Describing yourself!Listening: Listen the following conversation of people trying look at the pictures, who do you think is each person talking about?

A B

Conversation 1: ________________________

Conversation 2: ________________________

Conversation 3: ________________________

The following board is showing a set of of the body, take a look and try to match them with the

Hair SkinCurly PaleBald WhiteStraight DarkBlonde Tanned

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Describing yourself!Listening: Listen the following conversation of people trying to locate someone and

who do you think is each person talking about?

A B C

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The following board is showing a set of appearances that can go with a specific part of the body, take a look and try to match them with the corresponding

Body FaceFat PrettySkinny NarrowSlim OvalMuscular Round

o locate someone and who do you think is each person talking about?

that can go with a specific part corresponding picture.

PrettyNarrow

Round

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Hair _____________________________

Skin _____________________________

Body _____________________________

Face _____________________________

Hair _____________________________

Skin _____________________________

Body _____________________________

Face _____________________________

Hair _____________________________

Skin _____________________________

Body _____________________________

Face _____________________________

Hair _____________________________

Skin _____________________________

Body _____________________________

Face _____________________________

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Look at the pictures of the following people and make a short description of them, number one is already made as an example.

1

Andrea:

Hi, my name is Andrea, I’m 14 years old, I have long blonde hair , White skin and blue eyes, I am tall and Slim and I have an Athletic body and a narrow face.

2

Joshua:

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3

Marina:

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Working on your own!

Make a short description of yourself considering everything you have seen so far and share your descriptions with a partner.

Name: _______________________________________

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Lesson plan.Time Stage Stage Aim Methodology Grouping8:00 – 8:10 Greetings.

Introduce lesson.Warming up

Warm up activity to introduce adjectives to students

Write adjectives on the board in orderto understand and recognize them.

Whole class.

8:10- 8:20 Listening activity Recognizeadjectives and way to describe people in a daily life conversation.

Listening to a conversation where people are describing another people and match those conversations to the corresponding picture of the person.

Whole class.

8:20 – 8:40 Matching Recognizeadjectives that goes with specific parts of the body ( Hair, body, face , Skin)

The students are given a table with several adjectives from specific parts of the body and match them to the corresponding person in the picture, each one with one specific adjective of each one of the parts of the body.

Whole class

8:40 - 9:00 Describing people Use adjectives to describe other people.

The students are given 2 pictures in which they have to briefly describeeach person.

Whole class

9:00 – 9:20 Describing yourself Use adjectives to describe themselves.

Students are ask to produce languagein making a short description of themselves and then share it with a partner.

Whole class

9:20 – 9:30 Summary - closing Closing the lesson Make a brief summary of the lesson and call it for today.

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Personal comments:

About the lesson:

From the beginning of the lesson students are given input in context about how to describe someone, this input is taken out from situation that could happen or happen in our daily life.

This input is comprehensible enough for students to understand it and assimilate it since students only learn English when they understand what they are hearing or reading (input).

Across the many activities created in this project, students are also given several pictures in order to establish form-meaning connections and make the understanding even more achievable.

Goals and objectives:

The main goal of this lesson is that students can make the correct form-meaning connections between the adjectives and the meanings, and also make them capable of using this knowledge in context to describe people and themselves.

Personal commentary:

Personally I have realized that making this for-meaning connection in activities is the best way to not only learn but also teach language, not only English, since all languages are entire systems that are so different one from another, that only understanding leads to acquisition, personally I think that every language teacher should use this types of activities and not only focus on teaching grammar, rules, vocabulary, but make language understandable and easy to learn.

Activity keysListening: Listen the following conversation of people trying to locate someone and look at the pictures, who do you think is each person talking about?

A B C

Conversation 1 ________________________

Conversation 2: ________

Conversation 3: ________________________

Listening

The following board is showing a set of of the body, take a look and try to match them with the

Hair SkinCurly PaleBald WhiteStraight DarkBlonde Tanned

2

Listening: Listen the following conversation of people trying to locate someone and look at the pictures, who do you think is each person talking about?

A B C

________________________

Conversation 2: ________________________

Conversation 3: ________________________

The following board is showing a set of appearances that can go with a specific part of the body, take a look and try to match them with the corresponding

Body FaceFat PrettySkinny NarrowSlim OvalMuscular Round

Listening: Listen the following conversation of people trying to locate someone and

that can go with a specific part corresponding picture.

PrettyNarrow

Round

Hair Curly Hair

Skin Pale Skin

Body Fat Body

Face Round Face

Hair Bald

Skin White skin

Body Muscular body

Face Narrow face

Hair Straight hair

Skin Tanned skin

Body Slim body

Face Pretty face

Hair Blonde hair

Skin Dark skin

Body Skinny body

Face Oval face

2

Look at the pictures of the following people and make a short description of them, number one is already made as an example.

1

Andrea:

Hi, my name is Andrea, hair , White skin and blue eyes, I am tall and Slim and I have an athletic body and a narrow face.

2

Joshua

Hello, my name is Joshua, I am 21 years old, I have very short blond hair and pale skin, I also have blue eyes and muscular body.

3

Marina

Hi, my name is marina, I am 12 years old, I am very short and skinny, I have dark brown eyes ahair.

3 Look at the pictures of the following people and make a short description of them, number one is already made as an example.

Andrea:

Hi, my name is Andrea, I’m 14 years old, I have long blonde hair , White skin and blue eyes, I am tall and Slim and I have an athletic body and a narrow face.

Joshua (21 years old):

Hello, my name is Joshua, I am 21 years old, I have very short blond hair and pale skin, I also have blue eyes and muscular body.

Marina (12 years old):

Hi, my name is marina, I am 12 years old, I am very short and skinny, I have dark brown eyes and short curly black hair.

Look at the pictures of the following people and make a short description of

14 years old, I have long blonde hair , White skin and blue eyes, I am tall and Slim and I have

Hello, my name is Joshua, I am 21 years old, I have very short blond hair and pale skin, I also have blue eyes and a

Hi, my name is marina, I am 12 years old, I am very short nd short curly black

3

Working on your own!

Make a short description of yourself considering everything you have seen so far and share your descriptions with a partner.

Name: _______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________

Since this is an activity that requires personal information there Is no specific key to it.

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Listening (text format):

Speaker 1 : Excuse me. I am looking for Jane Smith, I am pretty sure he is on this class, do you know her?

Speaker 2 : Oh I’m sorry, I don’t know her.

Speaker 1 : Oh well…

Speaker 2 : But how does she looks like?, maybe I’ve seen her.

Speaker 1 : Well, she is a very tall girl that has short Brown hair and Green eyes and tanned skin.

Speaker 2 : I think I’ve seen a girl like that in the library , why don’t you take a look?

Speaker 1 : Oh thanks I will!. Picture A

Speaker 3: Hey. Do you know John Hanson?

Speaker 4: Who?

Speaker 3: John Hanson, a very tall guy with White skin and big blue eyes.

Speaker 4: Oh I think he is inside…

Speaker 3: Really?, He is my cousin can you please tell him that Carl is waiting for him here outside?

Speaker 4: Yeah sure.

Speaker 3: Thanks a Lot!. Picture C

Speaker 5: Vicky!.....Vicky!!....come here hurry up!

Speaker 6: Yes Dr. Harris.

Speaker 5: Vicky, I need you to go and bring out Dr kevins right now.

Speaker 6 : But I don’t even know how she looks like.

Speaker 5 : She is a Slim woman with dark skin, curly black hair, she is also very tall, you won’t have any problems finding her, now please go.

Speaker 6: Yes Doctor. Picture B