Title

My Personal Monster
Context
Elementary Grade3-4
Time
40 minutes
Aim
By the end of the activity, students will be able to described to a partner his personally drawn monster and redraw a
partners monster.

Materials

Video clip of a kid being scared from the movie the Monster Inc.
Monsters poster with labeled body parts (i.e. tail, claw, eyes, horn)
Flashcards descriptive words (i.e. big, sharp, long)
Paper, pencil, crayon
pictures of different monsters

Lead-in
1. Video and guess: Play the video clip of a kid waken up and screaming from the movie the Monster Inc. Ask the
students what happened.
2. Brainstorming: Ask the students what do they think the monster look like? They should be able to tell a body part and
describe it. Write down the words on the board.
Set up and run the activity main skill tasks
3. Speaking preparation: Show the monsters picture that the kid saw in the video clip. Put on the board the monsters
body part poster. With a partner, ask the students to describe the picture using the words from the poster. Discuss the
answers as a class. Use the language It has ____, Does it have ______?, Yes, It has. No, it doesnt. How many?.
Show them the descriptive flashcards and identify which part of the body does it describe.
4. Speaking task show and tell. Divide the class to groups of 4-6. Distribute blank paper to each student. Tell them to
draw their personal monster and prepare to describe it to the group. After drawing, show it to the group and take turns in
describing his/her personal monster.
5. Language focus. Tell the students to find a partner with another group. Distribute another blank paper. Tell the
students, this time, they will take turn drawing each partners monster. They should not show the picture at first to a
partner. Use the target language and vocabulary to figure out how the partners monster looks like. Compare the redrawn
monster with the original. Take turn in doing this.

Close the activity and post-activity

6. Close the activity. Collect five (5) drawings of the students and post it on the board. Label it A-E. Play the Guess the
Monster in My Mind. Ask two students to go in front, one will be the guesser and one will be the chooser. The chooser
picks one monster and keeps it in his mind while the guesser will try to guess which one is it by asking questions on how
the monster look like.(i.e. Does it have (4 eyes) ?... Is it monster (C) ?)
7. Get learners feedback. Personalized by asking the students if they ever had a dream with monsters appearing on it.
8. Communicative post-activity. With a seatmate, have a short conversation about monsters in their dreams.

Name and student number

Sherly Sim 2014******