LESSON PLAN

SUBJECT: English TOPIC: Adjectives

TITLE OF SOFTWARE: Grammar Practices and Quizzes LEVEL OF STUDENTS: Lower Secondary STATION-BASED APPROACH KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED BEFORE THIS LESSON: 1. Sentence construction. OBJECTIVES: Students at the end of the lesson will be able to: a) identify words and articles as adjectives b) identify verbs that are adjectives c) brainstorm words that can be used to describe pictures d) create sentences using adjectives For next lesson: c) identify angles which are corresponding angles and alternate angles given two transversals LESSON PROPER: Time Introduction What teacher is doing Teacher to give examples of adjectives to describe a person. Teacher to ask a volunteer to come forward and to ask students to give at lease 10 words that can describe him/her and to ask a volunteer to write on the board. Activities Teacher explains adjectives. Teacher divides the class into 4 stations. Teacher to give instructions and to time each activity to be 20 minutes and to rotate 1 >2>3>4>1. Station 1: - Teacher to get some colour pictures from magazine / newspaper.
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TIME REQUIRED: 30 mins for

What students are doing Student volunteer Students to give words to describe the person Another volunteer to record words.

Station 1: Given two pictures, students will brainstorm to come up with as many adjectives as possible to describe the pictures. The team that comes up with the most number of relevant adjectives shall be winners. Station 2: Students are given a set of 10 adjectives and to write a short

Station 2: Give a paper of 10 story using all of these adjectives. adjectives The group with the most interesting story will win. Station 3: Set-up computer and label the computer as Station 3: Using computers as a Station 3. Book mark the group with one computer page. Use this website to do the quiz : http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/gra Station 4: Set-up computer mmar/quizzes/adjectives_quiz2.htm and label the computer as Station 4. Book mark the Station 4: Using computers as a page. Also to prepare group with one computer worksheet for students to http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/gra record. mmar/adjectives.htm Students to make notes in worksheet provided. Conclusion Ask students to present their work. Ask students to judge the competition of the number of adjectives Use school materials Judging and presentation of their work.

Assessment

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Student worksheet:Station 4:
Go to this site http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adjectives.htm and read as a group the contents of the page. Make notes and answer the following questions. 1. Adjectives - what does it do? 2. What are articles? Give examples. 3. Are articles adjectives? 4. Look at the passage: Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, the colour words are adjectives. Identify the thing that the adjective is describing.
a. East India Tea describes the ______________ b. India describes the ______________ c. orange describes the ______________ d. covered describes the ____________ e. fat limp describes the ____________

5. The degrees of comparison are known as the positive, the comparative, and the

superlative Positive rich lovely beautiful Comparative richer lovelier more beautiful Superlative richest loveliest most beautiful

Positive tall short happy tired generous

Comparative

Superlative

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