Describing people lesson plan
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1. This document provides a lesson plan for teaching English level A2 students how to describe people using adjectives. 2. The 120 minute lesson includes warm up activities like singing a song about physical appearance. Students then practice categorizing adjectives and play memory games to learn vocabulary. 3. The main activities have students work in pairs to draw pictures based on descriptions and guess identities based on clues. This allows students to practice using both physical appearance and personality adjectives. 4. By the end of the lesson students will be able to describe photos of people using 50 words and both types of adjectives.
Describing people lesson plan
- 1. DESCRIBING PEOPLE L E V E L A 2 A D R I A N A M A R Í A R O D R Í G U E Z C R U Z
- 2. Objective: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: Describe people using adjectives -Describing someone’s personality. -Describing someone’s appearance. Time: 120 minutes Target Language: What’s he like? He seems friendly and outgoing. He’s serious and hardworking. What does he look like? He’s tall and has dark, curly hair. Materials: Computer, speakers, mp3 file of the song, teacher photo, vocabulary flashcards, pictures of famous people, whiteboard, color markers, Cardboard. LESSON PLAN Learning Rights: Describes people, activities, events and personal experiences orally using simple phrases and sentences previously rehearsed with his/her classmates and teacher. Grade: 7 English level: A2
- 3. 1. Warm Up (3 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxsWI8C30TE ESL Song - "She's Tall" Describing People I will perform a warm-up activity to engage my students, my students like music, I consider music is an extraordinary motivator for any class, so I'm going to play a song to get all the energy out of my students. Students will sing and dance the song with me. The song introduces vocabulary about the physical appearance of people.
- 4. 2. Activate student´s schemata (5 min) - I will show students my family photo and I will present to my students my family members. - I will ask students to say any words they know to describe people on the photo (The way that someone looks and characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving). - I´ll give some examples if needed: He is tall, He is serious, He is polite, He has short hair. She is young, she is funny, she is friendly. She has Brown eyes Baby girl is short, She is happy, she has black hair, She seems smart, shy, extrovert. - I´ll write student ideas on the board.
- 5. Memory game (20 min) How to play: Each player takes a turn by turning two cards over (word car and a picture card). If the cards match, then the player picks up the cards and keeps them. If they don't match, the player turns the cards back over. - I´ll have some new vocabulary. - I´ll explain that there are two kinds of adjectives for describing people, those that refer to appearance, and those that refer to personality. - I´ll ask students what is the difference between personality and appearance? - I´ll divide the board in two parts and I´ll ask students to separate the words into the two categories of personality and appearance. 3. Present the new vocabulary Appearance Personality black hair Tall, short, old young Pretty long, dark hair brown eyes curly hair Slim, fat has glasses short hair has a beard/ mustache Kind Smart funny hardworking quiet sweet intelligent friendly outgoing serious
- 6. Activity 1: Talking and Drawing (20 minutes) - Students will work in couples. l´ll give one student some pictures about famous people (student´s favorite singer, actor, footballer), and I´ll give the partner a blank sheet of paper. - The students with the pictures will describe the photos to their partner. And students with the blank papers will draw what they hear. Afterwards, students will compare the drawings and photographs and they can change roles. This can be very funny. 4. Practical Activities ( ) Anthony Stark has glasses and has a beard and a mustache. ( ) Shakira is a beautiful young woman with long curly hair. ( ) Bruno Mars has dark sunglasses. ( ) Neymar is a young man with short hair and black eyes. ( ) Doctor dulittle is a old man with curly hair and glasses. ( ) Infanta Sofía of Spain is a pretty girl with blond hair and blue eyes. ( ) The wonder Woman is tall and Slim woman with red earings ( ) Gloria Stuart is an old woman with glasses.
- 7. Activity 2: Guess who is? (20 minutes) I´ll lay out all of pictures on the floor. (Football players of Colombia) l´ll choose a picture and Start by saying "My friend has (short, brown) hair, he is (tall) and he has (green) eyes". Students will ask questions to try to figure out who the person is. Examples: Is it a man? Is he tall/ handsome/ kind? Does she have black hair? Does he seem intelligent? The student who guesses correctly get extra points.
- 8. Activity 3: Find someone who… (20 minutes) Students will ask one classmate one question and the answer is written in the box. After a mutual interview exchange, students can move on to find another classmate to speak with. When the chart is filled students share the information they collected. Finally, elicit any especially interesting information your learners may have discovered. Has a shy brother Is funny friend Is very serious Has a extrovert boyfriend/girlfriend Has a hardworking mother Is polite Is Smart in maths seems friendly and outgoing Seems quiet seems quiet.
- 9. Talking about photographs 1. Students will choose a photo which they have on their mobiles. In pairs students can talk about their own photographs using appearance and personality adjectives. 2. Students will make a poster with a picture and a short description (50 words) about their own photo. I will Monitor and feed in vocabulary as necessary. This lesson gives students the chance to talk about their photos and then write a description of a favorite photo. . 5. Production (30 min) Extension activity: Describe your Best friend or your classmate next to you. My Family photo Describing people: _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ _____________________________ ___________________.