Lesson Plan

Teacher : Simasco Natalia

Date : 10.01.2013
Form : 10th grade
Subject :Adjective derivation/ demonstrative adjective
Aim : Students will learn how to describe things and people in an appropriate and imaginatively
descriptive manner
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to
1. They will review known English adjectives as well as learn new adjectives.
2. use demonstrative proouns: this,that, these and those in conversations;
3. construct questions by using demonstrative pronouns;f
4. orm statements usin demonstrative pronouns.
Skills : Listening Listen to teachers instruction, listen to classmates. Speaking Answer teachers
questions, respond to classmates. Writing Construct conversations.
Assumptions : 1. participation in class, 2. students' ability to create appropriate adjectives sentences in
class, 3. ability to work in pairs or as a team member.
Introduction:
Activity 1: presentation-whole class
Start by recapping what an adjective is and how to use one ("An adjective is a word, phrase or clause
that describes a noun by answering one of three questions - What kind is it? How many of them are
there?, Which one is it?)
Activity 2: practice pair work
Ask each student to describe their house or a person in their family using the adjectives they already
know. Each student is only allowed one minute to describe the subject they have been given, using as
many adjectives as they can. (EFL students, even advanced level students, do find this difficult, so don't
be surprised if they have only managed to think of two sentences in a minute).
Activity 3: listening/reading- whole class; individual work
Once each student has finished their descriptions, describe to them your house or a person in your
family, to give them an example of how to use adjectives to describe something. (I describe my house in
the United States and then, after I have finished the description, I show them photographs of the house
and ask them if what I described made them think of a house like this or something different. It's
surprising how many of them actually did picture a house quite similar.
Activity 4: practice pair work
Give out the adjectives list handout you have prepared (or find a list from the internet as there are many
lists out there and most of them are free). Go over the adjectives they already know asking each student
to create a sentence using one of the adjectives on the list. Then go over the adjectives on the list that are
new for your students and describe what each adjective means. Ask students to create sentences using
some of these words, to make sure they are understanding the meanings correctly.
Activity 5: personalization and practice
Now for the game. Put your students into teams (or one student against another if, like me, you
sometimes only have two adult EFL students in a class). Explain to your students that you will give them
a subject and then they will have 1-2 minutes (depending on the class time you have left) to come up
with as many adjectives as they can think of that will describe that subject. For beginner level adult EFL
classes you can allow them to use the handout you just gave them. For advanced level, make them think
of adjectives without using the list. I come up with subjects like 1) a man, 2) a woman, 3) a movie, 4) a
car, 5) a tie, 6) a dress, 7) Hong Kong, 8) Bangkok, 9) your job 10) a vacation - but you can use pretty
much any subject you can think of. Run this game for 10 to 20 minutes depending on the concentration

level of your students and class time remaining. The team (or student) that gets the most adjectives wins
a prize (I usually give out a bag of potato chips or chocolate - my adult EFL learners love chocolate!)
Activity 6: speaking- individual work
Ask students if they have any questions (mine always have two or three, which I always answer, even if
they're not remotely connected to the subject we've just studied).
Activity 7: writing-individual work
If you assign homework, you can assign a short essay for each student to write using the adjectives
you've covered in class. I don't assign homework in my corporate adult EFL classes, but some
companies do want their employees to study English at home also.
If your class size is not too large, you should be able to complete this lesson plan in an hour. At the end
of it, your students should be able to describe any known English noun with some degree of accuracy
and imagination.
Activity 8: preparation for homework assignement
Instruction : To make exercise 3 page 63