Comparative and superlative adjectives communicative activities
Comparative and superlative discuss and agree
Students use the phrases and/ or topics that they are given to try to make and agree on opinion sentences like “The countryside is actually only slightly quieter than the city”, “Moving to cities is quite a lot better for the environment than living spread out across the country” and “This city is the second or third safest capital in Europe”. This activity works with almost any language and topic, and if you do it with the topic of language learning (“…. is more effective than… for improving…” etc) it can be a good way into the topic of learner training.
Comparative and superlative make me say yes personalised questions game
Students ask each other Yes/ No questions with comparative and superlative forms like “Are you the second tallest in your family?” and “Is your mother more talkative than your father?” and get one point if their partner says “Yes” (but no points if they say “No” or “I don’t know”). To make for more of a range of language, tell them that they can’t use the same adjective twice unless they use different collocations with the adjective.
The most in the world warmer and cooler numbers guessing game
Make cards with data on some record breaking people and things, such as “The richest woman in the world, Ms…, has… dollars” and “The longest river in Europe, the River…, is… kilometres long”. Students turn those figures into questions like “How many dollars does the richest person in the world, Mr…, have?” to test their partner with, then give hints like “No, he is much richer” and “No, he is slightly poorer” until their partner gets exactly the right number (making it a bit like the finding people blindfolded children’s game Warmer Cooler, hence the name of this activity). This game is also great for practising pronunciation of numbers.
Superlative and comparative challenge
Ask students to work in threes. Give students a list of adjectives which are all quite subjective like “beautiful”, “disgusting”, “pointless”, “boring” and “fun”. One student should make a phrase with a superlative like “Angelina Jolie is the most beautiful woman over 40” and someone in their class should contradict them with a comparative, e.g. “I think Queen Elizabeth is more beautiful than Angelina Jolie”. The two argue about those two choices as long as they like, then the third person in their group chooses one of the two.
The same game also works for recommendations such as “The most romantic restaurant near here is…”
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