Казахский государственный женский
педагогический университет Вестник №3(51), 2014 г.
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T: Are they alike?
S: No, they aren’t.
T: How did you know about this?
S: They look like differently. They have different appearance.
T: You are right. This lesson we are to remember how to describe people’s appearance, to know
some knew words and to learn in what ways you can describe people. So, the topic of our lesson
is …
S: «People’s appearance».
II. Eliciting (to revise known topic lexis).
T: What do people usually describe if they want to get known how this or that person looks like?
(Ss give their ideas).
T: Let’s check your ideas. Look at this slide
III. Presentation (to present new topic words, to drill their pronunciation, to explain their
meaning).
T: Now look at these words. Match the words, which you know, to the headings from the
scheme. Do it in pairs.
T: Which words are unknown for you?
S: A dark complexion, a scar,
a birth-mark, pimples, a pony-tail, chestnut.
T: You have these words on the left and what they mean on the right. Match them.
Then T asks CCQ (Concept Checking Questions) to be aware that all students understand
the meaning of the new words, e.g. Is a dark complexion about people’s character? Is a dark
complexion about people’s appearance? Is it a colour of the skin? Is this colour light or dark?
T: Finish your scheme with the new words.
T: What have you got?
S: Hair: …, nose: …, … general appearance: ….
T: You can compare your results.
T: In «General Appearance» there are some words. Order them from the most negative to the
most positive like in the slide (individually).
T: What is your order?
S: Ugly, plain, good-looking, handsome, beautiful.
T: Is there any difference between ‘handsome’ and ‘beautiful’?
S: Yes, there is. ‘Handsome’ is about men and ‘beautiful’ is about women.
T: And we order these words like this (showing slide).
V. Practice (to memorize new words, to teach Ss how to use them in collaboration with other
words, how to use them
in different styles of speech, to organize pair work).
T: Look at these sentences and pictures (showing slide). Your task is to match the sentences to
the pictures. One picture is odd. (individually).
T:What is your result? Read the sentences and name the pictures.
S: ‘He has a dark complexion, dark hair and a scar on his face.’- Picture F, ‘…’ – Picture B, …
T: Now you are to finish the given sentences with your own words (showing slide). (pairwork)
P: 1) This man is only 1 metre 52. He’s quite short. 2) Every morning she twisted her hair into a
bun. … 10) She has a small snub nose, like a knob.
T: Slide shows the right answers (showing). Now you can see 3 people (slide). Tell me what they
look like. The students in the first row will describe the left picture, the second row will describe
the middle one and the third – the right one. Each student is to say a sentence, describe all points.
Ss: say their sentences one by one.
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педагогикалық университеті Хабаршы №3 (51), 2014 ж.
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T: We remembered how we described people last year. But people’s appearance can be
described differently. Look at slide. You can see some styles of texts. Are people described
similarly in these texts?
S: No, they aren’t.
T: You have 3 texts. Briefly read these texts by yourself and choose their styles from given in
slide.
S: Text1 – a police report, Text2 – a novel, Text3 – an article.
T: The styles of these texts are different and, therefore, people are described differently. Now in
pairs read Text1 and in 2 minutes say what information makes this text a police report. Find 5
points as shown in slide.
P: gives his/her answer.
T: Of course, the main point here is the appearance of the person. What does the police report
tell us about the two criminals? What do they look like? Can you read?
S: reads.
T: What points of appearance are described here? In pairs, 2 minutes to find 7 points.
P: Age, height, …, clothes.
T: This slide shows these points. So you know what information a police report contains and
how to describe people’s appearance and now you can do very important work. I am giving you
3 pictures. Don’t show them to anybody.
VI. Production (to encourage students to describe people’s appearance in groups using a certain
style (a police report), to organize work in groups).
T: Work in groups of four. Each group has got a picture. Your task (showing slide) «The person
from the picture is wanted by the police. You saw that person and now can help the police to
describe his or her appearance and the details of the incident. If the police get all necessary
information, they will find that person». Write a police report where you must describe your
person and what happened with him or her. For presenting you will get 3 minutes. Whose report
will be more detailed and the portrait will be more relevant to the person in the picture, that
group will win. Don’t show your picture to other groups.
Then T asks ICQ (Instruction Checking Questions) to be aware that all students understand
the final task.
T: How many students are there in each group?
G: 4.
T: How much time are you to write your police report?
G: 15 minutes.
T: Are you to write what the person looks like in details?
G: Yes, we are.
T: Are you to write what happened to the person?
G: Yes, we are.
T: Are you allowed to show your picture to others?
G: No, we aren’t.
VII. Presentation (to demonstrate the result of students’ work, to check their work, to motivate
students for the future creative work).
T: You are ready and can present your police reports. Do you remember each group has 3
minutes to do it? At first, stick your picture on the board. Now you may show it everybody. Then
read your report. As for the rest students, each one should listen to each group, compare the
portrait of the person in their report and picture and put your mark to it: «very detailed», «rather
detailed», «not very detailed». Let us begin and remember: 3 minutes and put your marks.
G1 (3 min): …
T: Thank you. Students, have you put your marks? OK, the next, please.