This woman is tall and
thin.
Grammar
She is …He is …
She’s got/He’s got …
Adj + adj (order of
adjectives)
Aims
Contents
Practising reading
Recycling language
of units 25-28 for
describing people’s
appearance and
age.
Skills
Vocabulary
tall, short, fat, thin
big, small, nose, eyes,
mouth
hair, beard, moustache
brown, blonde, black,
red, blue
straight, curly, long,
short
wears glasses,
years old
1 master handout:
sentence
completion with
relevant vocabulary
Checklist
Year 6
Lesson 28
Language Analysis
While describing the appearance we need the following:
- have got / has got – e.g. He’s got brown eyes.
- to be + adjective to say somebody is fat, slim, tall or short etc.
To ask a question about the appearance we use the following question:
What does he/she look like?
When we talk about hair we use the adjectives in the following order:
Somebody has got LENGTH, TYPE OF HAIR, COLOUR hair.
e.g. He has got long, curly, blonde hair.
* hair is always singular – her hair is brown
Similarly for eyes:
Somebody has got SIZE, COLOUR eyes.
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beard /bɪə(r)d/
curly /ˈkɜː(r)li/
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fat /fæt/
moustache BrE /məˈstɑːʃ/, AmE /ˈmʌˌstæʃ/
short /ʃɔː(r)t/
straight /streɪt/
tall BrE /tɔːl/, AmE /tɔl/
thin /θɪn/
Procedure
Warm-up Off the screens
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2.
As a revision ask students to bring a photo of a famous pop or film star to the
classroom. If this is not possible, then take a pile of magazines to class for Ss to
cut out photos and describe. Ss can then hide the photo and describe to the others.
Nominate a student who describes the star, students guess. Student who has it right
first will have the right to describe his or her star.
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Screen 2
Audio 1:
This man is short and fat.
He’s got small brown eyes, and short
brown hair. He’s got a beard and a
moustache too. His beard is long and
brown. I think he’s 35 years old.
Audio 2:
This woman has got long blonde hair. Her
hair is straight. Her eyes are small and
blue. She’s got a big nose and a big
mouth. I think she’s 40 years old.
Audio 3:
This man has got short black hair. His
hair is curly. He’s got black eyes. He’s got
a white moustache and he wears glasses.
Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe
I think he’s 60 years old.
what they can see. This will help students with
Audio 4:
pronunciation and meaning.
This woman is tall and thin. Her hair is
short and red. She’s got big green eyes.
Her nose and mouth are small. I think she
is 25 years old.
Screen 3
Key: see pictures below (random
order)
After doing the activity ask Ss to enlarge the
pictures and describe the people again.
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Screen 4
Key:
1 fat, brown, moustache, long
2 blonde, hair, blue, mouth, old
Screen 5
Key:
1 has, His, eyes, wears
2 Her, red, are, years
Additional activity: Handout
Give out the Handout, and ask students to choose the correct missing verbs in the correct
form: to be or have got.
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Key: 1 is 2 is 3 are 4 is 5 is 6 is 7 ‘s 8 got 9 got 10 is 11 ’s 12 is 13 got 14 is 15 are
NOTE: be careful: hair is singular, to be + years old
Screen 6
Give the Ss these instructions for the game.
The aim is to practice a short natural dialogue.
1. Look at the picture and read the
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description.
2. Ask students to drag and drop the right
picture onto the woman’s or man’s face.
3. First time you do it – do it according to
the description.
Now it’s your turn. This is a ‘free practice’
stage. The aim is personalisation.
1. Tell students to reset the activity, drag
and drop different pictures to make their
original characters, take turns to
describe them.
2. Alternatively you may ask them to redraw this picture into their notebooks,
then write a short description.
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Handout
to be / have got
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The woman ________ tall.
I think she ________ 25 years old.
Her nose and mouth ________ small.
Her hair ________ short and red.
This man ________ short.
He ________ fat.
He ________ got small brown eyes.
He’s ________ a beard and a moustache.
She’s ________ long blonde hair.
I think she ________ 40 years old.
He’________ got white moustache.
This woman ________ tall.
He’s ________ short black hair.
His hair ________ long and brown.
Her eyes ________ small and blue.
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