LESSON PLAN

Lesson plan no: 01

DATE: TIME: SCHOOL: CLASS: III1

TEACHER:

Class profile: Intermediate , age 17

Teaching unit : Vocabulary: Appearance/Personality

Type of lesson : Presentation/practice/revision

Aims and objectives : To revise previously learned adjectives and learn new vocabulary related to appearance and personality, to get students
involved into the process of studying from the very beginning of the school year

Teaching methods : discussion, controlled practice, free practice

Class management : whole class, individual work, pair work

Teaching aids, materials

and equipment : students book, board, chalk, class CD
Sources: Gateway B1+ Students' Book; Workbook; Teacher's Book

Contingency plan: Short of time: Skip pronunciation activities

Plenty of time: Play games or tell a student to describe someone from the class using adjectives from the unit, without
telling who it is. Other students try to guess, the one who guesses is the next to describe etc.
 STAGES

Aims and Class organization procedures and activities Teaching Possible problems

TIMING
objectives aids and and solutions
materials
partIntroductory

To develop Greet students and ask them to discuss the meaning of the word identity. Write the title board Some students could find
speaking skills Identity Match on the board. In pairs, students discuss the meaning of the unit title and what this activity boring and
thus could not be willing
they think the unit is going to be about. Elicit ideas from around the class. to participate. 10
Encourage them to min
discuss by giving
examples and wider
framework.
Ask students to open their SBs on page 6 If some students have
Introduce the 1a In pairs, students put the words in the correct columns. Draw their attention to the examples in the problem with the
Main part

topic, provide table. meaning of some words,

key vocabulary provide them with
2 Check the answers. Then play the CD for students to listen, and repeat.
and target dictionaries to help them
3a Pronunciation
language in with the tasks. In
context Ask students to say the words and decide if we pronounce gh in the words. Check answers in open class, addition, all new/key
then listen and check. words could be written
3b Ask students to decide in which two words we pronounce gh and how it is pronounced. on the board along with
4 Speaking their pronunciation and
In pairs, students take it in turns to describe the people in the photos, using adjectives from 1. Draw SB, class definition and/or 30
students attention to the example sentences and the use of little to soften the adjective overweight. CD translation. min
5 Personality
Students match the personality adjectives with their opposites. If some students have
6 Students match the personality adjectives with their definitions. problems with
pronunciation, explain
7 Listening
that in general English is
Play the CD for students to listen to four people talking about themselves. Ask them to note the adjective not phonetic. Underline
of personality that best describes each person. that it is not always
8a Speaking (production) possible to look at an
Ask students to choose five adjectives from 5 and 6 to describe themselves. Students then tell their English word and know
partner their adjectives and say why they chose them. Draw students attention to the example sentence how to say it, or hear an
and the use of quite and a bit to make the adjectives weaker. English word and know
8b Students tell the class one adjective their partner chose and say why. how to spell it.

Ask students to write a short text about their favourite film or sport star using the adjectives
of personality and appearance they have studied in this lesson. SB, WB
5 min
part
Shortly revise Set homework: Workbook, p 2, exercises 1, 2, 3, 4.
presented
vocabulary
Final