TEFLNS Teaching Training-Detailed Lesson Plan
Date/
Class: March, 11th 2018/ Intermediate
Teacher/
student No: 47
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Lesson
Subject:
Comparatives
and Superlatives
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Vocabulary/
Grammar to be covered:
Comparative
S + to be + adjective + er + O/C
S + to be + more
adjective + O/C
Superlatives
S + to be + the + adjective + est + O/C
S + to be + the + most +
adjective + O/C
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POINT
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ACTIVITY
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INSTRUCTIONS/
COMMENTS
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Warmer/
Introduction 5 Mins
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Divide
class into groups of four and play game "Hangman"
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The
group who wins gets a prize.
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Presentation
15
Mins
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Select
three students (the winners of the prize) and ask them how old they are.
Write
their names and ages on the board.
Say out loud
Repeat
it with Greg and Michelle.
Write
old down on the board next to Autumn’s name.
Write
older next to Greg’s name.
Write
oldest next to Michelle’s name.
Review:
Using
the same students, and the same presentation we do
Do
another Concept Check.
Students
are then asked to come up with adjectives examples (we would do about five
and hopefully one of them would have the CVC), which would be written on the
board.
After
this write them down on the board
And explain to them the CVC as the HOT words.
I
write down the spelling of the HOT words and pronounce them. I get the
students to say it with me in choral.
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“26-
Greg, 18- Autumn, 29- Michelle”,
“Autumn
is 18 years old. How old is Autumn?” Answer: 18.
Ask
the students to put the three in age order.
After doing this, say, “Autumn is 18 years old. Yes?” Answer: Yes.
“Greg is 26 years old. Greg is older.”
“And Michelle is 29 years old. He is the oldest.” Repeat the exercise with the class repeating after: “Autumn is old. Greg is older, Michelle is the oldest.” Concept Checking: “Richard, is Autumn the oldest?” “No, Michelle is the oldest.”
“MJ,
is Greg the oldest? No, Michelle is the oldest.”
“Sholony,
can I say, Greg is more old than Autumn? No. Greg is older than Autumn.”
Greg,
what are we doing when we say,
“Greg
is older than Autumn?”
(Hopefully
he will say comparing!) Comparing means putting two things next to each
other/side by side/ and seeing what is the same and what is different.
“Andrea, when I say Michelle is the oldest what do I mean?”
“Michelle
is age is more than Greg’s and Autumn’s.”
Autumn is old, Greg is older, and Michelle is the oldest. “tall, taller, tallest.”
“Michelle
is tall, yes?” Yes.
“But
Autumn is- Taller”
“Greg
is the tallest.”
One more is done with ‘small’ and the students are asked what do they see as a pattern between all the words. This should elicit ‘er’ and ‘est’ and ‘the smallest, the tallest, the oldest’. Hot Big Young Pretty Angry Before writing anything down, elicit from the students what the comparatives and superlatives are for the list: “Kevin, it is hot in Northern California. But in Southern California it is? “Hotter.” “But in the desert it is the?” “Hottest” “Ebru, Jane’s bag is big, but Tony’s is?” “Bigger” “And Joshua’s bag is the biggest.” “Words with CVC (what does CVC mean? C is consonant, V is vowel, C is consonant are HOT) why are they hot? Because their last letter gets doubled/becomes two) and then we add our partners/friends- er and est.” Hot – Hot, Hotter - Hotter, Hottest - Hottest. Big – Big, Bigger – Bigger, Biggest – Biggest Then we move on to the next one: |
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POINT
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ACTIVITY
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INSTRUCTIONS/
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Practice 15 Mins
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In
groups of three, try and fill in the handouts.
Concept
checking and review.
They
swap stories with the next group and read aloud.
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Ask
them to read aloud and spell “Nice Nicer, Niciest? Nooooo.”
Assigned
five of the adjectives and need to put them into a short story.
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Production Mins
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Put
in groups of three again, they come up with a dialogue or little skits
showing the degrees of comparison.
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Make
a dialogue or write sentences are using comparison and superlative.
Complete
the sentences using comparison and superlative.
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- Tennis is
a more difficult sport than
- I think
John is happier now than a year ago.
- Could you
open the window, please? It's getting hotter in this room by the minute.
- interesting
___________
- weak
___________
- funny
___________
- important
___________
- careful
___________
- big
___________
- small
___________
- polluted
___________
- boring ___________
- angry
___________
- His
biggest desire is to return home.
- She is
probably the angriest person I know.
- interesting
___________
- weak
___________
- funny
___________
- important
___________
- careful
___________
- big
___________
- small
___________
- polluted
___________
- boring
___________
- angry
___________
1. Kareem
Abdul Jabaar used to be one of the ____________ basketball players in the NBA.
a. taller
b. tallest
2. Even
though he was one of the best players in the game, he earned __________ money
than even the mediocre players in the NBA do today.
a. less
b. fewer
3. The
harder one studies, the __________ one learns.
a. more
b. most
4. Math
is __________ for her than physics.
a. more
easy
b. easier
c. more
easily
d. easilier
5. Of
all the girls in my English class, Maria is __________ attractive.
a. more
b. the
most
c. mostly
d. the
mostly
6. Studying
English grammar was the __________ experience in Jack's life.
a. more
exciting
b. most
exciting
c. mostily
exciting
d. worse
7. Of
the two papers, the one on the physical and psychological benefits of yoga is
the __________.
a. better
b. best
8. Of
her three jumps, the second was the __________.
a. longer
b. longest
9. Maria
thinks that Jack is __________ than Max.
a. attractiver
b. more
attractive
10. The
__________ they are, the harder they fall.
a. Taller
b. Tallest