LAURA POE - LESSON PLAN

NARRATIVE: Advanced Intermediate students in the CLIP program at LaGuardia

RATIONALE: Student essays have displayed signs of confusion when making
comparisons.

GOAL: Ss will be able to make comparisons in their speaking and writing

OBJECTIVES:
Terminal:
Ss will speak clearly to present paragraphs to class
Ss will write sentences comparing three different ESL phone apps
Ss will collaborate to create paragraphs from comparison sentences
Ss will use critical thinking to discuss phone app comparisons

Enabling:
Ss will use comparatives and superlatives correctly in their speaking and writing
Ss will use academic sentence starters in their speaking and writing
Ss will read authentic texts for factual comparisons
Ss will make assumptions based on comparisons

MATERIALS:
*ESL Phone Apps Text of the class reading from previous class
Contains descriptions of: Voxy app, Speaking Pal app and
English Grammar In Use app
Vocabulary is high-lighted in yellow, collocation pronouns
are highlighted in green, idioms are underlined, new
terms are boxed
*Vocabulary for Phone App Text printed on the back of the reading
*Pairs of photos of various people
*Tape
*Index cards
*Chart of comparative and superlative rules
*Sentence starters on a 2-sided handout

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY
Setting context for lesson: Welcoming, Connect previous lesson with present
lesson during Introduction (Warm-up)

PROCEDURE
1. Introduction:
* Pairs of photos of various people are hanging on the front board
* These directions are written on the board: Choose a pair of photos and
write a comparison about them.
* Volunteers read their comparisons and we guess which pair of pictures
the comparison goes with.
* T writes some comparisons on the board, correcting them

2. Review/Presentation
* T elicits a list of sentence starters Ss are using in their writing
* T gives out a 2-sided Sentence Starters handout and briefly leads them
through it, telling them they will be using it over the next month
* T reviews making comparisons with
As.as
Not as / not quite as / no nearly as. as
Just as
Almost as
1 syllable with ____-er / the ___-est
2 syllable with more ____ / most ____
changing y to ier
irregulars: good/well and bad
_____ er than + subj pronoun
possessive noun
aux. verb

3. Practice
1. T elicits sentences from students using these structures and writes sentences
on board for the structures that give the students difficulty
2. T elicits sentence starters from students to be used to bridge thoughts of
sentences and adds those to the sentences.
3. Ss take notes

4. Application
* In groups of three, Ss write a paragraph comparing the three ESL phone apps
Ss use the ESL Phone Apps text from the previous class
Each student contributes at least one sentence to the paragraph.
Sentence starters must be used when possible
Each group must combine the sentences into one paragraph

5. Closure
Volunteers from each group read the paragraph.
T asks how comparisons might be used in a college setting

Assessment:
Prior knowledge is assessed from introduction sentences
Comprehension is assessed by analyzing the sentences Ss write for
paragraphs and by the corrections on the homework
Speaking comprehension is assessed from the discussions and
presentations

EXTENSION
Ss correct a paragraph that contains many comparison errors (as well as
errors studied in previous classes).
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not active or in use; not working.
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ultimate


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tremendous



not actually being true or real,
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innovative

charming; pleasing; attractive.
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the two points or limits between
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having no equal; different from
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Instructions: Use the words above to fill in the blanks.
1
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I could listen to him talk all day because he has such
an _______________ manner.

2
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Everyone's fingerprints are _______________ .
3
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The wrestler has a _______________ chest.
4
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The factory sat _______________ after the company
went out of business.

5
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Dont worry, he is a _______________ electrician.
6
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This sweater comes in a wide _______________ of sizes and colors.
7
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She was bored with life, so she would escape into
a _______________ world for hours on end.
8
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The young actors did a _______________ job in the play.
9
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They were determined to find the _______________ cup
of coffee in the city.

Homework:
Me and My Father

I am different from my father in many way. He is one of the most responsible person I
know. He is a construction worker and has to get up at 6:00 A.M. Often, he gets home
more later than me! I should work just as hard as he, but I am a student and I dont more
hard. And another things, my father is more engaging than I do. In our neighborhood, he
is most communicative person than all the other neighbors. In many ways we are similar
but in many ways we are not same. My father doesnt like to be idle and he thinks it is
more better to be busy all the time. Even though were different, I enjoy spending more
free time with him than my friends with they parents do.