Comparative Adjectives In Songs: Review & Practice Challenge – Teaching English With Songs!

Description:

This song-based STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN for ENGLISH language TEACHING features extracts of non-copyrighted songs from bands like NEFFEX, Onlap and others.

Students IDENTIFY comparative adjectives in 7 song extracts. You can use this activity as extra grammar practice, review or just for fun!

OBS: This lesson plan was made for ONLINE TEACHING, but it can be modified for face-to-face instruction, as well.

Language level: B1 AND ABOVE 
Learner type: All ages
Skills: listening and writing
Topic: comparatives
Materials: YouTube Video
Duration: about 30 min
Download your free teaching resources: instructions.pdf

Welcome to the Song Activity Factory! Here, we follow the rules of The Creative Jedi Code:

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STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN

Step 1

Review the comparative forms of adjectives. Have students give you some examples. Write them on the board.

Step 2

Divide students into pairs or trios (it can also be done individually, depending on the number of students), and tell them they are going to listen to various extracts of songs that have comparative adjectives.

Step 3

VIDEO.

Tell them they have 3 chances to try to get the right words, they don’t need to get the whole sentence, just the comparative form. ex. closes, faster, etc. Then, play the Video below. Song 1 extract is recorded 3 times in a row. Pause the video. Students write down the answer for song 1. (play more times if necessary).

Step 4

Check what the teams wrote down (you can use the chat feature of the application you’re using with your online students. ex: in-meeting chat in zoom , and ask them to use it to send you the answers. Assign points. (1 for each right answer, if there is more than 1 comparative adjective in the recording)

Step 5

Repeat steps 2, 3, 4 for the next song extracts. The team with more points, in the end, is the winner!

FOR ANSWERS (SEE Instructions.pdf in the downloadable materials section in the description).

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