Sarah Miner

Date: March 13, 2017 (Winter Semester)

Class Level: Core Class B

House Hunting/Comparatives
Objectives:
Students will be able to make statements using comparatives.
Students will understand the layout of housing ads and what
information is typically included.

Warm-up (5 min): Which room/house do you like more?

Look at 2 sets of pictures of houses or rooms inside houses. Which do they
like more, and why?

Instruction/Review(5-10 min): comparatives

_________-er: short adjectives (short, tall, smart, cheap), adjectives that end
in y (busy, happy, pretty, tasty)
more ______: long adjectives (2+ syllables). These include words like
interesting, crowded, difficult, expensive, boring, beautiful, complicated.
Write the rules on the board. We went over this before, but not many
students were there. Depending on the students in class, it will be either
instruction or review

Have the students think of as many adjectives as they can and list them on
the board in the right column. I will use these to give them ideas for the
controlled practice. Which adjectives can we use to talk about
houses/apartments?

Controlled Partner Practice (5 min):

Example sentence: This apartment is smaller than that apartment. Model
for them using the pictures from earlier.
Look at pictures of houses and apartments in the BYU housing guide
(magazine). Make sentences using the comparatives. Take turns. One person
makes a sentence, then the other person. Make as many sentences as you
can.

Instruction/Practice (5 min): Features of housing ads.

They usually have the name of the apartment, the address, phone number,
and descriptions of features of that apartment (laundry, private rooms
available, etc.)
Look through one or two ads with the students, having them find certain
features.

Activity: Find an apartment

Take 3 minutes to look through the BYU housing guide. Find one place you
would like to live.

Partner Discussion (remaining time):

Compare the places you and your partner picked using comparatives. Which
one is better?

Expansion (if there is extra time): Have all the students compare the
apartments they chose. Have them vote which house is the best.

Assessment:
During this lesson I will assess the students knowledge informally by
checking their progress during partner work and by asking students to create
sentences using the target language structures.