Theme 4: Teenage Life
Topic 3: My School and Friends Lesson 5: Guess Who Author: Ian Garner |
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Guess Who? This lesson is based on the game 'Guess Who' that any teenager in England or America will be familiar with. The game is perfect for allowing students to practice asking interrogative questions in the third person, and so the lesson has been designed around this grammar point. During the 'activate' phase of the lesson I have the key sentence pattern 'Does he have ____' written on the whiteboard. I can then introduce the vocabulary that the students will need in order to play the game. It is also useful to review the key concept of how to use articles during this phase of the lesson. "Does he have blue eyes?" "Does he have 'a' moustache?" I encourage my students to be independent learners by informing them that they should be taking notes of any vocabulary which is new to them. |
Guess Who Activity
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To play this game I split a group of four students into two teams and they play boys vs girls. The boys choose one 'boy' and the girls choose one 'girl'. They then take turns to ask questions (in the third person) until they can correctly identify the character. The game cards have the sentence pattern and all the vocabulary that they will need to participate in the game. However, higher ability students may be able to be creative with their questions by referring to other features not covered in the actual lesson.
In this lesson I focus on asking questions in the third person question - use the original verb form. The response is a simple "Yes, he does. No, he doesn't". |
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Assessing Understanding
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'To sum up the lesson I display this slide on the PPT and give the students a 'Guess Who exit ticket'. On the ticket, the students must write three questions that will enable me to correctly identify Bernard.
The students then give me the exit tickets as they leave the classroom. It is then very easy for the teacher to identify which students have fully understood the lesson. Alternatively, if I am confident that all students have understood the lesson, I ask them to write three sentences to describe one person. By doing this I can introduce the concept of 'have --> has' when speaking in the third person. |