Fernando'S Gift Lesson Plan Template Page 9
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19Lesson 2: Comparing Fernando’s family and yours: Age and responsibility
Purpose: Identifying the members of Fernando’s family, comparing Fernando’s family to
students’ families, thinking about chores
Objectives:
Students will be able to describe their family and the responsibilities each family member has.
Students will be able to use comparatives and ordinal numbers.
Materials needed from the Kit
Book, Fernando’s Gift
Materials in the Environment
Paper for each student
Chalkboard and chalk
Procedure
1. Teacher tells students the class is going to focus on the family which Fernando belongs
to. Teacher makes a chart on the board with three column headings: 1) type of family
member (e.g., father, mother); 2) age, and 3) responsibilities. Teacher passes out paper to
each student and asks students to make the same three column headers on their paper.
Then teacher asks students to work with a partner to think of all the kinds of family
members they can (as a “brainstorm”) and to write these words on their piece of paper in
the first column. Typical family members would be mother, father, sister, brother,
grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin. Additional members might
include stepmother, stepfather, great-grandparents, etc.
2. Pairs of students report to the whole class what they found and teacher writes these
family vocabulary words on the board. Teacher re-reads the story aloud to the students
and asks students to raise their hands when one of Fernando’s family members is
mentioned. Teacher writes the name of that character on the board next to the vocabulary
word for the family member.
3. Teacher asks students to write down on their paper all the names of their own family
members and their ages (if known), and to label them using the family vocabulary terms.
Teacher asks students to share their paper with their partner and then with another pair
sitting near them.
4. To teach the comparative forms (older/middle/younger, oldest/youngest) and the ordinal
numbers, teacher asks students to answer these questions using the information they have
written on their papers:
ƒ Who is the oldest member of your family?
ƒ Who is the youngest?
ƒ Who is the middle?
ƒ Who is first, second, third, etc., among the siblings?
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