9C GRAMMAR comparative adjectives

Use the information to make comparative sentences.

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

the Golden Gate Bridge 2 Skype: 2003

(USA): 1,280 m
short old

3 4
Price 3 Average summer
temperature
a Cartier watch: £4,500
London: 24 °C
a Swatch watch: £38
4 New York: 28.5 °C

expensive hot

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

healthy dry

7 8
Speed 7 Size
a man: 44.88 kph Russia: 17,075,200 km2

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

8

slow big

9 10
People per km2 9 Deaths per
year worldwide
Shanghai: 4,000
travelling by car: approx. 1,250,000
Istanbul: 2,500
10 travelling by plane: approx. 600

crowded dangerous

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

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

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10A GRAMMAR superlative adjectives
a Write the questions.

1 big / country / world

What’s the biggest country in the world?

2 wet / town / world

?

3 small / country / world

?

4 high / city / world

?

5 long / beach / world

?

6 dry / desert / world

?

7 busy / train station / world

?

8 populated / city / world

?

9 popular / tourist destination / world

?

10 expensive / city / world

?

b Match questions 1–10 to the answers below.

Vatican City Cherrapunji in India

Shinjuku Station in Tokyo Zurich in Switzerland
Praia do Cassino in Brazil the Atacama Desert in Chile
Shanghai in China La Rinconada in Peru
Russia France

ACTIVATION
Test your memory. Work with a partner. Cover the questions and look at the answers.
Take turns to make sentences about each place.

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.

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