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Lesson Plan 4

Level: Elementary Length: 90 minutes Topic: Describing people

Objectives: Lexis- Adjectives to describe personality

Grammar- Comparatives and superlativesLanguage skills- Reading and speaking

Activity Description Time

Warmer:

Personalitycircle

Students walk around in a circle.

Teacher shouts different emotions and students act as though theyare feeling that emotion.

Eg. Teacher shouts happy and students walk in a circle as

though they are happy.

10 mins

Lexis

presentation

Present lexical set using gestures and stories.

Concept check using pictures.Drill vocabulary individually and chorally.

Create a board record- mark stress on difficult words.

15 mins

Controlled

practice 1:Personality

and

character

crossword

Students work in pairs.

Each pair is given the crossword to complete.Feedback to check answers are correct.

7 mins

Controlled

practice 2:Matching

and

mingling

Class is split in half.

Half of the class is given a flashcard with a character descriptionof a person with the name blanked out. Eg. _____ is a quiet

Half the class is given a flashcard with a name and an emotion

(taken from lexical set). Eg. Bob is shy.Students mingle and ask each other questions in order to match

the two corresponding flashcards.

Feedback to check understanding and that answers are correct.

13 mins

Reading Prediction: teacher shows students the pictures used in the reading

activity.

Students are to predict the context of their reading.

Comprehension: students work individually to complete exercise1.Students check their answers in pairs and then as a class.

Specific detail: students work individually to complete exercise 2.Students check their answers in pairs and then as a class.

Follow-on: students work individually to complete exercise 3.

20 mins

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Teacher monitors answering any questions and helping with

problems that arise.

Speaking

activity:Ball-

throwinggame

Students and teacher stand in a circle.

Teacher says an adjective from the lexical set (Lessons 3 and 4).Teacher then throws the ball to another student who says the

corresponding comparative. Student then throws the ball toanother student who says the corresponding superlative. Studentthen throws to another student who says a new adjective.

If a student drops the ball or can not say the correct word within a

short time limit the student must play on one knee, then two knees

until he or she says a correct answer.

Nb. Teacher judges the ability of class as to whether they can

think of their own adjectives or if the ball has to be thrown backto the teacher after every superlative.

10 mins

Fluency

activity

Students pick a flashcard from a hat with the name of a target

adjective (from Lesson 4) written on it.Students work in pairs and discuss when and why they felt

confident/lazy/shy etc.Class feedback- open pairs activity to model answers and

vocabulary usage.

10 mins

Homework Teacher explains exercise 2 on the worksheet. 5 mins