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Reading and Writing 3 Q: Skills For Success Unit 2 Communicative Grammar Teaching Notes
Reading and Writing 3 Q: Skills For Success Unit 2 Communicative Grammar Teaching Notes
Editing Adjectives
The objective of this activity is for students to practice putting
descriptive adjectives in the proper order.
Materials:
One communicative grammar worksheet for each pair of students.
Instructions:
1. Before the activity, review with students the correct order of adjectives in multi-adjectival
statements. One way to do this is to draw a partially filled in chart on the board and have them
fill in the missing categories and add more examples. For example,
3. Tell students that they have to reduce the statements into one statement using descriptive
adjectives, and the adjectives must be in the correct order. After a minute, write a possible
answer on the board:
A hurricane is a huge, circular oceanic storm.
4. Put students in pairs and give each pair a communicative grammar worksheet.
5. At the end of the activity, call on pairs of students to share their statements. Check students
answers using the answer key. Discuss any variations or errors.