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    TEACHER’S NOTES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative and Superlative Card Game

    Activity Type Introduction


    Speaking activity, group This engaging card game helps to teach students how to make
    work comparative and superlative sentences using a range of adjectives.

    Procedure
    Language Focus
    Put the students into groups of three or four.
    Comparatives and
    superlatives
    Give each group the two sets of cards.

    Students will also need a pen and paper for keeping score.
    Aim
    To use a specific adjective Tell the students to place the topic cards face up on the desk and
    to make a comparative to shuffle the adjective cards and put them face down in a pile.
    and superlative sentence
    about a chosen topic. Students take it in turns to choose a topic and then take an
    adjective card from the top of the pile.

    Preparation The student then has to make a comparative and superlative


    sentence using the adjective on the card. The two sentences must
    Make one copy of the
    be related to the topic.
    cards for each group of
    three or four and cut as
    If a student manages to do this, they receive two points.
    indicated. Keep the topic
    cards and adjective cards
    If a student cannot make two sentences, or one or both sentences
    separate.
    are grammatically incorrect, the adjective card goes to the next
    player and they try to make two sentences about the topic for
    Level four points and so on.

    Pre-intermediate The game continues until all the adjective cards have been used.

    The student with the highest score at the end of the game is the
    Time winner.
    30 minutes

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    COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative and Superlative Card Game

    Topic cards

    sports countries transport

    music films jobs

    food and drink people places

    animals technology holidays

    Adjective cards

    slow enjoyable interesting

    good spicy hard

    popular quick skillful

    tasty bad expensive

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    COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

    ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative and Superlative Card Game

    Adjective cards (continued)

    dramatic polluted safe

    healthy relaxing hot

    crowded difficult smart

    polite well-paid noisy

    cool varied refreshing

    funny stressful easy

    cheap big strange

    boring exciting fast

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