Lesson Plan

Business/Materials Lesson Objectives

Communicate qualities of different family members.

To be able to describe the likes and dislikes of family

members.

Warm-up and Objective Discussion

Before students learn about family nouns, we should review our simple adjectives as well as
using “like” and “does not like” in a sentence. Therefore our first warm up activity will be a
class discussion.

Ask the class to shout out adjectives they remember (model what an adjective is by writing an
example down on the board). I write down their responses on the whiteboard. Now ask the
class to list any nouns they remember (I also model what a noun is so they remember).

As a group I call on students to make a sentence using one adjective and noun on the board,
using the verbs “like” and “dislike/does not like.”

Example: “The cat likes tasty pizza.”

Today we are going to talk about family. Who knows what family is? Yes! Very good, your
family are people like your brother, sister, mother, father, son or daughter. Is family important?
Yes, I think so too! Maybe family is the most important thing in your life! By the end of the
day you will be able to talk about your family using the adjectives and verbs we know, like we
just did, but this time with family nouns. For example, “my sister likes pizza and my brother
likes hamburgers.”

Instruct and Model ❑ R ❑ W ❑ L ❑ S

“So today we are learning about family, such as “brother, mother, sister, father, grandmother,
grandfather…” Can someone tell me which of these pictures is brother? Good! Can someone
tell me which picture is grandmother? Excellent!”
“So this picture is a mother, this is a grandmother, this is a father, and this is a grandfather,
what is the same about these words? ...Right! They both have the words 'mother' and 'father' in
them. We add the word “grand” in front of these two because grand means ‘amazing’ or
‘important'. I personally think my grandparents are very grand!
To make the information more sticky and to elaborate further, I walk up to a student and say
“Hey bro, how’s it goin’?”
And then I ask: “What does ‘bro’ mean in this sentence?”
“Yes! Bro means brother! You can also say ‘sis’ for sister! How’re you, sis?”

Guided Practice ❑ R ❑ W ❑ L ❑ S

In today’s lesson we are learning family nouns and reviewing simple adjectives and verbs. In
this less-guided practice activity, students will work in pairs to describe their sibling or parent
and give them a “nickname” based on their description. After each person in the pair finishes
speaking, they will switch to a new partner and tell that new partner what their last partner
said about their parent/sibling, and what nickname they gave them. As this is going on, I will
be monitoring and assisting students.

Independent Practice ❑ R ❑ W ❑ L ❑ S

Assessment ❑ R ❑ W ❑ L ❑ S