Lesson Plan

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Teacher: Staci Sharp

This is a mini-lesson plan for vocabulary learning as a warm-up activity within a larger lesson.

Objectives:

• Students will become familiar with most of and learn some of the vocabulary needed for the lesson task "Describing people."
• Students will be warmed-up and ready for the main lesson.

Materials:

• 18 vocabulary sheets
• 1 vocabulary overhead
• 8 Guess Who game boards
• 18 Learning Journals
  (NOTE: only one page of the journal is included in this lesson plan)
• 1 set of Guess Who game cards

Set-up:

• Desks arranged in groups of two and three sharing one game board per group

1/2 min
Warm-up/Review:

• Set up students for lesson task "Describing People"
  (ASK: When might we need to describe people?)

Presentation:

• Handouts
• Model pronunciation

12 min
Practice:

• Guess Who Game
• Stop: review pronunciation
• Resume Guess Who Game

4 min
Evaluation:

• Self Check (in pairs)
• Record: Learning Journal (Students record their experience with "contextual use" vocabulary learning in their learning journals)

1/2 min
Application:

• Assign: Listen for and use vocabulary during rest of class

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GENDER: ACCESSORIES:

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* ashÕar * Ôasmar * buni * aHmar * shayib

HAIR STYLE: (hair = *sha9er)

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FACIAL HAIR:

shaarib daqin

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