Lesson Plan

Date: 2014 June 1st

Unit: Lesson 7. “How beautiful she is!” (Review Lesson).

Grade (number of students): Grade 5 (24 students)

Goal: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to describe a person/monster.

Key Expressions: ‘He/She/It has _________.’ ‘He/She/It is _________.”

Teaching aids/Materials: PPTs, video, worksheet, and a whiteboard.

Time Est	Step	Procedure	Material Aids
10	Warm-up Pre-task Activity	Greet the class, - ask how they are. Ask the date and write it on the board Ask what the weather is like -          Watch a short authentic video with a dialogue about “describing a celebrity” (a short video modeling the target language for the students) -          Look at the first slide of the “monster” PPT and ask students to make as many sentences describing it as they can. (Students look at a picture of a monster and the teacher writes their sentences and vocabulary on the white board)	Video Whiteboard PPT
5	1 Pre-task	-          Introduce the Monster drawing task (PPT) (In pairs, Ss draw their own monsters, without showing their partner. Ss1 describes their monster. Ss2 draws the monster. Then they switch. Ss2 describes and Ss1 draws. When they are finished they compare their monsters to the originals - This is an information gap task.)	PPT
15	2 Task	-          Students draw their own monsters (5 min) -          Students describe their monsters to their partner who draws; then, they switch. (5 min each) -          Students compare their drawings	worksheet
5	3 Report	-          A few students show their results to the class and report on the activity (describing their drawings and the drawing activity)	worksheet
5	4 Analysis & Practice	-          Beiber Quiz - Students answer questions based on the warm-up video “describing a celebrity” -          students practice language items	PPT