Thursday, October 23, 2025

Lesson on Comparative Adjectives

(TESOL Materials--Comparative Adjectives)

Google Folder HERE
Review of Adjectives: docspub
Lesson Plan: docs, pub
Slideshow: slides, pub
Controlled Practice: docs, pub
[Notes: The lead-in contains a picture of my family.  Anyone else who wishes to use this lesson will want to change the lead-in to something that reflects their own family.
This lesson contains material previously published on this blog in different forms:


Review

Go through adjective pictures to review previous lesson


Lead-in:

Slideshow

Set-up: Slide 1:Display picture of the teacher on a picnic with his family.  

T: Who is this?  What am I doing?  (Elicit answers from students.  If needed, supply language for “picnic”).  

CCQs: Do you eat a picnic outside or inside?

Talk to your partner. Have you ever gone on a picnic?  Where did you go?  

Task: Students talk in pairs.  Teacher monitors to make sure students are on-task. 

Feedback: Teacher nominates 2 students to share their answer with the class.


Model Text:

Set-up: “This is Barnaby the Bear and Pip the Squirrel.  They are going on a picnic.  Listen to the story.  What things do they see?”

Task: Teacher reads model text. Slides 2-8.  Students listen and note what the animals see on their journey

Feedback: Students volunteer answers in openclass feedback


Clarification: meaning
Display picture of two trees.  Slide 9
Concept Checking questions: “Are they both tall?” (yes)

“Is the green tree taller than the blue tree?” (no)

“Is the blue tree taller than the green tree?” (yes)


Clarification: Form

Show slide 10.  Display several sentences.  Elicit from students the form of the sentences.

Checking questions: How many trees are in this sentence?  (two)  What happened to tall? (became taller)

What happens to big? (It becomes bigger)  Draw student’s attention to the double consonant, and explain the rule for doubling consonants


Clarification: Pronunciation

Drill slides 11-17


Time allowing: Controlled practice

Check slides 14-17 again.   Give students paper. The students write in the missing words in the blanks


Semi Controlled Practice:

Uses slides 18-27.  Slides are printed out on paper for students.  They discuss them and make sentences.


Time allowing: Freer Practice:

Teacher goes back to the initial photo of his family, and makes sentences concerning them.  (e.g. “I am taller than my children.  They are younger than me.”)  Students are then encouraged to share about their own families using comparative sentences

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