Wild Life III

Wild Life III

Language focus: Superlative adjectives

Today, we are going to learn about superlative adjectives.

On the next slide, we will recall back on what you remember about short adjectives.

Short adjectives.

For short adjectives, we usually add -er at the end of the word.

For example, the word 'cold' will become 'colder'.

To use it in a sentence,

The air-conditioner is 'colder' than the fan.

Now, let's put your knowlegde to test.

Superlative form of adjectives

We form regular superlative adjectives by adding -est at the end of a word and most.

For example, the word pretty will become 'prettiest'.

The word colourful will become 'most colourful'

continue...

1. For most short adjective, we form superlatives by adding '-est' at the end of the word.

cold→coldest

old→oldest

2. If the adjective ends in '-e', we just add '-st'

safe→safest

rare→rarest

3. If the adjectives ends in '-y', it will still end with '-est' in superlative form of adjectives.

pretty→prettiest

ugly→ugliest

and lastly...

Some superlative adjectives are irregular;

good→better→best

bad→worse→worst

Lastly, to form a sentence with superlative adjectives, we need to put 'the' with the superlative adjectives. For example,

"It's the ugliest animal" ✓

"It's ugliest animal" ✕

Here are more examples on superlative adjectives...

Create a sentence using the words given.

In the next slide, you'll be given a word to change it into short adjective and superlative adjective. For example;

Cold

- colder

"It's colder inside than outside"

- coldest

"I think this block of ice is the coldest one in the room"

Open Ended

Pretty

Open Ended

Nice

Open Ended

Weird

Take your workbook and turn to page 32. Let's check the answers together.

For your homework today, open your textbook to page 35 and copy activity 3 in your Grammar book.