DETECTIVES Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 195
THE DETECTIVES - TEACHER’S GUIDE - Unit 4
Say:
Now let’s look at the superlative form of adjectives.
When we want to compare more than two things or people, we use a different form.
For example, I am the oldest person in this classroom.
Who is older than me? No one.
So I am the oldest.
How did we do this? We start with ‘the’ and then add ‘est’ to the adjective.
So we get ‘the oldest’.
Let’s look at a few more examples. (Read the first example in the book.)
Which desk is the cleanest? This one. That means all the others are clean but not as clean as
this one.
What happens if we have a long adjective, with more than TWO syllables?
We add ‘the most’ or ‘the least’.
So we get: This book is the most interesting.
What does this mean? That the other books are interesting, but this book is more
interesting than all the others.
Let’s look at a few more examples.
Find the tallest student in class and say:
X is the tallest kid in our class.
Let’s look at the sentences I put on the board before.
I’m going to add information and then we’ll see who is the most or the least something.
Add:
o Mary is 12 years old.
o Sally is 13 years old.
o Betty is 11 years old.
o The blue bag costs 15 shekels.
o The green bag costs 22 shekels.
o The brown bag costs 50 shekels.
o Table A is 2 meters high.
o Table B is 2.5 meters high.
o Table C is 1 meter high.
Have the students write sentences using the superlative form.
Possible answers:
Betty is the youngest girl.
Sally is the oldest girl.
The blue bag is the least expensive bag.
The brown bag is the most expensive bag.
Table C is the shortest table.
Table B is the highest table.
Say:
We have spelling rules for how to add the ‘er’ or the ‘est’ to the adjectives.
Let’s look at the chart.
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