An example lesson plan of a ESA lesson

Level Elementary

Teaching Worksheets
Aids

Name cards

Learner Students should be able to identify and use comparative adjectives in

Objectives sentences by the end of the lesson.

Teacher Improve my boardwork, elicitation and refine my teaching style.

Objectives

Anticipated Pronunciation
Problems for
Students
Confusion between “-er” and “more” comparative adjectives.

Solution Drilling and thorough explanation of the grammar.

Anticipated Losing track of the sequence of the lesson plan and time.
Problems for
Teachers

Solution Have the lesson plan next to me at all times. Always check the time.

Phase Procedure Timing Interaction

Engage Use pictures to elicit adjectives based on appearance. 10 S -> T

As students say adjectives, write the opposites. minutes

E.g. tall-short, fat-thin, young-old, etc.

List around 10-12 words on the board.

Explain that adjectives can be used to describe
appearances and then give an example of a
comparative adjective.

Select two students with one being taller than the other
and write a gapfill sentence on the whiteboard.

E.g. Tom is taller than Emily.

Elicit the opposite:

Emily is shorter than Tom.

Study Activity #1 20 S -> T
minutes

Create three columns and write the list of adjectives in

the first column.

Ask students for the comparative forms of the

adjectives and write them down in the second column.

In the third column, explain how to create the

comparative form by writing (adjective + er) or (more +
adjective)

Activity #2
Hand out the first worksheet that has a chart of
adjectives and comparative adjectives and ask
students to fill in the missing words.

Activity #3

Hand out the second worksheet that has gap fill

exercises.

E.g. This brown cat is ________ than the white cat.

Activate Activity #1 10-15 S–>T
minutes

S–>S

Each student gets a card with a random name and

fact.

Each student gets a fact sheet headed with “name”

and “fact”.

Teach students how to ask these questions.

1. What is your name?

2. What is your fact?

Students go around the class and ask their classmates
these questions, filling in the sheet as they go.

Activity #2

Once they have asked everyone and filled in the

information on their fact sheet, students will create
sentences about their classmates using comparative
adjectives.

Students will then stand up and say some of their

sentences to the class.