Describing Physical Features

Grade level: 6th and 7th

All students are learning English as their second language.
Students know the basic sentence structure.

Objectives

At the end of this lesson students should:

Given a description of a person be able to draw the
correct picture that it describes.
Given a person, be able to describe their
appearance in standard english without grammatical
mistakes.

Standards

Listen attentively to stories and information and identify important

details and concepts by using both verbal and nonverbal
responses.

Materials

Materials you will need:

Projector
Computer with video viewing capabilities
Interactive youtube video
List of descriptive adjectives
Stick figure worksheet
Descriptive paragraphs
Candy

Procedures

1. Begin with video of head, shoulders, knees and

toes.
a. Show video once so students will
understand what they are supposed to be doing.
b. Play the video a second time with
the students dancing and singing along.
i.
This should take

about 5 minutes
2. Write a list of adjectives students will need to know
when describing each other.
a. Tall/short
b. Long hair/short hair
c. Girl/boy
d. Large/petite
e. Green/blue/brown eyes
f. Brown/blonde/black/gray hair
g. Old/young
i.
This should take
about 15 minutes
3. Separate students into 5 groups.
a. Give each group a blank stick figure
worksheet.
b. Give each group a paragraph
describing what their stick figure should look like.
They should draw these features on their stick
figure.
c. Students may keep these
worksheets.
i.
This should take
about 5 minutes
4. To review, have each student write a paragraph
description of themselves.
a. The paragraph should be at least
five sentences.
b. The students should use the
adjectives and body part nouns that they have
learned today.
i.
This should take
about 10 minutes
5. Ask students to volunteer to read their paragraphs
for the remainder of class.
a. After a student finished presenting,
they will receive a piece of candy.
b. Ask for volunteers until the class
period has ended.
6. Collect all of the summaries after class has ended.
7. Assign homework assessment.
Assessment

References

Homework will be due the next day in class.

Students will write a description of each of their
family members.
Each description should be in paragraph form.
Link to opening YouTube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZanHgPprl-0

Link to stick figure:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16zsGjwJOyrLt4izjwTkdesUPnP9s31VeZrVaSgFq_o/edit?usp=sharing
Link to description:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16zsGjwJOyrLt4izjwTkdesUPn
P9s31VeZrVaSgFq_o/edit?usp=sharing
Link to Standards:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/englangdevstnd.pdf

Verghese, C. P. (2007) Teaching English as a Second Language, A-59,Okhla Industrial

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1. This is a boy. He has blond hair. His hair is short. He is wearing a blue shirt. He has
blue shoes on his feet. He is young. The boy has green eyes. He is very petite.

2. This is a girl. She is wearing a red dress. She a black bow on her head. She has long hair.
Her hair is brown. She is young. Her eyes are brown.

3. This is a girl. She is old. Her shirt is green. She is petite. Her eyes are green. She has black
hair. The shoes on her feet are blue.
4. This is a boy. His hair is gray. He is old. He is wearing a red hat on his head. He has blue
eyes. He is large. His shoes on his feet are green.
5. This is a girl. She has blonde hair. Her hair is very short. She is wearing a orange shirt. The
shoes on her feet are yellow. She is petite. She is young. Her eyes are green.