TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative and Superlative Board Game

Activity Type Introduction

Reading, listening and This intriguing board game helps students practice making
speaking activity, group comparative and superlative sentences by giving opinions and
work stating facts.

Procedure
Language Focus
Divide the students into groups of three or four.
Comparatives and
superlatives
Give each group a copy of the game board, a dice and counters.
Giving opinions and
stating facts Students place their counters on the start square.

The students then take it in turns to roll the dice and move their
Aim counter along the board.

To practice making When a student lands on a shaded square, they make a comparative
comparative and sentence using the adjective and two things shown on the square,
superlative sentences e.g. 'Wine is stronger than beer'.
by giving opinions and
stating facts. When a student lands on a white square, they make a comparative
and superlative sentence using the adjective and three things
shown on the square, e.g. 'In my opinion, cars are safer than
Preparation motorbikes. I think that bicycles are the safest way to travel'.

Make one copy of the
game board for each
group of three or four.
Enlarge the game board
to A3 if possible. You
will also need to prepare
a dice and counters for
each group.
Level
Pre-intermediate
Time
30 minutes
Some squares require students to state a fact and others give an
opinion.
The other group members listen to the student's sentence and
decide if it is grammatically correct or not.
If it is, the student stays on the square. If not, the student goes
back to their previous square.
If the group is unsure, they ask you to adjudicate.
The first student to reach the finish wins the game.
Afterwards, have a class feedback session to review the students'
sentences. Any interesting answers can then be discussed in more
detail.

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 COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparative and Superlative Board Game

exciting tasty cheap smell

pleasurable
bungee mangos, renting, durian, old
watching TV, Finish
jumping, sky strawberries, buying a socks, a
films
diving watermelons house skunk

long
three female
students' hair

deadly intelligent boring

expensive hard
snakes, dolphins, smooth football,
platinum, Chinese,
crocodiles, chimpanzees, silk, satin basketball,
gold English
mosquitoes elephants baseball

classy
Mercedes
Benz, BMW

useful fun
comfortable enjoyable difficult easy
Spanish, board, card,
headphones, sci-fi, action, reading, texting,
English, computer
earphones horror films listening calling
Chinese games

good
spring,
summer,
autumn

beautiful dangerous active

delicious far
beaches, friendly tigers, morning,
chocolate, ice North Pole,
mountains, dogs, cats snakes, afternoon,
cream South Pole
countryside hippos evening

popular
tea, coffee

safe
tall important
bicycles, strong bad
Start three male Russia, China,
motorbikes, beer, wine iOS, Android
students America
cars

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