Link to the Adjectives resource is here for your lesson planning :
Adjective Flashcards: I made a big collection of adjective
flashcards. It wasn´t easy to classify them. I made 101 flashcards. There are adjectives for people, things, feelings,
size, time, weather, origin, quantity, taste, appearance, condition and
more. You might be using them according
to your scope and sequence of your book series or for writing lessons.
Improve listening skills with this flashcard activity. Show
students the flashcards.
Teacher: Look at the girl. She is
wearing a dress. It is big. Continue with shoes and suit.
Then
compare the flashcards related to the tie, dress and skirt.
Activity 1 : describe a flashcard only using an adjective.
The children point to it and guess which one is it.
Teacher:
long and big.
Students:
purple dress.
Activity 2: Write
several adjectives on the board. Have the students place the flashcards under
each adjective. Graph the results. You can do this by using pictures from
magazines.
For extra practice. Students can classify clothes from magazines and make new adjectives + clothes words combinations.
Up and down:
Have your
students stand up and sit down as you show the flashcards or arrow cutouts.
You can
also give instructions using their hands.
Teacher: Hands up !
Teacher: Hands down !
Teacher: Boys, Hands up. Girls,
Hands down.
Then
introduce left and right.
Teacher: Hands to the right!
Teacher: Hands to the left!
Activity 3: Bring 4 students to the front and
give each one an instruction.
Teacher: Student 1, hand to the
left. Student 2, hand to the right. Student 3, hands up. Student 4, hand down.
Activity 4: Place all the arrows in a row on
the board and have the students stand under the arrow that has the instruction
given by you.
Activity 5: Make a pattern. Ask 4 students to
come to the front. Give each one a
command.
Point to
student 1: hands up. Point to student
2: hands down. Point to student 3: hands up. Point to student 4: hands down.
Touch each
students head and have the class say the command.
Create more
patterns with hands to the left and hands to the right.
Play beanbag game. Make 2 beanbags.
Place all the flashcards on the floor in random order and have students take
turns throwing the 2 beanbags to the opposite adjectives
Open and close: use the children´s book. Have
them open and close the book as you say it. Go to the
door and/or window of the classroom. Open and close them.
Dirty and clean:
Show the flashcard.
Teacher: Who´s he ?
Students: a boy.
Teacher: Is he clean ?
Students: No. He is dirty.
Flashcard Game: hand in a flashcard to each
student. Have them stand in a circle or
two lines facing each other. When you give them a signal, they walk around
looking for their opposite and stand together. When you signal to stop, the
winners are the students that have stood together correctly. Mix the flashcards again and play one more
time.
Picture
dictation: Children listen and draw what you
say. This is
John. He is tall. He is fat. He is young . He is strong. He has brown hair.
I made a set of 26 face cards. I included all the combination
of hair and eye color, curly and straight, long and short hair, young and old.
Have students describe each one using the physical appearance adjectives.
There´s a number and a name on each one for identifying games purpose.
Another set of 48 cards displaying people.
Activity 6: write all the hair
color on the board and have students classify the cards.
You can also classify the cards by tall, short, fat, thin.
I included some adjective label words. Place a people flashcard on the
board and have the students find the correct labels. They can work with this on
their tables.
Finally,
place all 48 cards on the board and describe a person. This is a good listening
and speaking activity.
Teacher: She is tall and thin. She
has short blond hair.
Students: Number 28. She is Pam.
Teacher: Number 10. He is
Students: He is tall and thin. He
has long black hair.
Now , Using the same
character, Mr. Big Nose. I created another book using adjectives.
I love craft sticks puppets even for the older kids. This is a
classification game.
I cut the
toilet paper tubes in half and taped a classification word. I cut all the pictures and glued each one on
a craft stick and also glued the word. But, you can glue only the picture and
have the students find the word. Use the puppets in games such as finding the opposite.
