Comparatives and superlatives
Vocabulary
Present Perfect or Past Simple
Present Perfect Continuous
Riddles
100

New York is ______ (expensive) _____ Miami.

more expensive / than

100

A piece of money made of metal

Coin

100

 I ________(know) my great grandmother for a few years - she died when I was eight.

knew


100

Make sentences with Present Perfect Continuous:

I / work for a charity / eight years


I have been working for a charity for eight years

100

A plane crashed between the border of Canada and U.S. Where do you bury the survivors?

Nowhere. You don't bury survivors, you bury victims.

200

Is Shanghai ____ _______ (big) city in the world?

the / biggest

200

Money that a bank lends you to buy a house

Mortgage

200

I _________(play) volleyball since I was a child - I'm pretty good!  

have played

200

The children / play video games / two hours

The children have been playing video games for two hours

200

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

He was born on February 29th - leap year.

300

Early morning is ____ ______ (bad) time to drive in the city centre.

the / worst

300

Go somewhere in a car and get him or her

Pick up

300

I'm sorry, John isn't here now. He _______ (go) to the shops.

has gone

300

My Internet connection / not work / yesterday

My Internet connection hasn't been working since yesterday

300

A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

He was bald.

400

It was ____ _____ (funny) film I've ever watched.

the / funniest


400

A _____ person likes giving orders to other people

bossy

400

We ________ (finish) this room last week.

finished

400

How long / you / wait?

How long have you been waiting?

400

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven’t got me. What am I?

A secret

500

Complete sentence B so it has the same meaning as A: 

A: Tokyo is better than London.

B: London isn't ____ ______ _____ Tokyo.

as / good / as

500

What is the opposite of self-confident?

Insecure

500

She _________ (live) in London since 1994.

has lived

500

It / snow / five o'clock this morning

It has been snowing since five o'clock this morning

500

What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

M
e
n
u