Lesson Plan 4.28.11: "Past and Present Participles as Adjectives"

English For All – CLASS NAME: Intermediate

DATE: 04/28/2011

Teacher(s): Marie Palisky

Lesson Objectives	Students will be able to use past and present participles as adjectives in the context of descriptions. Students will be able to write about themselves and others using new description words. Students will understand the difference between past and present participles as verbs and as adjectives. Students will be able to classify synonyms for the past and present participles as adjectives. Students will be able to locate participles acting as adjectives in reading passages.
Materials	Chalkboard and chalk Computer (powerpoint) Interchange textbook Third Edition  Cambridge. Jack C. Richards with Jonathan Hull and Susan Proctor
Procedure	Warm-up (15 min.) Objective: to introduce students to the idea of describing people, ideas, and things in the context of a discussion of a movie a.     Pre-Speaking: T will explain her favorite movie and why she likes it. She will write descriptive words such as Intriguing, Sad,  and Up-lifting  as well as the title on the board. T will then describe how the movie made her feel and write these on the board as well Interested and pleased b.     While-speaking: T will then ask Ss what their favorite movies are and what adjectives come to mind to describe them. Teacher will write some of these adjectives on the board. Next, the T will ask Ss how these movies made them feel. c.      Post-speaking: T will circle adjectives on the board that end in –ing and  -ed and ask Ss what is special about these particular adjectives. Explain that they are past and present participles. Transition to grammar. Evaluation: T will gauge is Ss are able to produce adjectives that cause feelings and adjectives that describe feelings. Presentation (20 min.) Objective: to introduce Ss to the use of past and present participles as adjectives. a.     Powerpoint: T will present a powerpoint on the use of participles as adjectives explaining how they are constructed. T will explain that past participles are used to describe how people feel and are made from the passive simple past form a verb. And the present participles are used to describe the cause of the feeling and constructed using the active verb form. b.     T will handout list of participle examples which are used to show emotion and feeling. T will go through the list with the Ss. T will ask Ss if they have any questions about the definitions of any of the words. c.      PRACTICE of participles as adjectives: Slide Ss will watch 2 video clips. The first is of a wedding dance were the Ss will be asked to describe how the dancers were and how they made the guests feel using participles from their handout list. The second is a commercial that uses a jumping shock factor at the end. The Ss will be asked to describe the video and also how it made them feel. Evaluation: T will be able to gauge how well Ss understand concept by their ability to create sentences during the practice slides. Ss will also be evaluated on questions they propose during the presentation. Practice (15 min.) Objective: to allow Ss to practice using the correct form of the participles as adjectives in a handout. T will hand out a worksheet that allows Ss to fill in the blank spaces in sentences with the correct participle from the verb given in parentheses. Ss will also be asked to identify whether the adjectives they use in the sentences are present participles or past participles and label them as such. T will then go over answers by writing 1-10 on the board and asking Ss to volunteer to write their answers on the board making sure to correct any errors. Evaluation: T will walk around and monitor Ss work on the worksheet answering any questions the Ss may have. Break (10 min.) Production (25 min.) Objective: to allow to students opportunity to use knowledge of adjective to come up with their own creative descriptions and share with the class. T will ask Ss to pair up. Each pair will be asked to come up with a movie, book, or TV show that they both enjoy and think that most of the class would be familiar with. Ss will be asked to write a short review for their media source and answer the following questions: What was/is the movie/book/TV show about? What did/do you like about it? What did/do you not like about it? Would you recommend this to other people? Ss must use at least 2 examples of present participle adjectives and 2 examples of past participle adjectives in their reviews. T will present Ss with an example: The movie Titanic is about the shocking crash of a huge ship. I liked that the movie is interesting and romantic. I don’t like that it makes me feel depressed. It also makes me feel frustrated at certain times. I would recommend this movie to people who enjoy love stories, but not necessarily happy endings. Ss will be asked to come up to the front of the class and share their reviews with the class. Evaluation: T will evaluate students by their incorporation of participles as adjectives in their reviews. Practice (25 min.) Objective: to familiarize Ss with being able to identify participles acting as adjectives in a reading passage. a.     Pre-reading: T will ask students to do activity 4 in their workbook to go over synonyms for similar adjectives before doing the reading activity. T will make sure that answers are right before handing out the reading passage. b.     While-reading: Ss will read through the passage and answer the questions at the bottom for comprehension. Students will also be asked to identify and circle the examples of participles used as adjectives within the passage. c.      Post-reading: T will go over the reading passage with the students and ask them to read the passage out loud sentence by sentence making sure that each student has a chance to participate. T will make sure Ss identify each participle adjective. Evaluation: T will know Ss are able to correctly identify participles as adjectives if they are able to find them in the reading passage.
Assessment	Practice 6 will serve as an assessment to make sure that students are able to comprehend the reading passage and also understand the concept of participles as adjectives.
Anticipated Problems	The warm-up activity may not elicit the forms of adjectives that I am looking for. Students may be confused about how to use a participle as a verb vs. and adjective. Students may have trouble comprehending the reading passage. Students may have difficulties answering the questions at the end of the reading.