Entry 1: speaking

Photograph descriptions.


Macro skill: Speaking.

Age of the students: 6 years old.

Topic: colors, clothes, and accessories. 

Performance indicators: 
  • The students describe the clothes and colors people are wearing in the pictures.
  • The students correctly use grammar (color + clothes/accessories = orange t-shirt, black jeans, and white shoes).
  • Students pronounce the colors and clothes correctly. 

Description of the activity: The teacher is going to give students a ball made of paper (hot potato). Then, he is going to ask students to pass the ball between them while he plays an English song. When the song stops, the students will choose one picture from their album. After that, the student will describe a person's clothes and their colors in the picture. Beyond that, the student could practice his/her family's vocabulary

Materials: Album of photographs, papers, stereo.

Time: 25 minutes.

Steps: 

  1. The teacher asks the students to stand up and make a circle.

  2. The teacher gives students a ball made of paper representing the hot potato.

  3.  The teacher is going to play an English song and while the song is playing, the students will pass the hot potato. When the song stops, the students will stop passing the hot potato. 

  4. The teacher asks the student who keeps the hot potato to open the album of photographs and select one.

  5. Once the student has selected a photograph, he or she will describe the clothes the person is wearing and the color of the clothes. Beyond that, the student might mention some accessories. 


Sample of the source: This activity is similar to describing objects, but it's been adapted in a new way to describe people's clothes. So, students bring an album of pictures and they talk about their family, the colors, and the clothes people are wearing in that picture.







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