Lesson Plans: Comparatives & Superlatives

Roleplay business meetings to practise adjectives with -er and more, with grammar presentation.

Using -est/ most and -er/ more to say how good products are speaking challenge, including suggested products to describe

Guessing comparisons between different business writing genres game

Drawing to practise comparatives.

Students make funny and then sensible yes no questions comparing people, animals and things with adjectives with -er, -ier and more.

Students ask for and give advice on better language learning, then try to remember the comparative forms which they used in that discussion.

Memorising comparative adjective forms card games based on Othello, with synonyms and antonyms versions.

Giving opinions with comparing forms speaking, with adverbs with comparatives presentation and freer speaking practice.

Acting out adjectives with -er, -ier and more activities, with Elementary-level and Intermediate-level versions.

Students make crazy or sensible sentences with comparatives to draw like "The cockroach is taller than the boy".

Students request better treatment at work then try to remember the comparatives in the requests, good for comparative adjectives practice in Business English classes.

Comparative adjectives and superlative adjectives storytelling speaking.

Personal yes no questions with comparative adjectives game, with points for positive answers.

Practising comparing language personalised speaking

Practising comparative by talking about similarities and differences between places.

A fun card game to practise describing places and comparative adjectives, with many adjectives of place names.

Comparing foods speaking with suggested comparative adjectives to talk about foodstuffs, followed by a forming comparatives grammar presentation.

Adjectives with most and -est and the language of recommendations oral practice, including how to form superlatives and how to respond to recommendations.

Students choose extreme experiences topics to talk about by rolling a dice and guess if the stories are true or not, then make similar grids to play other dice games with, with a forming superlatives grammar presentation.

Students share opinions with adjectives with most and -est then try to remember and classify the superlative forms.

A fun superlatives card game based on Othello for memorising adjectives with most and -est by guessing the superlative with the same or opposite meaning on the other side of the card.

Superlative adjectives and numbers to describe extreme animals

Adjective plus +est and most drawing game

Fun practice of forming and using superlative adjectives through competing to draw the most extreme Valentine's Day goods and experiences, including a grammar presentation of the five different kinds of superlative.

Superlative adjectives practice through students guessing and finding out who is the most extreme in the class, then trying to remember the ...est and most... forms that they just used.