Grade 7 ESL PowerPoint: Comparatives and Superlatives (15 Slides)

Lesson Sequence

• Open in PowerPoint and start the slide show. Click to reveal each answer after students respond.
• Read the speaker notes (View > Notes) for questions to ask and common mistakes.
• Use with the lesson plan: it lists which slides belong to each lesson.

Teacher Tips

Use real data your students care about: football players, phones, local places. Two-syllable adjectives are tricky. Many ending in -y take -ier (happier); many others take more (more careful). When unsure, teach "more".

Learning Objectives

• Form comparatives and superlatives of short adjectives with the correct spelling (-er/-est, -ier/-iest, double consonant).
• Use more/most with longer adjectives.
• Use the irregular forms good, bad and far correctly.
• Compare two things with "than" and one thing in a group with "the … in/of".
• Use (not) as … as to say things are equal or different.
• Write a short comparison paragraph using data from a table.

Differentiation

Support: Give a rule card: 1 syllable → -er/-est; 2 syllables ending in y → -ier/-iest; 2+ syllables → more/most. Challenge: Use modifiers: much bigger, a bit cheaper, by far the best. English language learners: Clap syllables to choose -er or more.

What's Included

• 15-slide PowerPoint (PPTX, editable)
• Speaker notes on every slide
• Click-to-reveal answers for questions
• Key vocabulary slide with pictures
• Summary slide to finish the lesson

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