TP5 LP - Kyle Daniels
Elementary A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide speaking practice in the form of descriptors of people both physcial and embodied.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of vocaburay useful for describing people.
Procedure (37-46 minutes)
I will introduce them to today's topic which is describing people's characteristics. I will then have them describe a photo of a man I have selected. I will elicit the students to describe his face, his hair, his clothing, and how they think is personality might be.
Playing off of a different image of the same man, I will model for the students how to speak about / describe characteristics of a person. This will be a fill in the blank exercise, conducted as a class. Harvey is _______ (age). Harvey has ________ hair. Harvey wears a ________ ________. (color, style of clothing) Harvey seems like a _______. person. (description of attitude) They will have a word bank to fill in the blanks. OLD, YOUNG, BLACK, GREY, SUIT, T SHIRT, MEAN, FUNNY
I will conduct a similar exercise for the students to perform using an image of a woman, along with a list of vocabulary to help the students talk about the woman. VOCABULARY: YOUNG MIDDLE-AGED OLD TALL SHORT THIN SLIM FAT OVERWEIGHT BEAUTIFUL GOOD-LOOKING ATTRACTIVE WHITE BLACK BROWN BLUE / BROWN / GREEN EYES LONG / SHORT HAIR DARK / FAIR / BLONDE / GREY HAIR A BEARD, A MUSTACHE DOCTOR, SOCCER PLAYER, SCIENTIST, PROFESSOR, CARPENTER, BUS DRIVER, SINGER They will be introduced to the woman and the vocabulary on a slide. They will answer a series of fill in the blank exercises in a google form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_wm-vRZx4raR5VO-5k0biQpkGLo1-iodmf6T-hcv3Mx2Irg/viewform MFPA Alice is ______. Alice has ______ hair. Alice is a ______. Meaning: This tells you that the subject (a person) posses a certain quality or characteristic. Form: subject + is + adjective. subject + has + adjective + noun. Subject + is a + noun. Pronunciation: Alice is tall. Alice has dark hair. We will go over their answers in open class feedback.
I will perform the ask again two more times with different images. The first time will be using the sentence form as the prior, only with a different character. They must choose the characteristic on the google form. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnmsQdD3NWFQ4BIPkH6ptf7RXxBXxKZGpfSOclTLuczqvIug/viewform The second time will use a new character. This time, the characteristic is set for them, they must select: is, has, or have to complete the sentence. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesxZeR91hTGXEGFOrdUhpxbe4dXr_3oOksLp9F-6GUyMmmLg/viewform I will conduct open class feedback after each activity.
I will conduct delayed error correction during this time for the activities they completed. If there is extra time, there is a bonus person for the students to describe.