Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
XXX XXX B1 intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type: Vocabulary
Lesson Topic: Personality adjectives
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1. Use the ten new adjectives (affectionate, aggressive, bossy, 1. Had a conversation, in pairs, about the personality traits of
competitive, independent, jealous, reliable, sensible, people they know using pre-existing vocabulary supported
sensitive, spoilt), as well as their existent vocabulary to by the target language (TV).
produce more detailed descriptions of people’s
personalities.
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Students may struggle with the phonology of some of the vocabulary, 1. I will chorus pronunciation and do CIC making the students pay special
particularly words with three or more syllables e.g. affectionate, care to the stress sounds and the shape of my mouth. Furthermore, I
aggressive, competitive and independent. will clearly mark which point along the word needs to be stressed on
2. Due to the target language being entirely made up of one type of the board along with the phonemic spelling.
adjective (personality adjectives), students may have trouble 2. I will provide sentences which use the adjectives in different contexts
memorising and distinguishing between meanings. Also, some of the (Fig.1) to allow the students to better distinguish between them. I will
adjectives may not naturally occur within the learner’s L1. also ask many CCQs to ensure understanding.
3. Confident students may dominate the activities, particularly in the 3. During class activities I will be careful to use specific names in order to
production stage, creating a difficult environment for the less confident encourage participation and I will assign passive roles to those who
students to contribute. seem to be dominating. I will be able to do this by closely monitoring
all student participation throughout the lesson.
Language analysis:
Language Item Meaning of the How you will present Concept Checking Grammatical form Pronunciation
item meaning Questions
Example: Example: Example: Example: Example: Example:
huge very big, enormous using a picture of a mouse What’s the opposite of huge? Strong adjective / hjuːdʒ/
and an elephant to show Name a huge mountain.
large size
1. Affectionate Someone who Show picture of someone 1. Is it positive or Adjective /əˈfɛkʃ(ə)nət/
shows lots of love expressing love towards negative?
another person. Also, role 2. Is the person nasty?
towards other
play an exaggerated show 3. Are mothers usually
people of affectionate towards affectionate to their
children?
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, someone in the class
(obviously appropriate!!)
2. Aggressive Someone who Show picture of a person 1. Is it positive or Adjective /əˈɡrɛsɪv/
becomes angry acting aggressively negative?
towards someone else. 2. Is this person nice to
easily
Also, role play being angry people?
towards the class e.g. 3. Do you like
shouting at someone for a aggressive people?
trivial reason. Why?
3. Bossy Someone who likes Show a picture of 1. Is it positive or Adjective /ˈbɒsi/
to give people someone giving lots of negative?
commands to someone 2. Does this person like
orders
else. Also, role play giving to do things
lots of commands to a themselves?
student e.g. listing “do 3. Who do you know
this…. , do that… “etc that is bossy? Why
while wagging finger. are they bossy?
4. Competitive Someone who likes Show a picture of 1. Does this person like Adjective /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv/
to win someone who is winning a to lose?
race and looking very 2. Is this person friendly
determined. when they play
Write in large characters sports?
“1st“on the board and role 3. Are you competitive?
play celebrating. Contrast Why?
that with writing “2nd“
and looking sad.
5. Independent Someone who likes Show a picture 1. Is it positive or Adjective /ɪndɪˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
to do things alone “Independent 1” and negative?
explain that the boy is
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XXX XXX B1 intermediate 60 minutes
Lesson Type: Vocabulary
Lesson Topic: Personality adjectives
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
1. Use the ten new adjectives (affectionate, aggressive, bossy, 1. Had a conversation, in pairs, about the personality traits of
competitive, independent, jealous, reliable, sensible, people they know using pre-existing vocabulary supported
sensitive, spoilt), as well as their existent vocabulary to by the target language (TV).
produce more detailed descriptions of people’s
personalities.
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Students may struggle with the phonology of some of the vocabulary, 1. I will chorus pronunciation and do CIC making the students pay special
particularly words with three or more syllables e.g. affectionate, care to the stress sounds and the shape of my mouth. Furthermore, I
aggressive, competitive and independent. will clearly mark which point along the word needs to be stressed on
2. Due to the target language being entirely made up of one type of the board along with the phonemic spelling.
adjective (personality adjectives), students may have trouble 2. I will provide sentences which use the adjectives in different contexts
memorising and distinguishing between meanings. Also, some of the (Fig.1) to allow the students to better distinguish between them. I will
adjectives may not naturally occur within the learner’s L1. also ask many CCQs to ensure understanding.
3. Confident students may dominate the activities, particularly in the 3. During class activities I will be careful to use specific names in order to
production stage, creating a difficult environment for the less confident encourage participation and I will assign passive roles to those who
students to contribute. seem to be dominating. I will be able to do this by closely monitoring
all student participation throughout the lesson.
Language analysis:
Language Item Meaning of the How you will present Concept Checking Grammatical form Pronunciation
item meaning Questions
Example: Example: Example: Example: Example: Example:
huge very big, enormous using a picture of a mouse What’s the opposite of huge? Strong adjective / hjuːdʒ/
and an elephant to show Name a huge mountain.
large size
1. Affectionate Someone who Show picture of someone 1. Is it positive or Adjective /əˈfɛkʃ(ə)nət/
shows lots of love expressing love towards negative?
another person. Also, role 2. Is the person nasty?
towards other
play an exaggerated show 3. Are mothers usually
people of affectionate towards affectionate to their
children?
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, someone in the class
(obviously appropriate!!)
2. Aggressive Someone who Show picture of a person 1. Is it positive or Adjective /əˈɡrɛsɪv/
becomes angry acting aggressively negative?
towards someone else. 2. Is this person nice to
easily
Also, role play being angry people?
towards the class e.g. 3. Do you like
shouting at someone for a aggressive people?
trivial reason. Why?
3. Bossy Someone who likes Show a picture of 1. Is it positive or Adjective /ˈbɒsi/
to give people someone giving lots of negative?
commands to someone 2. Does this person like
orders
else. Also, role play giving to do things
lots of commands to a themselves?
student e.g. listing “do 3. Who do you know
this…. , do that… “etc that is bossy? Why
while wagging finger. are they bossy?
4. Competitive Someone who likes Show a picture of 1. Does this person like Adjective /kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv/
to win someone who is winning a to lose?
race and looking very 2. Is this person friendly
determined. when they play
Write in large characters sports?
“1st“on the board and role 3. Are you competitive?
play celebrating. Contrast Why?
that with writing “2nd“
and looking sad.
5. Independent Someone who likes Show a picture 1. Is it positive or Adjective /ɪndɪˈpɛnd(ə)nt/
to do things alone “Independent 1” and negative?
explain that the boy is
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