LESSON PLAN

TEACHER: Denisa Alexandra DRAGOEL

SCHOOL: David Prodan National College;
DATE: 5th February 2015;
CLASS: 5th ;
NO. OF CLASSES: 2/WEEK;
LESSON: Describing people appearance;
TEXTBOOK: Snapshot Starter;
TYPE OF LESSON: acquiring new information;
TIME OF LESSON: 50 min.
OBJECTIVES:
Reference objectives:
4.1. Requiring and offering information about oneself and/or other person;
4.2. Writing short paragraphs about events and persons, on a given plan;
4.3. Writing short texts on common subjects;
Operational objectives - By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
A. identify the expression for describing people appearance in a song;
B. identify and translate the suitable words and expressions for describing
people appearance;
C. use correctly new vocabulary related to describing people appearance;
D. writing short texts/paragraphs about a person appearance using appropriate
language;
TEACHING METHODS: conversation, explanation, reading, exercise;
MATERIALS: textbook, board, pictures and worksheets, CD audio;
TYPE OF INTERACTION: pair work, individual, independent, collective, guided;
TYPE OF LEARNING: reproductive, intelligible, operatory, creative, listening;
EVALUATION: oral evaluation;
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Describing appearance
(writing)http://www.eslflow.com/Describing_appearance_worksheet.pdf
Describing people - exercises & worksheets
http://www.eslflow.com/describingpeoplelessonplans.html

Lesson
stages
1.Organizatio
nal moment
(2 min.)

2.Renewing
previous
knowledge
(5 min.)

Op.
obj.

Content of the lesson

Noting the absentees;
Preparing the worksheets
The last lesson it is being
checked.
Family members
1. How big is your
family?
2. How many brothers
and sisters do you
have?
3. What
are
the
occupations of your
family members?
4. What
does
your
father do? What's his
job?
5. What
does
your
mother do?

DIDACTIC STRATEGY
Teaching Mater Class
methods ials
organization

Type of
Evaluation
learning

Conversa
tion

Frontal
guided

Examinat
ion and
conversat
ion

Reprodu
Frontal
ctory
guided and
Operato
individual
ry

6. How old are your

parents?
7. Where
do
your
grandparents live?

8. What
are
your
parents like?
9. What do you and
your family like to
do together?
3.Capturing
the attention
(1 min)
4.Announcing
the title of the
lesson
and
the
operational
objectives
(1 min.)

Can you tell me how your

family look like? Can you
describe them?

Conversa
tion

Conversti
Today we will learn How on
to describe a persons Explanati
physical appearance!
on
So, we will learn to
describe ourselves and
other persons. Also, we
will listen a song and do
exercises .

Frontal
guided
Frontal
guided

Intelligibl
e
Inteligibl
e

Oral
appreciati
on

5.Presenting
the new
content and
guiding the
learning.
(19 min)

A.

The song is listening by

students and then we
discuss about it, checking
if they have noticed the
specific expression for
describing
people
appearance.

Conversa
tion
Explanati
on

The students read a

fragment of Little John, Reading
the part in which John is Exercise
described.

CD
audio

Frontal
guided

Textb
ook

Frontal
guided

Creative
Inteligibl
e

Oral
appreciati
on

Inteligibl
e
Operato
ry

John had a rectangular

face with a defined,
slightly pointed chin and
a sturdy jaw line. His
dark eyes were small
and
spaced
evenly
apart, sitting below trim
eyebrows that seemed
to curve as a natural
extension of his broad,
rounded nose. He kept
his mouth closed in a
thin, straight line, and
his hairnaturally light
brown in colorreveal a
wide
forehead.
He
walked straight, his face
held forward in a steady
gaze, and had an air of
authority
that
was
palpable.

B.

The students identify and

translate the unknown Exercises
words and the adjectives
used to describe the
character.
The students receive the
first worksheet to identify
other expression and
words used for describing
people.

Frontal
independent

Inteligibl
e
Operato
ry

Oral
appreciati
on

6. Intensifying
the
transfer
(11 min)
C.

7.
Ensuring
D.
performance
(10 min)

8. Ending the
activity
(1 min)

Now, you will work in

pairs. You have to
describe your colleague Exercise
according to the handout
you have received.

Work
sheet
1.1.

Pair work

Now, please write a short

paragraph (2-3 sentence)
about
your
friend,
colleague or a neighbor, Exercise
giving information about Writing
their hair and face, their
height and build and
general appearance.

Work
sheet
1.2.

Frontal
independent

As homework, you have

to
solve
the
other
exercises
from
the
worksheet number 2, and Conversa
to know how to describe tion
yourselves or another
person.
Class dismissed.

Work
sheet
2

Frontal
guided

Creative
Operato
ry

Operato
ry
Creative

Oral
appreciati
on

Oral
appreciati
on