LESSON PLAN

Date: 06/01/15

Student-teacher: Cem Güney

Learning Stage of the Class: Pre-Intermediate

Age Level of the Class: 14

Size of the Class: 34 students

Time: 40 mins

Lesson Title: Comparative Adjectives

Equipment: Worksheets with respect to the topic

OBJECTIVES:

ü  At the end of the lesson, the students will be able to compare things with the comparative adjectives they know.

ü  At the end of the lesson, the students will have learned the tips about the spelling of comparative adjectives and will be able to write some comparative adjectives properly.

Warm Up:

 The student-teacher greets the students and then asks several students about their height and weight. They answer him. By doing this, he takes their attention to the differences between the people in the class. So this way, the student-teacher shows the whole class how comparing is done.

Pre Activity:

 In the pre activity, students are distributed an exercise for comparative adjectives with a list of rules for turning adjectives into comparatives. Students are expected to read the rules first and then do the following two exercises, one of which requires them to write the comparative form of the adjectives given.

While Activity:

 In this activity, the students are given a worksheet consisting of 5 parts (A, B, C, D, E). In each part, they are required to do different things. In part A, the students are expected to fill in the blanks in the sentences with the comparative form of the given adjectives. In part B, there is a mistake with the comparative forms in each sentence. The students should find and correct them. In the next section, there are 5 sentences to be formed by the students. As in the example shown, they are expected to make a comparative sentence using the two nouns and one adjective given for each sentence. In part D, there are 4 sentences each having one blank. The students will tick the correct choice for those blanks. First two questions have two choices while the rest have three. In this exercise, it’s all about using the comparative adjectives properly, caring for their spelling. Lastly, in part E, the students will again make comparative sentences but this time using short adjectives like fast or dry etc.

Post Activity:

 The last activity is a board game played with a dice actually. Its aim is consequently arriving at the ‘FINISH’ square. However, as the game will not be suitable for a classroom of students in this form, the students will play it in an adjusted way: All the squares on the paper are numbered. In total, there are 23 squares. The students will be divided into two groups and each time one student will pick a number out of 23 small pieces of paper for his/her own group respectively. Whichever number s/he picks, the student will have to do what that specific square tells him/her to. On some squares, there is one adjective which means the student is supposed to form a sentence using that adjective in its comparative form. On some squares, there are two nouns which is to say the student is supposed to make a sentence comparing those nouns with a comparative adjective if s/he draws the paper belonging to the number of that square. Each student who manages to form the sentence earns his/her group a point.