TP4: Grammar
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Students will gain clarification of and practice with comparative and superlative adjectives and their related prepositions in the context of fashion and appearance.
Subsidiary Aims
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Students will develop their gist and intensive listening skills in the context of fashion and appearance.
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Students will develop their speaking fluency by identifying stress patterns and learning colloquial pronunciations of common comparative and superlative adjectives.
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Students will develop their speaking fluency through using comparative and superlative adjectives to describe their families and friends.
Procedure (36-45 minutes)
Display photos of woman in four different outfits with list of adjectives. Ask students: "In which photo do you think she looks the best?"
GIST listening task: Tell students they will listen to an audio of Suzanne giving her opinions on the woman's outfit. After they are finished listening, ask students: "Do you agree or disagree with something Suzanne said?" Ask students individually to share with the class their opinions. INTENSIVE listening task: Tell students they will listen to a second audio of Suzanne's opinions. Following each sentence said, they must fill in the blanks on the G-Slide. Share G-slide with students in chat.
MEANING: Meaning will be dispersed throughout the lesson through CCQs. CCQ: If I’m going to a wedding, do I want to look casual or elegant? If I go to a wedding, should I dress the best? CCQ: If I want to look mature, do I want to look older or younger? CCQ: If one thing is similar to another thing, is it more the same or more different? FORM: 1. Show students first form activity in the G-slide. Explain chart with various adjectives in columns with different rules of comparatives and superlatives, corresponding one row for comparatives and one row of superlatives. Tell students they must modify the adjectives to their comparative version and superlative version. 2. Go over answers in OCFB. CCQs: How about "more far"? Can I say "more prettier"? 3. Show students their second form activity, a fill-in-the-blank activity. They must choose the correct preposition to complete the sentence. 4. GO over answers in OCFB. Explain to students these ar general prepositions they need to remember. CCQ: If it’s similar, is it more the same or more different? PRONUNCIATION: 1. Show Pron activity on G-slide. Tell students they will listen to an audio in which each word will be said twice. Tell them they must drag the words the appropriate column of syllables that the word contains. Play audio. 2. Go over answers in OCFB. Explain all the colloquial quirks of these words. –er in U.S. vs British English, -est pronounced more like "ist”, tt in U.S. English = dd, "different” and "casual" have three syllables but when spoken they sound more like they only have two. 3. Drilling.
1. Show fill-in-the-blank activity on G-slide. Tell students they must choose between two adjective options and modify it into its comparative or superlative form. They should use the photo for reference. (The adjective that they use does not matter, only that they transform it into the correct comparative/superlative). 2. Review answers in OCFB.
1. Display final activity. Explain to students they must talk about the similarities and differences between them and their families/friends. Give them talking points in the table shown. Remind them to use comparatives and superlatives and their prepositions. 2. Place students into pairs in BOR. About 4-5 min. 2. Regroup to provide feedback and corrections in DEC.
