Exercise 1. Decide whether they are true or false.
1 An elephant is taller than a giraffe. 2 A fly lives longer than a cicada. 3 The egg of an ostrich is bigger than that of any other animal. 4 An elephant can run faster than any human being. 5 A greyhound can run faster than a horse.
Now check your answers by completing these sentences, using the correct form (comparative and superlative) adjectives below: long tall big poisonous fast 1 The giraffe is the ___________animal in the world. 2 The cicada lives ___________than a fly. 3 The scorpion’s bite is __________than that of most snakes. 4 The bird that lays the _________egg is the ostrich. 5 A greyhound runs _________ than a race horse.
a Tokyo b Madrid c Rome
a Buenos Aires b Mexico city c Tokyo
a Nairobi b Lagos c Cairo
a London b Tokyo c Washington
a Copenhagen b Canberra c Oslo
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Exercise 2. Ask and answer the questions with a partner. Complete the questions with superlative adjectives.
