Speaking Lesson Plan

What does he look like?

Instructor: Gina Lee	Level: intermediate	students: 10	Length: 50 minutes

Materials

- White board, board markers

- 1 character picture for brainstorming

- some character pictures for role play

- 10 copies of the worksheet ' Family '

Aims

- To become familiar with and practice common expressions used when you describing people' appearances.

- To practice and improving speaking, listening, discourse and cooperation skills through peer interaction during brainstorming, impormation gap, problem-solving discussion, and role play tasks.

Language Skills

- Speaking : brainstorming, information gap, discussion, role play

- Listening : information gap, discussion, role play

- Reading : board, worksheet,

- Writing : solving the worksheet

Language System

- Lexis : adverbs used in describing people's appearance

- Discourse : through the discussion and role play

- Grammar : sentences using adverbs  ( He is slim/ she has brown hair)

Assumptions

Students can express their ideas and opinions in english

The class will be divided into groups of 2 for the worksheet

Students are familiar with doing activities  in groups

Anticipated Errors and Solutions

- If students have difficulties doing worksheet

-> help them

- If there is not enough time for all Ss to sharing opinions

-> Ask 2-3 teams to volunteer or pick 2-3 teams

- If there is extra time

-> Have Ss create their own sentences

References

- Talk Talk

Pre-task
Materials: brainstorming, Board & Markers
Time 10min	set up Whole Class	Procedure: (Greet students) Hello everyone, how's it going? I bet you guys are great today. (Brainstorming- Elicit from Ss) (show the pictures of characters) Look at te picture. what comes to mind? (write all Ss idias on the board) (Introduce the topic) Today we're going to talk about people's appearances. Before starting the task, let's check some new vocabularies. (Vocabulary) (write down 'in his early twenties', in his mid-twenties, and in his late twenties) Do you know what do they mean? (Elicit from Ss and then explain them) Ok, We will do a role play activity today.

Task-Preparation
Materials: Board, Role play pictures
Time 15 min	Set up Group	Procedure: (divide Ss into five groups of 2) I have some pictures here. Each pictures have different appearances. One person ask to other person who has the pictures about the person in the pictures and write down the appearances for 10 minutes. CCQ what do you do? How mush time do you have? (distribute the character pictures to the Ss) (Monitor Ss while they are interviewing) Time's up. ok, group 1 Could you tell me what do they look like? (ask the same question to other groups) very good! let's move on.

Task Realization
Materials: worksheet, Board
Time 20 min	Set Up Whole Class	Procedure: (distribute the worksheets to Ss) now you have a worksheet. Everyone asks about family members to each students Write their relationships on the top and their appearances below. You have 15 minutes. CCQ What are you doing? How long do you get? What do you write in the worksheet? Do it now. (Students discuss and fill out the worksheet. Teacher monitors._ Time's up. Did you fill the worksheet? Group 2, Could you tell us what you wrote down? (ask the same question to other students, if we have not enough time, only ask 2-3 students)

Post-Task
Materials: None
Time 5min	Set Up Whole Class	Procedure: (Error Correction) Did you enjoy this activity? Did you have any difficulties? (Write sentences on the board that Ss misspoke during the activities. Discuss any commonly made errors during activities) (Feedback) Did you enjoy the activity today? was it fun? Anything you remember? You did a good job. See you guys tomorrow!