COMPARATIVES

By Lilian Marchesonihttp://lilianstoolbox.pbworks.com

• differences between two things, two people, or events

The horse is bigger than the

pony.

COMPARATIVES

SHORT ADJECTIVES

• adjective + -er• tall taller

Saddam is taller than Niraji.

SHORT ADJECTIVESneat

interestingclean

talkativepretty

beautiful

slowyoungthin

boringintelligent

serious

neater

cleaner

prettier

sloweryoungerthinner

LONG ADJECTIVES

• more + adjective• beautiful more

beautiful

Her nails are more beautiful than mine.

LONG ADJECTIVEStrendy

talkativenoisy

expensiveattractive

happy

seriouswarm

interestingnicedirty

dangerous

more talkative

more expensivemore attractive more

dangerous

more serious

more interesting

LET’S PRACTICE!

Spot

Butch

Molly

Clux

Phil

Fred

Bongo

Kinky

Kitai

Marvin

Kitty

Skinny

Seu Creisson

Bill Gates

leopard

turtle

Abdalatif

Kamal

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Review the use of comparatives with adjectives using slides 2 to 6.

2. Hand-in slips with adjectives to students. They have to work in pairs.

Slides 6 to 14 will move automatically after 1 minute and 30 seconds

(that’s the time the pairs have to form a comparative sentence using one

of the adjectives provided in the slips – you can have them write the

sentences on their notebooks.) And because you don’t have to stand

next to the computer to change the slides; you can walk around the class

and monitor your students’ production.

By Lilian Marchesoni