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Facial features, adjectives for physical
description
Introduce the physical
appearance vocabulary.
Show a face
part flashcard and have the students touch that part of the face and say the
word. Listening the action helps internalize the new language.
Teacher: Touch your mouth! (Show the flashcard )
Play
sit down. Show a facial feature flashcard as
you say a statement.
Teacher: If you have
gray hair, sit down! (Obviously
no one will sit down)
If you have green
eyes, sit down.
If you long red
hair, sit down.
Continue with all the hair color
/length and eyes. The winners will be the last one standing. Have the students
say why they are the winners.
Students: He/she has short blonde hair and blue eyes.
Critical thinking is in use when students will analyse the flashcards. Practice the question word: What color?
Ask questions:
What color is her hair?
Students: red!
Teacher: Does she
have brown hair?
Students: Yes, she
does.
Teacher: Does Tom
have gray hair?
Students: No, he
doesn’t.
Teacher: Who has
blonde hair?
Students: Luca.
Discuss
about hair length order. Sort the hair flashcard
by short and long.
Ask questions:
Teacher: Who has
long hair?
Students: Sophia,
Olivia, Emma and Amelia.
Teacher: Who has
short hair?
Students: Owen.
Ask questions
using color and length: Who has short blond hair?
Students: Ava.
Have your students describe
themselves: I have long brown hair. Ask questions about their physical
appearance.
You can continue working on this for
more speaking practice with your students to gain confidence. Hand in the
people mat to each student or group of students. Place it inside a clear
plastic sheet for your students to check or write on it and erase it easily.
Describe a
person and have the students guess the person and cross out on the mat: He has short black
hair.
Students: Tom!
Have your
students describe another person for the class to guess: She has long red
hair!
students: Emma!
Then, students can play in pairs or
small groups.
Play a little
more with your students with these fun crazy hair flashcards. Kids have weird hairdo and
colors. Say a sentence and students have to say the number of that person.
Teacher: She has
purple hair!
Students: She’s
number seven!
Say it
backwards: Number twelve!
Teacher: He has
orange hair.
Use the
flashcards to graph from
the color and length of the hair of the people in class and even more.
Place them on the board and ask questions:
Who has black long
hair?
Students: Olivia and
Leny.
It can be graphing the curly and straight hair. Have
the students come and stand under each flashcard and say how they look: I have straight
hair.
And don’t miss graphing the eye color. Students will use the adjectives of colors.
Next
part will be the Face Unit small cards.
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