Comparative form of adjectives

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Dunaeva Elza

Elementary

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Lesson Aims:

By the end of the lesson, the students will have:

• learned comparative form of adjectives
• practiced using ‘comparative form of adjectives’ in authentic situations
• interviewed a partner using “used to” and “would”

By the end of the lesson, the students will be better able to:

• understand the form and meaning of comparative form of adjectives
• use comparative form of adjectives in natural discussion

talk about comparison with accuracy and fluency

Language Skills:

Reading: rule about comparative form of adjectives

Listening: Listening to their classmates reading the story, listening to CCQ questions that T asks between each paragraph.

Writing: writing a fictional story (post reading)

Speaking: during warm-up, pre-reading fiction story, GCCQ question

Language Systems:

Lexis:

Phonology: how to pronounce the vocabulary according to teacher’s instructions.

Grammar: comparatıve form of adjectıves

Function: Learning usage of comparatıve form of adjectıves.

Discourse: Questions and answers, with the context, creative writing, speaking.

Assumptions:

Students are slightly familiar comparatıve form of adjectıves

Students are familiar with the teacher’s style of lesson and their classmates.

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

• Students might not be familiar with some of the words in the text. So, T should pre-teach some of the words.
• Students might not be able to complete some tasks correctly. So, T should encourage them by giving hints to elicit correction.

Materials:

• pictures
• controlled practice worksheet
• wall-chart (grammar explanation)
• worksheets for speaking activity
• whiteboard & markers

Notes/References:

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Lead In / Warm Up

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Hello, children! How are you? What is the day today? What is your favourite day of the week? And what is the season today? What is your favourite season? What is the weather like today?

T. has prepared for the students a crossword. T. tells the riddles and children should guess the answers one by one. The students should find out a keyword.

Instructions:

1. Listen to the riddles.
2. Guess the answers one by one.
3. Find out the keyword.

CCQs

1. What does the teacher prepare for you?
2. What should you find out?
3. How should you answer one by one or all together?

Questions to the crossword

1. It is a very cheerful person. He or she is always optimistic? (happy)
2. It is not so good man. He or she can be rude, angry, greedy? (bad)
3. He or she always beautiful? (pretty)
4. You always wear a jacket and jeans in this weather? (cold)
5. This person is overweight. (fat)
6. It is a skinny person? (thin)
7. This room is neat and tidy and everything is in order.

What is the key word? (adjective) What type of speech are going to speak about? (adjectives) What adjectives do you know, give examples?

Presentation

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(25 total)

I want to buy a comfortable, beautiful, soft and a big chair in my office. Help me to choose the best one, please. What chair is soft? What chair big? What chair is comfortable? What chair is beautiful?

• Blue Chair is softer than the brown chair.
• Blue Chair is bigger than the brown chair.
• Blue Chair is more comfortable than the brown chair.
• Blue Chair is more beautiful than the brown chair.

Elıcıte Questıons:

Look at these examples, please. What did we do? (We compared this objects)

Today we are going to speak about comparative form of adjectives. Tell me:

• Why do we use comparative form of adjectives? (We use comparative adjectives to compare 2 things, persons or places at different times.)
• Do we use comparatıve adjectıves to ındıcate comparıson? (Yes)
• How can we form comparative adjectives? (with help of ending er and the word more )
• Adjectives with 1 or 2 syllables take the ending “er” form (e.g. fast – faster / heavy – heavier)
• Adjectives with 3 or more syllables take the word “more ~” form (e.g. expensive – more expensive / beautiful – more beautiful)
• BUT: irregular forms: “good” and “bad” take the irregular forms “better” / “worse”
• What is the Fomula?

Noun (subject) + verb + adj (er) + than + noun (object).

Noun (subect) + verb +more adj + than + noun (object).

• What word can we see in every sentence? (We use “than” after the comparative adjective to say what time period we are comparing something with.)

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• Can I say that the blue chair is beautifuler than the brown chair?
• Is it true if I say The blue chair is more soft than the brown chair?
• Is it correct if I say the blue chair is more bad than the brown chair?

T. gives instructions for work-card activity. Students are given some work cards with adjectives and they come to the front and put the adjectives in two categories (forming with ending er or the word more). Students think and decide where the adjective should go.

Instructions:

• Get work cards with adjectives
• Put the adjectives in two categories
• Think and decide where the adjective should go.

