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[jellomando]

This is another lesson taken from the JLP Resource book that was thrown together rather hastily when my planned lesson on food idioms (again from the Resource book, but found online at various places) backfired.  The paragraphs were too advance for my high school students.

Comparatives & Superlatives

• Native Speaker introduces the concept of adjectives, comparatives, and superlative. 5 minutes.
• Students perform Adjective Word Scramble worksheet.  10 minutes.
• Native speaker introduces the comparative and superlative formation rules.  5 minutes.
• Students perform the Adjective Table worksheet. 10 minutes.
• Native speaker introduces the difference between which and what. 5 minutes.
• Students perform the Which or What worksheet. 10 minutes.

Notes:

• The word scramble takes a lot of time.  There were always some students who wanted more time and other students who gave up immediately.  That activity is the main time consumer on this lesson.
• Half of the classes found this lesson very easier and others really struggled through the adjectives table.
• The classes that did find this lesson easy already knew the material, just not the words comparatives and superlatives.

More information about my lessons can be found here.

[capebretonbarbarian]

Love the powerpoint, I'll use in my lesson next time.  Something I used for superlatives and comparatives that was really fun was the superlative/comparative dice game.  I think it was mentioned here before by someone.  Pick a theme.  For example- countries.  Write the numbers 1-6 down the board.  Next to each number write a word. Japan, China, USA etc.  Divide the class into teams.  Have a member of each team roll the dice.  The number they roll corresponds to the words on the board.  For example.  If they roll 1 (USA) and 4 (Korea) they must make a comparative.  USA is bigger than Korea.  If they roll doubles, they can make a superlative.  Give the team the points on the dice.  I saved famous people for last and let the kids pick 6 famous people.  They loved it.     

[AlexMokpo]

Hey, Cape Breton, I lov eyour dice-game idea!  I'll be sure to use it in the new semester (seeming as how this one seems to be already over for me...)