Character and personality adjectives

Title of the class: English practice
Age of students: 18-19 (first-year students)

General topic of the unit that is being studied: People.
Topic of the class: Character and personality adjectives .
Goals of the class:  to teach students to express their thoughts in English; development of respect for the cultural values ​​of language that is studied; replenishment of vocabulary, summarizing, systematizing of  knowledge.
Goals of the activity: to deepen the knowledge of students about character traits and lexical units which  express them; explore and strengthen the new lexical items; to develop the imagination and creativity of students in a game.

Description of the activity 

I. Preliminaries of the lesson

Good morning, students! Sit down, please! Today we are going to continue a very interesting topic. First of all look at the blackboard. What can you see here? So what is our topic today? Yes, you are right, it’s “Character and personality adjectives”.

II. Warming-up

Answer my questions, please:

•        What positive adjectives of character do you know?

•        What negative adjectives of character do you know?

•        Can you characterize yourself, please (using adjectives, which was already mention).

III.  Speaking Activities

1.Work in pairs. Arrange these adjectives under three headings – positive, negative and not sure

Ambitious, big-headed, boring, bossy, brave, cheerful, confident, dishonest, generous, friendly, impatient, jealous, kind, lazy, mean, patient, punctual, shy, selfish, stubborn.

2.Work in group. Discuss the following

1.       Who is the meanest person you have met? Give an example of how he/she was mean.

2.       Are you ever envious of people with lots of money? What other things can make people envious?

3.       How brave are you are?

4.       Are men more ambitious than women or are today's women more ambitious than men? Give reasons.

3. Which type of people might say the following things? How would you describe them?

IV. Submission of a new  learning material

Adjectives take many forms. Some are formed when we add a suffix to a noun or verb. For example, when we add the suffix -ful to the noun beauty,makes the adjective beautiful, and adding the suffix -able to the verb read makes the adjective readable. Other suffixes often used to create adjectives include -al, -ary, -able and -ible, -ish, -ic, -ical, -less, -like, -ous, -some, and -y. Some adjectives take the form of participles (verbs ending in -ed or -ing), and many others are not formed from nouns or verbs but are original in themselves—for example, close, deep, slow.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

V. Listening

Now, I propose you to listen to the text and fill in the gaps with the words you hear.

VI. Post-Listening Activities

Was the text interesting for you?  Now let’s check how you understood the text and do true-or-false exercise. Decide whether the sentences are true or false. 

1.     If the first vowel in your name I “a” you are dramatic with strong options.

2.     If the first vowel in your name I “e” intelligent, charming.

3.     If the first vowel in your name I “y” you are intuitive.

4.     If you are shy, take a debate class to help you feel more comfortable speaking up.

5.     If you are talkative, learn to listen more.

VII. Summarizing

How form adjectives? Which suffix we add to a noun or verb? (give example)

VIII. Homework

Your homework for the next time is Ex. 1 p.146, Ex.1,2,3 p.152

You should to watch video.There you can find links :  Adjectives of personality
After that you should write characterization of your best friend using words from this video.

Additional comments and conclusions: It was a lesson in 142 group. Topic of the class was character and personality adjectives. So, the main goals was  to deepen the knowledge of students about character traits and lexical units which  express them. Students should using all learned material, when they will do their homework.