Introduction: 

These are activities for intermediate students to introduce vocabulary describing body, face and hair. Students categorise words into groups, draw a picture of their classmate and write a brief description of themselves for comparison.

Level: B2

Time: 55 minutes

Objectives:

1. To introduce vocabulary describing body, face and hair.
2. To draw a picture of a classmate.
3. To write a brief description of a student’s own physical appearance.
4. To find similarities between the students’ drawings of their classmates and the classmates’ description of themselves.

Materials:

1. Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet A, one per student.
2. Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet B, one per student.

Procedure:

1. Show students several images of celebrities and elicit some words to describe their physical appearance and write them on the board e.g. short, tall etc.
2. Put students into pairs and hand each student Mirror Mirror on the wall…  Worksheet A.
3. Go through the words as a class to make sure the students understand meaning and pronunciation.
4. In pairs, students complete Exercise 1.
5. Monitor and provide feedback.
6. When the students have finished, hand out Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet B. In pairs, students must draw each other in the frame provided. Make sure the students don’t look at their partner’s pictures until you tell them so.
7. When the students have finished, they now briefly describe their physical appearance using at least 7 new words from Exercise 1 of Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet A.
8. When the students have finished, they must compare their description of themselves with the drawing made by their partner and try to find 3 similarities and 3 differences. For example, In your drawing I have a round face but in my description I wrote that my face was oval. I have long wavy hair in both the drawing and the description.
9. Ask students to share with the group how many similarities and differences they managed to find.

Fast finishers / homework: 

1. Individually, students complete Exercise 2 of Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet A.  When finished, they compare their answers with another classmate.

Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet A

Mirror Mirror on the wall…Worksheet B

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