LESSON PLANNING

TALKING ABOUT CELEBRITIES

 For integrating skills
REASONS Students preferences.
Learners autonomy.

By the end of the lesson the

LESSON
students will be able to get
AIM
information by asking questions.

This is the 3rd class of present simple

LESSON FIT and personal information, next
lesson we are goingo to work on
writing using personal information
about famous people. (Peer
correction)
DEMONSTRATION
Warmer
Play throw the ball Get ss involved Whole
Practice vocabulary in the class and group
personal information: think in English
E.g.
Nationalities
Professions
Celebrities
Hobbies
Lead-in Introduce t-ss
Draw a mind map on the topic
the board with and get
someones personal ss think
information. about
Elicit: personal
How old is ..? informati
What does .do? on.
Is . Married or
single?
Where is .from?
What does like?
How many children
does ..
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April 4th

Colombian LIA Singer

She likes
swimming married

What is the topic Personal

information
about?
Practice Practice
Ask ss to work in pairs. questions and
Tell ss they are going to get a consolidate
worksheet to make questions. target
Give an example to reasure they language.
will do the exercise well.
E.g.
married/are/single/ you/or
Are you married or single?

Work on ICQs
Are you going to work alone or in
pairs?
Order the words to form questions. Then ask your partner to get the
answers.
name / Whats / your /

FACT full/?

are / you/? /How/old /

FILE


from / your / Whats /?

What / do/? / you /do

When /your/ is/ birthday?

you /married/ single/ or/?/are


?/ have / children/ many /
SHAKIRA you/ do / How

Practice Practice
Give ss a celebrity personal questions
information card and ask and
them to interact by asking consolidate
and aswering questions. target
Model the interaction with language.
one of the students.
Student:
Whats your name?
Teacher:
My name is Shakira

Student:
Where are you from?
Teacher:
I am from Colombia.
 FA C T F I L E

Full name Shakira Isabel

FACT FILE Mebarak Ripoll
Age 38 years old
Nationality Colombian
Job Singer
Birthday February 2nd

Marital Status Married
Children 2 Milan &

SH A K I RA

Sasha
Likes Sunflowers,
painting, colors
SHAKIRA black and white
 METHODOLODY

To encourage ss to brainstorm ideas

ELICIT To develop learners autonomy
To avoid TTT
To know ss previous knowledge

E.G. What is the topic about?

INSTRUCTIO
N They must be clear,
simple and specific

E.G. Say a name of a international

singer.
ICQs To check ssunderstanding about the instruction
You can use:
Yes/no questions
Multiple choice question
Wh question (open questions)

E.g. Are you going to work alone or in pairs?.

MODELIN
G Student:
Whats your
It is used to make the instruction clear
for our students. name?
Reasure students understood and what Teacher:
they have to do. My name is
Students will feel confident about what
Shakira
they are doing.

Student:
Where are you
from?
CONCEPT CHECKING QUESTION
(CCQ)
To check if the students have understood the
topic you have taught.

E.g. We use Where to ask for places or

time
PEER
CHECKING

Students swap their work and correc

themselves by using correction code.

E.g. When students are asked to unscramble the questions.

SKILLS

READING/
WRITING
They practice reading when they have to recognize
the strucure form.
They place the word into the correct order
following grammar structure.

LISTENING/SPEAKING

Students practice through asking and

aswering questions about fact file
Students listen to their partner and
answer the questions according to the
information.
HOW TO ADAPT THIS LESSON

This kind of activities could be

adapted to other tenses. For
example: to talk about historical
characters.
To elicit other categories of
vocabulary.
For example: to elicit vocabulary
about clothes.
It could be adapted to make
interviews.
 Designed for:
Jhony Monzon
Erly
Julio Cesar
Isabel
Angel