9C GRAMMAR comparative adjectives

Use the information to make comparative sentences.

1 2
Length 1 The Golden Gate Bridge is shorter Inventions
the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge than the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge.
(Japan): 1,991m Facebook: 2004

the Golden Gate Bridge

2 Skype is older than Facebook. Skype: 2003
(USA): 1,280m
short old

3 4
Price 3 A Cartier watch is more Average summer
expensive than a Swatch. temperature
a Cartier watch: £4,500
London: 24°C
a Swatch watch: £38
4 New York is hotter than London. New York: 28.5°C

expensive hot

5 6
Vitamin C 5 An apple is healtier than an orange. Annual rainfall
an orange: approx. 70 mg per orange Buenos Aires: 983mm
an apple: approx. 9 mg per apple Rome: 584mm
6 Buenos Aires is drier than Rome.

healthy dry

7 8
Speed 7 A man is slower than a horse. Size
a man: 44.88kph Russia: 17,075,200 km2

a horse: 76.44kph Canada: 9,984,670 km2

8 Russia is bigger than Canada.

slow big

9 10
People per km2 9 Shanghai there are more people Deaths per
than Istanbul. year worldwide
Shanghai: 4,000
10 Traveling by car is more dangerous travelling by car: approx. 1,250,000
Istanbul: 2,500 Than traveling by plane. travelling by plane: approx. 600

crowded dangerous

11 12
Height 11 The Burj Khalifa tower is taller Weather
the Burj Khalifa tower than the Empire State Building. Paris (France) average hours
(Dubai): 828 m sunlight per day: 4.9
the Empire State Building Stockholm (Sweden) average hours
(New York): 381 m sunlight per day: 5.4
12 Paris (France) is sunnier than
tall Stockholm (Sweden). sunny

ACTIVATION
Test your memory. Cover the sentences and look at the information. Compare the things.

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