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Task-Based Grammar Lesson Plan

The document provides guidance for a lesson plan to teach students how to describe personalities using adjectives. The lesson involves students describing themselves and their friends using pieces of paper with their astrological signs. Students then categorize the descriptive words used into positive and negative attributes.

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Task-Based Grammar Lesson Plan

The document provides guidance for a lesson plan to teach students how to describe personalities using adjectives. The lesson involves students describing themselves and their friends using pieces of paper with their astrological signs. Students then categorize the descriptive words used into positive and negative attributes.

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Theme:

People

End task: Able to write an informal letter or e-mail describing one personality using adjectives. Aim: Learners should be able to use adjectives to describe themselves and their friends. Proficiency level: High Proficiency Duration : 6 minutes Tasks: Teaching materials: A! papers" small pieces of paper" Power Point slides" Handouts" #haracteristics of Astrological $igns. Students previous knowledge: %hey have prior &nowledge on describing their family members. Pre-task warmer: Aim: %o prepare the students for the tas&s to engage their attention. his)her '. (ead a journal entry of a student describing a person who is close to heart. *. As& them who they thin& the person might be. +. Allow as many suggestions as possible. !. As& them who are the people close to them and why.

ntegrating grammar using a task-!ased model of instruction "language skills# Aim : ,or students to describe their personality. '. -roup them according to their astrological signs. *. As& them to describe their positive or negative attributes in the same groups. +. .isplay the characteristics of each astrological sign on board. their !. -ive them time limit to choose which list of characteristics belongs to group.

/. .isplay on PowerPoint the actual characteristics of each astrological sign. 6. .iscuss meanings of the unfamiliar words with students. Planning: Aim: ,or students to describe the characteristics of their friends using adjectives. '. -ive each student a piece of A! paper. *. As& them to stic& on their bac&. friends +. As& the students to stand and move around the classroom and their will describe their characteristics. !. $tudents will be given ' minutes and they need to move around to get as many friends as possible to describe themselves. /. $tudents will get bac& to their place and read the characteristics described by their friends. 6. ,orm the list of words" they need to categori0e them into positive and negative attributes. $eporting Aim: ,or students to describe themselves and give opinions on their friend1s perception on themselves. '. $elect a few students to present on what they thin& about themselves. *. $tate whether they agree or disagree with their friends1 opinions of themselves. %odelling Aim: ,or students to hear a fluent 2nglish spea&er 3teacher4 doing the same tas&:

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.istribute a small piece of paper to every student. As& them to describe you. %hey are encouraged to use the words that just learned. .escribe yourself.

&anguage focus Aim: %o raise students1 awareness about the grammatical items 5 adjectives and sentence structure.

'. .isplay on Power Point a few sentences that you used to describe yourself earlier. ,or e6ample : '4 7 am an optimistic employee. *4 7 am punctual. +4 7 am a forgetful person. !4 7 am adventurous. /4 7 am a caring mother. 64 7 am a systematic teacher. *. As& them the differences among these sentences. +. 26plain the rules of form for Adjectives. i# Ad'ectives can come !efore a (oun) '4 7 am a forgetful person. *4 7 am a systematic teacher. ii# Ad'ectives can come after a *er! to +,e "is- are- am- was- were#) '4 7 am punctual. *4 7 am adventurous.

&anguage practice Aim : To give students some practice in the target language) '4 %ell them to listen to the description read by you. *4 %hey write down as much as they can recall in pairs. +4 As& a student to act as the class 8scribe1. !4 Project the slide of the original te6t and as& them to identify the differences .ptional follow-up Aim : To give the students some restricted written practice) '4 As& them to write about themselves using the structure taught. *4 As& the students to chec& their sentences with each other. +4 $elect three students to write on the board. !4 #orrect the sentences spontaneously 3 peer correction4 between the two te6ts.

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