Presentation to practise comparative sentences in English

1. COMPARATIVES

2. ∗
A whale is bigger than a dolphin
Look at the pictures and make
sentences

7. THE EIFFEL TOWER – 300 m THE TOWER OF PISA – 55 m

8. RIVER THAMES - 346 km
RIVER EBRO - 930 km

9. AMAZON RIVER
6,992 km
NILE RIVER – 6,853 km

10. MOUNT TEIDE
in Spain – 3,718 m
MOUNT
ETNA in
Italy –
3,322 m

11. BEIJING, IN CHINA -
24, 21,766,214
inhabitants
TOKIO, IN JAPAN –
37,194,105 inhabitants
USE THE ADJECTIVE «POPULATED»

12. Madrid
6,751,000 inhabitants
USE THE ADJECTIVE
“POPULATED”
Paris
11,208,000 inhabitants

13. Use the adjectives “expensive”
and “cheap”

14. The Colca Canyon
(Peru)
Depth: 3400 m
Use the adjective “deep”
The Grand Canyon
(USA)
Depth: 1829 m

15. Mars is further from the Sun
than Mercury

16. SUPERLATIVES

17. MOUNT EVEREST –
high/mountain/in the world

18. ∗AMAZON RIVER – long and
large/river/in the world

19. ∗BLUE WHALE – large/animal/in the
world

20. ∗ELEPHANT – large/animal/on land

21. ∗GIRAFFE – tall/animal/on earth

22. ∗CHEETAH – fast/land animal/on
earth

23. ∗PEREGRINE FALCON – fast/bird/in
the world

24. ∗SLOTH – slow/animal/in the world

25. SHANGHAI – populated / city / in the
world

26. ∗ NEW YORK – populated / city / in the US

27. ∗ TORONTO – populated / city / in Canada