SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES

I. Complete the text with the superlative form of the adjectives in the box.
tall Populated good intelligent loud
big long bad dangerous heavy

1. The ________________ woman in the world measure 2.31 meters.

2. The ________________ applause ever received was by Placido Domingo. The public applauded for one hour and 20
minutes after his performance of Othello in Vienna.
3. The ________________ woman weighed 544 kilos in 1986. Later, in 1994, she lost weight and went down to 128
kilos.
4. The ________________ human feet in the world measure 47 centimeters.
5. The ________________ hurricane to date was “Hurricane Mitch” in 1998.
6. The ________________ mammal is the blue whale. Its “songs” can be heard 850 kilometers away.
7. The ________________ city is Tokyo. It has about 27 million inhabitants.
8. The ________________ insect is the Anopheles mosquito, which infects two million people a year with malaria.
9. The ________________ animal Koko, a gorilla in the San Francisco zoo.
10. The ________________ soccer player in history to date is Pele.

II. Read and solve the riddle. Color the stars according to the text.

The blue star and the red star are the same size. The blue star is bigger than the black star but smaller than
the pink one. The yellow star is bigger than the pink one but smaller than the purple one. So the black star is
the smallest and the purple one the biggest.