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Monsters Inc - Describing People

This document provides instructions for an activity where students: 1) Categorize words to describe people as "to have" or "to be". 2) Watch a movie segment and describe 5 monsters using those descriptive words, noting things like number of eyes/legs and colors. 3) Draw their own monster without showing others and describe it to a partner, who then draws the monster based on the description. They then compare the original to the drawing. The activity aims to practice descriptive language.

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Monsters Inc - Describing People

This document provides instructions for an activity where students: 1) Categorize words to describe people as "to have" or "to be". 2) Watch a movie segment and describe 5 monsters using those descriptive words, noting things like number of eyes/legs and colors. 3) Draw their own monster without showing others and describe it to a partner, who then draws the monster based on the description. They then compare the original to the drawing. The activity aims to practice descriptive language.

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DESCRIBING PEOPLE

MONSTERS INC

A. Write down the characteristics we use to describe people under the correct verb column:
To Have or To Be.

HAIR – EYES – FAT – THIN – SHORT – TALL – CHUBBY – SLIM – ARMS – LEGS – HEAVY – MUSCULAR – BEARD –
MUSTACHE – AVERAGE HIGHT
TO HAVE TO BE

B. Watch the movie segment and then describe the monsters below, using the words in exercise “A”. Make
sure you say, for example, how many eyes, legs and arms the monsters have and their colors too.

1. _______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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2. ________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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3. _______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________
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_________________________________________________________

5. _______________________________________________________
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C. Draw a monster. Be creative. Don't show it to anyone.


YOUR MONSTER: YOUR PARTNER’S MONSTER:

1. Describe your monster to a partner. Your partner draws what s/he listens.
Remember: To Have: It has ... (Hair, Eyes, Arms, Legs)
To Be: It is … (Fat, Thin, Short, Tall, Chubby, Slim, Heavy, Medium-Built)

2. When you both finish, show each other the original monster and the monster your friend drew, based on
your dictation. Check how similar they are.

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