UNIT 1: AMAZING PEOPLE

Teaching Reading and Think values

1. Class description:
Grade: 10
Number of students:
Level: A2
2. Time: minutes
3. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Remember and use at least 5 adjectives personality to describe people
- Read for general and specific information about a online survey responses
- Get more information about human qualities
- Talk about a person ss admire
4. Assumed knowledge

- Ss know some vocabulary about the topic in the lesson (Personality)

- Ss have background knowledge about online survey responses
- Ss have background knowledge about reading techniques
5. Anticipated problems
- Ss don’t understand instructions
- Ss don’t actively discuss and practice when working in pairs and groups
- The speakers may be out of order
6. Suggested solutions
- T delivers instruction clearly and modeling tasks with complexity such as
speaking or writing. T has concise instructions shown on whiteboard/
slides.
- T controls the discussion and encourages Ss to participate actively and
enthusiastically. Bonus points should be given for this.
- T should bring a bluetooth speaker.
7. Teaching aids
- Chalk, board, pictures, projector, handouts.
 Timing Interacti Procedure Learning
Stages on outcomes
pattern

Warm up 7 mins T-SS - T asks ss to write adjectives which Engage Ss in

CW describe their own personality. the lesson.
- T collects these and read some out
to the class
(e.g. This person is cool, friendly and
intelligent).
- The rest of the class can guess
which student wrote the adjectives.
- T leads in activity 1

READING

Activity 1
Vocabulary 10 mins T-Ss Vocabulary: caring, friendly, boring, Ss recognize
serious, cheerful, funny, intelligent, the word,
cool, confident, easy-going pronunciatio
- T asks the whole class questions to n, stress and
elicit the adjectives from the meaning of
pictures on the slide. adjectives
- T models the pronunciation and about
asks the whole class to repeat the personality.
words.
- T teaches the whole class the
meaning of the word and asks
questions to make sure that Ss have
understood the meaning of the
 word.
- T writes the word on the board
and teaches the whole class about
syllables and stress.
Example:
- Cheerful →Is a cheerful person sad
or happy? (happy).
Phonology: /ˈtʃɪəfl/, 2 syllables,
stress on 1st syllable
- Which of the adjectives is negative?
(boring)

Activity 2 5 mins PW - T asks ss to discuss the photos in Ss use

(Speaking) pairs adjectives
Controlled - T reminds ss structure about
practice looks/seems + adjective personality
looks like (+ adjective)+ noun to describe
- T monitors and helps with any people.
questions.

Activity 3 10 mins GW - T lets ss work in groups of 4 Ss use

(Speaking) - T asks ss to describe their family adjectives
Freer and friends using learned adjectives. about
practice - T models by describing somebody personality
you know. to describe
- T encourages ss to give reasons for people.
their choice of adjectives
- Ss are encouraged to ask each
other questions about the people
 they describe.
- T asks some ss to present and gives
feedback.

Activity 4 5 mins IW - T tells ss they are going to read an Ss read for

(Reading) article about amazing people. general ideas
- T asks ss to use the skimming about online
technique to read the text quickly to survey
find the answers to the questions. responses
+ focus on getting a general
understanding of the
+ not to try to understand every
word
- T checks answers as class
Answers:
1.Sofia Marconi/ Bia’s mum
2.Mr Nam
3.Gwen

Activity 5 10 mins T-Ss Vocabulary: wildlife, endangered, Ss read for

(Reading) messes about, parachute jump, general ideas
wheelchair. about online
- T reads through the sentences with survey
students and checks their responses.
understanding.
- T uses pictures from the Internet
to teach words
- T asks concept check questions
to make sure ss understand words
Ex: Can you think of any
 endangered animals?
Can you describe somebody
you know who messes about?
7 mins IW T/F:
- T asks ss to underline the key
words in the questions
- T asks ss to answer questions from
their memory first
- T asks ss to read the text again and
play the audio to do the task and
correct any false statements.
- T suggests ss underline the parts
of the text that helped them find
their answers.
- T asks ss to check their answers
with a partner
- T checks answer as a class
Key:
1T 2F 3F 4T 5T 6T

Activity 6 +7 Activity 6: Ss learn

Vocabulary 10 mins PW - T ss to work in pairs to complete more
the exercise. adjectives
- T checks the answers, highlights about
the personality
pronunciation of the vocabulary. to describe
- T asks ss to work in pairs and ask people.
each other questions
Ex: What does a creative person do?
Answers
 1.laid-back 2.creative 3.positive
5 mins 4.talented 5.brave 6.charming
Activity 7:
- T asks ss to work in the same pairs
and complete the exercise
- T asks some ss to write answers on
the board
- T checks answers as a class
Answers
1 charming 2 laid-back 3 talented
4 creative 5 active 6 positive

THINK VALUES

Activity 1 5 T-ss - T asks ss to read instruction Ss use

- T asks ss about their favorite learned
famous people words in
- T models by using 3 adjectives to previous
describe mom parts to
caring: She shows her kindness to describe a
the whole family and person who
easy-going: She doesn’t angry when is not famous
I and my little sister make mistakes but special to
funny: She has a sense of humor and them.
makes funny jokes.

Activity 2 15 mins CW INTERVIEW

- T asks ss to work individually and
prepares a presentation in 10
minutes
- After 10 minutes, ss finds a
 classmate and discusses with each
other
- Ss are asked to swap partners after
finishing discussing with one peer.

Wrap up 2 mins T-Ss - Remember and use at least 5

+Homework CW adjectives personality to describe
people
- Read for general and specific
information about a online survey
responses
- Get more information about human
qualities
- Talk about a person ss admire
*Homework: