Personality - 10 - Lesson Plan - Blagodarna

Lesson Plan.
Topic: Personality
Unit 1. I, My Family and My Friends
Aims:
to present and practise some new adjectives to describe personality;
to develop students’ creative abilities;
to activate multi-part verbs; to develop students’ speaking and writing skills.
Level: pre- intermediate
Preparation: Photocopy, 1 worksheet per student.
Procedure
Epigraph: “Intellect has powerful muscles, but no personality”. (Albert Einstein).
Stage 1 Vocabulary and Lead In
Warm up: Looking at some proverbs and sayings, written on the blackboard, students try to
guess the topic of the lesson and find their Ukrainian equivalents:
• Appearances are deceptive. (Зовнішність — підступна).
• The face is the index of the mind. (Обличчя — дзеркало душі).
• A fair face may hide a foul heart. (За гарною зовнішністю не завжди впізнаєш
підлу душу).
Vocabulary Key words: revising and presenting new adjectives (worksheet – Activity 1)
Stage 2 Practising New Adjectives
 Students match the pairs of adjectives and their meaning (worksheet – Activity 2)
 Students divide the adjectives into two groups: positive and negative and make up
sentences with them (worksheet – Activity 3)
 Students use the drawings and the context to describe these people (worksheet –
Activity 4)
Stage 3 Writing and Speaking
 Students write notes about someone they know.

Who are you going to describe? (Alex, my uncle).
How along have you known him / her? (all my life).
What does he / she look like? (short, black hair, beard).
What does he / she like? (football, dogs).
What is he like? (honest, shy, reliabl)/
 In pairs, students ask and answer the questions using words from the exercise above.
Students speak about their relatives according to the notes.
 Students write a description of a person they know and like according to the steps
below.
Step 1
Decide who you are going to write about — someone in your family, a friend, or a famous
person.
Step 2
Write some notes.
Appearance:
• white hair
• lots of make up
• clear blue eyes
• short
• thin
Character:
MY GRANDMOTHER
• cheerful — always smiling
• generous
• Helpful
Relationships:
• popular with neighbours
• often baby-sits
• argues with granddad
Likes:
• talking, especially gossip
• animals, especially dogs
• loves children
Dislikes:
• TV (except films)
• junk food
Step 3
Write three paragraphs.
Check your writing for mistakes.
Step 4
Students speak about a person they know and like (worksheet – Activity 5).
Worksheet: I, my family and my friends: Personality
Activity 1
Discuss with your partner what the words below mean:
• Figure: tall, short, stout, thin, frail, delicate, athletic, muscular, weedy, bent, powerful, gigantic
• Face and head: round, oval, long, small, square-jawed, thin, fat, wrinkled
• Forehead: narrow, flat, wide, prominent, high
• Nose: long, flat, snub, straight, broad, enormous, aquiline (eagle- like)
• Hair: straight, wavy, curly, brown, grey, silvery, auburn, golden, long, silky, plaited
• Eyes: clear, bright, large, small, brown, blue, green, sparkling, round, almond-shaped
• Mouth, lips, teeth: wide, thin, straight, irregular, projecting, uneven, well-brushed, thick
• Character: organised, disorganized, sympathetic, creative, generous, dynamic, hard-working, honest,
reliable, selfish, shy, helpful, stubborn, sociable, insensitive.
Activity 2
Match the pairs:
Activity 3
Divide the adjectives above into two groups: positive and negative and make up sentences with them.
Activity 4
Use the drawings and the context to describe these people.
‘Don’t you know Mary? She’s got shoulder-length wavy / straight blond hair. She’s quite short / tall and
slim / overweight. She’s got blue eyes. She’s middle-aged / in her early twenties. Her brother, Tony, is a
good friend of mine. Both of them like outdoor sports like skiing / stamp collecting and hiking / listening to
music. She’s a very outgoing, sociable / shy sort of person who seems to know hundreds of people.
She’s very cheerful/stuborn - you know, the sort of person who is always laughing.
But she can be a bit disorganised/ reliable. She once lost everybody’s cinema
tickets and we all had to pay again!’
‘We had Mr Kemp for history last year. He’s got a moustache / beard and short,
curly / straight hair. He’s quite short and well-built / overweight. He’s probably in his
mid teens / thir- ties. He really loves his subject and he knows a lot about history.
He’s also interested in climb ing / surfing. He went up some of the mountains in the
Tatras one year, he told us. He was a very hard-working / insensitive teacher. He
gave us lots of essays and always marked them quickly. He was never moody /
dynamic — always the same, always smiling. He was also very confident / patient with us. If anybody didn’t
understand something he explained it again in a different way. He did everything he could to be selfish /
helpful’.
Activity 5
Describe a person you know and like.

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Lesson Plan.

Unit 1. I, My Family and My Friends

Epigraph: “Intellect has powerful muscles, but no personality”. (Albert Einstein).

Stage 1 Vocabulary and Lead In

Stage 2 Practising New Adjectives

Stage 3 Writing and Speaking

 Students write notes about someone they know.

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