Тема уроку: Personality

  Lesson topic: Personality

Aim: - to stimulate using of vocabulary.

Instructional: to develop creative thinking, reading, listening and communicative skills.

Developing: to practise describing people's appearance and character.

Educational: to educate correct attitude to human relations.

Equipment: the textbook Solutions Pre-Intermediate, Unit 1, р.4, a CD player, cards.

Type of the lesson: combined lesson.

Procedure

I. Greeting

T: Good morning, everybody! I`m glad to see you! How are you today?

Cl: Good morning, teacher! We are glad to see you too! We are fine, thank you.

2. Warm-up

Students work in pairs. Teacher asks them to work individually first. Students note down two adjectives which describe their own personality and two adjectives about their partner's personality. They have a minute. Students compare their notes in pairs and  write the adjectives on the board.

Honest, ungrateful, interesting, generous, clever, spoiled, skeptical, mean, narrow-minded.

II. The main part of the lesson

Exercise 1 page 4

Students are focused on the photographs. They should describe the characters using the prompts.

Exercise 2 page 4

Students can work in pairs during 1 minute.

Exercise 3 page 4    Listen to the recording and check the answers.

Pupils listen to the recording again stopping after each pair of adjectives. Teaches asks: questions: Does a mean/generous person give expensive presents? Who tells jokes - a serious person or a funny person? etc.  Pupils go on listening to each sentence describing a personality type (for example, “A person who is happy”). Then they choose the word that describes that personality type (“cheerful” in this example).

Game Personality Types – Сhoose the correct  answer.

1) A person who likes to give or share things with others.

2) Someone who always tells the truth.

3) A person who is quick at learning new things.

4) Someone who is always on time.

5) A person who can’t keep a secret.

6) Someone who does not think about other peoples’ feelings.

7) A person who speaks in a very direct and honest way.

8) Someone who is educated or has good manners.

9) A person who comes up with new and original ideas.

10) Someone who has a strong desire to succeed.

1) A) selfish

B) interesting

C) generous

2) A) comical

B) honest

C) ungrateful

3) A) spoiled

B) clever

C) easygoing

4) A) punctual

B) bland

C) skeptical

5) A) bigmouth

B) depressing

C) pushy

6) A) talented

B) brilliant

C) inconsiderate

7) A) sloppy

B) frank

C) helpless

8) A) childish

B) nasty

C) cultured

9) A) creative

B) timid

C) narrow-minded

10) A) forgetful

B) ambitious

C) disorganized

Key: 1 c; 2 b; 3 b; 4 a; 5 a; 6 c; 7 b; 8 c; 9 a; 10 b.

Exercise 4 page 4    Listen  to  the dialogues and match  adjectives with the people.

T: How many adjectives are there? How many people are you going to hear about? How many adjectives will you need?

Adjectives: lazy, impatient, rude, shy.

Exercise 5 page 4

T: Choose three people whom you know well and make notes about their personalities. You should not write full sentences. Say your descriptions in pairs without saying the mate`s name. It should include some of the person's typical behaviour so that the rest of the class can guess who it is. Guess who has been described.

WRITING. "PERSONA POEM"

T: Finally, we will write a creative piece of work called "Persona Poem". Look at the blackboard where you can see the scheme of this verse. This is an eight-line poem.

Write a poem about one of your classmate.

Line 1 : first name or nickname of the person in the poem.

Line 2: 4 adjectives which describe the person.

Line 3: describing an attitude towards the person, X of Y formula.

Line 4: who loves ____ , ____ and ___ = 3 things the person loves.

Line 5: who is afraid of ____ , ____ and = 3 things.

Line 6: who wants to see ____ , ____ and = 3 things.

Line 7: resident of = place/time/concept.

Line 8: surname of the person in the poem.

Example.

Kyrylo

Sociable, handsome, confident, kind

Friend of Max

Who loves books, sport and bikes

Who is afraid of exams, teachers and mum

Who wants to see friends, classmates and fans

Resident of our gymnasia

Petrenko

(Students read their creations.)

Lesson outcome

T: Thank you for good and productive work. What have you learnt today? What was easy or difficult for you? What new did you get to know from the lesson? What  did you practise? Everyone got good marks from the lesson.

Home task:

Exercise 6 page 4   Write and tell the class about one of your friends or relatives.

The lesson is over. Good-bye!

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