UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MANABÍ

INSTITUTO DE LENGUAS – DEPARTAMENTO DE LENGUAS MODERNAS

SEMESTER JUNE – OCTOBER 2020
PROFICIENCY ENGLISH IV

TASK #2: COMPARISONS

Name: Luis Anthony Hidalgo Ponce Class:4to F

1. Write the comparative and superlative forms of these adjectives.

Cold colder the coldest
a. Hot Hotter the hottest
b. Small smaller the smallest
c. Big Bigger the Biggest
d. Far further/farther furthest/farthest
e. Interesting more Interesting most Interesting
f. Good Better The Best
g. Hungry Hungrier Hungriest
h. Bad Worse The Worst
i. Nice Nicer The Nicest
j. Friendly Friendlier The Friendliest

2. Make comparative sentences using the following sentences.

Geography / hard / English Geography is harder than English

a. MP3s / new / CDs Mp3s are newer than CDs

b. My sister / intelligent / her friends My sister is more intelligent than her friends

c. This bag / expensive / that bag This bag is more expensive than this bag

d. Her test results / bad / mine Her test results are worse than mine

e. John’s homework / good / yours John homework is best than yours

3. Read and complete the sentences with the COMPARATIVE or SUPERLATIVE form of the adjectives
in the brackets.

Greece is warmer than England. (warm)

Which was the biggest dinosaur of all? (big)

a. English lessons are ………..more interesting than ………… Italian lessons. (interesting)

b. Your cat is ……fatter…….… my cat. (fat)

c. The food at Jim’s Restaurant is ……… tastier ……… the food here. (tasty)

d. I think History is ………… is the most difficult ….…… subject at our school. (difficult)

e. Life is …………… easiest …………… for us now than it was. (easy)

f. These shoes are ……… are more comfortable ………… than my old shoes. (comfortable)

g. What do you think is ……… the most useful …… subject at school? (useful)

h. I’m good at English but I’m not …… the best …… (good) in my class.

i. Stefano is …………better………… than me. (good)

j. Kevin is ………………oldest………………… boy in this class. (old)

4. Complete the text with these words.

bad good worse better worst best

My sister and I work very hard and we both get (1) good marks at school. But she says that she is (2)

…better.… than me at English because she studies more. I asked my teacher to give us a test so we

could find out who is the (3) …best.. ! Well, we did the test yesterday but we were both ill – and

guess what? Our marks were very (4) ……bad…….. ! She got 10 out of 20 and I only got 8 – my marks

were (5) …………worse..……... than hers! Now she’s telling people at school that I’m the (6) …..……

worst…….. student in the world!!!

5. Draw or paste two images of your favorite places, people, clothes or possessions. Write a
description of them using comparisons and superlatives. You can use the vocabulary in Lesson 3
and more examples shown in Lesson 1 of Speaking from your books. (150 words at least)

Today I’ll be describing about two girl groups; Twice is a Korean girl group that was debuted in
2015, they have 9 members, 5 of them are Korean, 3 Japanese and 1 Taiwanese. They have around
15 studio albums and they are considered the most popular girl group in the K-pop industry.

Now another girl group that I am going to describe is Little mix; They debuted in 2011, they have
four members and all of them are British. They have 5 studio albums and they are the biggest girl
group after spice girls.

Comparation: Little mix and Twice…

Twice have the most members here.

Little mix have the longest time doing music.

Twice have the shortest time as a group.

Twice have more albums than Little mix.

Twice have more foreign members.

Little mix have more ballads.

Little mix have more streaming on Spotify.

Little mix have more collaborations with other singers.

( 153 total words)