A selection of English ESL comparative and superlative printables

Comparatives and Superlatives about some World facts; First the students need to match the right options and then CHOOSE THE CORRECT WORDS TO MAKE TRUE SENTENCES. Fully editable.

Comparatives and Superlatives-World facts (easy)

Very easy and informative worksheet to practice Comparative and Superlative Adjectives separately. The first page is for Comparative Forms and the second - for Superlative Forms.

Enjoy! 

Comparatives and Superlatives Worksheet, Part 1

Explanation of comparatives and superlatives incorporating "more and most". Common errors are listed and corrections shown. Includes exercises for practice. Good for focused practice with multi-syllable adjectives.

Comparatives and Superlatives: More, Most + Adjective

The objective of this worksheet is to practice comparative and superlative adjectives. It's a grammar worksheet for the beginners. There is no any solution here because more than one answer is possible.  

"Frozen": Comparative and Superlative Adjectives. Wrtie about the characters.

This worksheet contains activities meant to revise simple past. How to form questions in simple past and how to answer them using the conjugated verbs in simple past, as well. Apart from that, it contains varied activities to revise the past form of the verb to be, description of places using adjectives and a final activity meant to revise the comparative and superlative form of adjectives. 

SIMPLE PAST ACTIVITIES + COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE FORM OF ADJECTIVES 

This test assesses three tenses: simple present, present continuous, and simple past, in affirmative, negative, interrogative, and W/H question forms. It also assesses the formation of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Simple Present/Continuous, Simple Past, Comparative and Superlative Adjectives and Adverbs

Students will practice the harder part of Comparatives and Superlatives- transforming the Irregular Adjectives and the ones that need doubling of the consonant.

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives: Irregular Adjectives and Double Consonant, Part 2

This worksheet is designed to be used in conjunction with a YouTube video to practise the use of "comparatives and superlatives". Play the video using this link  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPGyb5pZpg   



There are a set of questions which can be answered by watching the video. All of the questions and answers require use of comparative and superlative adjective structures.



The activity should be done as a controlled practice or an activation task after the grammar structures have been taught. 



The answer key is provided. 



I hope your students enjoy it! :)





Student Instructions



1. Watch the video.

2. Read the questions before each clip. Try to guess the answers while talking to a partner.

3. Watch the clip carefully to find the answer.

4. Write the answers on the worksheet provided. 

5. Use comparatives (adj+er / more +adj) and superlatives (the adj+est / the most +adj) to answer the questions.



Comparatives and Superlatives - World Knowledge Video Activity

Worksheet with some vocabulary and pictures to describe. There are some questions to help students with their descriptions fo the photos.

Time to talk (1)- Comparatives and superlatives

Comparatives and Superlatives + Plural of Nouns (easy); In the first exercise students must read the sentences and decide which one is the correct choice-the comparative or the superlative. In the second-Regular and Iregular plural of Nouns is needed. Fully editable.

Comparatives and Superlatives + Plural of Nouns (easy)

I love Simpsons is a worksheet series where teachers and students can find a little grammar guide (written in Spanish) and some exercises to practise with our favourite Simpsons characters.

In this worksheet we can study the Comparatives and Superlatives with all the characters in The Krusty Show. Have fun! :)

I love Simpsons - Adjectives, Comparatives and Superlatives

A worksheet containing a set of cards + rules of the game on comparatives and superlatives + crosswords. It's fully editable, so you can add or erase anything you need. Hope it helps.

Comparatives and Superlatives 3 - game cards + crosswords

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

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Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

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Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

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A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

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A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

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The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

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Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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341 Comparative and superlative English ESL worksheets pdf & doc