Lesson Plan Tan Eik Ter

Class

: Year 4 Amanah

Date

: 18th August 2015

Proficiency Level

: Mixed

Time

: 7.40 am - 8.40 am

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Blogging

Focused Skill(s)

: Grammar

Integrated Skill(s)

: Writing

Learning Standard

: 5.1.3 Able to use verbs correctly and appropriately

(d) past continuous tense

Learning Objectives : By the end of this lesson, pupils in their respective levels should be able
to:
(a) Complete the sentences in the snake and ladder using correct past
continuous tense
(b) Compose sentences from the words given in the worksheet by
changing the present tense into past continuous tense
Previous Knowledge : Pupils are familiar with the construction of simple sentences
Educational Emphases: Multiple intelligences: Visual spatial, verbal linguistic, Thinking skills,
Constructivism
Moral Values

: Pupils need to care for nature

Teaching Materials

: 1) Video Clip Past Continuous Animation

2) Substitution table
3) Roll-up board
4) Snake and ladder board
5) Dice

6) Coloured ice-cream sticks

7) Worksheet 1
8) Sentence strips for charades

Phase/ Time

Set

Content

1) Animated video

Teaching and Learning Activities

1) Teacher plays a video entitled Past

Continuous Animation

Remarks

Teaching Materials :

Induction

clip Past

1) Video clip Past

(5 minutes)

Continuous

2) Pupils are instructed to listen carefully

Continuous

Animation

3) Teacher engages the pupils in a short

Animation

question and answer session regarding the

Sample questions :

video the pupils watched earlier.

a) What can you

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Emphases:

see in the video?

1) Thinking Skills

b) What were the

animals doing?
Presentation

Verbs

1) Teacher introduces the topic for the day

Teaching Materials :

(15

a)

2) Teacher puts up a board in front of the

1) Roll-up board

minutes)

b)

classroom containing a substitution table

c)

3) Teacher then proceeds by explaining and

d)

emphasising the rules of past continuous

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e)

tense

Emphases :

4) Pupils are required to listen attentively

2) Substitution table

1) Constructivism

5) Pupils are instructed to pronounce the

different words on the board.
6) Teachers ask pupils to give a few examples
of verbs
Practice
(20
minutes)

1) Ice-cream sticks

1) Teacher asks pupils to take an ice-cream

Teaching Materials :

2) Dice

stick each from a box

1) Ice-cream sticks

3) Snake and

2) Pupils with the same ice-cream stick will be

2) Dice

in the same group

3) Snake and ladder

ladder board
4) Strips of
sentences on the
board

3) Each group then rolls the dice to see who

would start first

board
4) Strips of

4) The group which gets the biggest number

sentences on the

would start first

board

5) After rolling the dice, each group has to send

a representative to answer the question on the

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Sample questions :

spot they have landed

Emphases :

a) What came out

6) Any group that lands on a leaf would move

1) Thinking skills

of the peach?

behind 3 steps while the group that lands on

b) Who destroyed

the ladder would move 3 steps forward

Moral Value :

the village and took

7) First group to finish the games would receive

1) Care for nature

the villagers

a special prize after the class

belongings?
c) Name the three
animals that helped
Momotaro.

Production
(15
minutes)

1) Individual Work

1) Teacher gives out Worksheet 1 to the pupils

Teaching Materials :

2) Worksheet 1

that need to be done individually.

1) Worksheet 1

- Changing present

2) Pupils are required to change the given

2) LCD projector and

tense into past

words from present tense into past continuous

laptop

continuous tense

tense and form simple sentences

- Forming present

3) Once the pupils are done, teacher checks

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continuous

the answers with the pupils.

Emphases :

sentences

4) Teacher uses the LCD projector to project

1) Thinking skills

the correct answers to the pupils.

5) Pupils are instructed to paste the worksheet
in their exercise books.
Closure
(5 minutes)

1) Charades
paper strips

1) Teacher calls out for volunteers

Teaching Materials :

2) Pupils that volunteer would be asked to

1) Paper strips

come forward and dip their hands into a bag

Sample questions :
a) What have you
learnt today?
b) What are the

filled with strips of paper

3) Pupils are required to act out without saying
any word
4) Pupils that manage to guess the action

rules for past

correctly using past continuous tense would

continuous

be rewarded

tense?
c) Do you care for
the nature?

containing verbs
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Emphases :
1) Thinking skills
Moral Values :
1) Be helpful and
kind to others