Describing People Lesson Plan
1) Watch the video and do the while watching tasks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurH7LAOQsQ
Students need to guess what animal has been described to them.
2) Describing people memory games
For example, students test each other on what people in class look like and are wearing while the
person answering the questions has their eyes closed.
3) Brainstorm sentence endings board race
Teams race to write as many correct ending to a sentence stem as they can, e.g. “He has blue…”,
“He has a big…” or just “He is…”Continue your lesson with the interactive exercises (check the
link).
4) Sentence expansion
Give students a very short description of someone, e.g. “He has hair”. They then take turns to
make that sentence longer and longer, until someone makes a mistake or gives up.
5) Use e-board for demonstration and ask students to come to the board and answer the
questions one by one
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/
Describing_people/Who_is_who_fn525387vm
https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/
Describing_people/Stars_As_Children_du8800bt
https://wordwall.net/ru/resource/13948059/describing-appearance
Recommendations:
Ask them not to use any Russian expressions during the lesson, you are forbidden to use Russian
with kids too (only rarely)
Control the discipline (do not shout or touch the kids), but think of so-called «punishments», e.g.
who behaves badly can do squats in front of the class or will stand during all the lesson and so
on.
Think of motivation for them, for example, you can ask the assistants whether they have stickers
(наклейки с оценками) for kids.