LESSON PLAN

School: Liceul Teoretic Grigore Gheba Dumitresti Teacher: Poenaru Alina Form: 9th

Level: Pre-intermediate Lesson type: Speaking and WritingSubject: Lets be friend-Describing people using physical appearance adjectives and personality adjectives

Time: 50 minutes Specific Objectives: By the end of the class: Students will have used in sentences of their own vocabulary related to the topic of the lesson: Describing people

Students will have described his/her friend using the specific vocabulary

students will have wrote a complete description of a person, using both physical appearance adjectives and personality adjectives by using ideas from the classSkills: speaking, writing

Methods: pair work, conversation, paragraph writing

Teaching materials: pictures, worksheet Audio-visuals: blackboard, students notebook;Activity 1 Warm-up

Aim to introduce the topic

-to develop speaking skills

Procedure: The teacher tells the students that today they are going to discuss something common for them: FRIENDS. The teacher writes the title of the lesson( Lets be friends!) on the blackboard and initiates a discussion about friends starting from these questions:1) Do we need friends? Why( not)?2) Do you easily make friends?

3)How do you choose your friends?

4) Name three adjectives describing your ideal friend?Interaction: teacher-student, student-student,student-teacherTime: 7 minutes

Activity 2

Aim: to develop speaking skillsProcedure: The teacher writes some personality adjectives on the blackboard, she tells the students to copy them in their notebooks in two columns: positive and negative meaning and to choose five of them to describe their partner. Then she tells them to use both physical appearance and personality adjectives in the activity that follows. They can also come up with some new personality adjectives of their own.Personality adjectives: reliable, courageous, passionate, dynamic, communicative, calm, modest, inflexible, envious, charismatic, optimistic, jovial, irresponsible, charming, shy, sociable, immature ,determined ,generous, arrogant, superstitious, bad-tempered, selfish, absent-minded, hard-working, rebellious, reliable, happy, independent, caring, foolishPersonality adjectives Physical adjectives

Positive Negative CurlyWavy

Straight

Oval-shaped

Long

Round

Eyebrow

Large( for overweight polite)

Slender( thin person-neutral)

Stocky( not very tall)

Tall

Tattooed

Well-built

Reliable

Courageous

Passionate

Dynamic

Communicative

Calm

Modest

Charismatic

Optimist

Jovial

Sociable

Determined

Generous

Caring

Independent

Happy

Inflexible

Envious ( invidious)Irresponsible

Shy Immature

Arrogant

Superstitious

Bad-tempered

Selfish

Absent-minded

Rebellious

Foolish

Time: 20 minutesActivity 3Aim: to develop writing skills

Procedure:1. The teacher tells the students to pair up

2. The teacher tells them to look at the pictures from page 16 and write down one or two sentences one or two sentences that immediately come to mind.

Interaction: teacher-student, student-student

Time: 7 minutesActivity 5Aim: to develop speaking activityProcedure: The teacher asks the pairs of students to choose a spokesperson who will read or present the description of the person in their picture to the class. This is what each spokesperson will do with his/her picture and the other students will recognise some of the characteristics they thought of. Interaction: student-student, student-teacher, teacher-student

Time: 10 minutes

Activity 6Aim: - to develop writing skill

- to make students compare the way they used the personality adjectives in their sentences and the context in which they are used in the worksheet

Procedure: The teacher gives the students a worksheet with personality adjectives which students have to use in the right context.

Interaction: teacher-student, student-teacher

Time: 7 minutes

Activity 7 : Setting the homework

The teacher asks the students to write ex. 3 page 16, 5,6 page 17

Interaction: teacher-student

Time: 3 minutesHere is the worksheet:WORKSHEETDescribing best friendsI. Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

1.easy goinga. a person who doesnt usually ask other people for help

2. independentb. someone who doesnt like giving things to other people

3. modestc. someone who expresses very strong beliefs about things

4. moodyd. people who dont do what they say they will

5. sociablee. a person who enjoys being with other people

6. stingyf. someone who is often in a bad mood or depressed

7. unreliableg. a person who doesnt worry much or get angry easily

8. ambitioush. people who dont make a big deal about their accomplishments

9. opinionatedi. people you can trust.

10. trustworthyj. a person who wants to do many things in the future

II. Fill in the blanks with the correct words from the list:funny

caring

lazy

boring

moody

emotional

crazy

daring

kind

helpful

easy-going positive friendly reliable shy

1. Id really like to find a friend who is _____________; he doesnt worry much or get angry easily. 2. A _____________friend is a friend indeed. He is always ready to help others.

3. My friend Amna is very _______________. She believes marriage should be based on love.

4. Our English teacher is kind and __________. She treats students fairly.

5. I hope I never have a ___________friend. I mean someone who is in a bad mood or depressed.

III. Choose the correct answer from a, b, c or d 1. My friend is very ____________; he thinks of carrying on his studies in London

(a) lazy (b) ambitious (c) shy (d) unreliable 2.My friend Anna is very _____________; she cries quickly whenever she watches a romance movie.

(a) sensitive (b) friendly (c) easy going (d) daring

3.He likes playing bad tricks and teasing people. He is a _____________ boy.

(a) positive (b) mischievous (c) flexible (d) caring

4.For me the ideal friend is someone who doesnt mind paying a drink for me. I hate __________people. (a) shy (b) generous (c) stingy (d) negative