TEACHER’S NOTES
WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Comparatives Survey
Activity Type Introduction
Grammar, Speaking, and In this comparatives activity, students conduct a class survey where
Writing Activity: gap-fill, they ask and answer questions using comparative adjectives.
asking and answering
questions from prompts, Procedure
summary writing,
controlled and freer Explain that the students are going to conduct a class survey to
practice practice comparative adjectives.
Demonstrate the activity by writing the following question on
Focus the board: Which do you think are ................. (good), book
dictionaries or electronic dictionaries?
Comparatives
Comparative adjectives Elicit the comparative form of the adjective in brackets and write
it in the space, i.e. better. After that, write two columns on the
board and label them 'paper' and 'electronic'.
Aim
Then, go around asking students the question and have them
To conduct a class survey answer in sentence form, e.g. 'I think that paper dictionaries are
where you ask and better than electronic dictionaries'.
answer questions using
comparative adjectives. Tally the students' answers in the columns. When you have spoken
to a few students, write a sentence on the board, summarizing the
results, e.g. 'Two people think that book dictionaries are better
Preparation than electronic dictionaries, and four people think that electronic
Make one copy of the dictionaries are better than book dictionaries'.
question cards and cut as
indicated. Next, give each student a question card.
The students begin by completing the question on the card with
Level the comparative form of the adjective in brackets.
Intermediate (B1) The students then go around the class asking the question on
their card and recording their classmates' answers on the back.
Time Remind the students that they must answer each question in
30 minutes sentence form.
When the students have spoken to everyone in the class, they
write a short summary of their survey results using the example
on the board as a guide.
Finally, have the students report back to the class on their survey
results. Any interesting findings can then be discussed in more
detail.
If a student's question was based on a fact, encourage them to
look up the answer online and tell everyone the correct answer.
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COMPARATIVES
WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Comparatives Survey
Which do you think is ........................... Which country do you think is
(good), spending time with a lot of friends or ........................... (big), Canada
spending time with just one or two friends? or the United States?
Which country do you think is Which language do you think is
........................... (cold) in the winter, ........................... (easy) to learn, English
Russia or Iceland? or your first language?
Which animal do you think is Which country do you think is
........................... (fast), a zebra ........................... (far) from the North
or an ostrich? Pole, Italy or Turkey?
Which age group do you think is Which do you think is ...........................
........................... (happy), people under (heavy), seven pounds
25 or people over 50? or three kilograms?
Which country do you think is Which do you think is ...........................
........................... (hot) in the summer, (long), an elephant's trunk
India or Egypt? or a giraffe's neck?
Which do you think is ........................... Which do you think is ...........................
(safe), travelling by train (bad) for your health, sugar
or travelling by bus? or fried food?
Which do you think is ........................... Which do you think is ...........................
(annoying) when you're trying to study, loud (comfortable), travelling by plane or
music or people talking? travelling by car?
Which animal do you think is Which do you think is ...........................
........................... (dangerous), a lion (delicious), strawberry ice cream
or a poisonous snake? or chocolate ice cream?
Which do you think are ........................... Which do you think is ...........................
(entertaining), action movies (exciting) to watch, a match between two
or comedies? teams or a race?
Which do you think is ........................... Which do you think is ...........................
(expensive), a new iPhone (important), friendship
or a new laptop? or money?
Which animal do you think is Which do you think is ...........................
........................... (intelligent), an elephant (interesting), reading books
or a whale? or watching TV?
Which sport do you think is Which do you think is ...........................
........................... (popular) in the world, (useful), a laptop
football or basketball? or a mobile phone?
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