Describing people
Overview
This beginner-level ESL lesson is designed to help students learn how to better describe a person's appearance, focusing on the verbs be and have. The aim is to give students the skills to communicate detailed descriptions, enriching their vocabulary and conversational abilities.
The lesson starts with a boardwork suggestion where the students describe characters drawn on the board. Next, they will participate in a series of low-resource activities, including speaking and writing tasks. These will provide practical application of the target language. We end the session with a fun classroom game that serves to reinforce the lesson's key concepts.
Lesson Outline
Classroom activities
Use of the board
The students help the teacher to form sentences that describe characters on the board.
The sample board below acts as a warm-up or lead-in activity for the target language in this lesson. Start off by adding both verbs and eliciting the adjectives associated with each. After that, draw some characters on the board and elicit sentences that describe them.
Describe the teacher
The class will help you to write a description of yourself.
Describing myself
Students have to write a description of themselves.
My partner
The students have to swap books and describe their partner.
Meet the family
Each student describes a famous person or well-known fictional character while their classmates attempt to guess who it is.
Classroom games
Hot seat: Describing people
Students have to describe another classmate to their partner.
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