CCQs

• Where should you work: in your places or at the board?
• How many columns should you fill in?
• What kind of categories?

Ex: long – forming with ending er

(long, beautiful, nice, fast, kind, happy, hungry, comfortable)

Practice (Guided Practice or Restricted Practice)

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• T. hands out worksheets. Students write the comparative forms of the adjectives in 3 minutes.

Iinstructions:

1. Get a worksheet with adjectives.
2. Write the comparative forms of the adjectives in 3 minutes.

CCQs:

1. After getting worksheets what are you going to do?
2. How much time do you have to do this task?

Ex: tall – taller, comfortable – more comfortable

1. fast ____________

2. heavy ____________

3. dangerous ____________

4. small ____________

5. large ____________

6. beautiful ______________

T. suggests students to go around the class and ask all classmates one question “When did you wake up?” When you ask all your classmates, you should stand in line. Who woke up early takes the first place, who get up later stand in the end of the line. You should use in your answers comparative form of word early.

Ex: I woke up earlier than Nataliya.

CCQs:

1. Should you ask only some of your classmates?
2. Who stands for the first place?
3. Should you use comparative form of the word early in your answers?

Ex: I woke up earlier than Nataliya.

• T. shows 2 pictures of famous people and ask the students to compare them using the following

adjectiveses (kind, beautiful, good, tall, happy).

Iinstructions:

1. Look at 2 pictures of famous people.
2. compare them using the following adjectives (kind, beautiful, good, tall, happy).

CCQs:

1. After getting worksheets what are you going to do?
2. How much time do you have to do this task.

Examples:

1. Angelina Jolie is taller than Sandra Bullock.
2. I think Sandra Bullock is more beautiful than Angelina Jolie.
3. To me, Angelina Jolie is a better actress than Sandra Bullock.
4. Angelia Jolie speaks German worse than Sandra Bullock.
5. Sandra Bullock looks happier than Angelia Jolie.

T. gives the next task to the children. Children should make true comparative sentences.

Iinstructions:

1. Look at board and compare 2 pictures of famous people.
2. Using adjectives you should make true comparative sentences

CCQs

1. Should you make true comparative sentences?
2. What Should you use to make true comparative sentences?

REMEMBER:  The bus is faster than a bike

                     The city is more interesting than the mountains.

   a)                        HIGH            

                                a mountain                                                         a tree

                              A mountain is higher than a tree

     b)                      SHORT      

                   a bus                                           a train

     c)                  DANGEROUS   

                    a cat                                              a lion

     d)                 STRONG           

                   a gorilla                                           a dog

     e)                COMFORTABLE  

                                                 a chair                                          a sofa

     f)                    FAST            

                  a train                                           a boat

     g)                    SLOW            

                  a train                                           a boat

     h)                   COLD              

                  January                                            August

      i)                   HOT              

                  January                                            August

Production (Authentic Practice or Free Practice)

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T. divides the students in groups of 3 and distribute the cards below, 1 set to each group. The students will need to take a card, read on what is written and ask a question to one of the team members. 

CCQs

1. Will you individually or in pairs?
2. Should make a dialogue or a composition?

A: Is swimming in the sea easier than swimming in the pool?

B: Yes, swimming in the sea is easier than in the pool?

A: Why?

B: Because the sea is salty and keeps you on the surface.

Use please full sentences to respond to each others’ questions and ask for extra information to have more speaking practice.

Wrap Up

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T. hands out worksheets with exercise. Children fill in right sentences with comparative forms of adjectives. Children do these task 5 minutes.

Iinstructions:

1. Get worksheets with exercise.
2. fill in right sentences with comparative forms of adjectives.

CCQs:

1. In which way should you do these task?
2. How much time do you have to do this task?

1. Summer is _____________ (hot) winter. (Summer is hotter than winter.)

2. Maths is ________________ (difficult) PE. (Maths is more difficult than PE.)

3. Cheetah is ________________(fast ) tiger. (Cheetah is faster than a tiger.)

4. A whale is ____________ (big) a shark. (A whale is bigger than a shark.)

5. A bike is ______________ (slow) a train. (A bike is slower than a train.)

6. A strawberry is _________(small) a watermelon. (A strawberry is smaller than a watermelon)

Contingency Plan

What I will do if I finish early:

COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES – Сопоставить (wordwall.net)

What I will do if my lesson is going long:

I will give the task in wrap-up section as homework