March

5th

LET’
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Listen
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son – G
rade 8
Date : 05/03/2023

Title of the lesson : Describing people

Grade : Grade 08

Competency : 3. Engages in active listening and responds

appropriately
Competency level : 3.3 Listens and responds to different types of simple
texts
  3.4 Listens and transfers information to other forms.

Time : 1 and half hours

Classroom profile : 40 students; 20 girls and 20 boys. Mixed ability class

Aims : to provide the students the opportunity to use adjectives

that describe physical traits and qualities of a person's
personality in a simple sentence so that this knowledge
can be used in their real life communication.

Materials and aids : Picture cards, word cards, task sheets 2

Intended Learning Outcomes

At the end of this lesson, students will be able to

● Identify the adjectives that can be used to describe a person’s appearance and
the personality.
● Construct simple sentences using the adjectives to describe a person.
● Listen and find specific information from a text.
● Transfers the given information to other forms.
● Present their own description about a person.
● Perform the learned language knowledge in their real life communication.
● Develop the ability to listen and understand.
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 Pro c e d ur e
Les so n

Pre - listening
• Brainstorm the students’ knowledge by
asking about the words we can use to
describe a person.

• Teacher writes them on the board.

• Teacher shows them a few pictures of

different people and situations to elicit the
adjectives that can be used to describe a 4
person’s appearance and their personalities.
Pers o nal it y
Honest
Unkind
Kind Rude
dishonest
Hardworking
Selfish
Lazy
Selfless
Polite
cheerful
depressed
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 Int ro duc e
p att ern
sentence

While showing them pictures, teacher ask questions Tr: What does he look like?
from the students in order to practiSe them the Is he sad?
sentence structure.
Ss: No, cheerful

Tr: yes, He seems to be cheerful.

Or he is cheerful.

Teacher practises this with each picture. 7

 Tall short thin moustache
a ra n ce
Appe
Narrow eyes long nose bald

Curly hair fair skin dimples

Teacher displays a few words that can be

used to describe the appearance. Chubby wrinkles spiky hair

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 si n g t h e
Rehear tt ern
e P a
Sentenc

While showing them pictures, teacher ask questions

from the students in order to practiSe them the Tr: What kind of eyes does she have?
Are they big or small?
sentence structure.
Ss: Big

Tr: Yes she has big eyes

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Teacher practises this with each picture.
Ac ti vity
• Draw the picture by listening to the description.

• Teacher divides the class into 5 groups .

• Teacher divides the board into 5 sections and name them as group A, B, C etc
• Teacher reads a description of a monster sentence by sentence

• Teacher invites one student from each group to the board and draw the
appearance described in each sentence. Likewise every student in each group
gets the opportunity.

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Tr : This monster has a square face.
One student from each group comes to the board to draw what the teacher says.
Tr: The monster has one big eye and one small eyes
Another student from each group comes and draw

Group Group Group

A B C

Group A

Group Group
D E

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 Outcome
∙ The activities done in pre-task would activate the schemata of
the student’s knowledge regarding the adjectives to describe
people.
∙ They would listen and understand.

∙ At the end of the lesson the teacher will lead the discussion to
explain that there are adjectives that can be used to describe a
person’s appearance and the personality.
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 5. Finally, while-listening
exercises help learners focus 1. Students listen and do
or pay attention to the listening a task.
activity

While-listening
4. Actively guiding learners
and correcting their 2. teachers monitor and
apprehension of spoken facilitate student listening
discourse. comprehension.
3. It provides opportunities to
catch errors in comprehension
while the listening activity is
taking place.
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 st ud en ts
Preparing
Teacher gives instructions before playing the audio.

She clearly inform the students that she is going to play the audio for 3 times.

• First time students have only to listen to the text well.

• Second time they can start answering the questions given in the task sheet
while listening.
• Third time students can re-check their answers or answer the questions they
couldn’t answer before. (fill the gaps they made)

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Acti v i ty 1

• Then the teacher distributes the task sheet

among the students to read it before starting the
activity.

• Then she plays the audio.

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 l iste nin g
While-

Teacher plays the audio.

• Teacher plays an audio about 3 family

members.

• she asks the students to listen and sort

the adjectives in the text that describe
appearance and personality. 17
 Outcome
• By listening to the text, the students transfer
information to other forms.
• Students listen and find specific information from the text .

ADD A FOOTER 18
 Act iv it y 2
Reading a description of a
popular character.

• Teacher instructs the students to follow the instructions as given

before.
• Then the teacher distributes the task sheet among the students to read
it before starting the activity.
• Then she reads the text

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 Reading Text Task sheet

Sanath Jayasuriya is a famous cricketer. He He ……………. a

has a round face and a flat nose. His eyes …………………… face.
are big and his lips are large too. He is His nose ………………… flat
bold and has a dark complexion. His His eyes …………… ……………….
height is medium-height and he is in And his lips………….. ……………
middle age. too.
He is ……………………… and
………………….. A ……………..
Complexion.
His height …………………. medium
height and he …………………..
…………………… middle age.

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 Outcome
Students construct simple sentences using the adjectives to
describe a person.

ADD A FOOTER 21
1. Aims to utilize the knowledge gained
from listening for the development
of other skills such as speaking or
writing.

Post - listening
2. post-listening activities allow further
activation of vocabulary and structures
as long as they are interesting and
engaging.

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 A c t iv ity Select a category and a person of your choice.

1. Sports person – Susanthika Jayasinghe , Chamari Athapaththu,

Lionel Messi, Lasith Malinga.

2. Actors/Actresses – Deepika, Hemal Ranasinghe, vin diesel, Dusheni

Miyurangi
● Teacher divides the class into five
groups.
3. Politicians – Mahinda Rajapakse, Vladimir Putin, Chandrika
Kumarathunga, Elizabeth II
● Teacher displays the task on the
board.

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● Teacher asks each group to select a person from
a category of their choice and get ready with a
description.
( this supports discussions /learning from peers
– peer learning)

● Teacher walks around the class and monitors

each group.
● One student from each group is asked to come
front of the class one after the other.

● Other groups are instructed to ask questions

from that student regarding the appearance and
the personality of their chosen character.
● Ex – Group 1 – we selected a sports person.
Other groups - does this person have
straight or curly hair?
Group 1 - yes this person has curly hair.
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Outcome ● Present their own description
about a person.

● Perform the learned language

knowledge in their real life
communication.

● Develop the ability to listen

and understand.

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Take Home Activity

● Write a description of yourself.

Even though this is a listening lesson, we have

incorporated other sub skills like writing, grammar,
vocabulary and speaking with listening.

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