LESSON PLAN

NAME: Baltag Adina

DATE: the 5th of May 2023

GRADE: 8th

NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 17 students

SCHOOL: Școala Profesională Cozmești

LESSON TITLE: The comparative and superlative of short and long adjectives

TYPE OF LESSON: Grammar, acquiring new knowledge

TIME: 50 minutes

SKILLS: speaking, reading, listening, writing

Interactions: teacher-student(T-Ss), teacher- pairs(T-P), teacher-groups(T-G), student-

student(S-S), Whole class.

TEACHING TECHNIQUES: conversation, explanation, brainstorming observation,

discussions;

MATERIALS AND AIDS: coloured chalk, blackboard notebooks, pencils, worksheets

AIMS:
 to use the comparatives and the superlatives in conversation;

 to give pupils-controlled practice in the use of the Comparative and Superlative

of adjectives;
 to compare two/three things or persons;
 to perform oral and written tasks related to the topic.

OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson the pupils will be able to:
 recognize the adjectives;
  use correctly the comparative of short and long in order to compare different
things and persons;
 use appropriately the superlative of short and long adjectives;

Bibliography:
Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, 2000
Vizental Adriana : Metodica predarii limbii engleze- Stategies of Teaching and Testing English
as a Foreign Language- Polirom, Iasi , 2007

Anticipated problems:
Ss might not be eager to participate.
Some students may have difficulty in solving the task.
 STAGES OF THE LESSON

Activity 1: Organization and warm up

Timing – 5 minutes
Aims:
-to prepare Ss for the lesson
-to create a pleasant atmosphere for learning

Procedure Interaction Timing

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity
The Teacher greets the students and Ss greet the teacher T-Ss 2 min
asks for absentees. Ss on duty names the Ss-T
absents.
Ss present their
She checks the homework. homework.
Chatting in English at the begging of the Ss get ready for the
lesson, T creates an “English language” lesson and pay
atmosphere, establishing contact between attention to the
her and Ss, and helps the students to feel teacher.
relax
Activity 2: Lead-in
Timing: 3 minutes
Aims: - to introduce the students into the atmosphere of the lesson;
- to arouse the students’ interest in the subject

Procedure Interaction Timing

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity

T. writes in a circle the word `adjectives` Ss give their answers T-Ss 3min
and adds petals. All over the blackboard she and identify the
writes different words - among them several adjectives. Ss-T
adjectives.
The Ss need to identify the adjectives and
they have to put them into the petals.

Activity 2: Teaching grammar

Timing: 20 minutes
Aims: - - to provide a context for the lesson
-to introduce the comparative and superlative of short, long and irregular adjectives

Procedure Interaction Timing

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity
Teacher announces the title of the lesson Ss write down the T-Ss 2min
and writes it on the blackboard. title of the lesson.
Ss-T
Teacher announces the objectives.
To introduce the grammar topic, the teacher
tells the Ss what the adjectives are and gives
some examples of adjectives, making sure Ss write down in
the class understands the adjective appears their notebooks.
before the noun in English. The T starts by
stating that there are several types of T-Ss 3 min
adjectives in English: short, long, irregular,
which all have different ways of being used Ss-T
in the comparative and the superlative.
The students must understand that for the
comparative degree the short adjectives
receive an ‘-er’ ending and for the
superlative receive an ‘-est’ ending.

E.g.: clean – cleaner-the cleanest 5 min

Short-shorter-the shortest

Ss must observe the rules of spelling: Ss observe the

spelling rules.
1. dropping -e (large – larger-the largest).

2.The consonant after short vowel is

doubled (big – bigger-the biggest).

3.The ‘-y’ changes in ‘i’ when before ‘y’ is

a consonant (dirty – dirtier-the dirtiest).

The teacher gives Ss some small cards with T-S

Ss match the
short adjectives and they have to work in comparative and S-T
pairs and match the adjectives with the right superlative form of
the adjectives given. PW
comparative and superlative form.

(E.g.: Cheap, clean, loud, new, older, rich,

short, noisy, wet, hot.)

