Lesson stages:

Teacher's activities

Beginning of the lesson

Warm-up activities

Good morning, my dear students. Sit down, please. Glad to see you. Hope you are well today. Let’s start our lesson with some common questions:

What date/day is it today?

Who is absent?

Why (who is absent for a good/disrespectful reason)?

Let’s begin our lesson.

Checking up the home task:

Check up the home task: essay “My workday”

Sample:

I get up at seven o’clock. Then I clean teeth, wash my hands and face. I have break­fast at half past seven (7.30.). I go to school at a quarter to eight (7.45.). School starts at eight o’clock. I have 6 lessons every day. I have Russian, English, Maths, History, Literature, Music, Art and Physical Education. School finishes at half past one and I go home. I have dinner at two o’clock. After dinner I do my homework. I have supper at seven o’clock. In the evening I watch TV, play computer games and help my mother about the house. At 10 o’clock I go to bed and my working day is over.

Discussion point

The theme of our lesson I suggest you to guess as you look at the slide 1. Here you have some words. Your task is to match the word in English with their equivalent in Russian: big, cheap, expensive, fast, short, new, old, powerful, long, slow, small, tall, young.

Now look at these words and say what part are these words and what is the difference between them. Yes, you are right the theme of our lesson is the adjective and comparison of adjectives

At the end of the lesson you can:

1. describe and compare things

2. enlarge your vocabulary with more adjectives

3. know the parts of computers

Main part

Adjectives have three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative and superlative. Today we’ll study it.

Adjectives are descriptive words and they describe the noun in context. Adjectives usually answer the questions like "which", "what kind of", "how many", etc.

For example:

• The little boy

• A new toy

• Enough meatloaf

Ex.1. Complete

A. Write the comparative form of the adjectives

1) Ann is ___________ (happy) than her sister.

2) My hair is ______________ (long) than my sister’s hair.

3) These exams are getting ___________ (bad) and ___________ (bad) every year.

4) John is ____________ (thin) than Bob.

5) Steve is _____________ (happy) today than he was yesterday.

6) Mary’s car is ____________ (large) than Mark’s car.

Ex.2. Group work (cluster). And at the beginning of our lesson let’s create a cluster. You need a big sheet of paper, glue, pictures .Task is to find as more adjectives to a picture as possible

Ex. 3. Answer about you.

1. Who’s the oldest person in your family? (The oldest person in my family is ...)

2. Who’s the tallest person in your family?

3. Who’s the funniest person in your family?

4. Who’s the worst singer in your family?

5. What’s the hottest month of the year?

6. What’s the coldest month of the year?

Ex.4. Circle.

1. Whales are the bigger \ biggest animals.

2. Nick is thinner \ thinnest than Mike.

3. Sam’s T-shirt is the dirtier \ dirtiest.

4. Tigers are bigger \ biggest than mice.

5. This is the worse \ worst ice cream.

6. This is the sadder \ saddest song.

Ex.5. Fill in the blanks with the correct comparative and superlative degrees of following adjectives

hard _____________ ______________

cold _____________ ______________

soft _____________ ______________

tall _____________ ______________

rich _____________ ______________

mad _____________ ______________

funny _____________ ______________

big _____________ ______________

sad _____________ ______________

busy _____________ ______________

noisy _____________ ______________

Conclusive stage

Feedback

Home task

Thanks for your work. I hope our lesson will be useful for you. Healthy and study well.

Feedback:

1. What have you learnt today?

2. What other information do you know?

3. Let’s say some examples about today’s grammar.

Home work: ex.1-4, p. 111 (Козырева Л.Г- Английский язык для медицинских колледжей и училищ)