New lesson plan: Describing People

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Describing People - Pre-intermediate level

Describing People
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students learn to describe other people. Students are supposed to look at a picture and listen to the teacher how he describes it. Students will learn new adjectives to describe different looking people. Then students do an activity, where they have to use the new learned words. Then students will listen to a conversation about people with different looks.And then they will have to answer some questions accordingly. Finally the students will play a guessing game using 10 different photos of people, where they have got to interact with each other

Materials

printed out images, copied pages from the workbook global

printed out images, copied pages from the workbook global

Main Aims

To provide gist listening practice using a text about discussing photos in the context of describing people

Subsidiary Aims

To teach personal adjectives, to make them familiar with what and how questions

Procedure (48-58 minutes)

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

The Teacher will draw a friend on the board and describe him. Then, the Teacher will show a picture of a celebrity. He will ask how many of the students know her. Then the teacher will describe her. This is ...

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

The students are supposed to describe somebody to their partner. The partner has to guess who that might be. The students are allowed to use similar sentences that the teacher used and wrote down at the lead-in part.

Highlighting (5-5 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

The new words are shown to the students. They have some time to take a look at the words and divide them into words they know and do not know. Students are allowed to use dictionaries. Teacher introduces the new words. Teacher shows the pictures of the words and speaks them out loud. Students repeat after the teacher.

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

The teacher draws a rubric with different categories on the board. The students have to try to put the new learned words into those categories.

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Students are given 10 different photos. They will listen to a conversation and will have to choose the correct photo according to the conversation.

Semi-Controlled Practice (8-8 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

Students will listen to the same conversations again. This time they will have to decide which question belongs to which conversation.

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

Students are supposed to work with each other. Students have to choose one of the photos and describe it with their partners. They will have to try to guess the correct photo and then swap roles and repeat.