New Cutting Edge Elementary Module 9
A: Bigger/ Smaller personalised comparatives guessing game
Try to guess one of the things below about your teacher. They will give you hints about how different the real number is from what you said until you get the right answer. The first person to say exactly the right number gets a point.
Age
Height
Number of children
Distance from here to home
Number of brothers and sisters
Number of days until birthday
Number of books
Number of CDs
Time with present job (= years teaching)
Time in this city
Cost of travelling here from home
What expressions did your teacher use to give you hints? “(The real number is)…”
Play the same game in groups.
B: Comparing personalised guessing game
Choose an adjective and take turns using that adjective to compare yourself to your teacher (or to people or things connected to your teacher) until one of you says something that isn’t true. The last person to say something true before that mistake gets a point, then you can continue the game with a different adjective.
Big/ Large – Small Cheap – Expensive
Far – Close/ Near Fast – Slow
Healthy – Unhealthy Heavy – Light
Long – Short Old – New
Old – Young Tall – Short
High – Low Hot – Cold
Early – Late Interesting – Boring
Possible things to compare
Family Diet Home town
Home Weekend Hobby
Play the same game in groups.
Do the same about just hometowns.
What do you know about the following cities? Can you compare them to each other or this city?
Istanbul, Turkey Bangkok, Thailand Rome, Italy
Nurnberg, Germany Mexico City, Mexico
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