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Oxford Picture Dictionary • Unit 2 • Describing Hair

INTERVIEW Teaching Notes


Grammar Point: SIMPLE PAST VS. SIMPLE PRESENT AND FUTURE: BE

Levels: Low Beginning to High Beginning


For: Pairs
Preparation: 5 minutes
Activity: 15 minutes

Duplicate: 1 worksheet for each student

Objective Ask two of the Interview questions and


Students will be able to ask and answer write the answers on the board. Explain
questions and then practice the target the target structure, or have students
structure by writing their answers and create new questions and answers that
their partners’ answers. show they understand it.

Preparation Introduce the Activity


1. Preview the questions from the Explain the goal: for students to find out
Personal Information Interview about their partners by asking and
worksheet or, using vocabulary from answering questions and to practice
the selected dictionary page, create writing answers.
four questions that practice the target
grammar structure. Write these Model and Conduct the Activity
questions in section A of the Interview 1. Ask yourself the Interview questions
worksheet. aloud, and write your short answers on
In sections B and C, write examples the worksheet you have copied on the
of complete sentences based on the board or overhead transparency.
Interview responses. For B, write a 2. Interview a student and write his/her
sentence in the first person (e.g., My short answers on the board or on an
hairstyle is short and straight.). For C, overhead transparency.
write a sentence in the third person 3. Pair students. Have them write their own
(e.g., Miguel’s hair is brown and wavy.). short answers on their worksheets first.
2. Duplicate a class set of the worksheet Then have them interview their partners
and copy it onto the board or an and write their partners’ short answers.
overhead transparency. 4. Have students write the follow-up
sentences in sections B and C
Review the Vocabulary independently while you monitor and
Ask questions about the dictionary offer assistance.
pictures (e.g., What is Miguel’s
hairstyle?). For Multilevel Classes
Pair literacy-level students or newcomers
Teach the Grammar Point: with high beginning students. Have pairs
Simple Past vs. Simple Present share a worksheet. Have the high
and Future: Be beginning students write the follow-up
sentences while partners help.

Simple Past vs. Simple Present and Future: Be


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Oxford Picture Dictionary • Unit 2 • Describing Hair

Interview Worksheet

A. Read the interview question. Write your short answers to the questions.
B. Interview your partner and write his/her short answers.

Interview question My answers My partner’s answers


1. What was your hair like
when you were a child?
2. What was your hair like
ten years ago?
3. What is your hairstyle
now?
4. What will your hairstyle
be next year?

C. Write sentences about your answers.

Example: ____My hairstyle is short and straight.

1.

2.

3.

4.

D. Write about your partner.

Example: _____Miguel’s hair is brown and wavy.


_

1.

2.

3.

4.

Simple Past vs. Simple Present and Future: Be


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