• cricket / football • travelling business class / travelling economy class • New York / Paris • a plane / a bicycle 4 Say w hether these words relate to small differences or big differences. • much • a lot • slightly • a bit • considerably • a little far Tip , Superlatives are also a useful way to rank and order the information you find in Task 1 graphs. 5 Finish each of these sentence starters with a comparative and your ow n idea. Compare with a partner. 1 Travelling by train is slightly ... 2 A night in a hotel costs much more ... 3 London is considerably ... Look at the chart and w rite accurate comparative sentences about the information in it using these prompts. 1 Coffee in the UK / expensive / France 2 The cost of a coffee in Spain / cheap / France I coffee (E)
7 Complete these sentences using the information in the chart in Exercise 6. 1 The most expensive coffee is i n .................... at £ 2 .9 0 . 2 The second most expensive is in .................... where it costs...................... 3 Coffee in .................. is the third m .....................a t ...................... 4 The n e x t...................coffee is ...................... 5 The least.................... 8 W rite tw o more sentences about the chart. 8 Comparative graphs
Spotlight 2 More comparative structures Another important way to write about comparatives is to use the structure 'x is not as + adjective + asy'. Coffee in France is not as expensive as in the UK.
