Describing people

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LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • learn vocabulary to describe people’s appearance,
  • practise different uses of ‘like’,
  • learn some body parts,
  • talk about themselves and the people they know, 
  • watch a video on women’s self-image,
  • practise filler words.

In the first lesson, students learn to describe people’s appearance and explore filler words. In the second lesson, they use the vocabulary from lesson 1 to ask and answer different questions with ‘like’.

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Lesson 1 Teach students vocabulary to describe appearance
describe people’s appearance
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What do they look like?

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Students learn vocabulary (e.g. piercing, beard, slim), describe people in photos, watch a video in which people share what they think about their appearance and practise filler words (e.g. ooh, um). They also learn some body parts (e.g. thigh, belly, bum).

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Lesson 2 Help students practise different uses of ‘like’
different uses of ‘like’
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What’s she like? (different uses of ‘like’)

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Students practise different uses of like (like, be like, look like), talk about people’s appearance and personality and describe people in photos. Encourage students to use the vocabulary from the first lesson in ex. 8, 9 and 10 (slides 28-32).

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