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Superlative Exchange

ESL Superlative Adjectives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled and Freer Practice - Group and Pair Work - Elementary (A1-A2) - 25 minutes

Here is an enjoyable superlatives speaking activity to help students practice superlative forms of basic adjectives and use them in questions and responses. In two groups, students complete conversation questions with the superlative forms of the adjectives in brackets. Next, students pair up with someone from the other group and take turns asking the conversation questions to their partner, e.g. 'What is your best subject in school?' Depending on your students' ability, they can give one-word answers or make sentences using the superlative adjective, e.g. 'English' or 'My best subject in school is English.' The other student then writes their partner's answer in the space provided. When the students have finished, they give feedback to the class on their partner's answers by making superlative sentences, e.g. 'Jack's best subject in school is English.'
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Let's Learn Superlatives

ESL Superlative Adjectives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Forming Words, Gap-fill, Matching, Error Correction, Sentence Completion - Pre-intermedidate (A2) - 25 minutes

Here is a productive superlatives worksheet to help students learn and practice superlative adjectives and sentence structure. First, students write the superlative form of ten adjectives. Students then complete sentences with the superlative adjectives. Next, students match another ten adjectives with their correct superlative forms. After that, students rewrite superlative sentences, correcting the mistakes. Finally, students create their own superlative sentences using adjectives in brackets and then compare their answers with a partner.
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Superlative Crocodile Races

ESL Superlatives Game - Grammar: Following Instructions - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 15 minutes

In this energizing superlatives game, students perform tasks related to superlatives. Mark boats on the floor using coloured tape. Make each boat just long and wide enough for each team to stand in. Tell the students that they are in crocodile-infested waters and that if they step out of the boat, they are going to be eaten. The teams then perform tasks in the boat by lining up in a certain superlative order, e.g. tallest to shortest. The first team to successfully arrange themselves in the superlative order scores a point. If a student falls out of the boat, that team is out of the round. Play several rounds with the students lining up according to different superlative adjectives each time, e.g. oldest to youngest, longest hair to shortest hair, etc. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Superlative Family Fortunes

ESL Superlatives Game - Vocabulary: Guessing - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 45 minutes

Here is free superlatives game to play in class based on the TV show 'Family Fortunes'. The aim of the game is to guess the top five answers in a superlative category. One student from each team comes to the front of the class. Pick a card at random and read out the heading as a question, e.g. 'What are the most visited countries in the world?' The student who gives the highest-ranking answer wins the choice for their team to play or pass, depending on the difficulty of the category. Students in the playing team then take it in turns to guess the other top five answers on the card. The playing team gets three lifelines per round. This means if a student in the team gives an answer that is not in the top five, the team loses one lifeline. If the team guesses all the answers, they win ten points. If the team gives three answers that are not in the top five, play passes to the other team. The other team then has one chance to name one of the other top five answers. If they manage to do this, they win ten points. Then, two new students come to the front of the class and so on. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Superlative Olympics

ESL Superlatives Game - Grammar: Writing Sentences from Prompts - Group Work - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 40 minutes

Here is an engaging superlatives game to play in class. In the game, students take part in competitions and write superlative sentences about the results. Tell the students that they are going to take part in a Superlative Olympics. There are ten competitions to enter in total and each student must take part in at least one event. The teams then work out who would be most suitable to take part in each competition. When the teams have chosen a student for each competition, the competitors come to the front of the class and take part in the first event, i.e. the best dancer. If the event is subjective, the class votes for the winner. The competitor who wins each event scores one point for their team. After the event, all team members race to write down a superlative sentence about the result, e.g. 'Emma is the best dancer'. The first team to have all team members do this correctly scores an extra point. This process continues until all the events have been completed. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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Superlatives Survey

ESL Superlatives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Reading and Answering Questions, Sentence Completion, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pre-intermediate (A2) - 25 minutes

In this insightful superlatives activity, students conduct a survey in order to complete superlative statements about their classmates. The students' task is to ask the question or questions on their card to everyone in the class in order to complete the superlative statement on their card. Students go around the class asking their superlative questions and noting down each response. When the students have spoken to everyone, they look at their results and then complete the statement with the correct student's name and superlative form of the adjective in brackets, e.g. 'Sam got up the earliest this morning'. Students then report back to the class by reading their statements aloud and giving more details.
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Famous Four Superlatives

ESL Superlatives Activity - Grammar, Reading and Speaking: Reading for Detail, Answering Comprehension Questions, Information Gap, Discussion, Freer Practice - Group Work - Intermediate (B1) - 25 minutes

In this productive superlative adjectives activity, students find out information about four famous people in history and then ask and answer questions using superlative adjectives. First, students read about the famous person on their card and complete a chart with information about them. Students then complete the information about the other famous people in the chart by finding students who have the other famous people cards and asking them questions. Next, students use the information from the chart to answer superlative questions about the four famous people. In groups, students then discuss three superlative questions on the worksheet and write the answers in the spaces provided. Students then write their own superlative question and ask it to the group. Finally, review the students' questions and answers together as a class.
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Superlative Media

