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Lesson Procedure: Finally, model drawing funny feet and get everyone to draw
Warm Up and Maintenance: feet on the heir pictures. Then get everyone to fold up their
See our "Warm up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet. papers and return each piece to the person who drew the
head.
New Learning and Practice:
1. Introduce the descriptions vocabulary Let everyone open up their paper and have a good laugh at
For this lesson you are going to use your artistic drawing the pictures. Now asks everyone to "present" their person in
skills. Use a whiteboard or blackboard to draw the following: the drawing to the rest of the class – you model first (e.g.
At the top of the board draw 2 circles (these will be the "This is Tom. He is short. He has pink hair (GB: He's got pink
heads). Elicit «circles". hair), etc.").
On each head draw a nose, ears and a mouth. Elicit each
as you draw them. Then ask "What's missing?". Play the "Describe Your Friend" song and do the active
Elicit "eyes". Ask "What color are they?" and give the listening worksheet
students the options of the colors of markers / chalk you Tell the class that they are going to listen to a song about a
have. Then draw the eyes in the chosen colors with boy and a girl. Give out either "Describe your Friend
different colors for each set of eyes (NB: it’s ok to have Worksheet 1" or "Describe your Friend Worksheet 2"
strange colors, such as yellow, more the eyes – this will (worksheet 2 is better if you cannot print out colored
just make it more fun). worksheets).
Elicit "hair" and again ask "What color is it? » On one
head draw long hair in one color (for the girl) and on the Read the instructions to the class and then play the song. As
other draw short hair (for the boy) in a different color. they song is playing students should do the worksheet
Teach / Elicit "long / short hair". activity. Play the song again if required. Finally, go through
Finally, you'll need to draw 2 bodies. But rather than you the song one more time stopping to check answers.
draw them you are going to ask for 2 volunteers to do
the drawings. For the girl, draw some shoes quite near If everyone enjoyed the song, you can play it again and have
the head (so that she will be short) and for the boy draw everyone sing along (especially as it’s such a catchy tune!).
some shoes right down at the bottom of the board (so he
will be tall). Have the students draw the bodies so that CONCLUSION
they join the heads with the shoes. During my teaching I realized how important English
classroom atmosphere is for both learners and teachers.
Now it should end up looking something like this: Learners need to feel comfortable in order to be able to learn
Now that the completed pictures are on the board, and develop positive attitude towards the English language
chorus 3 times the following sentences and point to the as well as teachers need to feel good in the classroom in
pictures as you do: order to be able to use and keep developing their teaching
· He is tall. skills. Realizing this I decided to address this topic in this in
· He has short hair. (GB: He's got short hair.) learning more about the factors that influence classroom
· He has (blue) eyes. (GB: He's got (blue) eyes.) atmosphere and the ways teachers can improve it.
· He has (orange) hair. (GB: He's got (orange) hair.)
· She is short All these factors, mentioned in the last chapter of the
· She has long hair. (GB: She's got long hair.) theoretical part of this thesis, take part in creating the
· She has (green) eyes. (GB: She's got (green) eyes.) classroom atmosphere specifically in English lessons and can
be influenced by activities teachers can incorporate into
· She has (brown) hair. (GB: She's got (brown) hair
their lessons regularly as it are one thing to create a good

classroom atmosphere and another to maintain it
2. Do "Funny Body" drawings
Give a piece of A4 paper to each student and yourself. throughout the existence of a group of learners.

On your piece of paper, model drawing a head with eyes, Language lessons also provide great opportunities for
incorporating interactive activities improving classroom
nose, ears, mouth, teeth and hair. Make it a really funny
picture. Then tell everyone to draw their funny head. Make atmosphere and not being too worried about the time loss
and being behind in terms of the syllabus as these activities
sure they use colors for the eyes and hair.
can be created to have both didactic as well as psychological

Next show them how to fold the paper so only the neck function.
shows (so the head is folded behind). Then get everyone to
In order to have a good cooperation in a group it is
pass their paper to a different student.
important for the members to contribute and participate

Now model drawing the body starting from the neck and somewhat equally so everyone has a chance to practice their
language skills and therefore improve. According to Hadfield
going down to ankles –make it either a really short or long
equal participation also plays a significant role in learner’s
body and make it as funny as you can. Now have your
individual motivation to cooperate and be active during
students draw their bodies.
lessons as well as in the process of maintaining or
establishing a cohesive group.
Again, shows everyone how to fold the paper so only the

ankles are showing and have everyone pass their paper to
another student. Some group members differ a lot in terms of their
participation in the lesson usually due to their personality,
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