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Lesson 1
Great skills! • • •
Listens to and explores descriptions of the physical appearance of known people. Understands descriptions. Describes own physical appearance.
Why do you think people like to talk about the way they look? 1.
Talk about who you look like with your classmates. You can use these questions for help. Who do you look like? • Your mother? • Your father? • Someone else in your family?
2.
Read the descriptions and write the names of the people under the photographs. Then, exchange answers with a partner. Share your strategy. Are your answers the same? If not, discuss and determine which is the correct answer.
Read
• Joanna’s average height. She’s skinny. She has black hair. It’s curly. • Teresa’s short and a little bit plump. She’s pretty and has long brown hair. It’s straight. • Diana is quite tall. She’s slim. She has shoulder length hair. It’s fair and wavy. • Magda isn’t very tall. She has thick shiny black hair. It’s quite long.
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Work in pairs. Can you identify the describing words in the sentences in activity 2? What do they describe? Classify the describing words according to what they describe.
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With your partner, add other words you know to the words you classified in activity 3.
Describes and compares apperances and abilities at different ages.
Pairs
Pairs
