Present Simple- Third Person Guessing Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Present Simple with final -s speaking games, first guessing the person and then brainstorming descriptions, with useful vocabulary for describing people with Present Simple.

By: Alex Case
Level: Beginner
Theme: General
Study Area: Present Tenses
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Lesson Plan Content:


Describing people third person S practice games

Guess the person third person S practice game

Choose one of the people below but don’t say who you are thinking of. Describe that person using expressions like those on the next page until your partner guesses who you are talking about. They can only guess once per hint.

  • A bus driver
  • A classmate (= a student in the same class)
  • A friend
  • A neighbour
  • A nurse
  • A police officer
  • A shop assistant
  • A singer that I like
  • A sportsman that I like
  • A waiter/ waitress
  • An actor that I like
  • An artist that I like
  • Your aunt
  • Your brother’s friend/ Your sister’s friend
  • Your cousin
  • Your dentist
  • Your doctor
  • Your father
  • Your friend’s brother/ Your friend’s sister
  • Your friend’s father
  • Your friend’s mother
  • Your grandfather
  • Your grandmother
  • Your head teacher
  • Your host father
  • Your host mother
  • Your mother
  • Your older brother/ Your older sister
  • Your (maths/ geography/ science/ Japanese/ PE/ history/ music/ English/ …) teacher
  • Your uncle
  • Your younger brother/ Your younger sister

Ask about any expressions on the next page you don’t understand, people above who you can’t explain, etc, working together to match people and statements each time.

Do the same with someone who isn’t in the list above.

 

Suggested descriptions of people with third person S

He

She

(doesn’t)

dance

do

get

get up

go

go to

have

listen to

live

play

read

sing

study

swim

talk to

watch

wear

work

 

(-s)

(-es)

(-ies)

 

English

History

a shower

baseball

bed

board games

breakfast

cards

comics

computer games

dinner

homework

housework

karaoke

lunch

magazines

music

school

science

sports

television

the radio

the washing up

… eyes

… hair

at… (o’clock)

at half past…

at… past…

at… to…

in London

in Hong Kong

in Sydney

in the USA

in the morning

in the afternoon

in the evening

at night

on Mondays

on …days

at the weekend

at home

at work

at school

in the living room

 

 

He

She

is

 

tall – medium-height – short

fat – medium-build – slim

good-looking/ handsome/ beautiful

friendly/ kind/ strict/ scary/ grumpy/…

… years old

a teacher/ a student/ a shop assistant/ an office worker/ a…

His

Her

name

birthday

date of birth

is…

 

Brainstorming stage

Without looking above, brainstorm vocabulary for these things:

Jobs

 

 

 

 

 

Family members

 

 

 

 

 

Other people who you know

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance

 

 

 

 

 

Personality

 

 

 

 

 

Housework

 

 

 

 

 

Look above for ideas, brainstorm more, then compare your extra ideas as a class.

 

Describing people brainstorming competition

Choose another person (in the list or someone else) and take turns making sentences that are true or are probably true about that person until someone repeats a sentence, says something that is clearly not true, or gives up. Then do the same for other people.

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