Intermediate Grammar Lesson
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To clarify and practice comparatives and superlatives in the context of fashion.
Subsidiary Aims
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To develop listening skills and speaking for fluency.
Procedure (30-37 minutes)
Students will look at the pictures and discuss how the girl’s clothes change her appearance in each picture. They have to use the following words: casual, elegant, heavy, mature, natural, pretty, serious, sophisticated, tall, young.
1. Students will listen to a fashion expert. They will answer if the statement is True or False. Answers: 1. True, 2. False, 3. False, 4. True 2. Students will listen to the audio for a second time and discuss whether they agree or disagree with the fashion expert's ideas. 3. Students will first complete the sentences with the correct form of the adjectives in brackets. Learners will then listen and check their answers.
Meaning Students will read the sentences. They will select if the word in bold is a comparative or a superlative. Answers: 1. comparative, 2. superlative, 3. comparative, 4. superlative Ask CCQ's about the comparatives and superlatives from the sentences: 1. She looks prettier in the picture "a", to be honest. 2. Alice is the tallest of all when wearing high heels. 3. The glasses make her look much more serious. 4. That tracksuit isn’t the most elegant outfit in the world. Form Students will match the words in each sentence with its correct part of speech. Answers: 1. The Chanel dress is more expensive than the Zara one. (art). (adj.) (noun) (verb) (comparative adjective) (noun phrase) 2. I think her hair is better in the other pictures. (pronoun) (main (possessive (noun) (linking (comparative (noun phrase) verb) adjective) verb) adjective) Pronunciation Students will match the word with its correct stress pattern. biggest Oo happier Oo most beautiful OOoo more interesting oOooo
Students will complete the sentences about them and their family. Possible answers: 1. Isabel is the youngest person in the family. 2. I look very different from _my mother_________. 3. People often say I look like __my father_________. 4. My hair is ___curlier than___ my _ sister's_____________. 5. My eyes are ____smaller________ than _my mother's____________. 6. My mother is ___shorter_________ than my father. 7. I’m more ___slow_______ than my brother/sister/cousin. 8. My father is the __tallest________ person in the family.
Students will talk with their partners about the differences between them and their family. They have to use comparatives and superlatives.