Автор: АХМЕТОВА Г.К. преподаватель английского языка Павлодарского педагогического колледжа им.Б.Ахметова

Are these people of different age? Are they of different sex? Are they of different nationalities? Are they alike?

Appearance People’s 1. Warm up. Good morning, boys and girls! Sit down, please! I’m glad to see you again. Get ready for the lesson. Today we are going to talk about people’s appearance and parts of the body.

(for first-year students) PEOPLE’S APPEARANCE (for first-year students) 1

Focus on phonetics Chin, oval, stepson, eye, mustache, handsome, tall, straight, before, invent, portrait, head, nickname, predict, mouth, body. chin oval mustache eye stepson before Focus on phonetics. As usual we begin our lesson with practice your phonetic. Look at the screen. Listen and divide the words into following columns according to their intonation pattern. Chin, oval, stepson, eye, mustache, handsome, tall, straight, before, invent, portrait, head, nickname, predict, mouth, body. First of all choose and read monosyllabic words. Now find and read the words with two syllables, in which the first syllable is stressed. Now find and read the words with two syllables, in which the second syllable is stressed.   tall handsome invent straight portrait predict head nickname mouth body

What do people usually describe if they want to get a clear portrait of a person? Appearance ?

What do people usually describe if they want to get a clear portrait of a person? Appearance nose hair weight general appearance other details height age

Match these words with their meanings: 1. It is used for breathing and smelling. eyes 2. This grows under a man’s nose. lips 3. It grows on a person’s head. a beard 4. People wear these to help them see better. an ear 5. This grows on a man’s chin. a mustache 6. The organ of hearing. a nose 7. A pair of organs of sight. hair 8. We can use them for kissing. spectacles Vocabulary Work 1   a) Match these words with their meanings. What is this?

Hair: … Nose: … Weight: … Age: … Height: … Other details: … Teenager, overweight, hook, fair, curly, ugly, handsome, snub, slim, a scar, a beard, short, good-looking, long, a fringe, a birth-mark, beautiful, plain, middle-aged, fat, wrinkles, tall, young, freckles, a moustache, pimples, a pony-tail, chestnut, a dark complexion Hair: … Nose: … Weight: … Age: … Height: … Other details: … General appearance: …

What’s this? Match the left column to the right 1. a dark complexion 2. a scar 3. a birth-mark 4. pimples 5. a pony-tail 6. chestnut small, hard spots on the skin a kind of hair style a natural dark colour of the skin or face the result of injury or illness a mark on the body at or from one’s birth colour of hair (reddish-brown)

The right answers Hair: fair, curly, long, a fringe, a pony-tail, chestnut Nose: hook, snub Weight: overweight, slim, fat Age: teenager, middle-aged, young Height: short, tall Other details: a scar, a beard, a birth-mark, wrinkles, freckles, a moustache, pimples, a dark complexion General appearance: ugly, handsome, plain, good-looking, beautiful

Order the words from ‘General Appearance’ as shown below

Order the words from ‘General Appearance’ ugly plain good-looking beautiful handsome

Match the sentences to the pictures B He has a dark complexion, dark hair and a scar on his face. He is young with dark short hair and brown eyes. He is rather handsome. These are middle-aged men. They are plain and unattractive. She’s young and beautiful with fair hair. Her smile is charming. She is smiling. She has blond hair and a small birth-mark above her lips. D C E F

Finish the sentences This man is only 1 metre 52. He’s quite … . Every morning she makes her hair into a … . Models are usually … and … . Her skin is not light, she has dark … . After a car crash Michael has a … on his face. He’s from Africa, he’s got … hair. Fat people usually have a huge stomach and a … chin. Teenagers often have … on their faces. John is proud of his wonderful … , he cares about it a lot: cut and brush it every morning. She has a small … nose, like a knob.

Finish the sentences This man is only 1 metre 52. He’s quite short. Every morning she makes her hair into a pony-tail. Models are usually slim and tall. Her skin is not light, she has dark complexion. After a car crash Michael has a scar on his face. He’s from Africa, he’s got curly hair. Fat people usually have a huge stomach and a double chin. Teenagers often have pimples on their faces. John is proud of his wonderful moustache, he cares about it a lot: cut and brush it every morning. She has a small snub nose, like a knob.

What do they look like?

Read the texts and find out what they are a novel an instruction an article a police report a letter a lecture an essay

Read the police report. What information is given in the police report? _______

What information is given in the police report? a date and time a place an incident (what happened) a person the appearance of the person

What of appearance is described in the police report? _______

What of appearance is described in the police report? sex (female/male) age height build hair (if it’s possible) eyes (if it’s possible) clothes

The final task Work in groups of four. Each group has a picture of a person. This person is wanted by the police. Help the police to get his or her clear portrait and the details of the incident. You have 15 minutes. If the police get all information, they will find the person.

Использованные ресурсы: Маслыко Е. А Настольная книга преподавателя иностранного языка. – Минск: Высшая школа, 2004. http://www.onestopenglish.com http://www.mes-english.com http://assets.cambridge.org http://www.eslflow.com/describingpeoplelessonplans.html http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.htm  Отрывок из мультипликационного видеокурса для детей Muzzy in Gondoland BBC