A'ed Obidat
Grammar: Comparatives and Superlatives - Intermediate level Students level
Grammar: Comparatives and Superlatives
Intermediate level Students level
Description
Materials
A picture of healthy food.
A picture of healthy food.
Main Aims
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To enable students to understand and use Comparatives and Superlatives in the context of their favourite countries.
Subsidiary Aims
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To develop students' skills of listening for gist and specific information about comparatives and superlatives in the context of a woman talking about countries she visited and her favourite country to live in.
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To review the comparatives' and superlatives' rules in the context of countries, food, and weather.
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
T shows pictures of two types of food and asks Ss "What is this?", "Do you like to eat this (points to picture 1)?", "Why?" Then does the same with the second picture. T shows the next couple of pictures and asks Ss "Which country does this flag belong to?", "What is the weather like in this country?" Then does the same with the other one.
T gives instructions to Ss to answer listening exercise about a woman who visited many countries and talks about her favourite. T distributes the exercises to the Ss. T asks Ss to listen to a woman who visited many countries and speaks her opinion about them. T writes on the board some sentences in comparatives and superlatives that are found in the woman's speech.
T starts explaining the grammar rules by drawing an apple on the board and asks Ss about it. T draws another apple bigger than the first one and asks again. T explains the grammar rule regarding comparatives with short-regular adjectives Subject + verb + adj. -er (+ than + object) T explains the grammar rule regarding comparatives with long-regular adjectives Subject + verb + more+ adj. (+ than + object) T explains the grammar rule regarding comparatives with irregular adjectives Subject + verb + irregular adj. (+ than + object) T gives students some adjectives to generate comparative sentences. T starts explaining the superlatives. T explains the grammar rule regarding superlatives with short-regular adjectives Subject + verb + the + adj. -est (than others) T explains the grammar rule regarding superlatives with long-regular adjectives Subject + verb + the most+ adj. (than others) T explains the grammar rule regarding superlatives with irregular adjectives Subject + verb + the +irregular adj. (than others)
T asks Ss to cooperate on answering an exercise to be established. T gives Ss the exercise. TS feedback.
T asks Ss to think about the following questions and speak to each other then share with the class. 1. What is your favourite country? 2. What do you like most about that country? 3. Is the food and weather there very different from Turkey? In what way?
