About 32 PDFs and other teaching ideas
for teaching both superlatives and comparatives together,
plus many many more on pages for teaching just comparative adjectives and just superlative adjectives.
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Articles on teaching comparative and superlative adjectives
18 fun activities for comparative and superlative
How to teach comparative and superlative (with lots of games combining the two)
Comparatives and superlatives tips and activities (some okay game ideas- from Onestopenglish.com)
Photocopiable comparative and superlative classroom activities
Comparative and superlative in proverbs
Comparative and superlative miming games
Comparative and superlative discuss and agree
Comparative and superlative stories (All for Julie, the Prettiest Girl and The Sharpest Chin in the World)
Describing products with comparative and superlative selling game
Comparatives and superlatives recommendations challenge
Comparative and superlative personalised speaking games
Your city recommendations Comparative and superlative (for Cutting Edge Int, but useable without the book)
Food vocabulary comparatives and superlatives
Comparatives and superlatives last weekend
Comparatives and superlatives table
Comparative and superlative stories/ Comparative and superlative picture books
I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean (only bigger and biggest, but funny story with very simple language – link to animated version and link to read through with nice sound effects)
I’m the Scariest Thing in this Castle (scarier, scariest and cutest, similar to the one above but with y changes to i and good theme for Halloween – link to read through)
Comparative and superlative stories (All for Julie, the Prettiest Girl and The Sharpest Chin in the World, by me)
Small Smaller Smallest by Corina Fletcher and Natalie Marchall (only a few adjectives and superlative doesn’t really have context as it’s one thing that’s changing, but pulling the flaps at least makes drilling more fun – link to Amazon.com listing)
Big, bigger, biggest adventure by Kate Banks (rather expensive on Amazon – see link – but worth it if you happen to see a cheaper copy)
Pig, pigger, piggest by Rick Walton (long retelling of Three Little Pigs with complex language but could simplify by using the pictures – link to read through on YouTube)
Comparative and superlative songs
And see the links above for comparative songs and superlative songs
Comparative superlative song from Rockin’ English (very simple, with okay tune and good visuals to make the meanings clear)
Related pages
Comparative adjectives games/ worksheets page (ideas and materials for teaching comparative on its own)
Superlative adjectives games/ worksheets page (ideas and materials for teaching superlative on its own)
Comparing and contrasting games/ worksheets page
Business comparatives and superlatives page
Updated 20 June 2026
Great activities!! Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks a lot for these links :)
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thank you
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Useful activities, thanks.
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Very useful activities, thank you! I notice there are no songs… I would suggest you to include “Accidentally in Love” :)
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Good point. I moved all the comparative ones and superlative ones to their own pages, leaving none here… Any ideas for songs with both comparative and superlative, anyone?
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Could only find one decent one with both, from Rockin’ English, just added.
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