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vegetable
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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:57 am Post subject: Teaching Superlatives |
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| What are some good exercises for teaching high level students superlatives for a conversation class? |
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katydid
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:12 am Post subject: Re: Teaching Superlatives |
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| vegetable wrote: |
| What are some good exercises for teaching high level students superlatives for a conversation class? |
If their conversation is good, you could certainly work with things they like, (good, better, best) and also maybe incorporate trivia into it, have them do some research or give the info already, but have them talk about out of three famous mountains, which is the tallest, which ocean is the deepest...hell, you can talk about people: pretty, prettier, prettiest...or ugly uglier, ugliest.
Visuals will really work here of course, so you might also want to bring in a lot of props, pencils of different lengths...but intuition is telling me if their conversation is good, and they are maybe middle school/high school/adult students, getting into a pop culture debate might be the most interesting way to go. |
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Arthur Fonzerelli
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| superlatives and comparatives are about the more easier thing to teach.... |
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katydid
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Arthur Fonzerelli wrote: |
| superlatives and comparatives are about the more easier thing to teach.... |
Superlatives are the easiest by far 
By the way...More easier??? 
(not a member of the grammar/spelling police, just thought it was funny you said that.) |
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Arthur Fonzerelli
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| katydid wrote: |
| Arthur Fonzerelli wrote: |
| superlatives and comparatives are about the more easier thing to teach.... |
Superlatives are the easiest by far
By the way...More easier???
(not a member of the grammar/spelling police, just thought it was funny you said that.) |
Stop making fun of me ... I am smartest than you....I'm going to get most angry if you don't stop making fun of my english ability.... |
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vegetable
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:55 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Katydid,
The hardest part I guess is getting them to learn when to use an "est" ending or "most" before a verb. |
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vegetable
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Katydid,
The hardest part I guess is getting them to learn when to use an "est" ending or "most" before THE WORD.
Sorry about that one.
The Fonz made me do it. |
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vdowd
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 4:58 pm Post subject: superlatives |
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Hi, there is a rule to teaching when to use most and est. It goes like this - if the word has more than 3 syllables, then use most. Ex: easily (3 syllables) therefore more easily than, the most easily done; expensive (3 syllabes) more expensive, the most expensive; if less than 3 syllables, then it usually has -est added. Ex. darker than, the darkest one. Of course, in English, there are always an exception and your students are sure to find it. Hope that helps.
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Just the smallest quibble with the above post :
The rule is that if the word has three syllables or more then we use the words "more" or most. This is clear enough from the two examples given, which were pointed out to have exactly three syllables, of course ... sorry, but if we're going to use the rules we may as well use the correct ones.
Just pointing this out for the benefit of any 2nd language English speakers who are reading this ... |
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Clutch Cargo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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Most indubitably  |
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waggo
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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Message to Vdowd
Isnt "easily" an adverb?
Can you use superlatives and comparatives with adverbs? |
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waterbaby
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Fun is one of those annoying irregular words, not 3 syllables or more but uses most and more. |
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William Beckerson
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I just drawrs me some pictures on the board. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:46 am Post subject: |
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A great big blue book for solving these teaching-of-grammer problems with exercises and all around grammer knowledge is:
Understanding and Using English Grammar
Betty Schrampfer Azar
ISBN 0-13-958661-X
Prentice Hall Regents
You can order it through Amazon or
you can find her very excellent grammar books at
Kyobo or Bandi and Luney's at COEX in Seoul |
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waggo
Joined: 18 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:34 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry Vdowed ...you were right...i checked myelf |
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