Start class with adding adjectives activity on w/b. Write "I bought this .... book" on w/b with long gap in sentence, solicit suggestions of adjectives, then write in gap. Take a second, act stumped, ask class whether it goes before or after. Take a third and let class rearrange entire triplet if necessary. Try another sentence. Ask, "How do we know what order adjectives go?" "What do you do if you want to say more than one thing about something?" In groups of 3-4, ss identify three situations where they need to use many adjectives at once in English. Briefly take w/c FB.

Ask ss to write down one person they admire, one thing they hate, and one thing they want to own. Then give 2 mins to write as many adjectives as they can to describe them.

Ss take 2 minutes to skim read article underlining adjectives, then compare their findings with a partner.

Using marker sentences from reading, students work in pairs to do gap-fill exercise to discover three rules of thumb for adjective order: 1) opinion before facts, 2) general quality before specific type, and 3) superlative first. T reviews w/c, eliciting rules of thumb and writing on w/b. W/b also contains Adjective Order Chart that ss help fill in. T then gives Ss completed chart and asks to do example.

Give ss controlled exercise to insert adjectives into advertisements, working in pairs. They can consult Adjective Order Guideline. Have ss consult answer key on wall.

Ss do a semi-controlled writing/speaking game. In teams of 3-4, ss retrieve their Admire, Hate, and Want to Own words with accompanying adjectives. The game is to work as a team to create strings of adjectives and use them in a sentence for points - more adjectives, more points, to a maximum of 4 per sentence. Teams get 3 minutes at start to generate their phrases using their members' words. In w/c, T calls on group to say their sentence, writing on w/b. Emphasize that they only get one chance to say the phrase w/c. If a team attempts a phrase and blunders, they lose points according to the number of adjectives they tried to use. After a team gives a phrase, another team can 'steal' their points by repeating the phrase with an additional adjective within 30 seconds - but risks losing the number of points if they make a mistake. As they strategize in groups for 30 seconds, ss will effectively be doing a semi-controlled speaking exercise as they rework the first group's sentence. T will referee with Adjective Order Guide and give benefit of doubt on orderings that could go either way. Play until teams have done 2 rounds each.

For a freer speaking exercise, ss get in small groups and create a continuous story. Going around in a circle, each S contributes one sentence that uses 2+ adjectives. Sentences should be simple so that ss can focus on correctly ordering adjectives. Demo w/ a student: "I saw a cute small brown dog in the park." (pass 'ball'). "The dog was chasing an angry old black cat up a tree". "The attractive young owner of the cat looked at me angrily." Let ss do this until stories fizzling. Conclude lesson with w/c FB, asking ss how easy/difficult it is to know what order to use adjectives in and providing any EC.