This free ESL worksheet helps students practise comparative adverbs in a clear, structured way. It’s ideal for pre-intermediate or intermediate learners for distinguishing between adjectives and adverbs, and learning how to form comparatives correctly.
Students choose an adjective from the list and form a comparative adverb to complete each sentence. This activity provides useful everyday contexts for using adverbs like faster, more carefully, and better.
Activity Overview
- Level: Pre-intermediate / Intermediate
- Target language: Comparative adverbs (e.g. more carefully, faster, better)
- Time: 10–15 minutes
- Group size: Individual or pair work
What you need
- One copy of the worksheet per student (download here)
How to use the activity
- Hand out the worksheet to each student or pair.
- Go over the list of adjectives at the top of the page.
- Students must choose the correct word and turn it into a comparative adverb to complete each sentence.
- Check answers together and focus on any irregular forms.
Adjective list:
careful, stupid, good, early, hard, fast, comfortable, slow, soon, quick
Example sentences:
- You will get there faster if you take the train.
- You can travel more comfortably in First Class.
- I speak English better than you.
- Can’t you drive faster? We’re going to be late!
- The students in this class work harder than my old class.
- He reads more slowly than me. It takes him a long time to finish a book.
- They arrived much earlier than we expected.
- You should drive more carefully at night than during the day.
- He recovered much sooner than the doctors expected.
- He’s behaving even more stupidly than yesterday.
Why use this activity?
This worksheet focuses on a common challenge for English learners: understanding how to modify verbs with adverbs, and how to form comparatives correctly. It provides structured grammar practice while encouraging attention to irregular forms and real-world usage. It’s ideal for revision, homework, or in-class restricted practice.
