LESSON PLAN

School : ȘcoalaGimnazială Goiesti

Teacher : Dragoianu Maria Magdalena
Class: 7th grade
No. of pupils: 11
Lesson: Degrees of Comparison for Adjectives
Lesson type: Teaching grammar
Language focus- Grammar
Time : 45 minutes
Skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking
Strategies: conversation, exercise, explanation
Type of interaction: teacher-students (T-Ss), students-teacher (Ss-T)
Grouping and seating: whole-class teaching, individual
Aids: board, PPT presentation, Wordwall.net;
Aims : - to raise SS’ attention upon the topic;
- to make the Ss confident in the ability to use the language;
- to make the students interact;
Objectives : by the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
1st – to make sentences with adjectives;
2nd- to transform adjectives into comparative and superlative forms;
3rd – to use correctly the comparative and superlative of adjectives;
Assumptions:
● the Ss know the adjectives used on the exercises and presentation
● some students can read in English trying to understand the messages of the sentences;

Anticipated problems:
● The Ss may not understand some oral commands or tasks; if this happens, they will be
translated into Romanian.
● Teacher will be ready to offer help and encouragement in case Ss tend to use mother
tongue during the activity.
Timetable fit:
This lesson is part of Module Personal Possessions.

PROCEDURE

Stage Teacher’s activity Student’s Interactio Timin

activity n g

Warm-up Greetings. The students T-S 3`

greet the
The teacher greets the class. The teacher asks teacher
the students how they are feeling today and
marks the missing people. The class prepares
 for the lesson. back.

Checking The teacher has to listen to the Ss’ Ss read their Ss – Ss 3`

up homework. T corrects the mistakes (if homework
homework. necessary). and correct T- Ss
the mistakes
(if
necessary).

Lead in T shows Ss a photo with a mouse and an T- Ss 3’

elephant and another one with a tall woman
and a short girl. T asks Ss to make sentences Ss answer Ss-T
and to compare things. The mouse
T offers feedback. is small.

Ss are introduced to the topic of the new The elephant

lesson. is big.

The woman
is tall.

The girl is
short.

Ss listen.

Presentatio T shows Ss a Power Point Presentation about Ss pay T- Ss 4’

n Degrees of comparison. attention and
T will tell to the Ss what Comparative and listen to T’
Superlative degree mean and will remind explanations
them the formation of these two. .

Practice Using the WORDWALL website with the Ss do the T-Ss 4’

Group sort method they have to put the task and
adjectives in the correct column: then read the Ss-T
Pre-writing https://wordwall.net/resource/9616778/untitle answers .
activity d5

Production T shares Ss a worksheet (Handout 1) and tells The Ss T-Ss 8’

them to pay attention. T asks Ss to complete (individually
Writing it with the correct degree of comparison of ) have to Ss-T
activity adjectives. complete it
 with the
correct
degree of
comparison
of
adjectives.

Feedback T evaluates and puts some marks taking into Ss listen T- Ss 2’

and consideration the involvement of Ss .
Assessment Ss-T

T-Ss 3’

Homework T gives Ss their homework. (the homework Ss listen to

will be loaded on the platform – Classroom- ) the teacher’s
explanations
.

Ss complete
the
Contingenc T shares SS a worksheet which contains sentences T-Ss
y plan some sentences that they have to complete with the
with the comparative and superlative form of Ss-T
correct form
the adjectives. of the
(Handout 2) adjectives.
(Handout 1)

1.Complete the table of adjectives:

Positive Comparative Superlative
tall
beautiful
long
good
popular

2. Write the comparative:

a. old older f. good …………………..
b. strong ………….. … ……… g. large ………………….
c. happy……………….. ……… h. serious ………………..
d. modern …………………. …. i. pretty …………………..

3. Complete with the superlative:

1. I am (tall) ________________ person in my family.
2. My cat is (lazy) __________________________________ animal.
3. Who is (famous) __________________________________ person in your country?
4. Who is the (beautiful) ____________________ girl in your class?
5.Which is the (interesting) _________________ subject you study at school?

4. Write three sentences using comparative adjectives

1. __________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________

Handout 2