The class started with a short welcoming speech, where the guidelines for the rest of the classes were given: mainly that the students should strive to speak English at all times, unless they ask permission in English to speak their native language.
I began by showing them this video from Youtube: The Adjectives Song
Ask the class: So what do we use to describe people?
By this point they will recognize adjectives as traits that aid in describing people.
To find out where they stand in vocabulary, I handed out the following worksheet, where they were required to fill in the blank with an appropriate word.
Warm-up Exercise
Then I gave them these hand-outs, with vocabulary used for describing peoples' appearance (age-height-body-hair-skin-eyes-face-clothes & accessories) and character.
Describing people- Vocabulary
When we had finished discussing the vocabulary hand-outs together, we played a short Guess-Who? game:
I printed pictures of five famous people (Gandhi- Mona Lisa-Obama- Queen Elizabeth- Shakespeare). One of the students was seated far off with a copy of one of the pictures of the five people. The student had to describe the picture in his hand and have the others guess which of the five people he was describing.
The game is a fun way for children to practise adjectives. Any pictures can be used (not necessarily famous people!)
After the game, we had a fun listening exercise, where the students had to listen to three different people describing their looks, and draw them. Make sure you have crayons on hand.
Mr Graham
Miss Bell
Jade
Apologies for the abruptness of the speakers' voices. I used a text-to-voice website to produce them. If you could get different voices to speak for you, the better :) The kids had a lot of fun in this exercise with their exaggerated drawings!
Finally I gave them their homework for the day, which was to describe five pictures of peoples' faces using words from the box.
Homework- describe the faces
I began by showing them this video from Youtube: The Adjectives Song
Ask the class: So what do we use to describe people?
By this point they will recognize adjectives as traits that aid in describing people.
To find out where they stand in vocabulary, I handed out the following worksheet, where they were required to fill in the blank with an appropriate word.
Warm-up Exercise
Then I gave them these hand-outs, with vocabulary used for describing peoples' appearance (age-height-body-hair-skin-eyes-face-clothes & accessories) and character.
Describing people- Vocabulary
When we had finished discussing the vocabulary hand-outs together, we played a short Guess-Who? game:
I printed pictures of five famous people (Gandhi- Mona Lisa-Obama- Queen Elizabeth- Shakespeare). One of the students was seated far off with a copy of one of the pictures of the five people. The student had to describe the picture in his hand and have the others guess which of the five people he was describing.
The game is a fun way for children to practise adjectives. Any pictures can be used (not necessarily famous people!)
After the game, we had a fun listening exercise, where the students had to listen to three different people describing their looks, and draw them. Make sure you have crayons on hand.
Mr Graham
Miss Bell
Jade
Apologies for the abruptness of the speakers' voices. I used a text-to-voice website to produce them. If you could get different voices to speak for you, the better :) The kids had a lot of fun in this exercise with their exaggerated drawings!
Finally I gave them their homework for the day, which was to describe five pictures of peoples' faces using words from the box.
Homework- describe the faces
Thanks a lot. I found it very helpful.
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