This lesson worked really well. I did "What do they look like?" the week before so this tied perfectly into it! Thanks for sharing!

Here is a lesson that I have used two years now at an all girls high school and they love it. It is pretty basic, with a lot of review vocab, and a lot of new vocab.

I go through the powerpoint explaining all the words. This may take awhile. Before I start, I give each of the students the vocab sheet so they can take notes on each word. I like to focus on how we are not going to use words like 'fat' to describe people, and I give them other options. I am trying to teach my students to have some tact when describing people. So we go through the words, I sometimes drag pictures of what wide set eyes and close set eyes look like, etc, they think it is really funny.

When I get to the celebrity pictures I talk about how I would describe them and read the descriptions. I ask the class to add more descriptions and tell them if they are rude/appropriate or not.

Finally, I hand out a worksheet that has been modified from one I found on eflclassoom. It has a bunch of celebrities that I know and the students know. I give the students about 5-10 minutes to find a partner (2-3ppl) and choose one person to describe. They write the description on the back. Then I have teams come to the front of the classroom and describe their person without saying the name. I always ask them to start with more vague descriptions (round face, tall) and end with more specific (beauty mark, wavy blonde hair). They call on people to guess and they get rewards.

Also, go through and check to change descriptions if you want. The ones I have on there now are just the most common that I got from my students, etc.

My students really love this game and get really, really into it. I didn't realize how much of a hit it would be. They are all running around telling each other how cute their button noses are and their flawless skin :)

I would like to thank everyone who posts their materials on Waygook. It has definitely helped me save time. This lesson came from PPTs that were already created. I updated them to make them relevant to my students. Attached is the lesson plan and worksheet I used. I teach all girls so they really enjoyed the blind date activity and celebrity guessing game.

It took a lot of preparation to make the materials. For the blind date bachelors I created reusable cards so I wouldn't have to print them every class. If I had more time I would have done that for guess the celebrity activity also.

Hope this is useful for you.

I would like to thank everyone who posts their materials on Waygook. It has definitely helped me save time. This lesson came from PPTs that were already created. I updated them to make them relevant to my students. Attached is the lesson plan and worksheet I used. I teach all girls so they really enjoyed the blind date activity and celebrity guessing game.

It took a lot of preparation to make the materials. For the blind date bachelors I created reusable cards so I wouldn't have to print them every class. If I had more time I would have done that for guess the celebrity activity also.

Hope this is useful for you.

Very useful. I did this topic last week. I made a sucessful game by having the student quietly describe someone in the class. Then I would call on random students to describe the person they wrote down. All in all it was sucessful and fun.

I used this lesson at a boys’ high school and a girls’ high school.   Both schools were lower level, so this lesson may work for middle school students as well. I recommend it more for girls than for boys.  Girls like looking and talking about pictures of women just as much as boys, hence beauty magazines.   

Basic Directions:  Show the PowerPoint, have the class do the worksheet, and then do the picture activity.  For the picture activity, find a magazine, cut out pictures of women of all sizes, shapes, and colors.  Then give them to your students at random.  Have the students fill in the information on the worksheet and then stand up and present their picture.

This is a good idea, and certainly original. If I may offer some advice, though, I think it would strengthen your powerpoint if "ordinary" (I think that's the word you used?) was not an East Asian face, and "gorgeous" not a white one. They get enough messages reinforcing those sorts of ideas anyway (just today, I heard an elementary school girl say to my coteacher 난 외국인이랑 결혼할 거예요 내 딸 이쁜 눈 기지기 위해서) so I would see this as an opportunity to say that actually we find women of many different ethnicities attractive.

And also, and I don't mean to direct this at you at all, but I find it strange how the vast majority of people from Asia are not included in the term "Asian" in the way it's used in North America. For example, Saudis, Indians and Chinese people are all from Asia, and yet in the American usage only the Chinese of those three is "Asian."

I made this lesson just after starting work here in Korea and I agree it does need some tweaking and additions.  I also agree with you that it could be a good opportunity to show women of all races and shapes as beautiful.  I hope other teachers can view this lesson as a basic outline which can be made into something better.  Feel free to make additions/changes and repost.  I will when I get some time.     

it's a very good idea.  i will try this.

very useful for my highschool boys

Basic PPT for descriptions

1. Open class up with verbal identification of 5 senses and as a class deciding how each sense could be turned into a question; TOUCH: What does it FEEL like/What is the TEXTURE? Leave these key expressions with sample answers using sample item on board throughout lesson.

2. Continue introduction by playing HOT SEAT but you as teacher are in the HOT seat and THEY get to hear sample questions from you as you try to guess what word the volunteer student put on board behind you. This is really fun, addictive! and engaging for them.

3. Practise with this worksheet in pairs.

4. Wrap up by playing a card game in pairs- this gets really intense! --as the game involves using picture cards of random items with 2 obvious 'hot' words they CANNOT use. Winner is partner with most cards guessed correctly using 5 sense description questions. Since not all items on cards can be guessed using only these type of questions, invite class to obviously use other type of questions too ( What is the FUNCTION? Who uses this item? Is it edible, etc etc.