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

Engage Your Students with NEFFEX: A Step-by-Step Song-Based Lesson Plan for English Language Teaching

Unlock the potential of music in your English language teaching with this innovative, song-based lesson plan featuring non-copyrighted songs by NEFFEX. Designed for both online and face-to-face instruction, this step-by-step guide helps students identify comparative adjectives in five engaging song extracts. Whether you’re looking for extra grammar practice, a review session, or just a fun activity, this lesson plan is perfect for enhancing your students’ learning experience. Dive into creative and interactive English teaching with NEFFEX and make your lessons unforgettable!

Description:

This song-based STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN for ENGLISH language TEACHING features extracts of non-copyrighted songs by NEFFEX!

Students IDENTIFY comparative adjectives in 5 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

STEP-BY-STEP LESSON PLAN

Step 1 (5 min)

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

Step 2 (3 min)

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.

Steps 3, 4, 5 (about 15 min)

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)