Using Websites in ELT - Describing People
Lesson Plans - Describing People
Unit of work - theme and objectives
The unit of work is named “Our shadow.” The theme that was chosen is “Describing people.” and the main topic is body parts. Sixth-grade students will work on Unit 2 called “ The shadow has a big head” from the Student’s Book “Storyline 2.”
Linguistic content:
3rd person singular (he-she-it) + HAS / doesn’t have , body parts (body, ears, eyes, hair, head, mouth, nose, legs, arms) , descriptive adjectives (big, small, fat, thin, young, old, short, tall) , he -she-it + is , possessive adjectives (his - her).
Global communicative objectives for the unit:
During the unit, the students will develop a degree of communicative competence in accordance with their level, the ability and knowledge necessary to be able to describe people physically using the adequate structures and the adequate vocabulary, which will be presented throughout the classes before the final task. Moreover, students will develop the ability to use the structure and vocabulary given not just to describe people, but also to apply them to other aspects of their everyday life. Students will be able to write a description and recognize one by listening to others. Students will also activate their speaking and listening skills developed, and they will utilize them at the moment of the presentation of the final task. Students will use different websites for this purpose and they will learn how to work cooperatively in google drive.
LESSON PLAN 1
Age group: 11 years old.
Number of students: 20.
Level of English: Intermediate
Physical Location: Classroom and Computer lab
Time alloted: 60 minutes
Warmer (10 minutes)
Teacher will start the lesson writing on the board the word body in a circle. Then T will ask students to brainstorm whatever they remember about that.
During the discussion, Teacher will write answers on the board for them to use the information in the following activity.
Web (40 minutes)
Students will be divided into 10 groups. Each group will create a board using Pinterest including as many body parts as they find. After that, all groups will post the link to their boards on a google drive document inside a google drive folder to be used along the unit , called 'Our Shadow.' Once that is done, students will be asked to select 1 picture from each board and imagine a person who has got those body parts. They will have to write a short description of that person using these websites as a guide: Cambridge Dictionary, Grammarly and British Council. They will be asked to write the description on a google drive document and include the pictures selected.
For the website navigation, teacher will give students these worksheets as a guide:
Online Worksheet: https://www.liveworksheets.com/1-jb2036830js
Offline Worksheet (word document):Go over the provided websites and answer the following questions:
- Is 'have got' used with progressive tenses?
- What is the difference between its and it's?
- How are contractions used with 'have got'?
- What is the difference between independent and dependent possessive pronouns?
- What is the difference between 'have' and 'have got'?
What next? (10 minutes)
LESSON PLAN 2
Age group: 11 years old.
Number of students: 20.
Level of English: Intermediate
Physical Location: Classroom and Computer lab
Time alloted: 60 minutes
Warmer (5 minutes)
Students will work as a whole-class and play 'Find someone who...' using the following prompts:
- Find someone who has got red hair
- Find someone who has got big eyes - answer: what colour are his/her eyes?
- Find someone who is tall
- Find someone who has got small ears
- Find someone who has got short hair - answer: what colour is his/her hair?
Web (45 minutes)
Before students get into the websites, teacher will provide the following worksheets as guides:
Offline worksheet (word document):Complete the following tasks
- Draw 6 parts of the body you didn't know before and write their name.
- Write 5 words you didn't know how to pronounce. Repeat them until you get them right.
- Write your conclusions about the conjugation of the verb have got.
What next? (5 minutes)
- Which slide do you think is more descriptive? Why?
- What have you learnt about descriptions?
- What have you learnt about google drive? Do you like working with this website? What websites did you like the most? Why?
References
Body Parts. (n.d.-c). Quizlet. Retrieved June 17, 2021, from https://quizlet.com/84581060/body-parts-flash-cards/
Cambridge Dictionary. (2021, June 16). Have got and have - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/have-got-and-have
Possesive Pronouns (n.d.). Grammarly. Retrieved June 17, 2021, from https://www.grammarly.com/blog/possessive-pronouns/
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