IBH - Comparatives and Sports

IBH - Comparatives and Sports

Learning Objective

• Students will be able to talk about sports using comparatives.

• Students can define and understand comparatives.

Multiple Choice

1

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

2

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

3

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

4

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

5

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

6

• True

• False

Comparatives

When we use comparatives, we use TWO things that are similar and talk about whats different or the same.

Example:

Basketball and Football - Sports

Basketball is less fun than football.

Basketball is more difficult than football.

Making sentences using comparatives:

_______________ is verb + -er than _______________.

_______________ is more verb + than _______________.

Making sentences using comparatives:

Tennis is easier than golf.

Golf is more difficult than football.

Using comparatives with sports

Important: words with 1 or 2 syllables you usually add -er

words with more syllables you add more

Multiple Choice

fantastic

• fantasticer

• fantasticier

• more fantastic

Multiple Choice

Amazing

• Amazinger

• Amazingier

• More amazing

Multiple Choice

Delightful

• Delightfuler

• Delightfulier

• More delightful

Multiple Choice

Big

• biger

• bigger

• more big

Multiple Choice

Hot

• Hoter

• Hotter

• More hot

Multiple Choice

Fast

• Faster

• More fast

Multiple Choice

Tall

• More tall

• Taller

Multiple Choice

Quick

• Quicker

• More quick

Multiple Choice

Tall

• More tall

• Taller

Fill in the Blanks

Cycling is

than ice skating. (easy)

When the verb ends with a consonant + y, we drop the -y and add -ier.

Fill in the Blanks

Rock climbing is ______ _________ than chess. (difficult)

Hint: with big words we use more + verb.

Multiple Choice

Hockey is ______ difficult than gymnastics.

• more

• too much

• very

Multiple Choice

Table tennis is _________ than tennis. (hard)

• hard

• more hard

• harder