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Lesson Plan 4

|Level: Elementary Length: 90 minutes Topic: Describing people |

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|Objectives: Lexis- Adjectives to describe personality |

|Grammar- Comparatives and superlatives |

|Language skills- Reading and speaking |

|Activity |Description |Time |

|Warmer: Personality |Students walk around in a circle. |10 mins |

|circle |Teacher shouts different emotions and students act as though they are feeling that emotion. | |

| |Eg. Teacher shouts ‘happy’ and students walk in a circle as though they are happy. | |

|Lexis presentation |Present lexical set using gestures and stories. |15 mins |

| |Concept check using pictures. | |

| |Drill vocabulary individually and chorally. | |

| |Create a board record- mark stress on difficult words. | |

|Controlled practice |Students work in pairs. |7 mins |

|1: Personality and |Each pair is given the crossword to complete. | |

|character crossword |Feedback to check answers are correct. | |

|Controlled practice |Class is split in half. |13 mins |

|2: Matching and |Half of the class is given a flashcard with a character description of a person with the name | |

|mingling |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. | |

|Reading |Prediction: teacher shows students the pictures used in the reading activity. |20 mins |

| |Students are to predict the context of their reading. | |

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| |Comprehension: students work individually to complete exercise 1. | |

| |Students check their answers in pairs and then as a class. | |

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| |Specific detail: students work individually to complete exercise 2. | |

| |Students check their answers in pairs and then as a class. | |

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

| |Teacher monitors answering any questions and helping with problems that arise. | |

|Speaking activity: |Students and teacher stand in a circle. |10 mins |

|Ball-throwing game |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 to another student who says the corresponding superlative. Student then | |

| |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. | |

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| |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 back to the teacher after every superlative. | |

|Fluency activity |Students pick a flashcard from a hat with the name of a target adjective (from Lesson 4) |10 mins |

| |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. | |

|Homework |Teacher explains exercise 2 on the worksheet. |5 mins |

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