Task Based Grammar Teaching (FORM 1) (prepared by Shelton, Siman, Ray, Taufiq, Imelda and Sandy) Theme: Values

Topic : Ill Be There For You (Form 1 - Chapter 10) Aim : For students to differentiate between common and proper nouns. Level : Beginner Tasks : Teaching materials : 1. A video clip of the song Stand By Me by Ben E. King with the lyrics shown. 2. A set of pictures of night, land, moon, light, sky, mountains and sea. 3. Strips of words like night, land, moon, light, sky, mountains and sea.
4. Envelopes which contain words like airport, school, village, woman, boy, teacher, car, shoes, laptop,

dog, cat, fish etc. 5. A listening text from the CD attached with the textbook.
6. Laptop, LCD projector and speaker

________________________________________________________________________________________ Pre-task warmer Aim : To prepare students for the task and to get their attention.

1. Tell learners that a song will be played twice.

2. Learners listen and can sing along when the song is played (lyrics is shown too) for the first time.

The song is repeated. (see video here) ________________________________________________________________________________________

Task Aim : For students to match the words with the pictures (labelling/giving names to the pictures)

1. Stick the strips of the words found in the lyrics (night, land, moon, sky, mountains, sea), and a set of

pictures next to the words on the board.

2. Ask them to match the strips with the pictures.

night land moon sky

mountains

sea

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Planning Aim : For Ss to prepare an oral report of their task

1. Ask students to sit in groups of 3 - 4. 2. Distribute an envelope to each group. The envelope contains a set of random words (airport, school,

village, woman, boy, teacher, car, shoes, laptop, dog, cat, cow)
3. Ask them to group the words given according to their similarities.

4. Set a time limit of five minutes for them to do this. ________________________________________________________________________________________

Reporting Aim : For Ss to categorize the words and present their work.

1. Ask a spokesperson from each group to present the groups work.

2. Tell them that they must explain the reasons on why they have grouped/categorized the words as such. 3. Tell the class that they must listen to each groups presentation and may give feedback to their friends

answers (Do they agree/disagree?). ___________________________________________________________________________ Modelling Aim : For Ss to give names to the words that they have categorized.
1. Draw the students attention back to the groups of words that they did.

2. Draw a column next to the word.

3. Explain to them that you are giving special names to the words. For example:

Airport School Village

Kuching International Airport

Car Shoes Laptop

Proton Wira

(P/S : Words in blue are the words that Ss categorized and words in red are the examples given by the teacher)

4. Ask the Ss to give names to the other words that they have grouped. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Language focus Aim : To raise Ss awareness about the grammatical item using capital letters as the first letter for the proper nouns.
1. Tell the Ss to look at all the special names that they gave on the board. 2. Check that Ss wrote all the names beginning with the capital letters. 3. Point out to them those special names must begin with capital letters. Explain to them on the

difference between proper and common nouns.

4. Distribute a short text and ask Ss to underline the common nouns and circle the proper nouns found

in the text. 5. Point out that proper nouns begin with the capital letters.

My classmate, Clement had a nasty accident yesterday. He was cycling from his house to the Jaya Supermarket. Suddenly, a Honda Civic came out of nowhere and hit him from behind. The driver was a lady. She came out from her car and called the ambulance immediately. She panicked and checked to make sure that Clement was fine. A few minutes later, the place was crowded with people. The lady, Miss Elaine called Clements parents to inform them about the accident. When the ambulance arrived, Clement was taken to Hospital Kota Sentosa at once. Mr. Siman reached the hospital later and he breathed a sigh of relief to learn from Dr. Brandon that his son suffered only minor injuries. Sandy, Taufiq, Imelda and I plan to visit Clement today at his house in Taman Megah. Our teacher, Mr. Razali will drive us there. We made a special card for him and bought him a bouquet of flowers from Lovely Gifts Shop to cheer him up. (P/S : Accept if Ss underline the abstract nouns, but do not stress on it here) ________________________________________________________________________________________ Language practice Aim : To give the students some restricted written practice in the target language.

1. Play a listening text and ask Ss to fill in the blanks with the words they hear (text can be found on

page 104, English Form 1 textbook) - the words are all NOUNS. 2. Repeat the listening text if needed. 3. Ask Ss to check their answers with each other. ___________________________________________________________________________ Optional follow-up Aim : For Ss to construct sentences using the nouns given.

1. Ask Ss to work with a partner.

2. Tell them to make sentences using the words given (proper & common nouns).

3. Once they have finished, ask them to check and compare their answers. 4. Call out a student randomly to read out his/her sentence. 5. Use this time to focus on accuracy, i.e. correct what they say if they make mistakes using the target language.