Learners look at the map of cities of Kazakhstan. Teacher highlights “Atyrau is a large city, Aktobe is larger than Atyrau, Karaganda is the largest city”. Guided discovery Task – 1 Learners read the text and discuss in their small groups the highlighted adjectives. Kazakhstan In area, the Republic of Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country in the world. In population, the Republic of Kazakhstan is the sixty third largest country in the world. The biggest city in Kazakhstan in population is Almaty. It has about 2 million people. The tallest building in Kazakhstan is the Abu-dabi Plaza, in Astana (382 meters). The Almaty Towers 1 in Almaty, is shorter than the Abu-dabi Plaza. Zhem is the smallest town in our Republic (2,013population). The town Temir is larger than Zhem (2,513). There are nine lakes in the Kazakhstan. The biggest is Caspian Sea. The oldest city of our homeland is Taraz. The coldest area of Kazakhstan is the northern part of the country, The North Kazakhstan Oblast, including 13 regions and 1 regional center-the city of Petropavlovsk, the warmest area is the southern part of the country. The east part is warmer than the northern part. Learners get grammatical explanation with the help of demonstrating graphic organizer to distinct differences between the two forms. One-syllable adjectives | Simple Form | Comparative Form | Superlative Form | Large | larger | largest | Big | bigger | biggest | Small | smaller | smallest | Tall | taller | tallest | Short | shorter | shortest | Fast | faster | fastest | Slow | slower | slowest | Warm | warmer | warmest | Cold | colder | coldest | Great | greater | greatest | Old | older | oldest | After the two forms are conveyed through the graphic organizer, teacher gives some examples to convey the forms in a sentence. The explanation is: “We use the superlative form to point out the number-one item of the group of three or more. We often put a prepositional phrase at the end of a superlative sentence. Just like the previous examples given above. The prepositional phrase is underlined.” “We use the comparative form to determine the number-one item between two specific things”. We add the word “than” after the comparative form of the word as demonstrated and underlined in the second example.” Controlled practice Task - 2 For each sentence below, circle the correct form of the word from the multiple choice options below the sentence, to complete it. Question number one has been completed as an example. 1. London is one of the ______ cities in the world. (a. large b. larger c. largest ) 2. The City is the _____ part of London, its financial and business centre. (a. old b. older c. oldest) 3. With a population of 8,6 million people, London is _________ than New York City, which has 8 million people. (a. big b. bigger c. biggest) 4. London has many _______ parks, such as, Royal Parks, Green space. (a. great b. greater c. greatest ) 5. Burabay National Park is________ than Kokshetau Park. (a. big b. bigger c. biggest) 6. North Kazakhstan’s weather is ________ than South Kazakhstan. (a. cold b. colder c. coldest) Freer practice Task – 3 Ls compare their home city with London using superlatives and comparatives. Make up 7 sentences using target language. The teacher monitors. Learners walk around the class and present the works during 10 minutes. Take notes of things they learned from their peers’ papers. Share things they learned about the different cities using the target language. Differentiation by the task Less able learners: Choose the correct form of the adjectives in brackets. 1. Petropavlovsk is one of the ______ cities in Kazakhstan. (small) 2. With a population of 200 000 people, Petropavlovsk is _________ than Kokshetau, which has people. (big) 3. Petropavlovsk has many _______ parks, such as, Park of culture, Park of Victory. (great) 4. Park of culture is________ than Park of Victory. (big) 5. London’s weather is ________ than Petropavlovsk. (cold) More able learners: Make up sentences using comparative and superlative forms of the adjectives then put the words in correct order. 1.(Petropavlovsk/is one of /large/cities/in Kazakhstan). 2. (London/Petropavlovsk/big). 3.(Petropavlovsk/many/has/large/parks). 4.(Big/Park of culture/ than/Park of Victory). 5.(weather/London/than/warm/Petropavlovsk/weather). Most able learners: Learners do the task according to the 1-2 tasks. Formative assessment task Assessment criteria: Look at the map and tell where the main cities are. Use ‘south, east, north, west’. Example: Where is Almaty? Almaty is in the north-east of Kazakhstan? Is Astana in the centre of Kazakhstan? Where is Aktau? Is it in the east? Is Shymkent in the north of Kazakhstan? Where is Astana? Where is Pavlodar? Descriptor: a learner |