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Comparative Cards: Activity Type

This document provides teaching resources for an activity where students play a card game to practice forming comparative sentences using adjectives and 'than'. Students are dealt noun cards and take turns placing a card down and making a comparative sentence linking the nouns, such as 'A car is faster than a bus'. The first student to get rid of their cards wins.

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Comparative Cards: Activity Type

This document provides teaching resources for an activity where students play a card game to practice forming comparative sentences using adjectives and 'than'. Students are dealt noun cards and take turns placing a card down and making a comparative sentence linking the nouns, such as 'A car is faster than a bus'. The first student to get rid of their cards wins.

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TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative Cards

Activity Type Introduction


Matching, speaking and In this engaging pairwork activity, students play a card game
writing activity, pairwork where they link nouns together by making comparative sentences
with 'than'.

Language Focus Procedure


Comparative adjectives
Divide the class into pairs.
Comparative sentences
with 'than' Give each pair of students a set of noun cards. Tell the students
to shuffle the cards and deal them out evenly.

Aim One student goes first and puts one of their noun cards face up
on the table.
To link nouns together
by making comparative The students then take it in turns to put down a noun card and
sentences with 'than'. make a comparative sentence with 'than', linking the two nouns
together, e.g. 'A car is faster than a bus'. 'A bus is bigger than an
elephant', etc.
Preparation
Make one copy of the Students can put a card down either before or after the card or
cards for each pair of card chain on the table, similar to dominoes.
students and cut as
indicated. Each time a student puts down a card they must use a different
comparative adjective.

Level If a student makes a grammar mistake or can't think of a way to


link two noun cards together, they miss a turn.
Elementary
This continues back and forth with students linking nouns together
with different comparative adjectives.
Time
35 minutes The first student to get rid of all their cards wins the game.

When the students have finished, have the pairs write out the
comparative sentences they made.

Students then read out their sentences to the class and feedback
is given.

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COMPARATIVES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative Cards

an elephant a girl a car a bus

an old man a beach a city a baby

a glass of water a tiger a cup of coffee a pizza

a mouse a sandwich a cat a skiier

a jacket a bird a T-shirt an airplane

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