Chapter 2-Caught in the Rush

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Chapter 2-Caught in the Rush

• Transportation transportation problems city
  services

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Goals for this Chapter

• Speaking-Talking about transportation and
  transportation problems evaluating city
  services asking for and giving information.
• Grammar-Adverbs of quantity with count and
  noncount nouns too many, too much, fewer, less,
  more, not enough indirect questions from
  Wh-questions.

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Goals for this Chapter

• Pronunciation/Listening-Syllable stress
  Listening to a description of a transportation
  system Listening to people ask for information.
• Writing-Letter to the editor
• Reading-New transportation inventions.

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Compound Nouns

• Noun Noun Compound Noun
• First noun What kind of object it is
• Second Noun Tells us what it is
• Put the two words together.
• Peanut Butter Peanut Butter
• Yummy! ?

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Compound Nouns

• Try creating compound nouns.
• Subway Station
• Subway Station

Police Man Policeman
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Compound Nouns

• I am going to pass out a packet of cards with
  words on them.
• With a partner, create compound nouns from this
  packet.
• There should be nine compound nouns.

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Transportation Services

• Which of these things can you find where you
  live?
• Listen to comments about transportation services.
• Which statements do you agree with and why?

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Count Nouns vs. Noncount Nouns

• What are Count Nouns?
• -They are nouns you can count.
• -Separate and distinct units.
• Ex. Table, apple, finger, teacher
• Count Nouns generally end with a S

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Noncount Nouns

• They are nouns you cant count.
• Wholes that cannot be separated into parts.
• Examples furniture, pollution, weather, anger.
• Noncount nouns do not end with a s.

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Adverbs of Quantity

• They describe how much or how many.
• Count Nouns
• Too many
• Fewer
• More
• Enough

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Adverbs of Quantity

• Noncount Nouns
• Too much
• Less
• More
• Enough

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Listening-Singapore Solves It

• Listen to someone talk about how Singapore has
  tried to solve its traffic problems.
• Check True or False

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Listening-Singapore Solves It

• Listen again. For the false statements, write the
  correct information.
• Could the solutions adopted in Singapore work in
  Daejeon? Seoul? Your hometown?
• Why or why not?

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Listening- Could you Tell Me?

• Listen and practice.
• Listen to the rest of the conversation. Check the
  information that Erica asks for.

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Indirect Questions- Wh questions

• Indirect Polite
• Word order is the same as answering.
• Examples
• Direct Where is the bank?
• Indirect Could you tell me where the bank is?

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Indirect Questions-More Examples

• Direct Where are the rest rooms?
• Indirect Do you know where the rest rooms are?
• DirectHow often do the busses leave?
• Indirect Can you tell me how often the buses
  leave?