Lesson 3: describe yourself

Lesson 3: My family and I

Speaking practice

• Voor je ligt oefenmateriaal dat bij het taaldorp Engels hoort. Bij het taaldorp Engels krijgt je telkens verschillende situaties waarover je praat in het Engels. 

• De onderwerpen die terug komen op het taaldorp zijn onderwerpen die je al eerder hebt moeten leren uit je boek, zoals de expressions en vocabulary.

• Bij elk onderwerp krijg je een tabel, zodat je alle zinnen kunt uitschrijven. Je kunt hiervoor (deels) je boek gebruiken.

Answering questions about yourself and others

• Go to pages 128-129 in your workbook read through the vocabulary words, and focus on the words that you can use to describe yourself or someone else.
• Go to page 61 in your workbook and read through expression C.
  
• Now read the expressions out loud, and take turns when reading.
  

Describe yourself and others!

1. Introduce yourself
   
2. Describe your character 
3. Describe what your family looks like
   
4. Describe a family member's personality
5. Describe who your best friend is and their personality 

Introduce yourself

• Go to page 61 in your book read through the words and study expression C
• Study expression C again.
• Take turns in interviewing each other with a classmate.
• One person asks the questions from expression C and the other answers them. Switch roles, so everyone has asked and answered the questions.
  

Describe yourself

• Go to page 89 in your workbook and use the vocabulary to answer the questions:
  Describe description of your physical appearance
  1. What are you wearing? 2. Colour of your hair/eyes?
• Go to page 129 in your book and study expressions A, B and C.
  
• Describe your personality. What else can you say about yourself?

Describe yourself

My name’s ...                                 I’m from ... / I live in ...

I was born in ...                             I’m ... years old.

I go to ... school.                          I like ... because ...

I don’t like ... because ...          In my free time / After school, I ...

My best friends are ... because ...

My favourite (school subject, actor, pop group, sport) is ... because ...            

I have ... brothers and sisters.

In the future, I’d like to ... because ...

Describe a family members appearance

• Go to page 36 and study expression E, then describe a family member and tell what they look like.
  
• Describe someone else in your family, describe their appearance.
  
• Give a short description of another family member, and give basic information about where and with who that person lives.

Describe a family members personality

• Choose a family member you want to describe to your classmate.
  
• Describe this person's appearance and character.
  
• Use five sentences to describe your family member.
  
• Switch roles, so everyone has described one person.
  

Describing yourself or someone else

• Go to page 106 and study exercise 12b. 
• Work in pairs, study the examples 
  
• Describe yourself or who your best friend is.
• Describe how you look and what your personality is like. Or decide to describe someone else.
• The other person will ask questions.
• Take turns, so every group member has described someone,