Introducing Irregular Adjectives

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Introducing Irregular Adjectives

David Lisgo

Introducing Irregular Adjectives

Hi,

I was ask why I included "good" in my adjective cards which focussed on ďż˝-er ďż˝ and ďż˝est ďż˝ as it would obviously be changed to ďż˝gooder ďż˝ and ďż˝goodest ďż˝ by young beginners. Well, native speakers do use these words but it ďż˝s in word-play and not recommended for ESL speakers, though we do use the term ďż˝do-gooder ďż˝ and we all know that "goodest" is almost as good as ďż˝bestest ďż˝ Emoticons

. I deliberately included "good" so that when a child uses "gooder" or "goodest" then we can use this as a teaching opportunity to introduce one of the irregular adjectives. Sometimes students will suspect something is wrong with "gooder" or "goodest" because teachers may often use the words ďż˝better ďż˝ and ďż˝best ďż˝ when speaking to their students even though the students don ďż˝t understand the words. In retrospect I think I should have included ďż˝bad ďż˝ also.

How do you first introduce irregular adjectives?

17 Jul 2009

Silvy_E

Hi David:

I just introduce them as "BE CAREFUL ďż˝ words. I have a ladybug toy , so each time it ďż˝s "flying", it means there is something "different ďż˝ students should pay attention to. It works for me.

Don ďż˝t know if I answered your ?

Bye now,

Silvy

17 Jul 2009

anitarobi

I call them special traps - kids like playing games with traps, which everybody thinks they can ďż˝t get over and then when they do they feel great. I start with the alphabet - when we come to ďż˝h ďż˝ or ďż˝y ďż˝ those are super special traps - I tell them that the people who invented English set these traps as some kind of a special code, and who passes those traps, earns the right to speak English (sth like that). They love it, and, naturally, learn to overcome the traps very quickly. When we come to irregular spelling, verbs or sth like that, they just wink at me and say "Another trap, ha?" One of my sts calls them mines, because he likes to play minesweeper.

17 Jul 2009