Comparatives superlatives

4.2 Comparatives and Superlatives

You need:
Student books p. 50
iPads

Week task for Tues. Jan 8th:
  • Do online practice 4.2 + 4.4
  • Study WL 3 and 4


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4.2 Comparatives and Superlatives

You need:
Student books p. 50
iPads

Week task for Tues. Jan 8th:
  • Do online practice 4.2 + 4.4
  • Study WL 3 and 4


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Plan for today: 
- Announcements
- Writing File - hand in your email !
- Comparatives and superlatives 

Slide 2 - Slide

Comparatives and superlatives
(= vergelijkende en overtreffende trap)

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Comparatives and superlatives
old
older
oldest

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Comparatives and superlatives
expensive
more expensive
most expensive

Slide 5 - Slide

Comparatives and superlatives

  • Comparatives en superlatives zijn de trappen van vergelijking.
  • Je hebt de vergrotende (comparative) en overtreffende (superlative) trap.

Slide 6 - Slide

Comparatives & superlatives 
Voor woorden van één lettergreep en  woorden van twee lettergrepen die eindigen op medeklinker + y gebruiken we -er en the ...... -est
My cat is lazy, yours is lazier, my friend's cat is the laziest. 
Norway is cold, Russia is colder, Antarctica is the coldest. 

Voor woorden van twee of meer lettergrepen (behalve die hierboven op y) gebruiken we more & the ...... most. 
This phone is expensive, that one is more expensive, the newest iPhone is the most expensive 

Slide 7 - Slide

Comparatives and Superlatives

  • Sommige woorden zijn uitzonderingen en hebben onregelmatige vormen:

  • good - better - best
  • bad - worse - worst
'exceptions'

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BE CAREFUL
Bij vergelijken schrijf je than met een a !
    (then met een e gaat over tijd) 


Als je met more / most werkt verandert het bijvoeglijk naamwoord niet. 
---->  more expensive than  / the most expensive

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+er / + est 
more / most 
expensive 
happy
interesting
smart
boring
scary
full
intelligent
tall
ridiculous

Slide 11 - Drag question

Comparatives:
My dog is ...(scary) than yours.
A
scarier
B
more scary
C
scaryer
D
most scary

Slide 12 - Quiz

Comparatives:
French is ...(difficult) than English.
A
difficulter
B
more difficult
C
more difficulter
D
most difficultest

Slide 13 - Quiz

Superlatives:
This is the ......... film I have ever seen.
A
scarier
B
more scary
C
most scary
D
scariest

Slide 14 - Quiz

Comparatives:
My friend is ...(intelligent) than I am .
A
intelligenter
B
more intelligenter
C
more intelligent
D
most intelligent

Slide 15 - Quiz

Which comparative or superlative?
This place is ________ than a freezer.
A
colder
B
coldest
C
more cold
D
most cold

Slide 16 - Quiz

Choose the superlative form: "It looks like our _______ fears are coming true."
A
most bad
B
worse
C
worst
D
baddest

Slide 17 - Quiz

Which comparative or superlative?
We climbed _______ than they did.
A
higher
B
highest
C
more high
D
most high

Slide 18 - Quiz

Which comparative or superlative?
Their team is _____ at soccer then we are.
A
better
B
best
C
more good
D
most good

Slide 19 - Quiz

Which comparative or superlative?
This math test is ________ test I have ever taken.
A
more difficult
B
most difficult
C
the difficultest
D
the most difficult

Slide 20 - Quiz

Which comparative or superlative?
He carried the glass statue ________ out of anyone there.
A
more carefully
B
the most carefully
C
carefullier
D
the carefulliest

Slide 21 - Quiz



A tiger is...... than a lion
A
dangerous
B
more dangerous
C
dangerouser
D
most dangerous

Slide 22 - Quiz

Fill in the superlative:
Lions are faster than lions, but cheetahs are ............
A
the fastest
B
fast
C
as fast as
D
even faster

Slide 23 - Quiz

Time to get to work

4.2 Student book p. 50
ex. 3 , 4, 6

Extra Practice?
Do the exercises on Peppels (Go to Jan 22).
--> Comparatives / Superlatives PDF
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Answers

4.2 Student book p. 50

ex. 3 
ex. 4


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ASK AROUND...
Choose 4 questions
  • Go ask 4 different people.
  • Remember their answers /
       or write it down !

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