This document provides an outline for an English lesson plan on comparatives. It includes times allocated for various activities like discussions, readings, quizzes and exercises. The lesson focuses on teaching comparative adjectives and adverbs through pictures, speed facts, grammar explanations and practice with comparative structures. Comprehension questions and a board game are also included to reinforce the concepts.

1. English file Pre-
Intermediate
Unit 5A – Comparatives

2. • Pictures showing speed / quick things (5 mins)
• Speaking practice – speed questionnaire (10 mins)
• Reading – life is faster – new vocabulary (5 mins)
• Reading – life is faster – comprehension questions (10 mins)
• Reading – life is faster – technology words (5 mins)
• Speaking – life is faster – discussion (5 mins)
• Vocabulary building – larger numbers (10 mins) 50
• Speed quiz ? – (10 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives and superlatives – highlighting (5
mins)
• Grammar – comparatives and superlatives – presentation (5
mins)
• Grammar – comparatives and superlatives – exercises (10
mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

9. technology / the internet

11. 1. Impatient
2. Mobile phone apps like Tinder
3. 10%
4. More than 125 million

12. 5. Three out of five
6. A ‘like’
7. Six minutes
8. Waiting for a replacement credit card

13. • broadband,
• searches,
• downloads,
• apps,
• Google,
• web page,
• site,
• a ‘like’,
• posting

15. 1. a hundred and
twenty-five million
2. fifty per cent
3. a third

16. • a hundred and eighty-four
• three thousand and twenty-five
• two thousand five hundred
• the twenty-fifth of May
• six million dollars
• seventy-five per cent
• two thirds
• nine point two

17. 2. 20th
3. 120,000
4. $795,000
5. 1/3
6. 60-70%

22. 1. busy, stressed = adjectives
2. quickly = adverb
3. fast = adjective
4. fast = adverb,
impatient = adjective
5. bad = adjective
6 well = adverb

29. faster than
shorter than
easier than
further
than
worse than
better than
more stressed than
harder
than
bigger than
more slowly than

32. Class two

33. • Pictures showing Speed facts – lead in (5 mins)
• Discussing actions using comparatives + adverbs (10 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives adjectives and adverbs – exercises (10 mins)
• Grammar – comparatives adjectives and adverbs – pronunciation (5 mins)
• Grammar – comparative clues – speaking game (15 mins)
• Listening – life changes – What topics are mentioned? (5 mins)
• Listening – life changes – Which speaker said this? (5 mins)
• Listening – life changes – Discussing the questions (5 mins) 60
• Fastest things in the world quiz (10 mins)
• As ...... As – extra practice – making sentences and dialogues (15 mins)
• Reading activity – Tasmanian devil checking new vocabulary – (10 mins)
• Reading activity – Tasmanian devil questions / explanations – (10 mins)
• Comparatives speaking board game – (15 mins)
• Vocabulary from the class quiz (5 mins)

35. a) Ricky "NoClue" Brown broke a world record with the 2005
track "New West," becoming one of the world's fastest
rappers by rapping _ _ _ syllables in 51.27 seconds.
b) The world's fastest roller coaster, the Formula Rossa in
Abu Dhabi, was inspired by fighter jets and can reach
speeds of _ _ _ km/h.
c) Usain Bolt runs asymmetrically which means his left leg
remains on the ground about _ _ % longer than his right.
240
723
14

38. as short as
as nice as
as big as
as popular as
learn languages as fast as
work as hard as
play as well as

39. Both a schwa /ə/

41. You are going to see three comparative clues and you
must try to guess who or what I’m describing.
Example: computer
1. useful / a radio It's more useful than a radio.
2. expensive / TV It's as expensive as a TV.
3. small / fridge It's smaller than a fridge.
Can you guess who or what I’m describing?
?
?
?
?

42. • Look at your worksheet and the items.
• The aim of the game is to help your partner guess the
words in bold on their worksheet by giving three clues
to them using comparative forms.
• When they are giving clues you must substitute
pronouns for the words in bold you are describing.
• When the students are ready, let them begin the game.
• Take it in turns to give three clues to their partner.
• You can score one point for each correct guess.
• The student in each pair with the most points at the
end of the game is the winner.

