Talk about Vehicles and Tractors Using Comparative and Superlative: a Vocabulary and Grammar In Context Lesson

Students learn adjectives to talk about a vehicle, revise how to use the comparative and superlative, and practise their writing and speaking skills.

Talk about a tractor

1. Comparative/Superlative

	Big (adjectifs d’une syllabe et ceux de deux syllabes qui finissent par -e, -y, -ow)	Expensive (adjectif de plus de deux syllabes et ceux de deux syllabes qui ne terminent pas par -e, -y, -ow)
Comparative plus …que moins … que aussi … que	bigger than … less big than … as big as …	more expensive than less expensive than as expensive as
Superlative le plus … le moins …	the biggest the least big	the most expensive the least expensive

Exceptions: good ⇒ better than / the best, bad⇒ worse than / the worst

2. Match each adjective below with either the Little Grey Fergie or the John Deere 9RX series:

reliable / robust / durable efficient state-of-the-art / innovative ≠ obsolete / outdated in good condition ≠ in bad condition heavy ≠ light manoeuvrable / easy to manoeuvre / easy to drive easy to use / easy to repair safe ≠  dangerous useful ≠ useless customized user-friendly

powerful, big ≠ small expensive / costly ≠ cheap / affordable / economical fast ≠ slow beautiful / nice to look at ≠ ugly polluting ≠ environmentally friendly, green large ≠ narrow recent ≠ old comfortable ≠ uncomfortable versatile, intuitive enhanced, improved optimal

Ferguson TE 20 (Little Grey Fergie)

John Deere 9RX Series tractor

3. ‘Easy to use / Easy to repair’. What do these expressions have in common? Can you make new ones?

4. Translate the following sentences

a. Le TE 20 est plus sympa à regarder que le JD 9RX.

b. Le JD 9RX est plus à la pointe de la technologie que le TE 20.

c. Le TE 20 est en pire état que le JD 9RX.

d. Le TE 20 est plus écologique (vert) que le JD 9RX.

e. Le JD 9RX est le moins abordable du marché.

f. Le TE 20 est aussi facile à utiliser que le JD 9RX.   

5. Write sentences using comparative and superlative about the Ferguson TE 20 and the John Deere 9RX

	Ferguson TE 20	John Deere 9RX
Comparative Il est plus …que
Il est moins … que
Il est aussi … que
Superlative Il est le plus …
Il est le moins …

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