W15 - A Family Tree

• Family tree and degrees of comparison
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

English Today 

Today's topic is:

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Goals 

You can compare relatives by creating a family tree. 

You can use the degrees of comparison correctly. 

Warm-up activity 

Goal: You understand the family connections by getting the information from a text. 

Who's related to whom? 

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Degrees of comparison

Rank the three: big 

🦖 - 🕷 - 🐴

Rank the three: happy 

🥳 - 🤬 - 🙂

Rank the three: delicious 

🍕 - 🧁 - 🍟

Degrees of comparison - take notes

1 lettergreep - sweet 

-er of -est achter bijvoeglijk naamwoord. 

2 lettergrepen - happy

-er, -le, -ow en -y krijgen -er of -est (net zoals hierboven). Let op dat je de -y weer vervangt met -i. 

Alle andere krijgen more/most of less/least

3 lettergrepen - beautiful 

More/most of less/least 

Check? 

I’m going to the []__________ party in town. (cool)

My mum is _______ of spiders than my father. (afraid)

He can do the []__________ exercise in the book. (difficult). 

This is the ______ grammar ever. (simple) 

Make your own family tree 

Have a look at the warm-up activity.

Make your own family tree that starts with you.

Work up to your grandparents. 

Degrees of comparison

Use the words below to write sentences in which you compare your relatives. One sentence for each word.

young - tall - lazy - active - popular - generous

Which emoji are you?

You can compare relatives by creating a family tree. 

You can use the degrees of comparison correctly.