Prime Time 5, Transition, Coursebook mit Audio-CD

Present perfect progressive You’ve been watching TV for hours . I’ve been working hard since I got up this morning. • e present perfect progressive describes an activity that began in the past and has continued until now. e focus is on the duration of the activity. • For is used for a period of time ( for hours, for days, etc.). • Since is used for a point in time ( since three o’clock, since last night, etc.) Past perfect simple After we had visited our relations in Sydney, we flew back home. We had been to the Great Barrier Reef before we went to Sydney. • e past perfect describes an activity that happened before another activity in the past. Past perfect progressive Darren had been watching TV for two hours when his girlfriend rang. They’d only been surfing for a few minutes when they suddenly saw a shark. • e past perfect progressive describes an activity that was in progress before another activity in the past happened. Adjectives  Pages 54–55 You can use adjectives to describe actions, people or things. ey can make texts more interesting and more informative. a) How adjectives are used The use of adjectives The yellow house in the distance looked empty. • as an attribute to describe a noun The hamburger was huge. • as part of a verb phrase The poor suffer the most in such a situation. • as a noun He runs slowly. • as an adverb of manner (adjective + -ly ) The music sounded good. The cake tasted awful. • Aer verbs such as look, feel, smell, taste, sound, seem, become or get (for werden ) we use an adjective. b) Regular comparisons of adjectives Adjectives are used in three dierent forms when they are used to compare actions, people or things. Positive Comparative Superlative fast faster the fastest exciting more exciting the most exciting • Words with one syllable: -er/-est  old – older – the oldest • Words with two syllables: a) those ending in -y, -er, -le, -ow: -er/-est  happy – happier – the happiest b) all others: more/most  decent – more decent – the most decent • Words with three syllables: more/most  beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful G4 157 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv