Конспект урока "What do you look like"

What do you look like?

5^th form

«What do you look like?»

Objectives:

• to present and practise vocabulary to describe appearance;

• to practice listening for specific information and then intensive listening;

• to develop students’ speaking skills.

Warm up

Read / listen to the sentences and try to predict the topic of the lesson.

Fleur was of medium height and had short dark chestnut hair.

Her brother was short, broad-shouldered and strong.

Her face came round in the light, and Soames saw it, still beautiful, perhaps

more beautiful.

Introducing the topic

I. Vocabulary

1. Hair: black, dark, red, chestnut, brown, fair, golden, grey, white, plaited,

waved, wavy;

face: oval, square, round, long, thin, plump;

eyes: dark, black, hazel, brown, blue, grey, green, deep-set, wide-set;

nose: straight, flat, hooked, aquiline, a person may be snub-nosed.

2. Game “Who knows the parts of the body best?”

3. Dramatize the joke.

B o b b y. Ma, what do we call people who have no hair on their heads?

M o t h e r. We call them bald.

B o b b y. Look at that man. He’s absolutely bald. He has no hair on his head.

M o t h e r. Hush, dear, he may hear you.

B o b b y. And doesn’t he know it?

4. Match the expressions.

1) As tall as a) two peas;

2) as thin as b) a maypole;

3) as stiff as c) a lath;

4) as like as d) a poker.

Answers: 1b, 2c, 3d, 4a.

II. Reading

Read the text and make up a family tree.

M a n. Who are you, my little girl?

G i r l. I’m Alice.

M a n. Y ou are the daughter of Mrs. Smith and the granddaughter of Mr. and

Mrs. Black, aren’t you?

G i r l. Y es, I am. Mr. and Mrs. Black are my grandparents.

M a n. Are Mr. and Mrs. Green your uncle and aunt?

G i r l. Y es, they are.

M a n. I’m Mr. Green, too. I’m the brother of your uncle George. He is

Mr. George Green and I’m Mr. Henry Green.

G i r l. So I am your niece! And my brother is your nephew.

III. Listening

1. Listen to the dialogue and describe Betsy’s appearance.

K i t t y. I’ve come to ask you to help me. Will you help me, dear?

N e l l y. With pleasure.

K i t t y. Y ou see, my cousin Betsy is coming today with 2.30 train but I can’t

meet her at the station as I have a meeting after my lessons. Will you do me a favour

and meet her?

N e l l y. But I’ve never seen her, how could I recognize her?

K i t t y. Oh, it’s quite easy, she’s just like her mother.

N e l l y. Most helpful I’m sure, but the trouble is I’ve never seen her mother

either.

K i t t y. I’m sorry, I forgot. And I’m afraid I haven’t any photos of her. What

shall I do then?

N e l l y. Try to describe her. What does she looks like?

K i t t y. She is twelve, but I think she looks older as, she is rather tall for

her age.

N e l l y. Hair?

K i t t y. Fair and plaited. Light grey eyes, deep-set, a small straight nose, a big

mouth with white even teeth and a pleasant smile.

N e l l y. I’m afraid it is not much. There’ll be at least a dozen girls like that at

the station.

K i t t y. Oh, I’d clean forgotten. There’s a mole (родимка) as big as a pea on

her left cheek!

N e l l y. That’ll help me for sure. Go to your meeting and I’ll be on the platform

at 2.30 sharp and meet your cousin, a tall girl with a mole on her left cheek.

2. Dramatize the dialogue.

3. Make up your own dialogue about the arrival of your friend.

IV. Game “Guess a person”

A student describes the appearance of a student in the group without naming

him / her and the other students have to guess who he / she is.

V. Listening

Listen to the text and describe the appearance of any old man.

This is my grandpa. His face is square. His forehead and cheeks are wrinkled.

He has clever hazel eyes, overhung by bushy eyebrows. His eyes are rather small

and deep-set. His nose is long and crooked. His lips aren’t thin, they are full. We

can’t see his chin as it is covered with a long beard but I think it must be protruding.

His beard and moustache are dark while his hair is grey. He has so little hair

that we can say that he is bald. He has a white shirt and a black suit on.

VI. Speaking

Describe a member of your family.

VII. Homework

Make up 10 questions to describe the members of the family.