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ACTIVITY: Comparative and Superlative dominoes – Groupwork: speaking
TIME: 30 min
AIM: To practise the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives by playing a dominoes game
LANGUAGE: Function 3.1 Making comparisons/expressing degrees of difference Grammar: Present simple tense
PROCEDURE
OPTION:
Before class: Make one copy of the worksheet for each group of four students. Cut them
If you have a
up into dominoes as indicated. Get a couple of posters showing celebrities known to multiple of 3 class
students. size, for example,
In class: 42 students, you
can divide them
1. Stick one of the posters on the board. Do some brainstorm on the adjectives this person
into groups of
represents to students (either positive or negative). Write at least a short adjective and a three and have
long one from the students’ examples on the board. the dominoes left
2. Stick the second poster. Allow students to brainstorm some more, but when an adjective as stock.
POSSIBLE FOLLOW UP: You can ask students to leave their dominoes on the table/floor once they finish the game
and use some of the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives placed to create a set of up to 15 sentences
describing and comparing two different items of clothing, people, cars, etc. (each group could be assigned a certain
topic). For example:
Our uniform is more fashionable than secondary 30’s one. Carlos is the tallest student in the class., etc.
IDEAS FOR EVALUATION: You can make a list of sentences eliciting from groups at random from OPTION:
those produced during the follow up exercise, re-arrange students into new groups, and ask them To take this a step
to check if they are correct, make the necessary corrections, and discuss within their new groups further, you can
ask students to
whether the sentences are true or false. re-write the false
sentences in
order to make
them true,
practicing
negative
statements.