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Describing faces
A1/A2 level

Description

In this lesson students practice speaking skill while describing physical appearance of different people to improve their fluency. They also focus on some vocabulary to help them with the description.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of describing friend's faces

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide review, practice and clarification of face features words in the context of describing friends
  • To provide practice of possessive pronouns in the context of face description

Procedure

Lead-in and exposure (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students; to provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through listening

I start describing a student in the class(In the class we have a person whose hair is ... He is wearing....Who is it?) They guess the person. I elicit the word describe(What did I just do? Write the first letter if needed ). MFP for the word describe. Ask them to describe my clothes today.

Useful Language (12-15 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Show them two pictures of different faces. Ask them if they are similar or different(elicit the meaning of these words if needed by drawing two different and similar flowers on the board). They have to understand that the pictures are different. Ask them to describe the difference, but firstly provide an example(the hair is different - long and short, write it on the board: Her hair is ____). Give an instruction to find what else is different while working their partners. Make it competitive by asking who can find more differences.Check instructions(Will you work alone?What do you need to find? How many different things do you need to find?) FB: Ask the pairs to tell the differences. Write some of them on the board to show the form and use(She has curly hair but her hair is straight). Highlight some vocab like earrings, fringe, curly, straight, lips. Drill.

Productive Task(s) (10-12 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

I divide them into two teams and ask one person from each team to come to the board. Instruction "Each team gets one different picture. You don't show it to the person at the board. All together describe this picture to the person from your team, so he can draw it. The time is limited. When you finish, we will see whose picture looks more similar to the one you have". ICQs: Will you show the picture to THE person? Who will describe the picture?Will you do it quickly?Will you do it at the same time with the other team? Give them some time(4 min) to finish. Then, put the original pictures on the board. Ask them which one looks more similar to the original one.

Freer practice/Production (12-15 minutes) • To provide freer practice of speaking while using TL

Give each student one piece of paper and ask them write their name on it. Collect all of them back. Tell them to pick up any name from that pile but NOT show it to anyone.(ICQ: Can you tell or show the name to your friends?) Let them pick one up. Ask if they remember how I described the student at the beginning of the lesson. Now they have to do the same.Write the sample on the board.(Her hair is..Her eyes are...She is wearing.....today) Instruction: Think how to describe the person you have chosen, make some notes. After 3 minutes when everyone has finished, you tell it to your partners in the group and they guess the name.(ICQ: ) I monitor, write down the mistakes.

Feedback and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

After monitoring provide some wrong sentences they produced and correct them together. Give some examples of good sentences they had.

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