Lesson Plan
Home Tutor Scheme Lesson Plan Topic: Describing People LESSON OUTCOMES - Describing People Describing Introduction 1. Warm up questions Appearance 2. Vocabulary Functions & 1. Structures for describing appearance Structures 2. Description Order 3. Modifiers: very, quite, really … Describing Introduction 1. Vocabulary Character Grammar 1. Adjective order Extension Grammar 1. Compound adjectives To give a description of a person, your student needs to understand the vocabulary to use, what details are important, and the order in which to give the details. Pictures are very useful to teach appearance vocabulary.
Phase 1: Describing Appearance
Warm-up Questions 1. Who’s your favourite movie star? 2. What does he/she look like? 3. How do you describe yourself? 4. Do you look like your brother/sister? 5. Who do you look like, your mum or your dad? Vocabulary 1. Take down the description words used in answers to Question 2 & 3. Ask your student to put them under the correct heading (see attachment 1 at the end). 2. Introduce more vocabulary using the pictures available from http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.htm Structures 1. Structures for describing appearance. What does he/she look like? --Age He/She is young / middle-aged / elderly / old. a baby/ toddler / teenager. in his/her 20s / 30s … in his/her early / late 20s. Height He/She is 165cm tall. of average / medium height. tall / very tall / rather tall. short. Build He/She is fat / overweight / plump /chubby skinny /thin / slim / plump. well-built. muscular.
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Hair/face Clothes Distinguishing Features 2. Description Order
He/She has (got) black, straight hair. a round / long / square face. He/She wears a hat / earrings. is in black. He/She wears glasses / contacts / braces. has (got) a tattoo / a piercing.
Study the descriptions in Vocabulary 3 and work out the order information is given. 1) General characteristics: age, height, build and gender. 2) Details
Phase 1: Describing Appearance
Warm-up Questions 1. Who’s your favourite movie star? 2. What does he/she look like? 3. How do you describe yourself? 4. Do you look like your brother/sister? 5. Who do you look like, your mum or your dad? Vocabulary 1. Take down the description words used in answers to Question 2 & 3. Ask your student to put them under the correct heading (see attachment 1 at the end). 2. Introduce more vocabulary using the pictures available from http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.htm Structures 1. Structures for describing appearance. What does he/she look like? --Age He/She is young / middle-aged / elderly / old. a baby/ toddler / teenager. in his/her 20s / 30s … in his/her early / late 20s. Height He/She is 165cm tall. of average / medium height. tall / very tall / rather tall. short. Build He/She is fat / overweight / plump /chubby skinny /thin / slim / plump. well-built. muscular.
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Hair/face Clothes Distinguishing Features 2. Description Order
He/She has (got) black, straight hair. a round / long / square face. He/She wears a hat / earrings. is in black. He/She wears glasses / contacts / braces. has (got) a tattoo / a piercing.
Study the descriptions in Vocabulary 3 and work out the order information is given. 1) General characteristics: age, height, build and gender. 2) Details