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6.4 Comparatives, Superlatives, Quantifiers & Flyers-New Structures
Cambridge English A2 Flyers YLE
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1 Chapter 1: Exam Structure, Administration & Shield Scoring
1.1 Exam Overview & CEFR A2 Standard 1.2 Shield Scoring System & Statement of Results 1.3 Test Day Logistics & Candidate Guidelines
2 Chapter 2: Listening Paper Mastery
2.1 Listening Part 1: Name Matching 2.2 Listening Part 2: Note and Form Completion 2.3 Listening Part 3: Picture Matching 2.4 Listening Part 4: Three-Option Multiple Choice 2.5 Listening Part 5: Colouring, Writing & Paper Pacing
3 Chapter 3: Reading & Writing: Vocabulary & Dialogue Processing
3.1 Part 1 Matching Definitions to Target Vocabulary 3.2 Part 2 Continuous Dialogue Completion & Speech Functions 3.3 Part 3 Short Story Cloze & Title Selection
4 Chapter 4: Reading & Writing: Grammar, Comprehension & Story Writing
4.1 Part 4 Factual Text 3-Option Grammar Cloze 4.2 Part 5 Story Comprehension & 1-to-4-Word Gap Filling 4.3 Part 6 Open Cloze & Guided Text Completion 4.4 Part 7 Picture-Prompted Story Writing
5 Chapter 5: Speaking Paper Components & Performance
5.1 Speaking Part 1: Find the Differences 5.2 Speaking Part 2: Information Exchange 5.3 Speaking Part 3: Picture Storytelling 5.4 Speaking Part 4: Personal Questions 5.5 Speaking Assessment Criteria & Confidence Building
6 Chapter 6: Essential CEFR A2 Grammar & Structures
6.1 Past Tenses & Narrative Time Sequencing 6.2 Modals, Conditionals & Obligation 6.3 Relative Clauses, Conjunctions & Subordination 6.4 Comparatives, Superlatives, Quantifiers & Flyers-New Structures
7 Chapter 7: Thematic Vocabulary, Spelling & Exam Strategies
7.1 Nature, Places, Buildings & Travel Vocabulary 7.2 Daily Life, Work, Health & Leisure Vocabulary 7.3 High-Risk Spelling, Collocations, UK/US Variants & Word Families
6.4 Comparatives, Superlatives, Quantifiers & Flyers-New Structures
Key Takeaways Explain This Topic AI
Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives and adverbs are A1 Movers, but Speaking Part 1 tests relative size and Reading and Writing Parts 4 and 6 often gap than, more and much smaller.
Be made of is Flyers-new: The toy is made of wood. Flyers materials are card, glass, gold, metal, plastic, silver, wood and wool; paper is already on Starters.
Be/look/sound/feel/taste/smell like is Flyers-new (What's your new teacher like? That sounds like the baby upstairs).
Make somebody/something + adjective is Flyers-new: That smell makes me hungry!
What time…?, What else/next? and See you soon/later/tomorrow are Flyers-new functional frames for Speaking Part 2 and Reading and Writing Part 2.
Last updated: September 2026
6.4 Comparatives, Superlatives, Quantifiers & Flyers-New Structures
Quick Answer: Comparatives are Movers ( Your house is bigger than mine. Anna is my best friend. ) but Flyers papers still test them, especially relative size in Speaking Part 1 and than gaps in Parts 4 and 6. Truly Flyers-new here are be made of , be/look/sound/feel/taste/smell like , make somebody + adjective , What time…? , What else/next? , and See you soon/later/tomorrow . Tag questions were covered in 6.3.
Comparatives: old list, live paper
The Handbook's Movers examples still apply at Flyers:
Adjectives: Your house is bigger than mine. Anna is my best friend.
Adverbs: My brother reads more quickly than my sister. I like ice cream best.
Speaking Part 1 differences include number, colour, position, appearance, activity, shape, and relative size . The Handbook's clock example is shape ( square / round ), but size language is the same job: In my picture the castle is smaller. In your picture the swan is bigger than the duck. Children who can only say big and small without than still get the idea across; children who add taller, shorter, longer, heavier, more expensive match the cue-card world of Part 2 ( cheap or expensive? ).
