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Time Limit: 6S minutes
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This week students are learning how to do shopping. They were taught some shopping
vocabulary in the previous lesson and on the current lesson they will practice using these new
vocabulary words when comparing two items in a store. The grammar section in the previous
lesson was about giving advice, so that is why along with practicing new material, one of the
practical exercises in this current lesson will let students review giving advice.

Goal: To help students accurately use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.

Objectives:
Terminal: Students will learn about comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and
appropriately use these forms in conversation.
Enabling:
1. Stuuents will leain about compaiative anu supeilative uegiees of aujectives.
2. Stuuents will piactice cieating coiiect compaiative anu supeilative foims of
aujectives uesciibing items in a stoie.
S. Stuuents will piactice using compaiative anu supeilative foims of aujectives anu
shopping vocabulaiy by talking about two uiffeient items in the stoie anu
compaiing them.
4. Stuuents will ieview giammai mateiial fiom the pievious lesson "uiving auvice"
anu establish theii ability to appiopiiately use it in conveisation.
Materials:
- Items foi the waim-up activity: two books, two skiits, two shiits; pictuies with the
shoes
- Caius with piouuct uetails
- Banuout "Compaiative anu Supeilative Begiees of Aujectives"

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Warm-up (7 min):
! Show the stuuents two books of uiffeient size, content anu foimat. Ask them to
say something about these two books. The stuuents uiun't leain about
compaiatives yet but when talking about these two items they will anyways
somehow tiy to compaie them.
! Then uo the same thing with two skiits anu two shiits.
! Tell the stuuents that they compaie things all the time anu touay in the lesson they
will leain about how to compaie things in English.

Introduction (10 min):
Present on the board a chart for comparatives and superlatives:
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Short or long word Comparative Superlative
Short: small -er
smaller
the + -est
the smallest
Long: beautiful more\less + the adjective
more\less beautiful
the most + the adjective
the most beautiful

Demonstration (5 min):
Demonstrate how to compare two pairs of shoes (using the pictures).

Practice 1 (5 min):
Pair work: Pair the students up. Give every pair two items that you used for the warm-up
activity and a list of adjectives describing each of those items. The students will now
compare two items by using the adjectives and applying the new grammar principle.

Practice 2 (10 min):
Team work: Divide students into two teams. One person from each team stands by the
board. Give students two objects and an adjective. Both students have to write on the
board a sentence that describes a similarity between these two objects.
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Practice 3 (13 min):
Role-play: Pair the students up (use different pairs this time). Give to each pair two sets of
cards with products information for two items. Explain to them that they are two friends.
One of them was in the store and he\she couldnt buy the item he\she needed because it was
hard to choose from two items he\she liked. Then this student will have to give more
information about each item using the product information on the card. The other student
will express his\her opinion and give advice to his\her friend.
1. Bemonstiation by the teacheis.
2. Piactice by stuuents.

Assessment
Activity A (5 min):
Using the same cards with products details from the last activity ask the students what choice
they would make between those two items.
For example:
- Would you buy a cheaper digital camera or the one of a higher quality?
- Why would you prefer a more stylish coat but not a coat that is easier to clean? Etc.
Activity B (10 min):
Students will correct sentences with comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
(Handout).
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Students will write six statements comparing cities, countries, or other places in the world.
They will have to make three statements that are true and three statements that are false. Next
class they will work in groups. They will read their statements, and the group members will
decide if they are true or false.

Examples:
Canada is smaller than China (True).
The Atlantic Ocean is the biggest ocean (False).




























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Appendices
Comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives

If the underlined part is incorrect, write a correction above it.
1. The most expensive item in this store is that beautiful couch. It costs more that $500.
2. I do not think I will need your help this time because this assignment is more easier
than the last one.
3. My sister is as beautiful as an angel.
4. I think that Marcos is the best runner in our school. He can run more fast than
anybody!
5. Yesterday I had the most bad experience in my life!
6. I do not recommend you to buy this car. It is the ugliest car I have ever seen in my life.
7. Moscow is the most large city in Russia.
8. Last night I tried the most delicious dessert that I have ever eaten in America. It was
almost as better as desserts in my own country.
9. I cannot believe that John got sick last week. In my opinion, he is the most healthy
person in the team.
10. This dress is too tight on you. I think you should try a more bigger size.

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