A draft to organise a didactic unit on descriptive texts

1. I SPY WITH MY
LITTLE EYE….
Level 1st ESO
Subject:English
Teacher:Francisca Rodríguez Maqueda

2. Descriptive texts
Learning outcomes / Evaluation criteria
To understand oral and visual information.
To obtain general and specific information from a writing or
oral text.
To describe a person, by giving details.
To ask and answer questions about physical appearance an
personality
To compare appearances

3. Vocabulary
Nouns:
Parts of the body
Clothes.
Descriptive verbs related to senses
Colour, shapes and size.
Adjectives:
Descriptive adjectives for appearance, personality and clothes

4. Structures
Routines:
What colour are his/her eyes?
What color is his/her hair?
What does he/she look like?
What is he/she like?
Contents:
To be/ to have
Present Simple,
Superlative and comparative,
Classroom management:
How do you pronounce “eye”?
Could you repeat that?
Let’s work in pairs.

5. Scaffolding:
Revision of vocabulary
Grammar review

6. Grammar revision:
To be
To have got
Comparative
Superlative
With grammar worksheets

9. Let’s sing a song:

12. Let’s sing and roleplay:
.

13. Describe one of the girls in the poster:
.

14. The teacher for comparative
.

15. Compare four
students in the
class

17. Describe yourself and your best friend with at
least 4 of these qualities:

18. Describe your
personality to
your classmates

19. Reading
and writing
activities

20. See you later,
bye.