Lesson Plan: World Records

Lesson Level:       Junior                   Duration:  45

Lesson Title:     World records

Grammar and Vocabulary

 Use of superlative adjectives (biggest, most expensive etc).

Lesson Objectives

 Students will be able to demonstrate use of superlatives by creating sentences related to world records.  

(e.g. The tallest building in the world is…)

Materials Required

World Record Worksheet¹ 

Dialogue worksheet ²

Ball for ball toss activity

Preparation

 Prepare enough copies of the worksheet to give one per student.

Prepare two copies of the dialogue.

Procedure

1 Write lesson title on board - WORLD RECORDS

Write some adjectives on the board - tall, big, friendly, interesting

   Elicit from class the superlative form -tallest, biggest, friendliest, most interesting

    Write the correct forms on the board

 2 Choose a strong student to come and read with you.

Tell the class to make a note of any world record they hear.

Read the dialogue.

Elicit the records mentioned

Longest finger nails

Holding your breath

Fastest eating a pizza

Collecting bottle openers, cook books, train tickets, chocolate bar wrappers

3 Put students into groups.

Give out the worksheet

   Go through the example.

   Monitor and assist groups to create nine new sentences.

   

4 Use ball to select students to give an answer from the worksheet.

   Go through all answers.

   Write the answers on the board.

5. Extension task.

Tell groups they must think of a world record that each member of their group would like to try to break. Give time to groups to consider. Monitor and assist. Elicit feedback.

Notes

1. Worksheet.

The records on this sheet should be checked as still valid and pictures for each record added before printing for the lesson.

1	2	3
Man, Tall (Sultan Kosen)	Man, Short (Chandra Dangi)	Animal, Fast (Cheetah)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>
4	5	6
Person, Old (Gustav Gernath)	Woman, Fast (Carmelia Jeter)	Car, Expensive (Ferrari 250 GTO)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>
7	8	9
Bridge, Long (Hong Kong to Macau)	City, Populated (Shanghai)	Country, Small (Vatican City)
<picture>	<picture>	<picture>

Look at the pictures. For each picture make a sentence like this.

The ____________________________ in the world is ____________________________.

Animal, Big (The Blue Whale)

<picture>

1. 

Colin	I've been looking at the Guinness Book of World Records. There are some great facts about sport. I love the sporting records such as the fastest...
Don	Forget the sporting records. I like the funny ones. The records you would never think about.
Colin	What do you mean?
Don	Look at this one. This woman had the longest fingernails. They were 8.65 metres long altogether … that's nearly a metre for each nail.
Colin	That sounds awful. How could she do anything with nails that long?
Don	I don't know, it doesn't say. And here's another. How fast do you think you could eat a twelve inch pizza?
Colin	I don't know, maybe about ten minutes? Maybe a bit faster.
Don	How about forty one seconds? That's the record.
Colin	I don't think I could do that. Are there any easier ones?
Don	Can you hold your breath for a long time?
Colin	About a minute. What's the record?
Don	Twenty two minutes.
Colin	That's pretty unbelievable. I couldn't do anything like that. I need something easier.
Don	You could collect something. There are lots of records about the biggest collections.
Colin	What sort of things do they have records for?
Don	There's a man with more than thirty-three thousand bottle openers. There's a woman with about three thousand cook books. Someone has a hundred and sixty-three thousand train tickets. What would you like to collect?
Colin	Well I eat a lot of chocolate. I could collect the wrappers.
Don	A woman in Italy has 2,048 different wrappers, collected from all around the world.
Colin	Wow. That's a lot but I think if I try I can beat it. I'll start now. Would you like a candy bar? I'll buy two different ones. One for each of us. It can be the start of my collection.
Don	OK, I'll take a Snickers bar.