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People I know A0

  • Level: A0
  • Topic: Describing people
  • Learning Outcome: Can use adjectives to describe appearance & personality
  • Grammar: Present Simple Yes/No Questions
Key Language:

Adjectives to describe appearance: short, tall, beautiful, old, slim, chubby, good looking

Mandy, Will, and Lisa are feeling bored. Mandy has an idea to play her favourite game! They must guess who she is thinking of by asking questions about their age, hobbies, interests, and looks. Can you guess who Mandy is thinking of? Play along and see if you can guess!

Transcript

People I know – Transcript
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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To check learners’ understanding of the video. 

Steps for Students

  1. Work in pairs.  
  2. Discuss what you remember about Lisa from the video. 
  3. Discuss what you remember about Boosty from the video. 
  1. Put learners in pairs. 
  2. Share the task with the learners. 
  3. Ask the learners to discuss what they remember about Lisa and Boosty from the video. 
  4. Check the activity with the whole class. 
  5. (Optional): Ask learners to work in pairs again so one learner can talk about what they remember about Lisa, while the  other learner can talk about Boosty. 

 

Face-to-face class: 

  • print worksheet for learners or project it on an interactive 
  • you’ll need a whiteboard 

 

Online class: 

  • share worksheet on the screen of the teacher’s computer OR 
  • share the worksheet with individual students e.g. on a Google Drive

 

TIP! 

  • Learners may need to watch the video more than once.  
  • Use the activity to assess how much the learners remember from the video according to their knowledge. Do not expect learners to remember all the pieces of information. 
  • To make the activity more communicative, encourage learners to give their answers in sentences.
What do you remember about Lisa? 

age:  

She’s 10. 

favourite subject:  

Her favourite subject is art. 

personality: 

She is shy, but very friendly and clever. 

free time: 

She often takes photos and walks in the park after school. 

appearance: 

She’s tall and slim. She’s got long, brown hair and brown eyes. 

 What do you remember about Boosty? 

age:  

He’s about twenty. 

country:  

He’s from China. 

personality: 

He’s active and outgoing, but sometimes he is lazy. 

free time + interests:  

He loves climbing tress. He loves hip-hop and wants to be a singer. 

appearance: 

He’s short and chubby. He’s good-looking. 

Activity attachment

People I Know A0 Activity 1
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Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To provide learners with controlled practice of the use of adjectives from the video. 

Steps for Students

  1. Work in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Look at the pictures. 
  3. Guess the adjectives. 
  1. Put learners in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Share the task with the learners. 
  3. Ask the learners to look at seven pictures and decide which adjective from the animated video each shows. To reveal the answer, click the card. If the learners’ guess was correct, ask them to click the tick symbol (✅). If their guess was incorrect, click the X symbol (❌) before moving on to  the next question. 
  4. Ask learners to give you any other adjective they know from their previous studies. Write the adjectives on the board or the screen. 
  5. Ask learners to say sentences using the adjectives both from the video. Use a projector to show learners the task: ACTIVITY 2 

TIP!

  • To make this activity competitive, ask learners to work in small groups. Ask them to come up with as many sentences using the adjectives from the activity as they can in 3-5 minutes. Each group can get a point or a star for each correct sentence.  
  • Note that it is possible to switch templates using the same content by clicking one of the templates (e.g. Match up, Find the match) on the right of the screen. 
  • You may find it more appropriate to use various templates in order of difficulty to reinforce your learners’ knowledge. 
    •  Match up template   
    •  Find the match template   
    • Flash cards template 
  •  Drill the adjectives both from the video and what the learners add to ensure they can pronounce them properly. 

Adjectives used from the video: short, tall, famous, shy, active, lazy, beautiful 

Aim of Activity

5 - 10 minutes

To practise pronunciation by raising learners’ awareness of the rhythm and sentence stress in questions and get the learners ready for the following speaking activity in Activity 4. 

Steps for Students

Listen to and repeat the questions. Copy the rhythm.

  1. Play the recording for the learners to listen to and repeat. Ask the learners to copy the rhythm of the questions and sentence stress.
  2. Ask the learners to ask and answer the questions. 
  3. Check the activity with the whole class. 

 

TIP! 

  • The words stressed (which are usually longer and louder) can be highlighted on the board or screen as visual aid for the learners. (Underline the words or put a circle above the stressed words.
    Example: 

                                             O     O          O 

    How old are you? OR How old are you?

