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Comparatives Card Game: Activity Type

This document provides teaching resources for an activity where students play a card game to practice comparative sentences with 'than'. Students are dealt noun cards and take turns placing cards down and making a comparative sentence linking the nouns, such as 'A car is faster than a bus'. The goal is to be the first player to get rid of all their cards.

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Comparatives Card Game: Activity Type

This document provides teaching resources for an activity where students play a card game to practice comparative sentences with 'than'. Students are dealt noun cards and take turns placing cards down and making a comparative sentence linking the nouns, such as 'A car is faster than a bus'. The goal is to be the first player to get rid of all their cards.

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TEACHER’S NOTES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparatives Card Game

Activity Type Introduction


Matching, speaking and In this engaging free comparatives game, students link nouns
writing activity, pairwork together by making comparative sentences with 'than'.

Procedure
Language Focus
Divide the students into pairs.
Comparative adjectives

Comparative sentences Give each pair of students a set of noun cards. Tell the students
with 'than' to shuffle the cards and deal them out evenly.

One student goes first and puts one of their noun cards face up
Aim on the table.

To link nouns together The students then take it in turns to put down a noun card and
by making comparative make a comparative sentence with 'than', linking the two nouns
sentences with 'than'. together, e.g. 'A car is faster than a bus'. 'A bus is bigger than an
elephant', etc.
Preparation Students can put a card down either before or after the card or
Make one copy of the card chain on the table, similar to dominoes.
cards for each pair of
students and cut as Each time a student puts down a card they must use a different
indicated. comparative adjective.

If a student makes a grammar mistake or can't think of a way to


Level link two noun cards together, they miss a turn.

Elementary (A1-A2) This continues back and forth with students linking nouns together
with different comparative adjectives.
Time The first student to get rid of all their cards wins the game.
35 minutes
When the students have finished, have t he p airs w rite o ut the
comparative sentences they made.

Students then read out their sentences to the class and feedback
is given.

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COMPARATIVES

ESL / EFL RESOURCES Comparatives Card Game

an elephant a girl a car a bus

an old man a beach a city a baby

a glass of water a tiger a cup of coffee a pizza

a mouse a sandwich a cat a skier

a jacket a bird a T-shirt an airplane

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