Comparatives and Superlatives: Cities
This is an intermediate worksheet that helps students to understand and practice comparatives and superlatives. It has speaking, reading, listening, and writing elements.
The lesson begings by explaining the basics of comparatives and superlatives, and then gives the students a series of warm-up questions to help them practice. After this students will read a text comparing Hamburg and New York, and are asked to find the comparatives and superlatives in the text.
Next, the class will read about long adjectives vs short adjectives in comparatives and superlatives (e.g. “more/most dangerous” vs “taller/est”) and then complete a series of sentences with what they have learned.
Next, students look at a group of well-known cities (Hong Kong, New York, etc) and categorize them based on population, temperature, and cost of living. This is a speaking exercise, so students should discuss with a group or partner what they think the answers are. Afterwards students will read what the actual populations, temperatures, and costs of living are in these cities and compare them with their answers.
After this the class will read about negative comparisons with ‘not as …. as’ structure, and then complete a series of sentences with this structure, after which they will write a text comparing two cities or two areas they know. This exercise gives the students more freedom to learn what they have used.
Finally, the class will listen to an audio of two friends discussing the city of Vienna and comparing it with other cities they know.
The transcript for the audio can be found in the Teacher’s Version (TV).
