Theme : Our clothes

CLASS: a II-a

LEVEL: beginners

TEXTBOOK: SMART

UNIT 5: OUR BODY

LESSON: HOW NICE HER DRESS IS!

• LESSON AIMS:

• To revise vocabulary related to some clothes and introduce others;

• To use colour adjectives in describing clothes;

• To practise the verbs to be, to have got and the words elegant, funny in describing persons’ clothes.

• MATERIALS:

• Class Book – page 70 – 71;

• Different dolls ( boys and girls);

• Flashcards with different clothes;

• A hand-out copy for each child;

• Coloured pencils;

• Cassette

• ACTIVITY 1:

Aim: to activate background knowledge related to the topic;

Procedure:

- A warm-up activity to introduce the topic; I will present a Barbie doll to the students; short discussion about dolls and about the parts of their body;

- Checking-up students’ homework;

- Playing a game: Barbie says: - Show me your hands!

• Clap your hands two times!

• Show me your left / right arm!

• Show me your fingers / nails!

• Tramp / move your legs!

Interaction: T – S; S – S;

Timing: 8’

• ACTIVITY 2:

Aim: to revise vocabulary related to some clothes and introduce others;

Procedure:

- I will present different dolls (boys and girls) to the students; short discussion about their clothes;

- I will read ex. 1, then the students will repeat every sentence after me; I will write the new words related to the clothes on the board;

- Playing a game: Yes or No? – I will show them flashcards with different clothes and ask pupils: Is it a dress / shirt / skirt / coat, etc.?

Interaction: T - S

Timing: 10’

• ACTIVITY 3:

Aim: to use colour adjectives in describing clothes;

Procedure:

- Ex. no 2 – work in pairs: one student asks and the other answers:

• What is no 1?

• What colour is it?

• Is it for a man or for a woman?

- Playing a game: Find something (blue)! Students will try to find in the classroom different clothes with the colour that I asked, then they will name the clothes found;

Interaction: T – S; S – S;

Timing: 8’

• ACTIVITY 4:

Aim: to listen to the cassette and then read in parts;

Procedure:

- Listening to the cassette with the dialogue of the new lesson;

- Reading the dialogue in parts (from tapescript – page 105);

- Playing a game: Listen and colour! Students are given papers with clothes drawn on them . I will give them the following instructions:

Colour the skirt orange / the jacket brown / the T-shirt rose / the trousers blue / the dress red / the shoes black / the cap green / the shirt yellow.

- Then, they will compare their own drawing with the classmates.

Interaction: T – S; S – S;

Timing: 10’

• ACTIVITY 5:

Aim: to use she/he has got, elegant, funny in describing clothes;

Procedure:

- Listening to ex. 4;

- Name 2 – 3 students to read and then to translate the text;

- Playing a game: True or False? – Dolly is an elegant doll.

• She has got a long red dress.

• She has got a pink blouse.

• She has got green sandals.

• Smiley is a funny clown.

• His coat is yellow.

• His trousers are black and white.

• He has got very small shoes.

- If will be the time, I will ask to the students to complete the gaps from one rhyme with appropriate words related to clothes (annex ).

Interaction: T – S; S – S;

Timing: 9’

• HOMEWORK: exercise 5, page 71.

Annex

Honey

And I’m very ………

I’ve got a red shirt

Not a violet ………

My big shoes are red,

Yellow is my ………