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Superlatives

Teacher's notes

1. After you have taught superlatives in class, hold a quiz.
2. Put the students into two teams.
3. Ask the questions below and awards points for the team which shouts out the first correct answer.
4. At the end of the quiz, give the questions to the students and get them to underline the superlatives in the questions.
5. Then ask the students, in pairs, to write two more questions which use superlatives.
6. Collect the questions in, correct them and then hold a second quiz but this time using the students' questions.
7. Make sure that they have the correct answers.

Questions:	Answers
1. Which is the tallest animal in the world?	A giraffe
2. Which is the longest snake in the world?	The Reticulated python
3. Which is the highest mountain in the world?	Everest
4. Which is the fastest land animal?	The cheetah
5. Which is the biggest country in the world?	Russia
6. Which is the longest river in the world?	Nile, Egypt
7. Which is the deepest lake?	Lake Baikal (Russia)
8. Which is the largest continent?	Asia
9. Which is the largest lake in the world?	The Caspian Sea
10. Where was the lowest temperature in the world ever recorded?	Antarctica (-128.6 Fahrenheit)
11. Where was the highest temperature ever recorded?	Libya 136 Fahrenheit
12. What is the deepest point in the Earth's crust?	The Mariana Trench, off Guam in the Pacific ocean.

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