1. Complete the table with the comparative forms.
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Adjective |
Comparative |
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Short adjectives |
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tall |
1) |
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large |
2) |
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hot |
3) |
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early |
4) |
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Long adjectives |
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powerful |
5) |
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spectacular |
6) |
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Irregular adjectives |
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good |
7) |
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bad |
8) |
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far |
9) |
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Quantifiers |
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few |
10) |
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much / many |
11) |
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little |
12) |
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1) taller 2) larger 3) hotter 4) earlier
5) more powerful 6) more spectacular 7) better
8) worse 9) further 10) fewer 11) more 12) less
2. Complete the fact file. Use the comparative form of the words in brackets.
FACT FILE: COMETS AND ASTEROIDS
● Comets are made of ice and pieces of rock. Asteroids are made of rock and metal, and are 1) _____. (heavy).
● Most comets are much 2) _____. (big) than most asteroids.
● You can find asteroids 3) _____. (close) to the sun than comets. If comets get too close to the sun, they melt. So you can only find comets much 4) _____. (far) from the sun, where it is 5) _____. (cold) and ice doesn’t melt.
● Comets are 6) _____. (bright) than asteroids because they have long, white tails.
● Comets are 7) _____. (rate) than asteroids. There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our solar system, but far 8) _____. (few) comets – only about 4,000. For this reason, asteroids are 9) _____. (dangerous), as one of them is 10) _____. (likely) to hit the Earth.
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1) heavier 2) bigger 3) closer 4) further 5) colder
6) brighter 7) rarer 8) fewer 9) more dangerous
10) more likely
3. Compare the weather in the two cities. Write sentences with as ___ as and not as ___ as.
1) Edinburgh isn’t as sunny as London. (sunny)
2) _____ (warm)
3) _____ (cloudy)
4) _____ (bright)
5) _____ (wet)
6) _____ (windy)
7) _____ (dry)
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2) London is as warm as Edinburgh.
3) London isn’t as cloudy as Edinburgh.
4) Edinburgh isn’t as bright as London.
5) London isn’t as wet as Edinburgh.
6) London is as windy as Edinburgh.
7) Edinburgh isn’t as dry as London.
4. Complete the sentences with as, more, much or than.
1) Mist isn’t as thick ________. fog.
2) The weather today is ________. wetter ________. yesterday.
3) ‘Is a hurricane ________. powerful than a thunderstorm?’ ‘Yes, it’s ________. stronger.’
4) The moon isn’t ________. bright ________. the sun.
5) Are hurricanes more dangerous ________. tornadoes?
6) ‘I think maths is much ________. interesting ________. geography.’
‘Do you? I don’t think it’s ________. interesting as geography, but it’s ________. more useful.’
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1) as 2) much, than 3) more, much 4) as, as
5) than 6) more, than, as, much
5. Write comparative sentences and questions.
1) New York / cold / Los Angeles.
New York is colder than Los Angeles.
2) The Atlantic Ocean / stor / the Mediterranean
________
3) Hawaii / as beautiful / Tahiti
________
4) Manchester / not as big / London
________
5) earthquakes / as dangerous / mudslides?
________
6) hailstorms / frequent / tornadoes
________
7) Rome / hot / Cairo?
________
8) storms / not as scary / hurricanes
________
9) hailstones / big / snowflakes?
________
10) London / not as sunny / Madrid
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2) The Atlantic ocean is stormier than the Mediterranean.
3) Hawaii is as beautiful as Tahiti.
4) Manchester isn’t as big as London.
5) Are earthquakes as dangerous as mudslides?
6) Hailstorms are more frequent than tornadoes.
7) Is Warsaw as hot as Lublin?
8) Storms aren’t as scary as hurricanes.
9) Are hailstones bigger than snowflakes?
10) London isn’t as sunny as Madrid.
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