Ata Amini Ata Amini

personal qualities
A2 level

Description

This 40-minute lesson is designed for pre-intermediate English learners and focuses on personality adjectives for instance, kind, generous, and selfish. Through interactive format, students will learn, practice, and apply these adjectives in spoken and written contexts. This lesson begins with illustrating proportions of pictures related to different personalities of famous and infamous individuals to activate the prior knowledge of students as a warm up; followed by clear presentation of target vocabulary with visual examples and pronunciation drills. Learners then engage in collaborative activities, including matching and fill in the blank exercises. Ultimately, they personalize these adjectives describing their classmate or family members as freer practice.

Materials

Abc PowerPoint
Abc PowerPoint

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of personal qualities in the context of family and friends

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of family and friends

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Illustrating pictures of individuals to engage students so that they guess about personal qualities they have.

Exposure (3-5 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Students will be given a text which a person is talking about her family members describing their characteristic. This reading part may as well activate their prior knowledge and draw their attention to the target language.

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

Students categorize adjectives to positive and negative column. (e.g. is “lazy” positive? can it be both?) In this stage, I will write some adjectives on board so that they understand the meaning of them easier.

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Meaning: show the picture of personal qualities in order to teach adjectives, also teach them the antonyms and synonyms if is necessary. (CCQ will be used for being sure that they have understood the target language). For example, Does a lazy person want to work? or Do you laugh when someone is funny? Pronunciation: emphasize on the stress of adjectives by choral drills and repetition. Forms: write a sentence on board so that students learn the places of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

Controlled Practice (3-5 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Worksheet: students should fill in the blanks with appropriate given adjectives. (ICQ will be used in order to check if students have understood the task). For example, Are you going to do it with your friend? after they finish the task in pairs, the write answers will be depicted on TV so that they are able to check if they were right. It should be noted that during this task, the teacher is monitoring learners to give them confidence and answer their questions if is risen.

Semi-Controlled Practice (3-5 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

for this part we will have a game. I will throw a ball to may students randomly and ask them to make sentence with the adjectives which they have learned in the present session. For example, “make a sentence with funny”. Moreover, I will ask some of them to give the opposite of that word, for instance, “What is the opposite of lazy”

Free Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

In this stage, learners must write two or three sentences describing the personal qualities of one of their friends or family members. Firstly they should provide that individually, then they can check with their friends. Also they can see the exposure slide in order to get ideas for their writing.

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