Short adjectives add -er / -est : taller than, the tallest, nicer, bigger (double the consonant in big/hot/thin as classroom spelling, not as a new grammar list). Longer adjectives use more / the most : more interesting, the most beautiful — but only with adjectives the wordlist actually gives you. Do not import adult more efficient . Flyers-safe: more careful, more expensive, more interesting, more quickly .
Irregular forms children need because they are common on the papers: good → better → best , bad → worse → worst , far → further if you meet it in further up the hill — and if you have not taught further , the castle is farther from the bus is extra, not required. I like ice cream best is the Handbook adverb superlative.
Part 6 holiday diaries use comparatives in the wild: a famous building that looked much smaller than it is in a photo. The missing word in a teaching gap is often than , not the adjective. Drill:
The pond is smaller than the lake.
Gold is more expensive than silver.
Harry ran faster than Paul, so he fell over.
Much before a comparative ( much smaller ) appears in real Flyers-style texts. Treat it as the language of the paper, not as a new p. 77 heading.
Quantifiers that stay inside the lists
Do not build a full adult much/many/few/little course unless the word is on the published lists. What you can teach without inventing:
Starters determiners: some milk, a banana, these books .
Movers: a lot as an adverb ( My mother talks a lot ), every with time ( every Saturday ).
Flyers numbers list: several , thousand , million , plus 101–1,000 and 21st–31st.
Comparatives of quantity: more, most, bigger, smaller .
Safe Flyers sentences:
There are several swans on the pond.
Harry took some photos inside the pyramid.
The museum has a lot of old gold.
Emma collected more shells than William.
Part 4 factual texts often open with In many countries… in sample-style writing. If many is in the three options, it is being tested as a listed word in context, not as a new grammar chapter. Copy the option; do not rewrite the text with lots of unless that is the option.
All and every turn up in Part 5 paraphrase ( juice for all of them ). Write 1–4 words, not a new quantifier essay.
Be made of and the materials list
Official Flyers-new example: The toy is made of wood.
Materials on the Young Learners lists:
- Word List Typical Flyers object
- paper Starters a paper plane, a paper crown
- card Flyers a birthday card, a model made of card
- glass Flyers a glass bottle, windows made of glass
- gold Flyers a gold ring, a gold crown
- metal Flyers a metal gate, a metal key
- plastic Flyers a plastic bowl, a plastic toy
- silver Flyers a silver necklace, a silver bracelet
- wood Flyers a wooden gate is often made of wood
- wool Flyers a wool sweater, a wool scarf
Part 1 definitions love this structure: This is made of metal and you use it to open a door. → a key . This is made of wool and you wear it when it is cold. → a sweater or a scarf , depending on the box. Read the whole line. Gold and silver are also colours on the Flyers colour list, so a gold crown may be colour not material. Made of gold is the material structure.
Form to drill: is/are made of + material . The skyscraper windows are made of glass. Holly's bracelet is made of silver. The model pyramid is made of card. Negatives and questions follow ordinary be : Is the toy made of plastic? It isn't made of metal.
Do not invent made from as a Flyers-new contrast with made of . The listed item is be made of . A Part 1 jam definition may say made from fruit in teaching materials; that is lexical, not a second official grammar heading on p. 77.
Speaking Part 1 can use material if two objects differ: In my picture the gate is made of wood. In your picture it is made of metal. That is appearance plus be made of in one difference.
Loading diagram... Flyers-new like, make, and made of in one picnic scene
Like : appearance, sound, and the What's … like? question
Official Flyers-new examples:
What's your new teacher like?
That sounds like the baby upstairs. I think he's crying.
This like is not Starters I like swimming (enjoy). It is resemblance after be, look, sound, feel, taste, smell .
Flyers-wordlist copies:
The cloud looks like a swan.
This soup tastes like chicken.
The cave smells like wet wool.
That drum sounds like a storm.
