Lesson no. 13

Lesson no. 13
24 July 2009 / Friday
(16:00 – 17:30)

Topics of the day:
Beginners: common nouns
General (and Advanced): Comparatives/Superlatives

Beginners:
I used http://iteslj.org/v/ei/nouns.html to assemble a handout about common nouns, which referred to objects and animals. The handout can be found below:

The following vocabulary was present on the handout (in alphabetical order):
Baseball / Beaver / Bicycle / Bowling / Bus / Cake / Car / Carrot / Cat / Cheese / Coffee / Computer / Dog / Egg / Elephant / Face / Fruit / Gorilla / Guitar / Hamburger / Hospital / House / Ice-cream / Laundry / Love / Music / Orange / Penguin / Person / Pizza / Salad / Snake / Strawberry / T-shirt / Umbrella / Vegetables / Wine

General:
Today comparatives and superlatives were explained to the students. After the explanation an exercise was given to the students: http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2065. Once a student was done with this exercise, I checked it and discussed it with him/her and handed him/her the second exercise: http://www.myenglishgrammar.com/english/exercise-3-adjectives.html.
This was a new topic for most students and the students didn’t entirely consider it to be an easy one. Initially I had three exercises but since we didn’t have so much time during the lesson, I will use the last exercise (which is two pages long) for next time.