4th Grade Unit 14 Physical Appearance Teaching Speaking

Pelin Serin

10131067 3-B

Textbook: Primary English Student’s Book

Grade: 4th

Unit 14: Physical Appearance

Language Point: Descriptive adjectives: tall- short, fat-thin, long-short, fair- dark, curly- straight, old- young

Materials: Small ball

Time: 40 min

OBJECTIVES

1.       Students make sentences by using descriptive adjectives.

2.       Students can make basic daily sentences about physical appearance.

3.       Students can understand basic sentences about physical appearance.

NOTICING

Activity: Throw the ball and say

Teacher greets the students and talks about the subject point that they learnt in the previous lesson.  They talk about adjectives. After a brief conversation, teacher brings a small ball in the class and asks students to make a circle. Teacher starts first by saying an adjective and throwing the ball to one of the students. Teacher gives an instruction and the student performs it. Then, another student performs it.

For example:

 Teacher says: “Make a sentence with ‘small’ ”.

The student makes the sentence and throws the ball to other student.

Student says:  “Say the opposite of ugly”. And this goes on until everybody performs the activity.

 

STRUCTURING

Activity: “Guess, Who Am I”

Teacher wants a volunteer to come to the board and turn his/her back. The rest of the class and the teacher choose one of the students in the class. They started to say one physical features of that chosen student. And the student standing on the board listens to his/her friends and tries to guess “Who it is?” By the way, while listening, the student also tries to draw a picture of that student according to the sentences his/her friends make.

After everybody has agreed that everything is said, he/she turns again and learns who it is and they compare the appearance of their friends and the drawing on the board.

           

 PROCEDURALISING

Activity: My Famous Person

Teacher wants students to make a group of five and choose one of their favorite famous person. They start to say their person’s physical features group by group. While one group is describing, another groups try to guess the person. At the end of the activity, the winner group is announced by teacher and the teacher greets them.