Methods of teaching comparison of degrees adjective in english

Comparative and superlative eliminating words games
Give students a worksheet with lots of vocabulary on it, e.g. every means of transport that you can think of or some places like “Georgia” and “Florence” that students have problems with the names of. One student chooses three words from the list. To cross off the three words and get a point, they must make two different comparative or superlative sentences but with the same adjective, both of which their partners agree are true. For example, if they say “Florence is more interesting for tourists than Milan. Rome is the most interesting city in Italy for tourists, but not by much” and their partners agree, they get two points. They can’t reuse exactly the same sentence twice, so they can’t say “Milan is further north than Florence. Florence is further north than Rome”. However, even slight variations are okay, making “Milan is quite a lot a further north than Florence. Florence is considerably further north than Rome” acceptable.
This game also works with a list of key comparing words on the worksheet that students have to use in order to cross them off, e.g. using the word “considerably” in “This summer is considerably cooler than last year” and getting one point if their partner agrees.
Superlative and comparative clues guessing game
Students give hints like “It’s the longest thing in this school”, “It’s much longer than a car” and “The longest one in this city is 50 metres long” until their partner guesses what they are speaking about (in this case a swimming pool). This works for all kinds of topics, e.g. transport, places, animals and technology. However, you’ll probably need to give students a list of suitable things to describe and/ or some example hints in case they can’t come up with their own. It can also work with future times, e.g. “India will have the biggest population” and “China’s economy will be bigger than America’s” for the year 2025.
Guess the comparative or superlative sentence
This is one of the few games where students don’t need any persuasion or extra rules to use more complex language like “but not by far”, as they will find the language very useful to challenge their partners more.
One student secretly writes a true comparative or superlative sentence about one or more things that their partner knows at least something about, e.g. “A cactus is much easier to look after than a cheese plant” or “Cookies and cream ice cream is the second most delicious flavour”. They tell their partner just what thing(s) their sentence is about, e.g. “Cactus and cheese plant”. Their partner then tries to guess the whole sentence while they give hints like “It’s a positive thing”, “It’s about having one in your house”, “The first word is ‘cookies’” and “The next letter is ‘s’”. This game also works as hangman, with the person guessing letters (rather than whole words), until the whole sentence is up on the board. It can also be played with their partner just guessing a few words to fill a gap, e.g. “Cookies and cream ice cream is _________________ flavour”.