The document outlines a lesson plan to teach students how to describe personalities and write simple articles about horoscopes. It involves showing posters of horoscopes, birthdays of family members, personality traits, and having students describe themselves and their families. Students are assigned to write a short article describing two family members using five simple sentences for homework. The lesson aims to improve students' writing skills through description and incorporates materials like posters and a website with writing tips.

1. Teaching Demonstration Instructor : Hung, Po Yi Presenter : Sadia Date : 2008/10/08

2. Lesson Plan Activities and assignment. Evaluation This part emphasizes on writing skill, especially on description. Language skill 6 Posters, 1website and examples. Materials 50 minutes Time 20 Numbers of students 1.14~17(They have learn English for 3 or 4 years) 2.500-600 vocabulary level The age of students Students will understand how to say horoscopes, and write simple articles to describe one’s personalities in English . Goals

3. Warm up (5 minutes) The teacher shows 3 vivid posters of 12 horoscopes on blackboard to attract students interest to concentrate on the course. Asking students: “Which one is your horoscope? ” Then students have to try to answer it or point out it. The teacher will teach the names of horoscope in English and Chinese.

4. Poster 1 December 22 - January 19 January 19 - February18 February 19 - March 20 March 21 - April 19

5. Poster 2 April 20 - May 20 May 21 - June21 June22 - July22 June23 - August23

6. Poster 3 August 24-September22 September 23-October 23 October24-November 21 November 22-December 21

7. Procedure 1 (10minutes) Horoscopes and Birthday of students’ family member. Teacher will ask students to write down Birthday and horoscope of their family. i.e(1): My father’s birthday is May 16 . My brother’s horoscope is a Taurus .

8. Procedure 2 (10minutes) Then teacher asks students to think about the personalities of their family for 5 minutes. Then teaching students some vocabulary about personalities with poster 4~6.

9. Poster 4 hardworking stubborn romantic adventurous

10. Poster 5 Stingy creative Responsible for family helpful

11. Poster 6 neat friendly secretive dishonest

12. Procedure 3 (10minutes) The teacher will teach students to use those vocabulary which on posters to describe themselves and their families. i.e: My mother is stubborn , and my father is neat .

13. Activity (10minutes) Asking students to describe themselves and family by using vocabulary they have learned in class. The description would be included birthday, horoscope, and characteristics. i.e: My birthday is January 16. I’m a Capricorn, but I don’t think I am hardworking.

14. Assignment (5minutes) The teacher will ask students to choose two of their family members to describe them with “five simple sentences” ,and make them into a simple article. Students have to hand in the article on next class.

15. Website Students will know 5 tips of writing from the video of website below. YouTube - How to Edit Your Writing : Basic Writing Tips

16. ~ The end ~ Thank You !