Soroush Seyedpiran Soroush Seyedpiran

Comparatives and Superlatives
High beginner to low intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students are going to learn more about comparatives and superlatives and more complex structures in the context of everyday communications and comparisons through PPP. By the end of the lesson, students might better be able to form regular and basic irregular comparative/superlative adjectives, pronounce them correctly, and utilise them to compare objects and people with improved accuracy and fluency and with more sophisticated ways. The lesson will be finished when the gap-filling tasks ((controlled practice) are done and the students received feedback on their performance.

Materials

Abc Board
Abc AI-generated photos
Abc Google photos
Abc American English File 2 SB

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of Comparatives and Superlatives in the context of Objects and People

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide accuracy speaking practice in a Comparing things in the context of Objects and People

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-2 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In this stage I will show pictures of famous and rich businessmen and athletes ask the students to them in terms of wealth and fame to remind them a little bit of what we are about to do next.

Highlighting (2-3 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

In this stage, I will show the students some AI-generated photos with noticeable differences and ask them some CCQs (Which house is more/less beautiful? / Which one is the most expensive? / Who is running faster? / Who is eating more healthily?), I will write the correct form of some comparisons that the students made on the board.

Clarification (9-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

In this stage, I will remind the students that we have short and long adjectives. Then I will show them the comparative table from the SB and review the basic rules and changes in order to compare two things by focusing more on more-than-two-syllable and irregular adjectives. Moreover, I write the “less + adj.” and “(not) as + adj. + as” structures on the board and ask students to compare the AI-generated photos with these structure. and write them on the board. Then I will show the students the AI-generated photos relating to adverbs and ask them CCQs to compare the actions between photos and then I will show the students the table related to comparative adverbs from the SB while focusing on “less + adv.” and “(not) as + adv. + as” structures and highlighting the fact that the rules are the same as adjectives. Moreover, I will write the object pronouns on the board and tell the students that we are free to use object pronouns too while using comparatives. Subsequently, I will show the students some AI-generated photos and ask them to compare one thing with a group and show them tables of superlatives from the SB and focus more on the more-than- two-syllable adjectives while introducing new superlative structures like “the + superlative adj.”, “superlative adj. + in + names of places or singular words for groups of people” and “least + adj.”.

Controlled Practice (5-5 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

I will ask each student individually to do one part of the exercise 5A on page 135 in the grammar bank and correct him/her if they were wrong and then I will do the same thing with exercise 5B on page 135 in the grammar bank.

Free Practice • To provide students with free practice of the target language

I will ask each student to describe and compare the best and the worst birthday gift that they have ever received in their lives.

Web site designed by: Nikue