ESL Superlatives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Discussion, Freer Practice - Group Work - Intermediate (B1) - 35 minutes

Here is a memorable superlative adjectives activity for students to use in class. In the activity, students complete sentences giving their opinions on different forms of media and then discuss their opinions in groups. Students begin by completing sentences about TV, film, the Internet and music. The students do this by changing adjectives in brackets to their superlative forms and completing sentences with their opinions, e.g. 'The most famous band is the Beatles'. Students then take it in turns to tell the group their opinions, e.g. 'I think the most famous band is the Beatles'. The other students listen and agree or disagree based on what they have written. Afterwards, there is a class feedback session to review the superlative adjective forms and find out about the most popular opinions from the class.
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Superlative Strips

ESL Superlative Questions Activity - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Group Work - Intermediate (B1) - 40 minutes

In this useful superlatives speaking activity, students practice asking and answering questions containing superlatives. Students take it in turns to pick up a superlative question strip and change the adjective in the question into its superlative form. The student then writes the superlative form of the adjective in the space provided and asks the question to the group. Each student in the group then answers the question in turn by making a superlative sentence. Then, the next student picks up a strip and so on. Afterwards, there is a class feedback session to review the superlative adjectives and find out the most interesting answers from each group.
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Superlatives Board Game

ESL Superlatives Board Game - Speaking: Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work - Intermediate (B1) - 30 minutes

This free superlatives board game can be used to practice or review superlative sentence structure. Students take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a student lands on a square, they use superlatives to talk about the topic on the square for 30 seconds without stopping. If a student can’t think of anything to say, forms a superlative adjective incorrectly, uses the wrong sentence structure, or stops talking before the 30 seconds are up, they go back two squares. The first student to reach the finish wins the game.
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Superlatives Practice

ESL Superlatives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Categorizing, Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Writing Sentences from Prompts - Intermediate (B1) - 30 minutes

This comprehensive superlative adjectives worksheet helps students to learn and practice superlative adjectives and sentence structure. To begin, students categorize adjectives and write them in their superlative form. Next, students complete sentences with the superlative form of adjectives in brackets. Students then move on to rearrange words to form superlative sentences. Lastly, students create their own superlative sentences from prompts.
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I'll get by far the most

ESL Superlatives Game - Grammar: Forming True or False Sentences, Guessing, Freer Practice - Pair Work - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 25 minutes

In this fun superlatives game, students play a true or false guessing game by forming superlative sentences with the pre-modifier by far to make superlative adjectives stronger. In pairs, players take it in turns to choose an adjective square from the game board and form a true or false sentence containing the pre-modifier by far followed by the adjective in its superlative form, e.g. 'Chemistry was by far the most challenging course at my high school'. If the sentence is grammatically correct, the other player guesses whether the sentence is true or false. If the other player guesses correctly or the sentence is not grammatically correct, the other player writes their name in the square. If the other player guesses incorrectly, the player who made the sentence writes their name in the square. Play continues until all the squares have been claimed. The player with the most squares wins the game. When the players have finished, they play again using the game two board.
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The best game of dominoes I have played

ESL Superlatives Game - Grammar: Matching, Forming Sentences, Freer Practice - Group Work - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 25 minutes

In this creative superlatives game, students play dominoes by making sentences with a superlative adjective + noun (+ that) followed by a verb clause to talk about something unique. The first player pairs an adjective with a verb by placing one of their dominoes at either end of the domino on the table. The player then forms a sentence containing the adjective in its superlative form followed by a noun and a verb clause optionally introduced by that: superlative adjective + noun (+ that) + verb clause. The verb may be in any suitable form, e.g. 'I will book the most relaxing holiday (that) I can afford'. The other group members judge the player's sentence. If the sentence is grammatically correct, the player leaves the domino where it is. If not, the player picks up the domino and keeps it. The next player then tries to put down one of their dominoes at either end of the domino chain and so on. The first player to get rid of all their dominoes wins the game.
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The Best in Town

ESL Superlatives Activity - Speaking: Forming, Asking and Answering Questions, Communicative Practice - Group Work - Upper-intermediate (B2) - 35 minutes

In this interesting superlatives speaking activity, students ask and answer questions about their town or city using superlatives. Students take it in turns to pick up a card and make a superlative question about their town or city using the adjective in brackets. The student then asks the question to the group. Each group member answers in turn. The group then discusses their answers and tries to reach an agreement. The student then writes the agreed-upon answer on the card and it's the next students turn to pick up a card and ask a question. Afterwards, there is a class feedback session to find out the groups' answers and if they agree or disagree with each other.
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