43. You are going to see three comparative clues and you
must try to guess who or what I’m describing.
Example: computer
1. useful / a radio It's more useful than a radio.
2. expensive / TV It's as expensive as a TV.
3. small / fridge It's smaller than a fridge.
Can you guess who or what I’m describing?

46. 1. shopping
2. getting to work
3. cooking
4. working
5. seeing friends

47. 4
1
5
2
3
Online shopping
Friends
Some weeks more
Cycling
Cooking

51. The Australian tiger beetle Cicinidela hudsoni can cover ___ metres in a
single second , but its brain can't keep up see correctly at that speed,
which means the bug runs blindly toward and away from things.
2.5
A) 1.5 B) 2.5 C) 3.5

52. The fastest texter in the world can type 26 words in _____
seconds. In 2017, college professor Abdul Basit broke the
texting record for typing two sentences incredibly quickly
neither of the sentences was "U up?".
17.5
A) 10.5 B) 17.5 C) 23.5

53. Takeru Kobayashi is a competitive eater whose records include
consuming _____ slices of pizza in 12 minutes and ___ grilled
cheeses in one minute. The crazy part is he still has a six-pack!
D
62 13
Pizza A) 22 B) 42 C) 62
Sandwich A) 3 B) 13 C) 23

54. The Maglev train in Japan gets you from A to B at ____ km/h.
"Maglev" is short for magnetic levitation, which is the actual
technology used to propel the world's fastest trains.
603
A) 203 B) 403 C) 603

55. Peregrine falcons dive so fast they need a third eyelid. The peregrine
falcon , the fastest diving bird in the world, with speeds of up to _____
km/h has a translucent third eyelid which covers its eye.
322
A) 122 B) 222 C) 322

57. The Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil is an unusual animal found only (0) ………………. the
island of Tasmania in the southeast of Australia. (28).......... people know
the devil from the popular cartoon character, Taz, but this little animal
is in fact a real animal. What does a real devil look (29)............. ? It is
the size of a small black dog and just as cute. (30)............. don't let its
size fool you. The devil can bite!
In the wild, it is a carnivore, which means it (31).................. eat other
animals. It (32).................... not often kill the animals it eats though.
Rather, it eats animals that have (33)................... died from some other
cause.
Like many other Australian animals, these little black animals are
marsupials. This means (34)...................... like kangaroos, for example,
they carry their babies in a pouch. Surprisingly, the mother devil
(35)........................... look after four little babies at a time!

58. The Tasmanian devil
The Tasmanian devil is an unusual animal found only (0) ……………
the island of Tasmania in the southeast of Australia.
(28)............ people know the devil from the popular cartoon
character, Taz, but this little animal is in fact a real animal.
What does a real devil look (29) ............. ? It is the size of a
small black dog and just as cute. (30)............. don't let its size
fool you. The devil can bite!
0. A. on B. in C. at
28. A. Every B. Each C. Most
29. A. as B. like C. of
30. A. But B. And C. So
on
Most
like
But

59. In the wild, it is a carnivore, which means it
(31).................. eat other animals. It (32)....................
not often kill the animals it eats though. Rather, it
eats animals that have (33)................... died from some
other cause.
31. A. has B. must C. will
32. A. does B. do C. doing
33. A. since B. yet C. already
will does
already

60. Like many other Australian animals, these little black
animals are marsupials. This means (34)....................
like kangaroos, for example, they carry their babies
in a pouch. Surprisingly, the mother devil (35)...............
look after four little babies at a time!
34. A. which B. that C. when
35. A. does B. has C. can
that
can

64. It wasn't as .................... as the last ..................
You are going to complete similar
comparative expressions with as … as.
Look at the sheet and complete the
expressions using the word pairs.
good one

65. young used
fast can
dumb look
much need

66. ready ever
much like
bad sounds
quickly possible

67. simple all
fun used
bad yesterday
long thought

68. 1. I'm not as young as I used to be.
2. I'm going as fast as I can.
3. I'm not as dumb as I look.
4. I've seen as much as I need to.
5. I'm as ready as I’ll ever be.
6. You can have as much as you like.
7. It's not as bad as it sounds.
8. Do it as quickly as possible.
9. It's not as simple as all that.
10. It isn't as much fun as it used to be.
11. I thought it wouldn’t be as bad as yesterday.
12. It didn't last nearly as long as I thought it would.