Making comparisons and using adjectives to do this

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Making Comparisons

and using adjectives to do this

Agenda

Lesson goals

Comparatives and Superlatives

Adjectives search

Lesson goals achieved

Homework

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson students can....

- understand the basics of comparatives and superlatives enough to compare two or more nouns

- work in pairs to find the adjectives in a text

Strong

Stronger

Strongest

Comparative

He is SMARTER THAN I am.

They play BETTER THAN my friends.

Sam watches MORE INTERESTING films THAN my brother does.

Let's try!
1) We were ___________ (quick) they were.

2) James is __________ (small) than his big brother.

3) She is even ____________ (beautiful) in real life, I didn't know that was possible!.

4) The sequel was even ________ (amazing) than the first film.

Superlative

She is THE BEST tennis player of the century!

That is THE HIGHEST building in the world.

Let's try!
1) She is _________ (creative) person I know!

2) Tim plays __________ (good) games on his livestream.

3) That is ________(big) cake I have ever seen!

4) Is that _______ (thin) phone out there right now?

5) I make ________ (delicious) curry of my family.

Write one sentence with a comparative

Write one sentence with a superlative

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson students can....

- understand the basics of comparatives and superlatives enough to compare two or more nouns

- work in pairs to find the adjectives in a text

Describe what an adjective is? Give an example of an adjective.

Work in pairs

and find 

all the

adjectives

in this text

and write 

them down

Now, using the text and one of the adjectives you found, write down a comparison question about the text (something that compares two or more things) e.g. Who screamed the loudest on the rides?

Lesson goals

At the end of the lesson students can....

- understand the basics of comparatives and superlatives enough to compare two or more nouns

- work in pairs to find the adjectives in a text

Homework

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Read the text again

Answer the true and false

questions

Answer the fill in the gap

questions

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