The teacher tells the Ss that for the

Ss take notes.
comparative degree the long adjectives
receive ‘more’ in front of them.

For the superlative degree the log adjectives

receive ‘the most’ in front of them.

E.g.: beautiful- more beautiful-the most

beautiful

charming-more charming-the most

charming 5 min

The teacher asks Ss to come to the flipchart

and write the comparative and superlative Ss come to the
flipchart and write
form of the following long adjectives:
the comparative and
expensive, famous, intelligent, powerful,
superlative form of
delicious, cheerful, difficult. the adjectives.
The T then writes that the comparative of
these adjectives is formed with more + adj
+than, while the superlative with the most
5 min
+ adj.
The teacher asks Ss to compare two things
and to make sentences. (E.g.: My pen is Ss make sentences.
shorter than yours.)
After this, the T moves on to the irregular
adjectives and their comparative and
superlative forms:
good-better-the best .
bad-worse-the worst
little-less-the least
much-more-the most
many-more-the most.

Activity 3: Practice
 Timing: 10 minutes
Aims: - to practice the use of the comparative and the superlative, and their specific
forms
- to improve the Ss writing skills, both on the worksheet and on the
blackboard

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity

The T gives the Ss worksheets which Ss complete the T-Ss 5 min
contain exercises in order to practise the use worksheet and one at
of the comparative and the superlative of Ss-T
a time come to the
adjectives. blackboard and write PW
Exercise 1: “Complete as in the example: the comparative and
beautiful – more beautiful- the most superlative of each of
beautiful”.
the adjectives listed 5 min
The T asks one student at a time to come to
there.
the blackboard and write the comparative T-Ss
and the superlative of each of the adjectives
listed there. All the other Ss are required to Ss-T
write the correct forms down.
Exercise 2: “Write correct sentences with a PW
comparative adjective using the prompts: the
film/the book (interesting) The film is more
interesting than the book.”
The Ss are explained what the exercise is
about, after which they are asked to do it in
pairs. Then the T checks the Ss’ answers
orally.

Activity 4: Further practice

Timing: 10 minutes
Aims: - to further consolidate the grammatical notions taught
- to develop group-work, group-decision and socialisation abilities, through S-S
interaction

Procedure Interaction Timing

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity
The T hands out another series of Ss work in pairs and 7 min
worksheets, this time entitled Superlative decide whom among
Olympics. Besides having the Olympic logo GW
their colleagues best
on, the worksheet contains a number of 5 qualifies for each of
differently coloured circles, in the middle of the adjectives inside
which a different adjective is to be found: each circle.
good in the blue circle; tall in the black
circle; funny in the red circle; popular in
the yellow circle; small in the green circle.
The Ss are told that they have to decide,
together with the group they will be
assigned to, whom among their colleagues
best qualifies for each of the adjectives Ss name a
inside each circle. Then they have to name a representative to
representative to share their choice to the share their choice to
rest of the class. the rest of the class.

Activity 5: Feed-back and homework assignment

Timing :5 minutes
Aims: -to offer feed-back
 Procedure Interaction Timing

Teacher’s activity Students’ activity

The teacher announces the homework Ss write down the T-S 5min
homework.
T. assigns the homework by giving clear
instructions.
S-T

She appreciates students’ behavior during Ss say good-bye to

the class and name some students who the teacher.
gave correct answers.
The teacher gives students thanks for their
time and attention and dismisses the class.
 THE ADJECTIVE- Comparison

1. Complete as in the example:

Example: beautiful – more beautiful – the most beautiful

1. interesting ________________________________
2. happy ___________________________________
3. big _________________________________
4. difficult ___________________________________
5. high _________________________________
6. good * ____________________________________
7. long _____________________________________

2. Write correct sentences with a comparative using the prompts.

Example: the film/the book (interesting)
The film is more interesting than the book.
1. Math /English (difficult) _______________________________________________
2. August / September (hot) ________________________________________________
3. Bucharest / Paris (small) ________________________________________________
4. tigers /elephants / (fast) __________________________________________________
5. snakes / rats (dangerous) _________________________________________________
 SUPERLATIVE OLYMPICS

good

tall

funny

popular

short