Lesson 1.2 Who Am I ?
Learning Goals: In this lesson, you will learn how to talk about yourself.
Success Criteria: By the end of the lesson you will be able to: 
- Use words related to personality traits to describe yourself
- Ask and answer tag questions
- Read a short article about identity and personality
- identity
- personality
- values
- energetic
- sense of humour
- shy
- unreasonable
- patient
- confident
- Fair
- Odd
- self-conscious
- stubborn
- ambitious
- optimistic
- determined
- enthusiastic
- organized
- outgoing
- generous
- self-confident
- identity
Tag Questions Assignment
Part 1 - Complete the paragraph with the words from the list.
ambitious, determined, enthusiastic, generous, optimistic, organized, outgoing, self-confident
By the time Jack Andraka was 14 years old, he was very 1. ______________________ about science. Jack really wanted to focus on cancer research. He came up with a cheap, fast way to detect a type of cancer. When he first proposed his idea, some adults thought that Jack was being too 2._____________________, but he was 3. _____________________ to prove them wrong. He stayed 4. _____________________ and entered his idea into an international science fair. Jack won! Now he feels more 5. _____________________ . People have even asked him to be on TV because of his 6._____________________ personality and creative ideas.
Part 2
Choose the personality trait that best matches each sentence
( fair, odd, self-conscious, stubborn)
You never change! Just listen to me for once.
You put salt and pepper on your ice cream? Wow!
I like our music teacher. In her class, everyone gets a chance to play.
Oh, come on. Nobody is looking at you. Let’s dance.
Submission: PDF format. (Your file can't be more than 20 MB)
Work with a partner on this activity. You will share and COMPLETE AS HOMEWORK.
1. Think of a famous person, such as a singer, actor, or Internet personality Write as many descriptive words as you can about that person. Then write a description of this person.
2. As a student, you’re an expert on teachers. Think about teachers you’ve had, and write words to describe them. Write a description of your ideal teacher.
3. Write the letters in your partner’s name, each on a different line. Then write a word that describes your partner for each letter. If you don't know your partner well, or take the time to get to know them. Then write a description of this person.
Students to complete this after you've finished all activities/tasks in today's lesson.
Write your notes for today's class. Include the words in the
glossary as well as any other words that you learned.