Methods of teaching comparison of degrees adjective in english

2.2. Teaching methods and activities
How to present comparative and superlative adjectives
Perhaps the most common way to present this grammar point is through a written or spoken text comparing things, e.g. a business meeting where managers consider three candidates for a job or a review of some new smartphones. After answering the usual comprehension questions, students are asked to find comparative and/ or superlative forms in the texts and then to make generalisations about how they are formed. Students can then speak on the same or similar topics in the practice stage.
This text-based method usually works reasonably well. In a perfect world the texts would include enough examples of each pattern for students to make the “rules” but also to notice the exceptions (“more fun”, etc), while also allowing them to find and rank suitable collocations (“far more…” being higher than “quite a lot more…”, etc). However, trying to include all the necessary language in a single text would obviously make for something completely unrealistic where almost every sentence has these forms. You might therefore have to include just one exception in the whole text and just a few of the collocations. When students have found the rules, the single exception and the sample collocations, you can present the other collocations and exceptions another way.
Alternatively, you can do away with texts and get students to use some suggested phrases with one of the practice activities below in the first part of the lesson, then ask them to remember and generalise about the comparative and/ or superlative forms that they just used, in a kind of variation on TTT (Test Teach Test) that I call URA (Use Recall Analyse).
How to practise comparative and superlative forms
As mentioned above, this article only includes practice activities which need both comparative and superlative forms, with more specific activities for each of those two forms available in other articles on Usingenglish.com.