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 Grammar

Comparitives & Superlatives - er / est / as

Definition

Compartive Example:

Godzilla is stronger than King Kong.

New Crown is as stupid as New Horizon.

Irregular Comparitive Example:

This movie is the most interesting.

Superlative Example:

Godzilla is the strongest of all monsters.


 
Students practice listening and speaking while play the game bingo and yet aim at not getting bingos.

 

As Hungry as a Bear (as)

Students complete a worksheet based upon matching adjectives with their corresponding nouns.

 

Students learn to express their likes and play bingo. Then they will demonstrate their ability to configure comparative adjectives by playing word search.

 

A fun pictionary style game to help students sort out the potentially frustrating “this is ~er than that” format. In pairs, students draw pictures to an assigned secret sentence and the class tries to guess which sentence is depicted. It also makes very good writing practice.

 

BORGY (as / er / est)
The name of the game stands for: Blue, Orange, Red, Green and Yellow.  Students listen to the ALT/JTE comparative and/or superative sentences to lineup their color cards.

 

This game goes with the ComparativeFun game's worksheet for a complete lesson on comparatives. It's a fun betting game that will get your kids super-excited.

 

Students solve a riddle and make comparative sentences.

 

Comparative Survey (est / irregular)
Students conduct surverys of their friends using comparative questions and write sentences using their newly discovered knowledge.

 

Students use the cute worksheet to compare popular animated characters - bigger, smaller, taller, shorter, etc.

 

This short activity has the students practice comparative and superlative grammar points by completing a fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

 

Students must gesture for each other while the lucky one in the group watches and picks the one which is ____~est of the group.

 

Got Happy? (er / est)
Students listen to a student-friendly article on happiness and fill-in the missing words. Then, they complete a comparative worksheet followed by a class discussion about other various ‘happy’ topics.

 

J-Pop Comparisons (er / est)
This 2-step activity introduces students to comparisons using Japanese musicians.

 

Let's Compare (irregular)
This a whole lesson devised on scaffolding students through the comparitive grammar point.

 

Mostest Star (irregular)
Students interview one another about Japanese pop stars using irregular comparative sentences.

 

Students try to level-up their ninja abilities by creating comparative sentences to receive chances to shoot shurikens at a bullseye on the chalkboard.

 

This fun card game uses Pokemon Top trumps to excite the students to practice and understand comparative and superlatives.

 

Twisting Comparatives (er / est / as / irregular)

Students practice correcting, rearranging and creating questions sentences that practice comparatives and superlative grammar points - bigger, stronger, etc.

 

Web Quest Challenge (er / est / as)

The mission of this internet adventure is to complete a series of online challenges designed specifically for Japanese junior high school students.

 Worksheets Without Explanations

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