Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 5 minutes
Warm-up: Mime and guess the adjective
Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge of adjectives describing people and use a simple sentence to talk about a friend.
Content
T mimes five adjectives (friendly, helpful, clever, active, kind) and Ss guess the words. Then T asks Ss about their friends using 'Is your friend...?' (Period 1)
Expected outcomes
Ss name the adjectives correctly and say one sentence such as 'My friend is friendly.'
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T greets the class and says: 'Let's play Mime and guess. I will mime a word, you guess the word.' T smiles and waves to mime 'friendly'.
Pupils
Ss look at T and guess: 'Friendly!' Ss repeat the word together.
Teacher
T mimes 'helpful', 'clever', 'active' and 'kind' and asks: 'Do you have a friend? Is your friend friendly?'
Pupils
Ss answer in pairs. Expected answer: 'Yes, my friend is friendly.' Some Ss may say: 'My friend is clever and kind.'
Teacher
T calls on three or four Ss to say a sentence about their friend.
Pupils
Ss stand up and say: 'My friend is helpful.' / 'My best friend is active and kind.'
Teacher
T writes the title 'My foreign friends' on the board and says: 'Today we learn how to ask about a friend's personality: What is she like?'
Pupils
Ss open their books at Unit 3, Lesson 3 and repeat the title.