily
Automatic
automatically
Irregular adverbs
Good
well
Late
late
Fast
fast
Hard
hard
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7. u
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In conversation the most common-ly manner adverbs are
quickly, easily, differently, automatically, slowly,
properly, badly, strongly, and carefully.

8. a
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Circle the correct words
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I listen to people carefully / careful.
I’m a quiet/ quietly person.
I get impatient/ impatiently in long lines.
I take school and work seriously/ serious

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Describe a People do you admire
My mom is Blanca. She’s incredibly friendly and totally
honest, she always help to the other people.
She hate the lies and the people dishonest, but my mom
always is reliable and geneourus
I think so my mom is the best in the world

10. d
Adverbs before adjectives and adverbs
Rulers
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Use incredibly, extremely, very, really, so, pretty, and fairly
to make some adjectives and adverbs stronger.
Example
She’s incredibly generous
He’s very reliable
She’s a extremely friendly

11. Rulers
Use absolutely or really (but not very) with adjectives that
are already very strong.
Example
She’s really fanatastic
He’s absolutelly marvelous
Rulers
The expression at all makes negative stronger
Example
He’s not unfriendly at all
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12. Rulers
Completely and totally mean 100%
Example
He’s completely friendly
My mom’s completely reliable
Adjectives prefixes
Patient
impatien
Considerate insconsiderate
Friendly
unfriendly
Reliable
unreliable
Honest
dishonest
Organized
disorganized
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In conversation people use really and pretty much more
often in conversation than in writting

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The expression always is use for describing individual
habits
Structure
Subject+to be + always+ verb ing + complement
Example:
I’m always learning English

15. f
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The expression at least can use to point out the positive
side of a situation.
Example:
Yeah,at least she apologizes. My girlfrien never says
she’s late

16. f
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Your personal profile
Example:
1. I was born in Riobamba
2. I study in Unach
3. I cant be very competitive
4. I cant be very friendly