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Activity: Describing a photo, watching a short film and speaking.

Topic: Physical appearance, intelligence and persistence.

Language: Adjectives to describe a person’s appearance and character, and expressions related to intelligence.

Materials: Short film and 2 photos.

Step 1

You are going to describe people’s physical appearance. Copy the following words from the board:
Face
Hair
Body

Pair Work: I´ll give you 10 minutes to come up with as many words as you can to describe face, hair and body.  (Get feedback from the whole class)

Step 2 (Pair work)
Now I´ll give each of you either photo A or photo B. 
Student A has to describe the person in his/her photo using some of the words he/she comes up with in the previous stage.
Student B has to listen and visualise the person being described. When student A has finished his/her description he/she shows the photo to student B who says if the person looks like how he/she had visualised. 
Now student B describes his/her photo and follows the same process.

Step 3
Anwer the following question:
What do you think the man in your photo is like as a person?
Compare the characters of the 2 men.

Step 4 (Groups)
Now you are going to watch a short film in which the 2 men appear. Answer the following questions:

What do you think the relationship between the 2 men is?
What story do you think the film will tell?
What do you think you will see in the film?

Step 5 (Pairs)
You are going to watch the start of the film and then you should answer the following questions:

What is the character of each man like?
What is the relationship between the 2 men?
Watch the film and pause at 02:20.(Get feedback from your  partners)


Step 6 (Pairs)
Answer the following questions: 

What is going to happen in the rest of the film?
What’s the thin man going to do?

Step 7
Now watch the rest of the film and  compare yout answers in the previous stage with what you see in the film.

Step 8 (Pairs)
Answer the following questions:

How do the 2 men feel at the end of the film?
Does the film have a message?
How did the film make you feel?

Step 9 (Pairs)
Write the following expressions:

“brains over brawn”
“all brawn and no brains”

Use a dictionary to find the meaning of the expressions and then  say how these expressions might apply to the story they have seen in the film. 

Step 10 (Pairs)
Write the following proverb:
Tis a lesson you should heed:
Try, try, try again.
If at first you don’t succeed,
Try, try, try again.

What is the meaning of the proverb...?
 Answer how the message of the proverb can be applied in your everyday life.

Homework
Write a short composition in which you have to describe how the proverb in the last stage can be applied in learning English.