Describing people
Overview
This lesson focuses on the use of the verb to be and have got in the context of describing people. Familiarising students with these common verb forms will enhance their ability to accurately relate characteristics and physical appearances.
We start the lesson with a few warm-up activities that serve as a revision of the previously covered material in the course. We have provided notes on suggested boardwork that compares the usage of be and have got in when describing people. The lesson includes several low-resource ESL classroom activities where the students describe family members to their classmates. We also offer a suggestion for a homework task, and as usual, we wrap up the class with a fun classroom game.
Lesson Outline
Warmers
Verb drills: To be and have got
Have the students perform the verb drills they have learned so far.
Homework review
The students read their celebrity descriptions to the class, and their classmates have to guess who it is.
Classroom activities
Use of the board
Review how the verb to be and have got can be used to describe people.
Meet the Potato Heads
The students have to make descriptive sentences about a family of fictional characters.
My family
The students will now create their own family tree.
Who is this?
The students will describe different family members to their partners.
Suggested homework
The students have to write about a famous family.
Classroom games
Who am I?
The teacher describes famous people to the students using the target language of the lesson.
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