All About Me (Kid´s Box 1)

Created by Andrea Serrano Celis

First Term Project

All About Me

Covers: Units 1-2

Topic: Personal interests, likes and dislikes

Aims:

• To help students focus on fluency when speaking

• To develop students’ communication skills

• To develop students’ listening skills

This lesson provides students with a live listening on the topic of the teacher’s personal interests and opinions. The students then use this as a model to chat about similar topics with their classmates using basic tenses and a variety of structures.

Materials:

All About Me poster, photographs of themselves and/or images from the Internet or magazines to illustrate their writing, colored construction paper, markers, colored pencils, glue, stickers and all what they want to bring from home to decorate their poster.

Procedure

• Write up three sentences on the board about yourself. Use or adapt the following: I’ve got an older sister. Last week I went ice-skating. I really like going swimming.

 • Tell students that these sentences are about you. Elicit questions they need to ask to find out more about these facts, e.g., How old is your sister? What’s her name? What is your favorite sport? How often do you go swimming? What is your favorite color? etc. Write up the questions on the board. Invite students to ask you these, and other, questions.
Listening Task:

• Write the following sentences on the board. Tell the students that they are going to listen to you completing the sentences with your ideas. They shouldn’t write anything yet. All they have to do is listen and ask you questions or give a response after each sentence. Draw their attention to the useful language at the bottom of worksheet 1 and ask them to use these prompts to ask you questions or give a response.
 Complete the sentences:

I live on……………………………………………………………………………

I am………………………………………………….years old.

My birthday is on…………………………………………………………..

My favorite place to go is……………………………………………..

I am really good at………………………………………………

For breakfast I…………………………………………………………………………….

The best day of the week is………………………………………………………………

I like………………………………………………………………

I don’t really like..........................................................................................................

My favorite food is……………………………………………………………..

The best sport is…………………………………………………………………………….

2) Now ask questions. Here is some useful language: Where do you…? When do you…? Why? …… Who …..? What…..? How….? Really? Me too Me neither

• Read out your finished sentences one by one and invite volunteers to raise their hands to ask you questions. Pick ‘volunteers’ if necessary by choosing names in order from the register. Erase the board.

• Feed in quick corrections and language as necessary. You could also make notes of any common errors for a class correction session later.
Reading task:

• Ask students to work in pairs and make notes of anything that you said about yourself. Ask 2 or 3 pairs to read their notes to the class and ask others if they agree and whether they can add anything.

• Hand out work worksheet 1 and ask students to complete the sentences with their ideas.

• Set up the classroom so that the students are in two rows facing each other. Ideally do this with two lines of face-to-face chairs but have students standing if you can’t move the furniture.

• Students now have one minute to talk to the person directly facing them about the first sentence only. They should take turns to read out their finished sentences to each other and ask follow up questions or respond as they did previously with the teacher.

Handout colored construction paper so that they can make the cover of their all about me project. Ask them to decorate it and write their names on it.
Writing Task:

Handout worksheet 2. Have students work in pairs and complete the worksheet with their information. They can color and draw something special about themselves.

• As an extension activity students could make ‘All about our class’ posters for a wall display. Have students work in small groups to write up their information. They could bring in photographs of themselves and/or take images from the Internet or magazines to illustrate their writing. Encourage them to write more information, such as my favorite color is…, I like to eat…, My father works in…, etc…
Speaking Task:
Ss will show and tell about themselves by showing the posters to their classmates. Encourage ss to talk about themselves instead of reading. Ask them to make complete sentences.