Japanese Grammar Worksheets - COMPARISONS
Japanese grammar worksheets, lesson plans, games and useful links for expressing comparisons - hodo nai, yori, ichiban, no hou ga, ほどない、より、いちばん、のほうが etc.
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Worksheets
Hodo nai 
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No hou ga comparisons
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Games in class
CD comparisons Adapted from www.eslcafe.com
Give students a sheet with the covers of 5 CDs on it. The CDs should include information such as the artists name, length, date of release, price and a space to give it a score out of 20. Include 4 groups/singers the pupils are likely to like/know plus one terrible/old fashioned CD to have a laugh. Dictate the price and ask them to give the CD a score. Then, ask them to compare the CDs eg. マドンナのシーディーのほうが高いです。マドンナのシーディーはビートルズのシーディーよりにんきがあります。マドンナのシーディは一番新しいです。
Dice comparisons Adapted from www.eslcafe.com
Elicit six nouns within a specific category from your students and write them up on the board. Number them from 1 to 6. For example: 1)オーストラリア 2)ブラジル 3)かんこく ４）ちゅうごく ５）日本 6)スペイン Put students into groups of three or four, with a dice for each group. The first student in a group rolls the dice twice, they must then (preferably within a fairly short time limit) make a comparison between the two nouns that correspond with the numbers they have rolled. Eg. If a student rolls a 5 and a 3, they might say: ちゅうごくは日本よりおおきいです。 Students can carry on until the possibilities have been exhausted. Then, have each member of the group write a list of six new nouns and pass it to another member. They then each have a new list and continue making comparisons from the words on that list.
Comparison Line Up V McDaid
Prepare a set of about 30-40 cards with miscellaneous nouns on them. Don't repeat any words. Divide your class up into two teams and have them stand in two lines. Give the first two a card each. They must read out their words at the same time, and then make a sentence comparing the two nouns. The first to make a comparison between the two words gets a point. (Obviously the more varied the nouns, the more creative the sentences will be.) They then move to the back of their line and the loser stays on to compete with the next challenger, and so on.
Lesson plans
Hobbies (no hou ga suki) |  |
