Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives I. OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to: 1.

Differentiate the use of the three degrees of comparison of adjectives. 2. Compare the different ways in forming comparative and superlative degrees of regular and irregular adjectives. 3. Use the positive, comparative and superlative degrees of regular and irregular adjectives.

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SUBJECT MATTER a. Focus skill: Degrees of comparison of adjectives b. Materials: pictures, charts, objects to be compared c. Reference: Roads to Greatness p.290, Sedilla and Villamin

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PROCEDURE

Mt. Apo 9,692 ft.

Teachers Activity A. Motivation How many are you in the family? Who is more understanding, your mother or your father? Who among you is the tallest? Mt. Fuji 12,388 ft.

May you describe your sister?

Presentation

SET 1 Mt. Everest 29,028 ft.

Laptop P27, 900

Students Activity

Answers may vary. My mother is more understanding than my father. My eldest brother is the tallest among us. My sister is smart. B. Focusing on the structure What do you see, class, in the first set of pictures? What are the names of those mountains? Very good! How about the second set of pictures? What do you see? Youre right! And what are those gadgets? Correct! In our first set of pictures, what is the specific height of each mountain? Very good. How do you describe Mt. Apo? Okay. Let us compare it to Mt. Fuji. How do you describe Mt. Fuji to Mt. Apo? Why do you say so? Very good. Let us try to compare the three mountains. How do you describe Mt. Everest compared to Mt. Apo and Mt. Fuji? Exactly! What is the height of Mt. Everest again? Okay. Let us go to the second set of pictures. How do you describe the price of the cell phone? Let us compare the price of cell phone to the price of digital

SET 2

Cellphone P8, 600 -

Digicam P 11,020

camera. How do you describe the digital camera? Okay. Let us now compare the prices of the three gadgets. How do you describe the laptop? Very good. Now, take a look at the chart on the board. SET 1

Mt. Fuji has a height of 12, 388 ft. Mt. Everest is 29, 028 ft. Mt. Apo is high.

Mt. Fuji is higher than Mt. Apo.

Mt. Apo high SET 2

Cell phone

Mt. Fuji higher

Mt. Everest highest

Mt. Apo is only 9,692 ft. high while Mt. Fuji is 12,388 ft. high. Mt. Everest is the highest among them.

digicam

laptop Mt. Everest is 29, 028 ft high.

expensiv more most e expensive expensive - Okay, class. What adjective is used in describing Mt. Apo? - Why do you think the base form of modifier high is used?

The cell phone is expensive.

Excellent! So what degree of modifier high is? Correct! How about Mt. Fuji? Why is there a need to add suffix er to the base form of the high? What degree of modifier higher is?

The digital camera is more expensive than the cell phone.

Laptop is the most expensive among the three.

mountains

(Students will do so)

Those are Mt. Apo, Mt. Fuji, and Mt. Everest. Different kinds of gadgets

Those are cell phone, digital camera and laptop. Mt. Apo has a height of 9,692 ft.

The adjective high is used.

The base form of the modifier high is used because it is only describing the noun Mt. Apo and there is no comparison. Positive degree There is a need to add suffix er to the base form high because there is a comparison between Mt. Fuji and Mt. Apo. Comparative degree

Why is it that in our first example the suffix er is used and not the intensifier more?

Very good. What degree of modifier more expensive is?

Correct! How many objects did we compare?

You are right! Let us go to our next example Mt. Everest.

Why is there a need to add suffix est to the base form of high instead of adding suffix er?

Let us observe the next object. We compared the laptop to the cell phone and digital camera, right?

Why is there a need to add intensifier most to the base form expensive?

Okay. So what degree of modifier highest is? What degree the modifier most expensive is? Why not adding suffix est to the base form of modifier instead of most?

Very good! Let us take a look at the second box on the chart.

How do you describe the price of the cell phone?

Very good.

What form of modifier expensive is?

Why do we have to use the base form of modifier expensive? There is a need to add suffix est to the base form high because we compare Mt. Everest with Mt. Apo and Mt. Fuji. We add suffix est and not er because er is used in comparing two things only. Superlative degree.

Alright. How about digital camera? Why is the intensifier more added to the base form expensive and not the suffix er?

Expensive

Comparative degree with intensifier more forms the superlative degree most.

base form

The base form of modifier expensive is used because it only modifies the cell phone and there is no comparison. The intensifier more is used because the modifier expensive has three syllables, thus, it is a long word.

C. Forming Generalization Again, class, take a look at the chart and identify which column is positive, comparative, and superlative degree of modifier.
higher more expensive highest most

high expensive expensive

The suffix er is used because the modifier high is of one syllable, thus, a short word.

With the help of this illustration, what generalization can you formulate?

Comparative degree

Correct. What else?

We compared two objects: the cell phone and digital camera.

Yes, thats right. But how do we form comparative degree?

Yes, Maam.

What if the adjective has three or more syllables?

The intensifier most is added to the adjective expensive because there are three objects being compared.

Very good! How about superlative degree? When do we use it?

Superlative degree

How do we form superlative degree?

Very good answers, class.

D. Exercises Note the adjectives listed in the following chart. In the blank write the correct comparative or superlative form of an adjective. -

adjective if the adjective is of one syllable. If the adjective has three or more syllables, we just have to add intensifier more.

Positive short sophisticat ed

Comparative Wider

Superlative

more beautiful brightest IV. EVALUATION Fill in the blanks with the correct degree of comparison of adjective. small 1. Manila is _____ than New York. difficult 2. Mathematics is _____. exciting 3. They say that basketball is _____. large 4. Is there a _____ table than this one? contented 5. Barrio people are _____ their lives than city folks. -

We use superlative degree when we compare one object or group with two or more objects. We form the superlative degree by adding suffix est or intensifier most.

Positive wide short sophisticat ed beautiful bright

Comparative wider shorter

more sophisticated

Superlative widest shortest

most sophisticated

more beautiful brighter

most beautiful Brightest

smaller

The first column is positive, the second column is comparative and the third column is superlative.

difficult

exciting larger

Positive degree is used when there is no particular comparison and in forming positive degree we just use the base form of the adjective. Comparative degree is used when there are two objects being compared. In forming comparative degree, we add suffix er to the

more contented

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ASSIGNMENT Construct sentences using the positive, comparative and superlative degree of adjectives with the following adjectives:

1. strange 2. dull 3. handsome 4. shy 5. blue

Prepared by: MS. IRENE V. DELARMINO