Purpose: To practice using the comparative and superlative

Preparation Time:  none

Materials:  whiteboard and dice, one die for every 3-4 students

Preparation: locate enough dice for use with your group; plan to review the formation of the comparative and superlative

Procedure:

1. For round one of the activity, elicit six nouns within a specific category from your students and write them up on the board. Number them from 1 to 6. For example:

1) Australia

2) Brazil

3) Korea

4) China

5) Japan

6) Spain

2. Put students into groups of three or four, with a die for each group.

3. The first student in a group rolls the die twice. He or she must then, preferably

 within a fairly short time, make a comparison between the two nouns that

 correspond with the numbers they have rolled. For example, if a student rolls a 4

 and a 5, they might say: “China is bigger than Japan.”

4. Students can carry on until the possibilities have been exhausted.

5. Have each member of the group write a list of six new nouns and pass it to

 another member. They then each have a new list and continue making

 comparisons from the words on that list.