Vital Statistics:

Topic: Adjectives

Skill: Grammar

No. of Students: 40

Level: 7th

Time: 40 minutes

Aim: To enable students to understand the correct usage of adjectives.

Objectives:

At the completion of the lesson “Adjectives” the students will be able to:

1. Work in groups and find at least five words which are not adjectives the given list of words.
2. Work in pairs and underline the adjective(s) in the given sentences.
3. Work in pairs and fill in the blank with suitable adjective from the given choices.
4. Work in groups to separate descriptive regular and irregular adjectives from the given list.
5. Work in groups and construct at least five sentences by using the given adjectives.

Resources:

Text book, white board, marker, handouts.

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1. Preparation:

In order to prepare the students for the new lesson the teacher will ask the following
questions.

Warm up Individual Work 5 minutes

Activity No: 1

Students will be shown two pictures as a stimulus and the teacher will ask the following
questions:

1. How is the room?

2. How is the cat?
3. How is the elephant?
4. What about trees?

On the basis of these questions the topic “Adjectives” will be declared and written on the board.

2. Presentation:

At this stage the teacher will explain adjectives in detail to the students with the help of
definition and the following examples.

Definition: Adjectives are words that modify (change) nouns, pronouns and other adjectives.

Examples:

1. It is a big room. (Noun)

2. You are funny. (pronoun)

3. That is a very beautiful school. (adjective)

4. It is a small chair. (Noun)

5. Manzoor sir is a good teacher. (Noun)

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Activity No:1 Group Work 5 Minutes

The class will be divided into 8 groups (each group will have five students). The groups will
be given a list of words. They will be asked to identify at least four words which are not adjectives
from the given list.

Boy wall around tall computer fat warm

Intelligent small book teacher warm pen hall

After the completion of the above activity the teacher will explain “Degree of adjectives” to
the students with the help of relevant examples.

Three degrees of adjectives:

i. Positive degree adjective;

It is a normal adjective that simply describes things and do not used for comparison,.

e.g.

It is a big room.

This a small fan.

ii. Comparative degree adjective;

These adjectives are used for comparing two things, often followed by ‘than’.

e.g.

This room is bigger than that one.

This mobile is smaller than that one.

iii. Superlative degree adjective;

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 It is an adjective that is used to compare three or more things and gives prominence to one
among them.

E.g.

Ahmad is the tallest boy in the class.

This is the biggest room of the campus.

These three degrees only work for descriptive adjectives.

If a descriptive (description) adjective has one or two syllables, you can turn it into its
comparative and superlative forms by adding -er and -est.

For example, you can say that a song is loud, louder (than another song) or the loudest (out
of all the other songs).
Similarly
big- bigger- biggest
Small- smaller- smallest etc.

Descriptive adjectives with three or more syllables don’t use the -er and -est endings. The
word beautiful, for example, can’t be turned into beautifuler or beautifulest—those aren’t words!
Instead, you add the words more and the most before it to turn it into a comparative or superlative
adjective:
Beautiful, more beautiful, the most beautiful.

Exception:

There are some exceptions to these rules, as with most grammar rules. For
example, good only has one syllable, but it turns into better and best.

Example;

Aslam is a good boy.

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 Aslam is better than Haider.

Aslam is the best of all the class.

3. Practice:

At this stage the teacher will give the following two activities to the students in order to
practice.

Activity No: 2 Group Work 5 Minutes

The students will be asked to underline adjective(s) in the following sentences.

1. I saw a wide ground.

2. Ali speaks louder than Ahmad.

3. The shady forest is full of tall trees.

4. He is a fast runner.

5. John is the luckiest student in the class.

Activity No: 3 (Group Work) 5 Minutes

The students will be asked to fill in the blanks with suitable options.

1. Peshawar is a ________ city. (big, bigger, biggest)

2. Jacobabad is the _________ city of Pakistan. ( hot, hotter, hottest)

3. Mobile is _______ than computer. (fast, faster., fastest)

4. Rose is the ___________ flower of the garden. (beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful)

5. Football is a ___________ game. (good, better, best)

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4. Production:

Activity No: 4 Group Work 5 Minutes

The class will be divided into eight groups (each group will have five students). The groups
will be asked to separate regular and irregular adjectives from the given list and make comparative
and superlative degrees.

Fast

Tall

Good

Small

Wide

Intelligent

Hot

Long

Cheerful

Energetic

Short

Large

Slow

Old

Activity No: 5 Individual Work 5 Minutes

At this stage students will be asked to write five sentences while using any five adjectives of the
given list

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5. Assessment:

For assessment the teacher will ask the following questions from the students.

Now who will tell me about adjective?

How many degrees usually an adjective have?

Give an example of a new adjective?

6. Follow Up:

The teacher will assign homework to the students. Read a paragraph from English book or
newspaper, collect adjectives, note it down and bring it to class by tomorrow.

7. Feedback:

From students