week 4 Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome to today's class

Today's lesson:

• Speaking exercise 1
• Reading and matching exercise 2
• Comparisons explanation
• Do exercise 3
• Complete the rules in exercise 4
• Practice listening 

Goals:

• Can talk about their family and spending habits
• Understands how comparisons work
• Can use comparative adjectives. 
• Can gather information in a listening exercise

Go to p. 70 in your Student's book

Discuss exercise 2 with your classmate.

We'll discuss together after 5 minutes. 

Read the blog post alone.

Match the headings with the text. 

Comparisons

When we want to compare two things, we do this by using comparative adjectives (bijvoeglijk naamwoorden). 

When an adjective has 1 syllable (lettergreep) we add -er and -est to compare. 

If the adjective already ends in an -e, you just need to add -r or -st. 

If the adjective ends in a consonant (medeklinker) and y, change the y to ie 

If the adjective ends in a vowel (klinker) and a consonant (medeklinker), double the consonant.

Great                 greater                greatest

Dark                   darker                  darkest

Blue                   bluer                    bluest

Young               younger              youngest

Happy              happier               happiest

Let's try it.
Can you make comparisons for:
nice, happy and long

Comparisons with longer words

When an adjective has two or more syllables, we use more and most to make comparisons. 

Beautiful               more beautiful           most beautiful

Bitter                       more bitter                  most bitter

Clever                     more clever                 most clever

Expensive            more expensive         most expensive

Try comparisons with longer words:
interesting & difficult

Now all together:
easy, polite, cold, mysterious

Fill in exercise 3

Let's check your answers.

Fill in the rules for exercise 4. 

Listening practice

Open the listening practice in Classroom. 

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.