Lesson Plans: Adjectives and Adverbs

Academic vocabulary that shows the writer is sure and unsure.

-ed adjectives and -ing adjective lying games

Coin games to practise -ed adjectives and -ing adjectives

Practising opposites of adjectives by drawing games.

Completing typical sentences with -ed adjectives and -ing adjectives games.

Funny and sensible matches between animals and adjectives book, cards and table activities.

Guessing what the poem is describing with bored/ boring, tired/ tiring, etc, then writing similar rhyming paired sentences.

Speaking practice of a wide range of adjectives, including adjective opposites, on the topic of special occasions.

Describing things with adjective opposites games, including drawing, TRP, jigsaw tasks and memory games.

Adjectives ending with ed and ing practice with pictures.

Opinions with -ed adjectives and -ing adjectives discussion.

Decide how often certain actions are acceptable

Lying card game to practise sometimes, usually, never, etc.

Using adverbs of frequency to describe how companies, industries, countries, etc are different from one another.

Using adverbs of frequency to describe what people do games.

Normal and strange small talk questions for adverbs of frequency.

How you do things games, including TPR and a ladder game.

Discussing language learning problems with adverbs describing how you do things.

Commonly confused words practice

Three games to practise adverbs of manner with animal vocabulary

Personal yes no questions with easy adjectives speaking game.

Roleplays to practise personality adjective antonyms, ending with brainstorming opposite pairs.

Personality adjective antonyms jigsaw and memory card game, with detailed instructions for teachers.

Guessing the frequency of common Xmas traditions around the world

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and personalised speaking game to practise contrasting adjectives ending with -ed and -ing, with useful free time vocabulary.

Students play a fun card game, guessing game and/ or personalised speaking game to practise adjectives ending with -ed and -ing for feelings and properties, with useful jobs vocabulary.

Putting adjectives in the right order before nouns practice as students describe natural and urban places, including useful names of places vocabulary.

Describing Christmas objects and characters with simple language brainstorming and guessing games.

Gradable and ungradable adjectives practice through the topic of seasonal events like Xmas and Halloween, including names of festivals and celebrations, and adverbs with different kinds of adjectives.

Speaking about what is good manners and bad manners to practise adjectives describing feelings and properties of things, including -ed/ -ing pairs and more irregular word formation.

Making sounds to represent extreme and gradable feelings adjectives game.

More often and less often time expressions presentation and practice card games, including asking questions to get particular adverbs of frequency and similar expressions with numbers.

TPR practice of gradable and ungradable adjectives, including adverbs with gradable and extreme adjectives, great for young learners and other active classes.

Students memorise gradable and ungradable adjectives with a fun card game based on Othello, with versions with gradable/ extreme pairs, antonyms, and adjectives with the same grammar and meaning.

Making personal stories more interesting with extreme adjectives speaking, with gradable and ungradable adjectives grammar presentation.

Matching gradable and non-gradable adjectives jigsaw activities.

Students ask, answer and make conversation questions with gradable and ungradable adjectives, plus a gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives grammar presentation.

Students use cards with gradable and ungradable adjective pairs to make conversation questions, match the pairs, add collocations, and test each other on the language - including adverbs with gradable adjectives and extreme adjectives.

Students practise gradable and extreme adjectives with the card game pairs/ the memory game, first matching by grammar and then matching gradable and ungradable pairs, before trying to remember the words they just used.

Opinions with gradable and extreme adjectives pairs.

Adjectives ending in ed and ing practice through a fun story.

Future plans for frequency expressions and learning training discussion

Gradable and ungradable adjectives and adverbs that go with them practice and presentation through sharing opinions - also useful for opinions phrases practice.

TPR practice of simple opposites, including very basic ones like yes and no and elementary adjective antonyms.

A fun words with opposite meanings story.

A fun truth or dare-style speaking game to practise feelings adjectives with opposite meanings, including suggested personal questions about feelings.

Character words TPR practice through doing actions to represent pairs of antonyms, also with personality synonyms and students testing each other on the language in other ways.

A fun personalised lying game to practise character adjectives, including personality words with the same and opposite meanings.