Long-term goal: How would you express yourself? Express personality and feeling using correct grammatical forms and structures
1. Title of Lesson: Unit3: Personal Life: Feeling (& Personality)
2. Lesson Goal: Students Will Be Able To Recognize the differences of using qualitative adjectives (-ing) and effect adjectives (-ed) Identify adjectives by answering questions helping them become aware of the basic differences of similar adjective types (boring vs. bored) Use qualitative adjectives (-ing) and effective adjectives (-ed) correctly and appropriately when expressing themselves, and their opinions in both spoken and written language.
3. Standards addressed: (See NY ESL Standard 1) Students will listen, speak, read, and write in English for information and understanding. Students become familiar with some conventions including grammar, and spelling of American English. Students formulate and share opinions about information and ideas with reference to features in oral and written text such as details and facts. Students convey information and ideas through spoken and written language, using conventions and features of American English appropriate to audience and purpose.
4. Background of the Lesson: Some participles (like 'bored' or 'boring') can be used as adjectives. These are used in a slightly different way from normal adjectives. This lesson will help students use qualitative adjectives (i.e. -ing: exciting, boring, relaxing, etc.) and effect adjectives (i.e. -ed: amused, bored, shocked, etc.). It is often one of the most common problems among many English as Second Language learners. The lesson may takee any authentic text that teachers may choose as its starting point. Students read the text, identify adjectives by answering questions helping them become aware of the basic differences between these two confusingly similar adjective types.
5. Lesson Procedure
Time Activities (Divide this into sections. Sections might include: Set-up, Introduction, Teacher-guided instruction, Individual Practice, Group Work, Sharing Ideas, Summary, etc.) Dialogue (Teachers Questions; Anticipated Student Responses) Environment (Materials, Strategies, Adaptations)
Accommodations 40 min
Pre-Stage Introduction: 1. On the board, write I am boring and I am bored
2. Ask students if they are different
3. Teacher can explain and show the difference in use using PowerPoint slides or photos
4. Now, play a YouTube video. Ask students if the video was interesting, or interested
5. Give clear explanation that adjectives ending with ed (effective adjectives) are used to talk about a persons feelings or opinions and adjectives ending with ing (qualitative adjectives) are used to describe things, people, places, activities
6. Again, ask students what is something that is interesting? and what are you interested in? Write down some sentences on the board
Teachers questions Are they different? How? Do you know any differences between I am boring and I am bored?
Anticipated answers One ends with -ing and the other ends with -ed
Teachers questions What was the movie about? Was the video interesting? Or was the video interested?
Anticipated answers The video was interesting
Teachers questions What is something that is interesting?
Anticipated answers
PowerPoint (Appendix GI) Boring vs. Bored
Video link: https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=N_utzLo jCIE
Make sure to include visuals, writing, and audio so that different types of learners can get engaged as class begins.
Everyone should understand the base idea of using different adjectives before preceding the during-stage.
30-40 min
7. Hand out a list of effective and qualitative adjectives
8. Group students into small group. Let students ask each other what each adjective means
During-Stage Instruction: 1. Provide a short story. Have students read the story before discuss.
2. Have students highlight personality adjectives, and highlight the affective adjectives and qualitative adjectives as well.
(Watching a movie, Traveling, A book, etc.) is interesting
Teachers questions What are you interested in?
Anticipated answers I am interested in (the movie, art, him, etc.)
Teachers questions What are some adjectives that you dont know? Anticipated answers overwhelmed vs. overwhelming humiliated vs. humiliating
Handouts: (Appendix GII) A list of effective and qualitative adjectives
Handouts: (Appendix GIII)
Short Story [Laptop]
Teachers can make handouts available online (e.g. email, blog, etc.)so that everyone can keep it and review.
Explain in several ways; acting, visuals, providing situations and conversational usage, etc.
Make audio version of the short story available, provide listening tools as well.
Allow students enough time
20min
3. In small groups, students talk and share some vocabulary that they may feel difficult.
4. In the same group, discuss about questions that is under the test.
Post-Stage Instruction:
1. Students make a different small group with 2-3 people that they have not talked today, and share adjectives and their answers, once again.
2. Come back as a class, share adjectives that students found. Teachers write this words on the board.
Teachers questions What are some adjectives that you found? Anticipated answers Polite Trustworthy Teachers questions What is the effective adjective that you found? Anticipated answers Impressed
Teachers questions Who is annoyed? Anticipated answers Bill
Teachers questions What are two types of adjectives that we learn today? Anticipated answers Effective and qualitative adjective
Handouts: (Appendix GIV) Homework
because there always are slow readers; group students who finished reading first so they can start discussing.
Allow students to write instead of speaking if necessary.
Teachers walk around the classroom to see everyone is somehow participating.
Help students form a group; they may feel shy to talk to people that they do not usually talk.
6. Evaluation: (How will you know whether or not you have achieved your goals? What did the childrens responses to this lesson tell you about whether your goals were met?)
Did students understand differences between qualitative adjectives and effect adjectives? Did students use appropriate forms to describe ones feeling and/or personality? Did students recognize errors regarding qualitative adjectives and effect adjectives in spoken and written language?
7. Post Lesson Reflection:
What would you change about this lesson and why would those changes improve it?
How did your organization and materials affect the success of the lesson?
What were some challenges with this lesson? What surprised you?