New Vocabulary
- tall / taller,
- short / shorter,
- young / younger,
- old / older,
- smart / smarter,
- fast / faster,
- heavy / heavier,
- rich / richer,
- strong / stronger
Target Structure
Examples:
Who is older, Ben or Len? Ben is older than Len.
Teaching the Class (before the handouts)
Use the flashcards to elicit and check your students’ understanding of the vocabulary and target structures.
After you’ve gone over the vocabulary and target structures, hand out the worksheets. Write all the comparative adjectives on the board and have your students fill them in on page one. Then hand out page 2 and have them write or copy the questions and answers.
Work in Pairs
Have your students work in pairs to complete the information gap.
Now Work Alone
When they are finished the pair work, have your students try the follow-up activity to review their writing skills for this structure. (Make sure they are not doing the follow-up activity and pair work activity at the same time. These are meant to be done separately.)
Listening
For this task you’ll need to decide which of the Sumo wrestlers is richer, stronger, taller, etc. Call out comparative sentences and have your students listen and place checkmarks in the correct boxes. When the task is complete, ask your students to check their answers with someone sitting close to them. As a follow-up, have your students write out full sentences about the brothers.
Group Work
Put students in small groups and have them write a few sentences about themselves. They can use comparisons taught in this lesson or any other comparisons they are familar with. When every group is finished, have some of the groups stand up and present their comparisons to the class.
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