3B: Describing people

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• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo b, k, mavo
• Leerjaar 2,3

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Lesson goal

I can describe people.

Pre class task: create a list with 20 adjectives to describe people and write the Dutch translation next to the English adjective.

Today

• Warm-up

• Speaking activity 

• Review

Warm-up

Which words do you know that can describe a person?

What do we call this type of word?

hair, eyes, nose, mouth, height, build, etc. You can also go a step further and talk about whether they look happy, sad or have any other emotion.

Face & Hair?

Height/ weight?

Eyes

Personality

Warm-up

On the next slide: pick a person and describe this person to your neighbour. Do this for 5 people each.

hair, eyes, nose, mouth, height, build, etc. You can also go a step further and talk about whether they look happy, sad or have any other emotion.

5

minute

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second

+30 s

Speaking activity

Resource: Who am I

• Play in pairs

• Student A picks 1 of the pictures and describes this person. Be very precise! If student B guesses the correct person, your team gets a point.

• Which team describes the pictures best?

Review: Guess who?

Think of a famous person, the rest of the class must guess who it is by asking questions. You can only answer with yes or no.