LESSON PLAN

School: Ion Creanga Theoretical High school, Tulcea

Teacher: Aurelia Bazbanela
Form: 12th
Level: Advanced
Lesson type: Speaking and Writing
Subject: Describing people using physical appearance adjectives and personality
adjectives
Time: 50 minutes
Objectives:
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to introduce the topic of the lesson: Describing people

to develop the writing and speaking skills of the students

students will be able to write a complete description of a person, using both

physical appearance adjectives and personality adjectives by using ideas from the
class

Skills: speaking, writing

Methods: pair work, conversation, paragraph writing
Teaching materials: pictures, worksheet, dictionary
Audio-visuals: whiteboard, students notebook, laptop, projector, flipchart
Activity 1 Warm-up
Aim introducing the topic
Procedure: The teacher writes the title of the lesson on the whiteboard and presents
students a PPT presentation containing the plan for describing a person with details
about the physical appearance and personality and character. She asks the students to
write the examples in their notebooks.
Interaction: teacher-student
Time: 7 minutes

Activity 2
Aim: to develop speaking skills
Procedure: The teacher writes some personality adjectives on the whiteboard, 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...
Time: 7 minutes
Activity 3
Aim: to develop writing skills
Procedure:
1. The teacher tells the students to pair up and s/he gives them some
pictures of some national or international stars, stuck on an A4
sheet of paper.
2. The teacher tells them to look at their own picture and write down
one or two sentences that immediately come to mind. They write
their ideas on the sheet beneath the picture.
3. The students pass the paper on to their neighbours who read the
sentences and add one or two of their own. Then the picture is
passed on again and other sentences are added.
Interaction: teacher-student, student-student
Time: 10 minutes
Activity 4
Aim: to develop writing skills and to write a complete description of a person using the
sentences that they gathered from their classmates.

Procedure: When each picture with about 15-20 sentences is given back to the original
pair, the students have got a resource with which to write a short report on the picture.
Interaction: student-student
Time: 6 minutes
Activity 5
Aim: to develop speaking activity
Procedure: 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 6
Aim: - 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 about a person they admire, either a family
member or a friend, using the adjectives that they learned during this lesson and looking
for some others up if necessary.
Interaction: teacher-student
Time: 3 minutes

Here is the worksheet:

WORKSHEET
Describing best friends
I.

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the
second column.
1.easy going
a. a person who doesnt usually ask other people for help
2. independent b. someone who doesnt like giving things to other people
3. modest
c. someone who expresses very strong beliefs about things
4. moody
d. people who dont do what they say they will
5. sociable
e. a person who enjoys being with other people
6. stingy
f. someone who is often in a bad mood or depressed
7. unreliable
g. a person who doesnt worry much or get angry easily
h. people who dont make a big deal about their
8. ambitious
accomplishments
9. opinionated i. people you can trust.
10. trustworthy j. 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 Amna 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