ACE Lesson 07b






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Teacher:	Helen Harper	Level:	ACE Group B Sense of Place 3
Skill:	Reading & speaking	Date:	16 May 2006
Subskills:	Listening (all lexis, oral comprehension tasks).	Topic:	Comparatives, superlatives & prepositions of place.
Objective:	Practise matching adjectives with nouns: a rough sea, a stable bridge etc. Understand concept of comparatives: identifying correct subjects. Understand concept of superlatives: identify correct subject. Understand prepositions of place & practice listening.	Lexis:	Bigger than, smaller than, shorter than, taller than, longer than. Biggest, smallest, shortest, tallest, longest. in, near, in front of, behind, under, above, next to, on. Boat, circle, square, person, tree, bridge, sea.
Language point(s):	The white circle is bigger than the black circle. The green fish is the biggest fish. The person is on the boat etc.	Anticipated problems:	Confusion regarding comparatives. Lack of fluency using prepositions of place.

STAGE	E \| S \| A	TARGET LANGUAGE	TEACHER	STUDENT	MATERIALS	TIME
☺	Elicit	Adjectives	TPR adjectives
☺	Elicit	Nouns	Whtbd circle vocab drill
☺	Elicit	Matching adjectives & nouns	TPR substitution drill	Substitution drill
☺	Study	Matching adjectives & nouns	Read out description of scene: there is a stable bridge, there is a rough sea etc.	Draws scene	Paper
☺	Activate	Matching adjectives & nouns	Monitor	In pairs, S1 describes scene, S2 draws.	Scenes
☺	Elicit	Comparatives	Whtbd small black circle, big white circle.	Lots of substitution Drills
☺	Study	Comparatives	Demo wrksht Monitor	Complete worksheet	Comparative wrksht
☺☺	Practice	Comparatives	Read out comparative sentence	In pairs, hold up correct objects.	Object cards
☺	Elicit	Superlatives	Whtbd: Bangkok, Ranong, Kuraburi (city) Which is the biggest city?	Bangkok is the biggest city
☺	Study	Superlatives	Monitor	Complete worksheet	Superlative wrksht
☺	Practice	Superlatives	Give each group of 3 students 3 coloured crayons. ‘The green fish is the biggest fish’	Students draw and hold up the drawings – who’s first?	Crayons
☺	Elicit	Prepositions of place	TPR	TPR with pen and book
☺	Study	Prepositions of place	Describe the scene
1	Study/listening	Prepositions ofplace	My house is….	Complete labeling on wrksht	My house wrksht.
☺	Cooler	Adjectives	Circle game	Each student is an adjective trying not to get hit on the arm by a pen by naming other adjectives in the circle. Who are then advanced upon with said pen.

NOTES:
Postmortem:
This class went way better than the previous one and I wish I’d done it first. I totally slowed the pace and stuck to a small number of fairly familiar vocabulary words to explore comparatives & superlatives. Holding up the right objects worked a treat, they were helping each other and totally into it, and I could instantly see who was having difficulty. They got faster at it the more they did it. Definitely do that again.
The circle game worked too well, couldn’t get them to stop.

1) The prepositions of place worked better than the other class – especially the drawing exercise, but the worksheet (originally reading comp but done orally) didn’t work as well.

Pre-Lesson

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