Lesson Plan

Level: Movers Number of students: 36 Length of the lesson: 55 minutes

Topic: Comparative and superlative (basic) Teaching Date: Feb 15, 2017

Main aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the comparative and superlative form of short adjectives
Subsidiary aim: For students to practice listening for details (or intensive listening)
Personal aim: to simplify the teacher’s classroom English
Assumption: Students have learned the simple present tense and the adjectives used in practice phase.
Anticipated problems & solutions:
Problem: Students may have trouble understanding and recognizing the form of new grammar point.
Solution: The teacher will be slow and careful with examples.
Stage/Time Stage Aims
Presentation (15 Introducing comparative
mins) form of short adjectives
Have students to practice
Practice comparative form of short
(25 mins) adjectives with tasks (tasks
content implied below)
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Int.
Make statements describing students and objects in the Listen to T
classroom with short adjectives + reviewing simple present
tense with the verb “be”
 This classroom is small. This school is big.
 This classroom is smaller than this school.
 This school is bigger than.
 Bicycle is slow. Car is fast.
 Bicycle is slower than car.
 Car is faster than bicycle.
 Adults are tall. Children are not tall => they are short.
 Adults are taller than children.
 Children are shorter than adults.
*note: T writes/ draws on the board to elaborate: “Mr.W slow
> A”
Provide Ss with short adjectives and ask them to make Choose 2 targets to
comparative statements: compare
1. Strong/ weak
2. sweet
3. New/ old
Special cases: T makes notes on comparative form of
good/bad, adjectives end with ‘y’ and with ‘c-v-c’
4. Good/ bad
5. Tidy/ messy
6. Thick/ thin
Ask Ss to write the 6 examples in notebook and highlight the Write down in
special adjectives notebook
The teacher will repeat the grammar point one more time
before deliver the tasks to Ss.
Do the tasks
Ss have about 10 minutes to complete the tasks
 Teacher goes around the class to provide support
Write answer and
Ss go to the board and write their answer. The teacher will correct themselves
check and correct mistakes.
 Showing visual aids / realia to Ss and have them make a whole Make a whole
sentence of the new grammar point sentence based
Have student to apply the on the grammar point
Production
new grammar point into Call 2 students and have them to make a short conversation
(15 mins)
communications about given topic (the topics are included below) Make a short
conversation
The teacher correct the pronunciation errors immediately

PRACTICE TASKS

I. Transform the verbs below to their comparative forms.

happy ________ small ________ messy ________ wide ________

angry ________ big ________ tidy ________ narrow ________

II. Write the correct answer into the blanks.

1. Anne is 12 year-old. Her sister, Emily, is 10.
 Anne is (old) _______ than Emily.
 Emily is the (young) _______ sibling of the two.

2. Joe was born in 1996. Gabriellle is born in 1999.

 Joe is ___ years (old) _______ than Gabrielle.

3. Joe is a cook and weights around 80 kilograms.

Gabrielle is a martial arts practitioner. She weights around 40 kilos.
 Joe is (heavy) _______ than Gabrielle.
 However, Gabrielle is much (faster) _______ than Joe.

III. Choose the correct answer.

1. A cup of coffee costs 12$. A cup of milk-tea is 20$.
The coffee is _______.
A. tastier B. sweeter C. cheaper D. blacker
 2. The red ladder is 2 meters tall. The green ladder is 3 meters tall.
The red ladder is ______ .
A. greener B. taller C. sturdier D. shorter

3. The blue dictionary has 200 pages. The purple novel has 250 pages.
The purple novel is _______ .
A. thinner B. heavier C. thicker D. longer

4. A rabbit is hopping about while a turtle is crawling towards you.

The rabbit is the _______ one and the turtle is the _______ one.
A. quicker B. stronger C. thinner D. weaker
A. quicker B. sleepier C. thicker D. slower

5. The cup of coffee on the right has steam coming up. The coffee cup on the left has ice in it.
The left cup is the ________ one and the right one is the _______.
A. darker B. sweeter C. hotter D. icier
A. blacker B. bitter C. cheaper D. colder

Conversation Topics (Production)

- Price between 2 hats in the supermarket
Imagine that you are inside a shop to choose a hat for your beach trip. There are 3 hats that you like. You have
to compare them in order to choose the hat that you will buy.

800$ 400$ 800$

- Date of foods.
Imagine that you open your fridge and there are two apples. Compare their looks and the time that you
brought them to decide which one should you throw away.

Bought today Bought 1 week ago

- Quantities of their current belongings.