People I know A0 – Activity 2

People I know A0 – Activity 2

Aim of Activity

10 - 15 minutes

To provide learners with controlled practice of the use of adjectives from the video. 

Steps for Students

  1. Work in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Look at the pictures. 
  3. Guess the adjectives. 
  1. Put learners in pairs or small groups. 
  2. Share the task with the learners. 
  3. Ask the learners to look at seven pictures and decide which adjective from the animated video each shows. To reveal the answer, click the card. If the learners’ guess was correct, ask them to click the tick symbol (✅). If their guess was incorrect, click the X symbol (❌) before moving on to  the next question. 
  4. Ask learners to give you any other adjective they know from their previous studies. Write the adjectives on the board or the screen. 
  5. Ask learners to say sentences using the adjectives both from the video. Use a projector to show learners the task: ACTIVITY 2 

TIP!

  • To make this activity competitive, ask learners to work in small groups. Ask them to come up with as many sentences using the adjectives from the activity as they can in 3-5 minutes. Each group can get a point or a star for each correct sentence.  
  • Note that it is possible to switch templates using the same content by clicking one of the templates (e.g. Match up, Find the match) on the right of the screen. 
  • You may find it more appropriate to use various templates in order of difficulty to reinforce your learners’ knowledge. 
    •  Match up template   
    •  Find the match template   
    • Flash cards template 
  •  Drill the adjectives both from the video and what the learners add to ensure they can pronounce them properly. 

Adjectives used from the video: short, tall, famous, shy, active, lazy, beautiful