The plastic plate feels like glass, but it is light.
What's the castle like ? It's bigger than our school and it's made of stone. ( Stone is on the Flyers world list.)
What's … like? asks for a description, not yes I like it . Speaking Part 4 can ask about a teacher, a holiday, or a birthday: What's your school like? Answer with adjectives the list allows: It's big. The teachers are kind. It looks like a castle. A child who answers Yes, I like it has heard Starters like , not Flyers like .
Part 2 may offer It looks like a swan as a reply to What's that cloud like? Unused options often use the other like ( I like swans ), which does not describe the cloud.
Make somebody/something + adjective
Official example: That smell makes me hungry!
Pattern: make + person/thing + adjective . Flyers-safe:
The long hill made the children tired .
That loud drum makes the baby sad .
The walk made them thirsty . ( Hungry and thirsty are Movers food and health language children still need.)
The news made Emma happy .
This is not make + object + infinitive ( make me to eat ). There is no to . It is not make a cake (ordinary verb). Part 6 might hide makes or me : That smell ___ me hungry. Reading the adjective after the gap tells you the Flyers pattern.
What time…? , What else/next? , See you…
These are Flyers-new functional frames , not essay grammar.
What time does the film start? Official. Also: What time do you get up on Saturday? — the Handbook's own Speaking Part 4 sample question.
What else shall I draw? Official. What else adds another item; What next? asks the following step. Listening Part 5 has no drawing task at Flyers , so What else shall I draw? is classroom language from the grammar list, not a reminder to draw on the colouring picture. On the paper, children colour named objects and write two words . Use What else / What next? in Part 2 and in class: What else do we need for the picnic? What next?
See you soon / later / tomorrow / next week, Mrs Ball! Closing a dialogue. Part 2 sometimes needs a closer that is not Goodbye alone. Do not force a closer into a dialogue that is still asking about lunch.
Speaking Part 2 cue cards ask for time as well as name, place, and cheap/expensive. What time does Michael's club start? is the Flyers-new frame doing the Part 2 job. Alternative questions remain Movers-friendly: Is it cheap or expensive? Comparatives sit inside that alternative: the answer may be It's cheaper than the chess club at school.
Putting the last Flyers-new row on the right paper
Part 1: made of definitions; comparatives of size in the meaning of skyscraper versus hill only if the box holds those words.
Part 2: What time…? , See you later , It looks like… , Shall we…? from 6.2, tags from 6.3.
Part 4 / Part 6: than, of, like, makes, more, most, several . Read beyond the gap. Looked much smaller ___ it is is than . The toy is made ___ wood is of . That sounds ___ the baby is like .
Part 7: comparatives only if the pictures show size change ( The alien was bigger in picture 3 ). Made of only if a material is visible. Do not bolt extra grammar onto a 20-word story.
Speaking Part 1: relative size and appearance; made of if it is the difference.
Speaking Part 2: What time…? and cheap or expensive?
Speaking Part 4: What's your teacher like? What time do you get up? Have you ever…? What are you going to do?
A 10-sentence checklist for the whole of Chapter 6
If a child can say these with Flyers words, the p. 77 row plus the needed Movers stack is in place:
- Harry was walking to the castle when he saw a swan. (6.1)
- It was cold and snow was falling . (6.1)
- Have you ever been to a pyramid? (6.1)
- He finished his postcard before he played football. (6.1 / 6.3)
- We're going to visit the museum, aren't we ? (6.2 / 6.3)
- Shall we take a torch? You could invite Robert. We should take water. (6.2)
- Vicky might come. If it's sunny, we go swimming. (6.2)
- I was tired so I went on the bus. Grandma forgot where she put her glasses. (6.3)
- The gate is made of metal. The castle is bigger than our school. (6.4)
- That smell makes me hungry . What time does the film start? See you tomorrow. (6.4)
Nothing in that list is first conditional, past perfect, or made from as a rival structure. That is the point of this chapter: teach what Cambridge lists, show the paper part that uses it, and keep Starters and Movers items in play because Flyers still needs them.