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Topic 17 – Appearances

By the end of the lesson you will be able to…
- Describe people’s appearance and what they are
wearing.
Aims for today
- Talk and write about actions happening at the
moment using the present continuous tense.
- Use new vocabulary to discuss and describe images.

Mimes: In this activity students are asked to mime out an
action or activity without speaking. The class is split into two
teams and each team selects a mime for each round. The
teacher tells the mime what action they have to perform, and
their team try to guess what they are doing. The first team to
guess correctly gets a point. Teams then switch the mime.
Optional Warmer
Example ideas for mimes: drinking hot coffee, eating a pizza,
riding a bike, flying a plane. Depending on class ability, the
mimes can be harder or easier by increasing or decreasing
the level of detail in each mime. (For example: drinking hot
coffee slowly).

Task 1

Skill Speaking
Time 10 mins
Lead in – Introduce the idea of ‘appearances’ by looking at
images on the divider page. Teacher could elicit ideas from
the class about what people are wearing or look like.

A.
In cases where your class all wear the same uniform, it will
Teaching Tips be helpful for the teacher to prepare some photographs of
people wearing different clothes to add variety to the
students’ speaking.

B.
For weaker classes the teacher could provide a spoken
example of what they are wearing.
A/B
Assessment Monitor pair speaking and feedback any good uses of
language after the task with the whole class.

Task 2

Skill Listening
Time 15 mins
Teaching Tips A.