LESSON PLAN

VOCABULARY

Info about the learners

Class / Age: 7th
Level: B1
School status: non-examination class, common core, 2nd language, 2 hours per week, gymnasium
Learner profile: mixed ability class, 12-13 years old
Info about the lesson
Title, topic: Describing people
[Type of lesson]: teaching
Aims: To connect phrases in a simple way in order to describe people;
To give reasons and explanations for opinions;
To use the grammatical system to convey an intended meaning;
To distinguish the terms from Vocabulary for describing people.
Teaching aids and materials: whiteboard / markers /worksheets
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Procedure:
Stage
Activity
Warm-up
The teacher asks students if they have any pets, and if
so to give more information about them.
Presentation
The teacher gives out the worksheet, points to the title
and asks the class if they think it is true that dogs look
like their owners.
Controlled
The teacher asks students to read the summary
Practice
sentences, and then read the text and decide which
sentence best summarises it and why. He also asks
them to answer the true-false questions in exercises 2.
Semi-controlled The teacher elicits the meanings of the Vocabulary
Practice
for describing people at the bottom of the
worksheet. He uses the image of dogs and their

owners to help. Students are required to describe

Interaction
S-T

Time
2

T-S

S-T

T-S
S-T

10

Observations (backup plan, possible difficulties)

The teacher will give an example about his/her own pet.

The teacher writes on the whiteboard the meaning of all

the new vocabulary terms and helps students to
understand the message of the text.

the person sitting next to them using some new

terms from Vocabulary list.

Free Practice

The teacher asks students to work in pairs or groups.

One student describes one of the people and the others
listen and have to identify which one.