  • Focus learners’ attention to the short answers to Yes/No questions by eliciting the possible answers. 
    E.g.: Is your favourite subject English? 👍 Yes, it is. 👎 No, it isn`t.
    Are you good at maths? 👍 Yes, I am. 👎 No, I`m not. 
  1. How old are you? 
  2. Is your favourite subject English?  
  3. Is your favourite subject PE?  
  4. Are you good at maths? 
  5. Are you good at English? 
  6. Are you good at PE? 

Aim of Activity

15 - 25 minutes

To provide learners with controlled practice of asking and answering mainly Yes/No-questions about themselves. 

Steps for Students

  1. Work in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Click the link your teacher has got. 
  3. Put the words in the questions in the correct order. 
  4. Write the correct questions in your notebook. 
  5. Ask and answer the questions in pairs. 
  1. Put learners in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Share the task with the learners: ACTIVITY 4
  3. Ask the learners to reorder the words in the questions given and write them in their notebook. Ask the learners to take it in turns to ask and answer the questions.  
  4. Remind the learners of the use of sentence stress that they practised in Activity 3
  5. Check the activity with the whole class. 

 

Face-to-face class:  

  • Use a projector to do the task as a whole class activity OR 
  • Provide tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups. 

 

Online lesson: 

  • Use a computer to share the task online ACTIVITY 4

TIP! 

  • During doing the online activity, learners can be asked to write the correct questions in their notebook. 
  • After doing the online activity, ask the learners  
    • to pay attention to their partner’s answers.
    • monitor learners’ use of the language for error correction.
  • Nominate some learners to share with the class what they have learnt about their partner(s). 
  • Fast finishers can be asked to write 2-3 sentences about their partner based on their answers. 
  • As a follow-up activity, learners can write sentences about their partner. 
  • Note that  
    • it is possible to switch templates using the same content by clicking one of the templates (e.g. Anagram) on the right of the screen. 
    • all the words in a sentence need to flash in the same colour for the sentence to be correct 
  1. How old are you? 
  2. Is your favourite subject maths? (Is English your favourite subject? is also correct grammatically.) 
  3. Is your favourite subject music? (Is PE your favourite subject? is also correct grammatically.) 
  4. Are you good at sport? 
  5. Are you good at English? 
  6. Are you good at numbers? 

Aim of Activity

15 - 20 minutes

To provide learners with an example of controlled practice as well as a freer practice activity in the context of asking and answering mainly Yes/No-questions to describe people. 

Steps for Students

  1. Work in pairs. 
  2. Match the questions with the answers. 
  3. Student A: Choose one of your classmates, but don’t tell Student B. 
  4. Student B: Ask questions to find out who Student A has chosen. (Use the questions and answers to help you.) 
  5. Student B: Choose one of your classmates, but don’t tell Student A. 
  6. Student A: Ask questions to find out who Student B has chosen. 
  7. Tell your teacher what your partner said. 
  1. Put learners in pairs. 
  2. Share the task with your learners. 
  3. Ask the learners to match questions and answers to provide them with a model for the following speaking activity. 
  4. Ask the learners to take it in turns to think of someone in class and find out who the person is by asking questions similar to the ones in the flippity Activity.  
  5. Check the answers with the whole class. 

 

 Face-to-face class:  

  • Use a projector to do the task (ACTIVITY 5 ) as a whole class activity OR tablets for groups of learners to do the task in groups 

 

Online lesson: 

  • Use a computer to share the task online: ACTIVITY 5 

 

TIP! 

  • Pre-teach `Try again. ` if learners are not familiar with it. 
  • Before the speaking activity, demonstrate the task by thinking of a learner in class and asking pupils to ask you questions to find out who the person is. 
  • During the speaking activity, monitor learners and take notes of  common errors for error correction right after the activity or at the beginning of the next lesson. 
  • After the activity, the teacher can nominate some of the learners to share with the class what they have learnt about their partner. 
  • As a follow-up activity, learners can describe one of their classmates in writing as their homework for the rest of the class to guess who it is in the following lesson.  

Flippity Activity: 

  1. Is it a boy or a girl? – It’s a boy.
  2. How old is he? – He’s 10.
  3. Is his favourite subject English? – Yes, it is.
  4. Is he good at music? – No, he isn’t.
  5. Is it Tom? – Yes, it is. / No, it isn’t. Try again.

The BOOST Project (Building Open Online Series for Teaching) aims to improve the digital readiness of teachers of English as a foreign language to students aged 8 -14 by providing an open-access series of engaging native-speaker content videos linked with a Resource Pack of ready-made activities to stimulate production of the language in online learning.

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