Theme:

People

End task: Able to write an informal letter or e-mail describing one personality using adjectives. Aim: Learners should be able to use adjectives to describe themselves and their friends. Proficiency level: High Proficiency Duration : 6 minutes Tasks: Teaching materials: A! papers" small pieces of paper" Power Point slides" Handouts" #haracteristics of Astrological $igns. Students previous knowledge: %hey have prior &nowledge on describing their family members. Pre-task warmer: Aim: %o prepare the students for the tas&s to engage their attention. his)her '. (ead a journal entry of a student describing a person who is close to heart. *. As& them who they thin& the person might be. +. Allow as many suggestions as possible. !. As& them who are the people close to them and why.

ntegrating grammar using a task-!ased model of instruction "language skills# Aim : ,or students to describe their personality. '. -roup them according to their astrological signs. *. As& them to describe their positive or negative attributes in the same groups. +. .isplay the characteristics of each astrological sign on board. their !. -ive them time limit to choose which list of characteristics belongs to group.

/. .isplay on PowerPoint the actual characteristics of each astrological sign. 6. .iscuss meanings of the unfamiliar words with students. Planning: Aim: ,or students to describe the characteristics of their friends using adjectives. '. -ive each student a piece of A! paper. *. As& them to stic& on their bac&. friends +. As& the students to stand and move around the classroom and their will describe their characteristics. !. $tudents will be given ' minutes and they need to move around to get as many friends as possible to describe themselves. /. $tudents will get bac& to their place and read the characteristics described by their friends. 6. ,orm the list of words" they need to categori0e them into positive and negative attributes. $eporting Aim: ,or students to describe themselves and give opinions on their friend1s perception on themselves. '. $elect a few students to present on what they thin& about themselves. *. $tate whether they agree or disagree with their friends1 opinions of themselves. %odelling Aim: ,or students to hear a fluent 2nglish spea&er 3teacher4 doing the same tas&:

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.istribute a small piece of paper to every student. As& them to describe you. %hey are encouraged to use the words that just learned. .escribe yourself.

&anguage focus Aim: %o raise students1 awareness about the grammatical items 5 adjectives and sentence structure.

'. .isplay on Power Point a few sentences that you used to describe yourself earlier. ,or e6ample : '4 7 am an optimistic employee. *4 7 am punctual. +4 7 am a forgetful person. !4 7 am adventurous. /4 7 am a caring mother. 64 7 am a systematic teacher. *. As& them the differences among these sentences. +. 26plain the rules of form for Adjectives. i# Ad'ectives can come !efore a (oun) '4 7 am a forgetful person. *4 7 am a systematic teacher. ii# Ad'ectives can come after a *er! to +,e "is- are- am- was- were#) '4 7 am punctual. *4 7 am adventurous.

&anguage practice Aim : To give students some practice in the target language) '4 %ell them to listen to the description read by you. *4 %hey write down as much as they can recall in pairs. +4 As& a student to act as the class 8scribe1. !4 Project the slide of the original te6t and as& them to identify the differences .ptional follow-up Aim : To give the students some restricted written practice) '4 As& them to write about themselves using the structure taught. *4 As& the students to chec& their sentences with each other. +4 $elect three students to write on the board. !4 #orrect the sentences spontaneously 3 peer correction4 between the two te6ts.