COMPARATIVES By Lilian Marchesoni http://lilianstoolbox.pbworks.com

The horse is bigger than the pony. COMPARATIVES differences between two things, two people, or events The horse is bigger than the pony.

Short adjectives adjective + -er tall  taller Saddam is taller than Niraji.

Short adjectives neat slow neater slower interesting young younger clean thin cleaner thinner talkative boring pretty intelligent prettier beautiful serious

LONG adjectives more + adjective beautiful  more beautiful Her nails are more beautiful than mine.

Long adjectives trendy serious more serious talkative warm more talkative noisy interesting more interesting expensive nice more expensive attractive dirty more attractive happy dangerous more dangerous

LET’S PRACTICE!

Butch Spot

Clux Molly

Fred Phil

Bongo Kinky

Marvin Kitai

Kitty Skinny

Bill Gates Seu Creisson

turtle leopard

Kamal Abdalatif

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