Descriptive Adjectives

Nane Magdalena / 06920090052

BACKGROUND

• Designing an English unit of lessons for Grade 4 students in Springfield International Curriculum School.

• The unit will be covering the 4 language skills, which are: reading, listening, writing, speaking

FEATURES

• Target : Grade 4 students at Springfield (4 classes @ 20 students)

• Topic : Adjectives• Goal : Students can investigate how adjectives can describe nouns and can apply it actively. • Unit : 4 unit• Length : 4 meetings @ 60 minutes

THEORY• Using a Task-based syllabus, organized tasks that students will complete in the target language.

• “Tasks are activities which have meaning as their primary focus. Success in tasks is evaluated in terms of achievement of an outcome, and tasks generally bear some resemblance to real-life language use” (Skehan 1996, 20)

MATERIALS• Handouts and exercises about adjectives• Bible verses from Revelation• Reading passage from stories• Video clip from youtube• Scope and Sequence: listening, writing, speaking, vocabulary, reading

Unit 1 – Introduction to Adjectives

Introduction: In the beginning of the class, tell the students that today we are going to learn about Adjectives, and explain briefly about it. Adjectives are words that can describe nouns is called Descriptive Adjectives. Ask the students to form a group of 4 and discuss about their appearances and feeling. They need to pay attention at what their friends’ attribute and ask about their feeling today. They need to jot down the result and present it in front of the class. (e.g. Jason has black and short hair. He wears white shoes. He is tall. He is happy today)

Introduction: In the beginning of the class, tell the students that today we are going to learn about Adjectives, and explain briefly about it. Adjectives are words that can describe nouns is called Descriptive Adjectives. Ask the students to form a group of 4 and discuss about their appearances and feeling. They need to pay attention at what their friends’ attribute and ask about their feeling today. They need to jot down the result and present it in front of the class. (e.g. Jason has black and short hair. He wears white shoes. He is tall. He is happy today)

Unit 1 – Introduction to Adjectives

Lesson: After the students present their results, the teacher will explain that all of the students’ result is showing Descriptive Adjective. (e.g. black hair black adjectives describes the color of the hair). Adjectives can be color, age, nationality, material, size, feeling, or shape. Give the students an exercise about Adjectives Vocabulary using pictures.

Lesson: After the students present their results, the teacher will explain that all of the students’ result is showing Descriptive Adjective. (e.g. black hair black adjectives describes the color of the hair). Adjectives can be color, age, nationality, material, size, feeling, or shape. Give the students an exercise about Adjectives Vocabulary using pictures.

Unit 2 – Theory Review

Lesson: Recall about the meaning of Adjectives. After that, discuss about the Adjectives Vocabulary done yesterday. Give the handout about Adjectives, and explain it to the students. Do some exercises.

Lesson: Recall about the meaning of Adjectives. After that, discuss about the Adjectives Vocabulary done yesterday. Give the handout about Adjectives, and explain it to the students. Do some exercises.

Unit 3 – Adjectives for Setting

In the beginning of the class:• Give each student a piece of paper• Ask them to listen carefully about the passage from Bible.• While listening, ask them to draw any pictures based on what the students heard and imagined• After that, share it with a friend sitting next to…• Ask how they are feeling about it

Unit 3 – Adjectives for SettingIntroduction: • Listen to the Bible Verses from Revelation 22:1-5“And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be in their foreheads. There shall be no right there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”

Unit 3

Reading PassageHere is part of fairy tale about a fisherman and his wife. The poor fisherman catches a magic fish. His wife wants to live in a stone castle and the magic fish makes the wish come true.

The fisherman and his wife went to the castle that the magic fish had given them to live in. They couldn’t believe their eyes. It was a huge, stone castle with many servants and a hundred rooms. All the rooms had beautiful furniture. The chairs and tables were of gold. Behind the castle there was a lovely garden and a huge wood. From the high windows, the could see sheep, goats, hares and deer in the castle grounds. In the courtyard there were stables and cow houses. It really was a wonderful place.

The Fisherman’s Castle

Unit 3

Reading Passage

In the story The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen, Gerda’s brothers, Kay, is taken by the wicked Snow Queen. While Gerda is looking for Kay, she is captured by some robbers and taken to their castle.

Suddenly the carriage stopped; they had reached the courtyard of a robber’s castle. Its walls were cracked from top to bottom; crows and ravens were flying out of the gaps and holes, while huge hounds, each one looking as if he could swallow a man, leapt high into the air, but not a single bark came from them, for that was forbidden. In the great old hall, cobwebbed and black with soot, a large fire burned on the stone floor, the smoke drifted about under the roof, trying to find its own way out. A vast cauldron of soup was bubbling away; hares and rabbits were roasting on turning spits.

The Robbers’ Castle

Unit 3

Vocabulary List:• hares • vast• cauldron• cobwebbed

Unit 3• Ask the students to make a Venn Diagram to show any Differences and Similarities from those 2 passages (using Adjectives to describe).

The Fisherman’s Castle The Robbers’ Castle

Homework/Assignment

Writing •Imagine that you are the Fisherman who got the huge beautiful castle…what would you do there?• If you are Gerda in the Robbers’ Castle story, what kind of feeling would you have?

Unit 4 – Describing Scenes

• The students will be watching 2 videos in the Computer Lab about Harry Potter and Little Mermaid.• The students need to take notes about all the details they saw in the videos.• Then, the students need to produce 2 paragraphs describing the scenes.

Thank You…