Lesson Plan of Regular & Irregular degrees of Adjectives English Grade V
Lesson Plan of Regular & Irregular Degrees of Adjectives
English Grade V
Students’ Learning Outcomes
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Articulate, classify and use
degrees of regular adjectives and irregular adjectives.
Information for teachers
·
An adjective:
is a portion of speech which defines,
recognizes, or counts a noun or a pronoun.
·
An adjective: An adjective is a kind of word that changes a
noun. Nouns are words that name a place, a person, a thing, or an idea
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Adjectives have three degrees
(1st, 2nd, 3rd) positive, comparative and superlative.
·
There are two types of
degrees of adjectiv
1.
Regular adjectives: some adjectives are regular, like the ones that
add -(i)er and -(i)est, or more and utmost.
2.
Regular comparatives end in
-er or start with more.
3.
Regular superlatives end in
-est or start with most.
4.
Regular adjectives are
divided into two groups
a)
Short adjective (Contain one
syllable)
b)
Long adjectives (contain two
or more than two syllables)
Positive
|
Comparative
|
Superlative
|
Ambitious
Cold
Dry
hot
|
more ambitious
colder
drier
hotter
|
most ambitious
coldest
driest
hottest
|
1. Irregular
adjectives:
2. These adjectives don’t make their comparative
or superlative forms using the above mention rules. Their comparative and
superlative words are different to each other
3. They don't follow the
patterns listed above.
·
Following are some of the
examples of irregular degree of adjectives.
Positive
|
Comparative
|
Superlative
|
Good
Bad
Much
|
Better
Worse
More
|
Best
Worst
Most
|
Material / Resources
Board, chalk/marker, duster, textbook, 4 – 5
pencils of different length, a tennis ball, a table tennis ball and a ball minor
than the table tennis ball, similar playing marble (Banta)
Worm up activity
·
Show children a tennis ball.
·
Inquire them if it is a large
or a small ball.
·
If they say it is small, demonstration
them the table tennis ball and ask about its mass.
·
If they don’t answer, tell
them that this one is smaller.
·
Recap with the third ball or
playing marble and familiarize them to the word ‘smallest’.
·
Write a small number of
adjectives on the board, big, small, fresh, unclean, good, bad etc.
Development
Activity 1
·
Pick up four or five real items
of the same kind. For example: four or five pencils of diverse size. Ask the
students how they would differentiate between the pencils.
o This is a long pencil.
o This is longer than that.
o This is the longest pencil.
·
Consuming a few flashcards
showing diverse characteristics of shared matters, the teacher makes three
sentences for three degrees of adjectives.
·
The teacher may then demonstration
a list partaking the three degrees of adjectives in a plane form.
·
Some other examples of such sort
are given below:
Positive
|
Comparative
|
Superlative
|
Small
Short
Warm
neat
|
Smaller
Shorter
Warmer
Neater
|
Smallest
Shortest
Warmest
Neatest
|
Activity 2
·
Tell the students about
adding “er” with adjective to form the comparative degree and add “est” for
forming superlative degree of the adjective for examples:
o Old,
older, oldest
·
After that tell them that the
adjectives ending with “y” are magic words.
·
The “y” changes into “I” and
then we add “er” and “est”. For example:
happy, happier, and happiest.
·
Irregular Comparison: some adjectives are compared irregularly, i.e.
their comparatives and superlatives are not formed from the positive.
·
They don’t follow any
pattern, so you have to memorize these or learn them by lots of practice.
Positive
|
Comparatively
|
Superlative
|
Good
Bad
little
|
Better
Worse
less
|
Best
Worst
Least
|
Activity 3
·
Write the following sentences
on the board.
·
Ask the students to work in pairs
and complete the sentences by choosing the correct degree of the adjectives
given in brackets.
·
Tell students that when
‘than’ is used, the comparative degree of the adjective is used such as in
blanks 2 and 5 below.
1.
Hassan is the __________boy
in our class (tall,
taller, the tallest)
2.
The class test was ______that
we had expected. (easy, easier,
the easiest)
3.
King Solomon was the _____of
the kings we have ever heard of. (wise, wiser, wisest)
4.
It is the
_________________dress I have ever seen (good, better, best)
5.
Sam ___________________than
Tom. (short,
shorter, shortest)
Sum up / Conclusion
·
Discuss about irregular
comparisons (good, better, best) and the comparative/superlative degrees of the
adjectives that end in ‘y’.
Assessment
·
Ask the students to complete
the following table individually.
Positive
|
Comparative
|
Superlative
|
Small
|
Smallest
|
|
Better
|
||
Strong
|
Stronger
|
|
More
|
Most
|
Follow up
·
The related activity involving description
could be given as a follow up of this concept.
·
Continue to use different
degrees of adjectives in your daily conversation with students and remind them
of their usage.
·
For example: ‘ Today it’s
warmer that it was yesterday’.
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