Writing Lesson
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide product writing practice of a paragraph in the context of describing people
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide vocabulary of physical appearance in the context of describing people
Procedure (41-58 minutes)
T will project multiple people with different physical appearances with certain vocabulary to match them. The words and the pictures will be in different places and T will ask students to match these vocabularies to their pictures in pairs. W/C check and F/B The words that will be included are: - curly - pony tail - slim - grey - casual clothes - smart clothes
T will do activity 1 with students, they will write the names of the people that fit the best for the questions provided. Ss will complete this activity individually and T will monitor them while doing so. "Who has got grey hair?" (Pedro) and etc.
T will present activity 2 to students and ask students to analyze the words and make drawbacks to activity 1. After checking the answer, T briefly mentions the difference between is // have/has got by asking the difference between two sentences. - She **is** 'holding a book' - She **has got** 'brown hair'.
Ss will read the description seen in acitivty 3. T will ask students to analyze the writing and figure out who the writing is talking about individually.
T asks students to write a description of another person in the classroom in one paragraph. The paragraph in question has to include these criterias. - age - hair lenght/color, eye color - clothes - what they are doing at the moment - their personality
T will ask Ss to read out their paragraphs one at a time, and ask the class on who they think the person they have described is. Depending on the time, T either asks all Ss to read their paragraphs out, or asks 2-3 students to do so.
While Ss are reading their writings out, T will make notes of the common mistakes that they have made and will write them on the board in a paraphrased context which still has the same kind of mistake. T then will underline the wrong part of the sentence and ask other Ss to fix the mistake.