Comparative Adjectives Display Posters

How do these picture poster help ESL students with comparative adjectives?

These wonderfully illustrated ESL Comparison Picture Posters are the perfect way to provide a useful visual reminder of different comparative and superlative adjectives for your ESL students. You can use them to decorate your classroom or home learning space, creating a display that will serve as a reference point for your learners while they work on comparing different people, animals and objects.

By using these ESL Comparison Picture Posters, you can provide your students with handy visual interpretations of comparative and superlative adjectives so that they can better understand their uses by linking the words to the pictures. For example, one of the posters show a bus, a ship and an aeroplane to represent big, bigger and biggest. This will give your learners a real world context in which comparative and superlative adjectives can be used. Eventually, your students will be able to make comparisons between different things based on size, age, weight, and more!

More ESL Comparative Picture Resources

Using comparative and superlative adjectives is an essential part of the English language. With resources like these ESL Comparative Picture Posters, you can help students visualise comparisons between different people, animals and objects, which will help them to establish a link between words and pictures. This, in turn, will improve their understanding of how comparative and superlative adjectives are used. Here are a few other resources that use pictures to help ESL students make comparisons:

• Children tend to learn things easier when information is presented visually, so we’ve included some lovely illustrations on our Comparing Adjectives Worksheet - a great way to let learners practise comparisons independently
• Our Using Comparative or Superlative Language PowerPoint is a great way to present the different uses of comparative and superlative adjectives to the whole class in a way that’s fun and visually engaging
• Why not make a game of it? This Comparative Adjective Matching Card Game will be sure to go down a treat with your learners, who will have to match the cards based on comparisons between pictures
• For a fun speaking activity, try our ESL Comparatives and Superlatives Speaking Activity - perfect as a warm-up activity or as homework!

You can find even more brilliant comparative and superlative adjective resources on this category page.

What are comparative and superlative adjectives?

Comparative adjectives are adjectives that describe a thing in relation to another thing. For example, a shark is big, but a whale is bigger. In this example, bigger is the comparative adjective.

A superlative adjective is an adjective that describes something as being the most, or highest degree, of a certain description. For example, the blue whale is the biggest species of whale (and the biggest animal on the planet!), while a dwarf sperm whale is the smallest. Biggest and smallest are both superlative adjectives.