Compara en inglés el tamaño y la velocidad de animales, vehículos y lugares con big, small, fast y slow.

1. Look at the chart. Which sentence is true?

   Rodea la respuesta correcta.

   • The train is the slowest.
   • The plane is the fastest.
   • The bike is faster than the car.

2. Look at the chart. Complete: «The car is not as ___ as the train.»

   • small
   • fast
   • slow

3. Who won the swimming race?

   Sports day

   On Friday we had our school sports day. In the 100-metre race, Lucas was the fastest: nobody could catch him. Nadia came second. She was slower than Lucas, but faster than me!

   In the swimming race, everything changed. Lucas was very slow in the water, and Nadia was the fastest swimmer of all. In the afternoon we played tug of war. Our team had the biggest students in the school, but we lost, because the other team pulled together much better.

   • Nadia
   • The writer
   • Lucas

4. Which sentence is true?

   • The writer was faster than Lucas in the 100-metre race.
   • Lucas was the fastest swimmer.
   • The writer was slower than Nadia in the 100-metre race.

5. Why did the writer's team lose the tug of war?

   • Because Lucas was very slow.
   • Because the other team worked together better.
   • Because their students were smaller.

6. Underline the superlative adjectives.

   Hay 4.

   The cheetah is the fastest animal on land: it is much faster than a horse. The blue whale is the biggest animal in the world. It is as long as two buses! The slowest mammal is the sloth. It sleeps a lot and moves very slowly. The smallest bird is the bee hummingbird. It is only five centimetres long.

7. Circle the wrong word in each sentence and write it correctly.

   Rodea la palabra que está mal y escríbela bien en la línea.

   • A train is fastest than a bus.
   • Jupiter is the bigest planet in the Solar System.
   • My tortoise is much slowest than my cat.
   • My scooter is not as fast than your bike.

8. Write the correct form of the adjective in brackets

   A tortoise is much than a rabbit. (slow)

   Vatican City is the country in the world. (small)

   Russia is the country in the world. (big)

   My new computer is than my old one. (fast)

   A bike is not as as a motorbike. (fast)

9. Put the words in order to make a question

   Escribe en cada casilla el número de orden.

   • Which city
   • the biggest
   • in Spain?
   • is

10. True or false? Sort the sentences

    Escribe en cada casilla la letra de su grupo.

    A = True · B = False

    • The Moon is bigger than the Earth.
    • A snail is slower than a horse.
    • Portugal is bigger than Spain.
    • Light travels faster than sound.
    • A bike is faster than a plane.
    • Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System.

11. Match the beginning and the end of each sentence

    Une con una línea cada elemento con su pareja.

    • Snails are
    • An elephant is much bigger
    • A hummingbird is
    • The fastest bird in the world

    • than a mouse.
    • very slow animals.
    • one of the smallest birds in the world.
    • is the peregrine falcon.