Lead in

Watch the video and discuss the questions with your partner.

- Do you have vending machines in your country?

- What do you usually buy from them?
- Can you imagine the most expensive item you could buy from a
vending machine?
- What is the strangest item you've ever seen sold in a vending
machine?
- Which country has the highest number of vending machines ?
 Look at the sentence:

thehighest
Japan has the est number of vending machines in the world.
compare one
thing to all the
others =
● Is this sentence comparing two things or one thing to all the others ? *superlative*
● Is this sentence showing extremes (the most or the least) ? yes
● Is the underlined adjective short or long ? Short
● What comes before the adjective in a superlative?
● What comes after 'adjective' in a superlative? (The)

(-est)
 a bottle of water the least
I think …………………….
a smartphone could be the most expensive item you could buy
……………
from a vending machine.
Long

● Is the underlined adjective short or long ?

● Do we add -est to all adjectives ? No, only to short
adjectives

● If we changed "smartphone" to "a bottle of water", how would

the superlative change ? Yes
● Are there exceptions ?
 1. Japan has the highest number of vending machines in
the world.

Look at these 2. The curry and rice from the vending machine is by far
the best vending machine meal I had ever eaten.
sentences: 3. While vending machines offer convenience, the curry
and rice from a restaurant is by far superior in taste
compared to the vending machine version.

Which sentences show that there is a big difference between two

things?

Sentences 2 & 3
 What is the
difference?
- Japan has the highest number of vending machines per
person in the world. Superlative

- It’s much cheaper for sellers to run a vending machine

than it is to run a shop. Comparative
We often use present perfect with ‘ever’

This is the best meal I’ve ever eaten.

Present perfect
c. the farthest c. the driest

c. older
b. The oldest man in Choose the correct
superlative or comparative
a. the most important
forms to complete these
sentences.
c. better

b. the highest

c. the happiest

b. the saddest
a. the thinnest
Comparative or superlative?
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the most delicious

hotter than
slower than
the cleverest
worst

better than
busiest
 Think of two jobs

● Which one is the most popular?

1/ write down your own ideas about

Useful Language
each prompt. it’s as good as ...,
2/ make notes about why one might a little ...,
be better. by far ...,
much ...
 References

- https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3_-pmGG
N-HI
- Cambridge EMPOWER SECOND
EDITION TEACHER’S BOOK B1+
Intermediate
- Cambridge EMPOWER SECOND
EDITION STUDENT'S BOOK B1+
Intermediate
- https://test-english.com/grammar-points/b
1/comparative-superlative-adjectives-adve
rbs/2/
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