Grammar Lesson Plan - comparison

Taller ~  than, More difficult ~ than/ The tallest, The most difficult

Instructor:

Kim, Kyoung-ok

Level:

intermediate

Student:

14

Length:

20 minutes

Materials:

- Board and board markers/ three colored pencils.

- Pictures 14 pieces

- Worksheet 4 pieces (14 pieces of each)

- Substitution table

Aims:

- To acquire the expression of comparison throughout seeing a visual demonstration.

- To learn new adjective vocabulary using form and worksheet.

- To improve Ss intensive grammar skill including gap fill exercise.

- To develope speaking by discussing with group members.

Language skills:

- Reading: worksheet instruction & question

- Listening: T instruction, explanation/ T question & Ss answers

- Speaking: practice activities & drilling

talk about personal comparison such as appearance, knowledge & price.

- Writing: worksheet answers.

Language systems:

- lexis: vocabulary used in gap fill exercise

- Discourse: talking about something or someone in comparison

- Phonology: listening to instructions & explanation, drilling

- Function: describing the shape in comparison.

- Grammar: comparative, superlative

Assumptions:

Students already know:

- They are mostly active and familiar with presenting in front of the class

- some sorts of word and expressions

- The teacher's style of teaching and the pace of the course

- They are intermediate.

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

- Ss may not clearly understand the formula

→ Encourage Ss to guess from more example

- Ss may have difficulties in drilling

→ allow Ss more opportunities to practice until they can get it right

- If Ss finish their work earlier than anticipated

→ S.O.S plan: provide more practices for ss comparison with each partner.

- If time is short

→ Cut-off plan: post task error correction tomorrow

Reference: English grammar in use - book

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Lead in
Materials: Board & Board markers, three colored pencils.
Time 3min	Set up Whole class	Procedure: Hello everyone. How are you? Good! Show three red colored pencils with different lengths & prices. Each pencil is marked "A" ,"B", "C". T: Could you please look at these pencils? What are these? S: Colored pencils. (put down "A" pencil on the desk) T: Okay, let's see these two pencils."B" and "C". Did you find what is the difference between "B" and "C"? S: "B" is long. "C" is short. "B" is expensive. "C" is cheap. T: Good, we can say B is longer than C or C is shorter than B. Also, B is more expensive than C or C is less expensive than B. ( write it down on the board and put down "C" on the desk.) T: Then, How about A and B? S: A is longer than B. or B is shorter than A. Also, A is more expensive than B or B is less expensive than A (write it down) T: Excellent! so we can say A is the longest and the most expensive of them. Or C is the shortest and the cheapest of them. T: What have we done so far? ( write down "comparison" on the board) S: Comparison. T: Yes. We are gonna study about comparison.

Pre - Activity

Materials: Formula Worksheet

Time

5min

Set up

Whole class

& individual

Procedure:

Demonstration of form using the board and worksheet.

Distribute the worksheets to Ss.

** instruction & explanation **

T: In daily conversation, we often use comparison expression

such as  bigger, cheaper, more beautiful, more difficult.

What else? please give me more example as you've used.

S: taller, more handsome.( Encourage ss to answer more)

T: when do we have to  put ~ er the end of the adjective or

put "more" in front of the adjective in the sentence?

S: Hum. Well,

T: It's depends on the syllable of the word

Let's see substitution table. (explain formula briefly)

A. Regular comparative & superlative form;

syllable	word	comparative ~er/more~/less~ than	superlative
one	cheap fast lucky early	cheaper/less cheap faster/less fast luckier(-y→ier)/less lucky earlier / less early	the cheapest the fastest the luckiest the earliest
over two	serious comfortable slowly seriously	more/less serious more/less expensive more/less slowly more/less seriously	the most serious the most expensive the most slowly the most seriously

B. Irregular comparative & superlative form:

word	comparative	superlative
good/well bad/badly far	better worse further or farther	the best the worst furthest

T: cheap has one syllable. we can say "cheaper - the cheapest"

how about "old"?

S: Older - the oldest

T: 'important" has over two syllable. We can say " more important

- the most important.  how about "comfortable"

S:  more comfortable - the most comfortable.

T: irregular comparative "good/well" changed better - the best.

what about bad/badly?

S: Worse, the worst

C.C.Q: Do you understand?  Is it correct if you put er after over

two syllable words?  Is it right "gooder" is the comparative

form of "good"?

** Drilling**

T: repeat substitution table after me.

Cheap, cheaper, the cheapest.

S: Cheap, cheaper, the cheapest.

Main activity
Materials: Worksheet
Time 7 min	Set up Whole class individual	Practice1 Do the worksheet. complete the sentences with given words. You have 4 min alone. C.C.Q: What do you do? how much time do you have? Are you working alone? Distribute the worksheet. Monitor and help ss. Check answers together, Give the warning ; 1 minute left.

Post activity
Materials: Pictures
Time 5min	Set up Pair or group	Practice2 Put ss into pairs/groups. Hand the pictures out to each pair. Let each pair look the given picture and make over 3 sentences using comparison including comparative and superlative. T: Okay, Now each pair of you have a picture. Find the different things each other and make over 5 sentences using comparison expression. You have 4 min. C.C.Q: What are you going to do? How many sentences do you have to make? How much time do you have? Who are you working with? Monitor discreetly ss while discussing and make note of any commonly make errors. Give the warning ; 1 minute left. Be flexible with time. Give more minutes if they need it. ( Homework) Write a short essay about yourself or someone/somethng related to you using comparison expression. Good job. Today. Was it fun? Next time we are going to learn more expression using as ~ as. See you next time.