Hello Dear classmates! I just can’t believe that I’m done with the
guys of English Access. I can tell you that it was a great experience because I
had not had the opportunity to teach teenagers, and I learned a lot from them.
This time I taught “Comparatives and Superlatives”, and let me tell you that I
enjoyed every moment of the class. I felt so comfortable teaching that topic,
so that’s why I was not nervous.
Well, as a warm up, I used an old, but nice song called: “My love”
by Petula Clark. I gave to them the lyrics, and they filled in the blanks using
the comparative or superlative form of the adjective according to the lyrics of
the song. I played it three times, the first one just to listen to it, the
second one to fill in the blanks, and the last one to sing it.
To explain grammar is not easy. There is too much to explain, and
most of the time you do not have the enough time. That’s why I tried to explain
to them in the easiest way, and I could see that they understood.
This class I included a reading comprehension, and believe it really
functioned. They chose the correct answers, and it was a surprise to me because
they are beginners, but they are really intelligent.
At the beginning of the class, I gave to them a piece of paper to
write their names. In the back of the piece of paper an adjective was written. I
used that to play the “Hot potato”. The student who had the ball when the music
stopped must say the comparative and superlative form of the adjective that
he/she had written in the piece of paper.
As I had brought to the class some real objects. I used them in
order to make a review, for example: I compare the different sizes of three
leaves (big, bigger, and biggest) also I compare the prizes of three earrings
(expensive, more expensive, and most expensive). Then, I asked students to try
it, and I felt happy because they could do it perfectly.
