Comparatives

Comparatives

  • Submitted By: Falae
  • Date Submitted: 09/07/2015 2:46 PM
  • Category: English
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Do you use any of these ways of communicating? Why?
TEXT MESSAGING
VIDEO CONFERENCING
A WEBCAM
INSTANT MESSAGING

Complete the sentences below the pictures.
Then compare your answers in pairs.

KEEP IN TOUCH

What are the ways to keep in touch with people?
Which of these ways do you prefer? Why?
How do you keep in touch with friends and family?
Do you use a cell phone every day? How often? What for?
*Students take notes and report back to the class when activity ends.

What does Alma say about email?
Do you agree? What else can you say about email messages?
How can you compare them to letters?

Now read about the other four people.
What other words do they use to compare
ways of communicating?
Underline them.

Look at the pictures. Choose the
adjective that best describes each
of them:

intelligent

Violent

expensive

Funny

Fast

short

beautiful

frightening

boring

young
old

romantic

What´s the difference between these two groups?

• quicker
• easier
• slower
• nicer

more personal
more convenient
more interesting
less expensive

Take a look at the comparatives below:
quicker
slower
easier
nicer
bigger

What´s special about this third group?

worse
more fun
better

Comparing things, places and people
beautiful

more beautiful than

young

younger than

frightening more frightening than

old

older than

intelligent

more intelligent than

fast

romantic

less romantic than

expensive

more expensive than

violent

less violent than

boring

more boring than

short
funny

faster than
shorter than
funnier than

What can you notice?

We use MORE/LESS + ADJECTIVE + THAN for:
long adjectives

We use ADJECTIVE + ER + THAN for:
short adjectives

Comparing things, places and people
rude

ruder than

nice

nicer than

cute

cuter than

safe

safer than

large

larger than

What can you notice?...

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