Comparative Dice

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. After several rounds of the comparative, have students roll the die three times and use the superlative to compare three things.

6. 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.