Petpittayakom School Phetchabun

English Department Mattayom 4

Title of Lesson: Describing things around us Time Frame: 6 - 7 hrs.
2nd Semester 2017 – 2018 Date: December 2016
ENGLISH LESSON PLAN

Objectives:

1. Describing things with common adjectives.

2. Students will be able to use adjectives to describe objects, focusing on using adjectives
to clarify or specify meaning.
3. Students will be able to identify the objectives by its description.
4. Describe lots of things, from size, age, shape, color, material.
5. Use adjectives together to give a detailed description of something.
6. Use appropriate spoken and written language in a meaningful context.
7. At the end of teaching-learning activities, students will be able to describe things by
mentioning colors, shapes and size.

Language Functions: Speaking and Listening

Materials:
 Different objects easily available in and around the classroom – tables, chairs, board,
stationary, pictures, etc.
 Example of objects (Watch, Mobile phone, Bag, Cup)
 White board, marker, print out pictures of different objects

Vocabulary

 big, small, long, short, fat, thin, fast, slow, strong, weak, shapes, size, age, color, good,
new, great, little , old, high, different, large, few, bad, same

Structure

 "What's that?"
 "It's a/an (adjective)+(noun)"

Activities:

 Warm up: Explain with examples the words and phrases they used to describe their
partners in the warm-up activity.
 Elicit students to define an adjective. Note that phrases can be used as Adjectives.
Emphasize that these words help explain what something is without actually stating what
it is.
 Introduction of adjectives: Introduce the following adjectives by drawing pictures on
the board: big / small, long / short, fat / thin, strong / weak, fast / slow.
 Tell the class they will be performing an activity based on this idea. The teacher will give
at least two examples to begin with. If they cannot remember a word in English, this will
 help their ability to communicate around that. Use the following two examples or create
your own (Item below is an object described only by Adjectives, Item 6 is a series of
Adjectives meant to identify an object).
- Object: Snowball. Adjectives: Round, Small, Frozen, White (hopefully), Soft, Hand-
Made, Tasteless, Odorless
- Object: Desk. Adjectives: Flat, Four-Legged, Wooden/Metal/Plastic (use a desk in the
room as an example), Brown, Large, Soundless or Creaky (again, use a desk in the room).
 One by one Students will choose and describe one object around them in front of the class
using different ways such as: appearance, texture, shape, color, and size.
 Do the "Adjectives – Draw the Opposites" worksheet Sit everyone down at their desks and
give out the worksheets. Have the students draw the opposites. As they are working,
circulate and ask questions (e.g. what is this? Is this a big, small? Etc.).
 Role-play: Act out the following scenario, using adjectives to describe the situation.
“You left your bag at the gym. Describe what it looks like to the gym manager…
- I have a green bag. It is small and __________. It is as big as a _____________. It is a
leather/canvas/plastic/nylon bag.”

Assessment:

 Dialogue project: Students will write dialogues in pairs about describing the things they
have lost. Must ask questions while practicing the conversation.
- Is it big/ small/ heavy/ light/ dangerous/ expensive/ cheap/ noisy/ smelly/ long/
portable/ shiny?
- What it looks like- color, size, shape etc.?
 The students will receive copies of the worksheet as homework. Their assignment will be to
determine what the adjectives describe. If this is a beginner level class, the objects to choose
from could be attached to the worksheet as a word bank.

Teacher’s Signature______________________
(Mr. Aabid Iqbal)
English Teacher