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

                                      

·         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

·         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’.