Grade 7 Lesson 6D-2

Grade 7 Lesson 6D-2

Learning objectives

• By the end of the lesson, learners will be able to ...

• Listen to a radio program about how a city is developing parks and green spaces, and listen for key detail to identify the benefits parks and trees have for a community.

• Read a website about the benefits trees and parks bring to a city and complete sentences by choosing the correct form of comparative and superlative adjectives.

Key vocabulary / expressions

Key vocabulary: parks, green spaces, reduce, air quality, benefts, heat, pollution

Key expressions/structure: comparative and superlative adjectives, specifcally longer adjectives requiring more/less and most/least in the beginning.

Starter

Multiple Choice

Black parts of roads make the air

• hotter

• colder

Multiple Choice

Air pollution can make people

• healthier

• less healthy

Multiple Choice

The _________ thing parks can do for our city is to become the center of the community

• least important

• most important

Multiple Choice

Our ________ park will have places for people to have picnics.

• oldest

• newest

Long adjectives, like important, need either more/less or most/least to from the comparative and superlative forms.

Open Ended

Brainstorm a list of common long and short adjectives

Multiple Choice

This is the ________ park in the city! It has a great path to bike on.

• better

• best

Multiple Choice

I think today is _________ than yesterday.

• hotter

• hottest

Multiple Choice

The salad is the _______ thing on the menu.

• healthier

• healthiest

Multiple Choice

This television show is ____________ than your homework.

• less important

• least important

Multiple Choice

This is the _______version of the phone, it has so many interesting games.

• newer

• newest

Multiple Choice

I have been exercising a lot in the new park, this is the __________ I have ever been!

• stronger

• strongest

Open Ended

Can you think of three other reasons why trees are important for cities?