Unit 2 lesson 21: possessive ' or 's and degrees of comparison

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo k
• Leerjaar 2

Welcome!

Book and notebook

Who are we missing today? 

Who has a charged laptop, a notebook and their book with them?

Planning of today: 

• Goals of today: 5 minutes
• Grammar repetition: 25 minutes
• Work on your project/study: 15 minutes
• Check: 5
• Homework.

Goals of today:

• At the end of the lesson, I will be able to make a short and simple sentence using the possessive ' or 's. 
• At the end of the lesson, I will be able to make a comparison between two things. 
• At the end of the lesson, I will be able to make the differences clear between the book and film through a video or drawing. 

What do you remember about the possessive ' and 's:

Possession: 's or '

Als je wilt zeggen dat iets van iemand is, zet je meestal ‘s achter de eigenaar.

Als de eigenaar én in het meervoud staat én al eindigt op een s, zet je alleen een ‘ achter de eigenaar.

Enkelvoud	+ 's	My bother's books. The cat's tail. Simon's watch.
Meervoud	+ '	My brothers' books. (2 or more brothers). The cats' tails. (2 or more cats)

This is __ book.

1. Peter's
2. peter's
3. Peter'
4. peter'

Let's go to the ____.

1. Smiths's
2. smith's
3. Smiths'
4. smiths'

The ____ rooms is upstrairs.

1. Children's
2. children's
3. Children'
4. children'

What do you remember about comparing things?

What do these words mean in dutch?

1. nice - nicer - nicest
2. old - older - oldest
3. funny - funnier - funniest 
4. dangerous - more dangerous - most dangerous
5. interesting - more interesting - most interesting 

Compare it with a staircase

Rule short words: 

Short words (1 syllable) + er/est

Word ending with an e + r/st

Word ending with an y (and before y = consonant) - (y=i) + er/est

Doubled letters (sound) - (doubled letter) + er/est (big - biggest)

Syllable - lettergreep

Consonant - medeklinker

Rule long words: 

Long words (2 or more syllables) + more/most

For example - beautiful - more beautiful - most beautiful

For words of two or more syllables, use more (than) and (the) most. 

For example - powerful - more powerful than - the most powerful

Syllable - lettergreep

Consonant - medeklinker

Overview:

1 syllable = short	2 syllables = short	2 syllables = long	3+ syllables = long
Fast	cle-ver	a-fraid	dif-fi-cult
Faster	cleverer	more afraid	more difficult
Fastest	cleverest	most afraid	most difficult

Exceptions:

Good - better - best.

Bad - worse - worst.

Little - less - least. 

Fill in the gap:
In the last holiday I read a really good book, but a friend of mine gave me an even ______ one last weekend.

1. gooder
2. goodest
3. better
4. betterst

Fill in the gap:
School is boring, but homework is _______ than school.

1. boringer
2. boringest
3. more boring
4. most boring

Fill in the gap:
This magazine is cheap, but that one is ______.

1. cheaper
2. cheapest
3. more cheap
4. most cheap

Work on your project:

Choose one option.

If you work in a group let me know!

You can find the options on our teams page. 

The Goals of today?

What? 

Why? 

How? 

Homework: 

Practise with the grammar and words for your test. 

Important dates: 

Unit 2 test - TOMORROW!

Project 2 - This Friday! (23:59 - teams).