Activity for 11th graders Comparing things (Mineduc program)
devolpment of speaking and written skills
Learning objectives
- Students should be able to compare things by using comparative adjectives.
- To apply the physical description in comparative adjectives.
General Content
- Descriptive adjectives: Small, Tall, Big…
- Comparative adj : Smaller, Smallest, Taller Tallest.Bigger, biggest
Instructional Procedure
- Show different pictures comparing 2 situations and corresponding adjective
- Give a list with comparative adjectives and match with corresponding adjective
- Ask students in groups of 4 to write an essay comparing two people or places.
Present new material
- Slides
- Worksheet
Elicit performance
- Teacher names an adjective and “braistorms” students to say all it`s comparatives.
Asses Performance
- When students name adjectives correct their mistakes.
Hw assignment
- Tell students to write sentences comparing two situations
EX. “My book is big but his book is bigger”
Test Questions
- Exercise showing 3 drawings ,make them identify with the corresponding comparative adjective.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9C5zciG9hg&feature=related
Please specify if the programme (mineduc) considers comparatives as a year 11 content. I think this is too basic. Which of the 4 linguistic skills are you developing? You also need to upload the worksheet. What pictures are you planning to show them? What is the topic, context?
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