GossipingGossiping

I want to know EVERYTHINGEVERYTHING

• Do you like gossiping?• What do you usually gossip about?

What kind of things do you say?• Do you like talking about

celebrities’ lives?• Do women gossip more than men

or is it the other way around?

What do you know about What do you know about them?them?

What do you think of these What do you think of these people?people?

I think that...

• Cicarelli’s more attractive than R.• Cicarelli’s smarter than R.

• R’s ???? famous than Cicarelli.• R’s rich?? than Cicarelli.

Comparative adjectives A’s more ... than B. A’s ...er than B.

• attractive• famous

• smart• rich

old – interesting – young – serious – talented – stressed – fat – boring – funny - happy

• old• interesting• young• serious

• talented•stressed • fat

• boring • funny • happy

But...

• GOOD A’s better than B. • BAD A’s worse than B.

Let’s compare.Let’s compare.

Spelling

1. YOUNG: A’s younger than B.2. FUNNY: A’s funnier than B.3. FIT: A’s fitter than B.

old – fat –happyugly – sad - smartbusy – tall - thin

Practice

In pairs, do exercise 7 on page 61.

To the teacher I made this presentation for Cultura Express II, lesson C8, because I had already started the lesson and stopped just before the focus. I had to start the following lesson with the focus box, but it would lack contextualization. So I prepared the first 4 slides as warmers -- some conversation in pairs before leading them to the grammar topic. This was also a chance for them to use Simple Past and some relationship vocabulary I had tought before Valentine’s Day.

Then I used the 5th slide “I think that...” to give “my” opinion about the couple and elicit the rule more vs. –er. I drilled those four sentences and checked their understanding with other adjectives on slide 6. Slide 6 requires some writing on the B, as the rules aren’t stated on the presentation.

On slide 7 I introduced the comparative forms of good and bad. After that, they had a chance to practice everything. I had them do slide 8 with open pairs and then privately in pairs.

Finally, I elicited the spelling rules with slide #9. They had to fit the verbs to the categories. The first 3 ones (old, fat and happy) were T-S, the other 6 adjectives they had to discuss in pairs.

I also adapted exercise 10 on the book to fit a game suggestion by Rachel. The class was divided into 2 or 3 groups to brainstorm adjectives to describe people, places, movies and activities. I banned the word beautiful so they would vary a little. I arranged the desks into 2 or 3 lines and the first st. of each line had to run to the B and write a comparative sentence with the elements I gave them (Eddie Murphy vs. Tom Cavalcante; Pelotas vs. Rio; Argentina vs. Brazil; Losing weight vs. Working late; the Beetle vs. a Pajero; Batman Begins vs. Bambi.) After that, the 1st st had to move to the last desk, the 2nd st to the 1st desk and so on so forth.