8B Comparative adjectives board game

1
START
2 3 4 5 6 7

Which activity
Who is Which sport is Who arrived Whose life was is

(pretty), (popular) (late) (sad), START (good),

Kate Middleton
or
in your country,
football or
for school
today, you or
Van Gogh’s
or
AGAIN going to a gig
or
Katy Perry? basketball? your partner? Picasso’s? going out for a
meal?

17 18 19 20 21 8

Which room in Which activity

Who are Who
your house is Which continent are you
is
(bad)
(clean),
is
TOSS (interested)
drivers, men
or
the kitchen (big), North or AGAIN in, surfing the Net
(fit),
you or your
or South America? or
women? partner?
your bedroom? reading books?

16 24 23 22 9

Who lives
Who are When were you Which
Which sport is
subject is
(far)
(friendly), (busy),
from the school, (safe),
the boys FINISH you
yesterday
ice hockey
(important),
or or history
or or
girls in your the day before or
your English rugby?
class? yesterday? English?
teacher?

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Which building Whose When do

Who was
is voice is you usually feel
MISS TOSS
A (modern),
(brave),
(loud), (hungry),
Rosa Parks
AGAIN
TURN your house
or
or
your mum’s
or
before breakfast
or
Mother Theresa?
your school? your dad’s? before dinner?

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 8B Comparative adjectives board game

Aims  To review and practise comparative adjectives

Time  15 minutes
Materials  1 handout for each pair of students; each pair also
needs a coin and two counters
• Divide the class into pairs and give each pair a handout. Tell
them to read the questions and write the comparative forms
of the adjectives in brackets into the gaps. Check answers as
a class, ensuring accurate spelling.
Answer Key
2 prettier 3 more popular 4 later
5 sadder 7 better 8 fitter
9 more important 11 hungrier 12 louder
13 braver 14 more modern 16 friendlier
17 worse 18 cleaner 19 bigger
21 more interested 22 safer 23 busier
24 further
• Students play the board game in pairs as follows. Tell
students to decide which side of their coin is worth one and
which is worth two. This is the number of spaces students
will move their counter if the coin lands on that side.
Students place their counters on the START square. Explain
that this is square one. One student tosses the coin, moves
their counter one or two squares and answers the question.
Tell the students that they must answer with full sentences.
Circulate and monitor the activity, ensuring students are
using comparative forms accurately. The winner is the first
student to the FINISH square, or the player on the highest
number when you stop the game.
• As an extension task, students choose ten of the questions
and write their answers. 

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