LESSON 1

Generalities:
University of El Salvador
Foreign Language Department (FLD)
Subject: English Level III
Group: 01
Unit: Unit 9 “What does she look like”
Level: Basic
Lesson A (1) “Describing people’s appearances”
Date: 03/10/24
Time: 100 minutes
Teacher: Josué Benjamín Villatoro Borja
• General Objective: By the end of this unit, students will be able to express themselves with basic
vocabulary and sentence structures to describe people’s physical appearances confidently.
Instructional 1. At the end of this class, students will be able to accurately describe the physical
Objective(s) appearance of individuals, using appropriate vocabulary.
2. By the end of the class, students will be able to express a description of someone by
using the vocabulary and grammatical structures studied in the class.
3) At the end of this unit, students should be able to list questions to ask about people’s
appearances.
Language -Describing people’s appearances.

Functions
Grammatical -Questions for describing people.
Key Contents
Structures -Modifiers with participles and prepositions.

• What does he/she look like?
Key Vocabulary
• How tall is…? -Young, old -Tall, short

• What color is…? -Beautiful, pretty, ugly
• How long is…? -Good-looking, handsome
• How fast do you run? - Fast, slowly,
To start the class, the teacher will use an activity in which

the students will have to get involved to get acquainted with
the content that is going to be studied during the section.
Presentation
Activity: Time
Warm-up Describing who is: Display photos of comics (or use images 15 minutes
of famous people in the classroom). The teacher will ask the
students to develop the activity using basic phrases to Skill
describe each photo. Encourage basic vocabulary like "Fast," Speaking and
"slowly," "Tall," "Small," etc. building
vocabulary
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Students can take turns describing each image, while others
choose their photo to participate.
Having worked with the warm-up activity, the teacher will

use a small PowerPoint presentation to introduce the key
vocabulary, then continue with the sentence structure that is
used when it comes to describing people´s physical
appearance. The basic vocabulary and sentence structures to
be used in the class are the following: Time
-Hair: long, short, curly, straight, blonde, brunette, bald. 20 minutes
-Height: tall, short, average height.
-Build: thin, muscular, overweight, and slim.
Presentation -Age: young, middle-aged, old.
-Features: glasses, beard, mustache, freckles. Skill
Example: “She has long, curly hair and blue eyes.” Speaking,
Example: “He is tall and has a muscular build.” building
Example: “You and I are tall but we are slowly” vocabulary
After teaching this main part, the teacher will ask students to
make a small speech to describe a person based on what they
have understood so far.
Activity 1: Challenge Game (words-meanings) (10 minutes)

Now, it is time for students to practice what they have
learned. The teacher will give them worksheets with pictures
of different people and, on the other side, written
descriptions. Students will have to match the correct Time
Activity description with the correct picture. 20 minutes
Activity 2: Pair Work (10 minutes)
Practice
In pairs, students will take turns describing someone they Skill

know, with some adjectives seen in the class. Their partner Speaking, and
has to guess who it is based on the description. Building
vocabulary
Encourage them to use the sentence structures together with
the building vocabulary introduced earlier.
Such as the following example:
“He is tall and his hair is curly and my last name starts with J
and ends with s” Who am I?
Activity: Create and Describe a Character
For this stage, the students will work in small groups.
They should create a character (or choose one from their
Time
imagination, such as a superhero, a cartoon character, etc.).
Once they’ve created the character, each student writes a 30 minutes
short description (5-10 sentences) of their character's
Production
appearance. (15 minutes)
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Such as the following example: Skill
Writing,
My character is (name)
Name: Spiderman Speaking, and
Young/Old: Young
listening
Weight: Thin
Weak/Strong: Strong
Ability: Fly (throw cobwebs)
They then present their character to the class, using the target
vocabulary and structures. The class can ask questions to
clarify or add to the description. (15 minutes)
Activity:
Review: Ask students to review key vocabulary from the Time
lesson, listing some examples on the board as a class. Ask 15 minutes
each student to give a quick description of one classmate (or
Wrap- up themselves) as their "key" before leaving class. For example:
“He has short black hair and is wearing a white sweater.” Skill
Writing
Describe how the two people are similar and different in terms of height, build,
Assessment
facial features, hair, and clothing.
For homework, the teacher will assign an activity that reinforces the lesson and
allows students to practice the vocabulary creatively.
Homework Instructions: Choose someone you know well (a family member, friend, or even
a famous person) and write a brief description of their physical appearance and
abilities..
-Photos/images of different people.

-Worksheets for matching activities.
- Freewriting to practice the unit.
Materials
- Quizziz (Small evaluations)
-Notebooks or handouts for the character creation activity.
- Activities in Wordwall
Richards, J. C., Hull, J., & Proctor, S. (2000). New Interchange 1 Teacher's
Edition. Cambridge University Press.
- https://youtu.be/bRo1LVq-acw?si=qyb_Sczu4xkE6AQz
Bibliography - https://youtu.be/dgqFsUAuP24?si=A6kusxuONYLPexk8
- https://youtu.be/uRGVtGfoXvI?si=8nfIHMu_ed7uVEhc
- https://youtu.be/nL3s2uZQyh0?si=DnEk79fOIZLvCSqz
- https://youtu.be/w9wI5ZvZn6g?si=fGs70qqbZ1qHHT07
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Generalities:

Language -Describing people’s appearances.

Structures -Modifiers with participles and prepositions.

• How tall is…? -Young, old -Tall, short

To start the class, the teacher will use an activity in which

Having worked with the warm-up activity, the teacher will

Activity 1: Challenge Game (words-meanings) (10 minutes)

In pairs, students will take turns describing someone they Skill

-Photos/images of different people.

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