Grade 7 ESL Teacher Resources: Comparatives & Superlatives — Games, Activities and Exit Tickets

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.

How to Use This Resource

• Top Trumps: Deal the cards equally. Players hold their cards face up in a pile so they can only see the top card.
• Compare and Choose: Read the table about three phones.
• Spelling Race: Say an adjective (e.g. "thin").
• Exit tickets: hand out in the last 3–5 minutes and sort into got it / nearly / not yet.

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.

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".

What's Included

• Activity 1: Top Trumps (13 minutes, 2–4 players)
• Activity 2: Compare and Choose (10 minutes, Pairs)
• Activity 3: Spelling Race (5 minutes, Two teams)
• 4 cut-out exit tickets with answers

Additional Files

• Grade 7 ESL Teacher Resources: Comparatives & Superlatives (DOCX)

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