Comparatives ESL Games, Activities and Worksheets

Comparative Cards

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Game - Grammar: Forming Sentences - Pair Work

In this free comparatives game, students link nouns together by making comparative sentences with than. One student goes first and puts one of their noun cards face-up on the table. Students then... read more

Fun Facts

Elementary (A1-A2) 20 minutes
ESL Comparative Adjectives Game - Grammar: Gap-fill, Guessing - Pair Work

In this fun comparative adjectives game, students guess missing comparative adjectives in sentences about fun facts. Both students have the same sentences, but where they have a comparative... read more

Introduction to Comparatives

Elementary (A1-A2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparative Adjectives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Categorizing, Gap-fill, Unscrambling, Binary Choice

This comprehensive comparatives worksheet helps students learn and practice comparative adjectives and comparative sentences with than. Students begin... read more

Comparative Showdown

Pre-intermediate (A2) 25 minutes
ESL Comparatives Game - Grammar and Speaking: Forming Sentences from Prompts

In this fast-paced comparatives game, students practice forming grammatically correct comparative sentences by comparing two things. One student from each team comes to the front of the... read more

Fill in the Blank

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparative Adjectives Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Forming Sentences, Gap-fill, Guessing - Group Work

In this entertaining comparatives game, students race to guess missing comparative adjectives in sentences. Students take turns picking up a card and... read more

Run Faster

Pre-intermediate (A2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Activity - Speaking: Running Dictation - Grammar Game: Writing Sentences from Prompts, True or False, Guessing - Group and Pair Work

In this free comparatives running dictation activity, students dictate sentences and then use them to make true or false... read more

Which bicycle?

Pre-intermediate (A2) 40 minutes
ESL Comparatives Activity - Reading, Grammar and Vocabulary Exercises: Scanning, Sentence Completion - Speaking Activity: Information Gap - Pair Work

Here is an imaginative comparatives information gap activity for students to do in class. In the activity, students... read more

A lot, Much and Slightly

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Comparisons Game - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Sentence Completion, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this creative making comparisons game, students match sentence halves together and connect them with the modifiers a lot, much or slightly and suitable... read more

As ... As Expressions

Intermediate (B1) 45 minutes
ESL As ... As Expressions Activity - Grammar Exercise: Gap-fill - Speaking Activity: Guided Discussion, Role-Play, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this useful comparative expressions activity, students learn common comparative expressions with as ... as... read more

Comparative Clues

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Game - Grammar: Forming Sentences from Prompts, Guessing - Pair Work

In this productive comparatives game, students give comparative clues to a partner who tries to guess who or what is being described. First, in pairs... read more

Comparatives Board Game

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Board Game - Grammar and Speaking: Changing Word Forms, Asking and Answering Questions, Freer Practice - Pair Work

In this free comparatives board game, students change adjectives into their comparative forms and... read more

Comparatives Practice

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Comparatives Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Gap-Fill, Binary Choice, Rewriting Sentences

Here is an insightful comparatives worksheet to help students practice comparative adjectives and the as ... as comparative structure. First, students... read more

Comparatives Survey

Intermediate (B1) 25 minutes
ESL Comparatives Activity - Grammar, Speaking and Writing: Gap-fill, Asking and Answering Questions, Summary Writing, Controlled and Freer Practice

In this interesting comparatives activity, students conduct a class survey where they ask and answer questions... read more

Which is better?

Intermediate (B1) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Activity - Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guided Discussion, Freer Practice - Group Work

Here is an engaging comparatives speaking activity for students to do in class. In the activity, students use comparatives to say which of two things they think... read more

Comparative Communication

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparative Adjectives Game - Grammar and Vocabulary: Gap-fill, Guessing - Pair Work

Here is a comparative adjectives guessing game for Business English students or adults to play in class on the topic of communication. Both students have the... read more

Comparative Correlative: The ... the

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Comparative Correlative Worksheet - Grammar Exercises: Matching, Rewriting Sentence, Writing Short Answers - Speaking Game: Forming Sentences - Pair Work

This detailed correlative comparisons worksheet helps students practice comparative correlative... read more

Complex Comparisons

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Comparatives Activity - Grammar and Writing: Information Gap, Matching, Writing Sentences, Controlled Practice - Pair Work

In this challenging comparatives activity, students match related clauses and write sentences making complex comparisons between them. In pairs... read more

Three Reasons

Upper-intermediate (B2) 30 minutes
ESL Comparatives Game - Grammar and Speaking: Matching, Forming Sentences from Prompts, Freer Practice - Group Work

In this creative making comparisons game, students make complex comparisons between verb and noun phrases in order to express an opinion. The first player... read more

Tick or Talk?

Upper-intermediate (B2) 25 minutes
ESL Modifiers and Comparatives Activity - Grammar and Speaking: Sentence Completion, Making and Responding to Statements - Group and Pair Work

In this rewarding modifiers and comparatives activity, students complete comparative statements with a variety of... read more