Festival experiences: comparatives 'más que' and 'menos que'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the comparatives 'más … que' and 'menos … que' to compare other people's experiences at a music festival.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The SSCs [a], [e] and [o] are strong vowels which are pronounced as separate syllables when they appear together.
- To say possessive adjective 'our' in Spanish, use 'nuestro'. 'Nuestro' needs to agree in gender with the noun.
- The verb 'estar' is used to describe states. The adjective must agree with the noun in gender and number.
- To say 'more ... than', use 'más' + adjective + 'que': 'Ana está más feliz que Alex.' 'Ana is happier than Alex.'
- To say 'less ... than', 'menos' + adjective + 'que': 'Jun está menos enfermo que Sam.' 'Jun is less ill than Sam.'
Keywords
Comparative - form of adjective or adverb used to compare people, things or ideas
Más ... que - comparative structure in Spanish meaning 'more than'
Menos ... que - comparative structure in Spanish meaning 'less than'
Common misconception
To compare two things in Spanish we can just change the adjective like in English, e.g. 'angry' becomes 'angrier.'
To compare two nouns we use a comparative structure. To express 'more ... than' we use 'más ... que' and to say 'less ... than' we use 'menos ... que'. The adjective goes in the middle and still has to agree in gender and number with the first noun.
Teacher tip
Using 'más ... que' and 'menos ... que' is a 3 step process with these comparatives 'sandwiching' the adjective, so activities like 'human sentences', where pupils hold each word of a sentence and have to stand in the right order at the front of the class, can be useful to bring the grammar to life.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word means 'excited'?
Q2.'Me __________ la música porque es muy emocionante.' Which words could complete the sentence?
Q3.Match the Spanish to the English.
to make happy, making happy
to wake up, waking up
to delight, be delightful to
to matter, be important to
to interest, be interesting to
to please, be pleasing to
Q4.Order the words to say 'she is less angry than her friend'.
Q5.Él está más cansado.' Translate this sentence into English.
Q6.'This evening I am ill.' Translate this sentence into Spanish.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the Spanish to the English.
to get up, getting up
to call, calling
to put, putting, to put on, putting on
to present, presenting, to introduce, introducing
to annoy, annoying, to bother, bothering
to enter, entering
Q2.Which word means 'dress'?
Q3.Order the words to say 'I am ill and I am staying at home'.
Q4.'Ella piensa que el concierto fue __________.' Which words could complete this sentence?
Q5.Tu estás mas feliz.' Translate this sentence into English.
Q6.'I am less tired than Juan.' Translate this sentence into Spanish.
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