Describing places. City and Village.

 Comparatives and superlatives.

 

Aims:

• To practise speaking (dialogue);
• To broaden pupils’ outlook;
• To improve pupils’ reading/listening/writing  skills;
• To develop the skills of grammar;
• To develop creative thinking;
• To learn new vocabulary;
• To form pupils’ habits of communication according to situation;

 

Resources used:

• Copies;
• Copies for individual work;
• Cassetteso or CDs
• Grammar table;

 

I.                   Introduction

1. Aims.

Today we are going to talk about different lifestyles: compare living in cities and villages; describe different places and we’ll listen to dialogues, make up mini-dialogues, improve grammar skills comparatives and superlatives.

 

2. Warm-up activities

Let’s start our lesson with Jazz Chants – listen and repeat.

 

Things are getting better,  much better

 Things are getting better every day.

   I’m glad.

 The homework’s getting easier, much easier

 The homework’s getting easier every day.  

   That’s good.

 Your English is improving

 Your writing’s getting stronger

 Your grammar’s getting better every day.

   Hooray!

 Your accent’s getting better,   much better

 Your accent’s getting better every day.  Hooray!

 

 

2. The main part of the lesson.

1. Check on homework

Complete the sentences. Use the comparative form of adjectives with than

1. Chris is (generous)….Lucy.
2. Paris is (beautiful)……London
3. Jess is (confident) …..her brother.
4. Is volleyball (popular)……basketball in your school?
5. My friends are (hard-working) ……me!

 

2. Improving grammar skills

Match an adjective in A with its opposite in B.

A      B

Fast      cheap

Small      slow

Clean      bad

Safe      unhealthy

Quiet      unfriendly

Old      dirty

Healthy     noisy

Friendly     unfriendly 

Interesting     dangerous

Expensive     boring

Good      big

 

Make sentences comparing life in the city and country

    cheaper

    safer

The country is  noisier    than the country

    healthier

The city is   more expensive   than the city

    more interesting

    better

 

Now, listen and compare your sentences with the ones on the tape. Are they the same or different?

• The country is cheaper than the city.
• The country is safer than the city.
• The city is noisier than the country.
• The country is healthier than the city.
• The city is more expensive than the country.
• The city is more interesting than the country.
• The city is better than the country.

 

 

Complete the conversations. Then listen and check. Practise saying some of the sentences.

 

1. A.  The country is _____ __________ the city.  (quiet)

B.   Yes, that’s true. The city is much ________

 

2. A.  New York is ___  _______London. (safe)

B.  No, it isn’t. New York  is much ____________.

 

3. A.  The streets of New York are ___ ______ the streets of Paris. (clean)
   2.               No, they aren’t. They’re ______.

 

4. A.   Paris is _____ _______ Madrid.  (big)

B.    No, it isn’t. It’s much __________.

 

 

5. A.     Madrid is ____ ________ ____________ Rome. (expensive)
   2.      No, it isn’t. Madrid is much _____.

 

 

6. A.     The buildings in Rome are _____ ______  _______the buildings in New York. (modern)
   2.        No, they aren’t. They are much ________.

 

 

g.    A.      The Underground in London is ____ _____ the Metro in Paris. (good)

2. No, it isn’t. The Underground is much ____. 

 

3.  Developing of dialogical speech

Make up  the similar dialogues.

 

 

4.  Improving listening comprehension  skills

 

Story Scrambles – Cut sentences of a story on individual strips of paper, and scramble the order.  Pupils must then read the sentence strips carefully and try to put them in correct order in small groups. Then listen and check.

 

Fran Why did you leave? You had a ______job in London.

 

Amy Yes, but I’ve got a __job here.

 

Fran And you had a _____ flat in London.

 

Amy Well, I’ve got a house here.

 

Fran Really? How many bedrooms has it got?

 

Amy Three. And I’ve got a garden. It’s ____than my flat and it’s ____.  Everything is much ____here.

 

Fran But you haven’t got any friends!

 

Amy I’ve got a lot of friends here. Everybody is very _____. People are much ______than in London.

 

Fran But the country’s so_____!

 

Amy No, it isn’t. it’s much ____ ____than London. Seaton has got shops, cinemas, theatres,  parks.  And the air is ___ and the streets are_______.

 

Fran OK. OK. Everything is ______! So when can I visit you?

 

 

5.Improving speaking skills

 

A group survey.

Students work in groups of 5 or 6 and find out the answers to the following questions.

• Who’s the tallest in the group? Who’s the smallest?
• Who’s the oldest? Who’s the youngest?
• Who’s the best singer? Who’s the worst football player?
• Who’s the most hard-working? Who’s the most cheerful? Etc.

 

 

 

3. Summary of the lesson.
4. Home assignment.  - to write a composition comparing living in           the city and in the country.