COMPARATIVES & SUPERLATIVES

Comparatives and Superlatives With Pictures

A short but fun way to practice comparatives and superlatives is to give students a blank piece of paper and ask them to draw an easy-to-draw object, such as a star, a tree, a flower, or a house.

(NOTE: Have all students draw the same object…they can vote, or ‘teacher choice’.)

Once students have finished drawing their pictures, ask the students to line up according to the size of the object they drew.

The student with the biggest star (or house, etc.) stands on the right and the student with the smallest star (or house, etc.) stands on the left.

Once the students are lined up according to the size of their picture you can then ask them questions such as: Who has the biggest star?

  • Who has the smallest star?
  • Is student X's star bigger or smaller than student Y's star?
  • etc.

Variations on the activity…

Ask students to draw a house with a front door, two windows, a roof, a chimney etc.

After students have lined up according to who has the biggest / smallest house, you can then get students to work in pairs and compare their pictures to see who has the biggest or smallest front doors, etc.

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Ask students to draw a star, color it, and write their name on the front of the paper. Then assist students to tape the stars pictures on the wall according to the size of the stars.

Have students write sentences about their stars, and tape these sentences on the wall under their pictures.

  • My star is the biggest star.
  • My star is bigger than John's star but smaller than Mary's star.
  • etc.
    This creates a nice display for the class to read.

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AVENUES CONNECTION…Have students draw a character from the current Avenues story—character only—no background, setting, objects, etc. Have the draw the character standing. Use these pictures to practice shortest, tallest, shorter than and taller than.

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Have students line up according to their heights to practice shortest, tallest, shorter than, & taller than.

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/comparatives-superlatives-through-pictures

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July, 09