LESSON PLAN - ENGLISH LESSON

Date

: 8th September 2006 (Monday)

Class

: Year 4 Dahlia

Number of Pupils

: 36 / 36

Time

: 10.50 am 11.50 am

Topic

: Come Rain Or Shine Four Seasons

Main Skills

: Reading

Integrated Skills

: Listening, Speaking and Writing

Curriculum Specification

: World of Knowledge Level 3

1.2.3 Listen to and repeat simple rhymes and
songs paying attention to pronunciation,
stress and intonation correctly.
3.3.3 Read and understand simple paragraphs
4.3.3 Match words to other words

Learning Outcomes/

Objectives

: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

i) Read simple rhymes with correct pronunciation,
stress and intonation
ii) Read and interpret simple paragraphs
iii) Rearrange words to form questions and answers
based on the poem read

Previous Knowledge

: Pupils have seen and heard about the four seasons

Language Input

: Simple Wh - questions

Teaching Aids

: Graphic organizer, worksheet, flash cards, paper strips

Moral Values

: Gratitude and love for the environment

Educational Emphasis /
Thinking Skills

: Classify, predict, look for patterns

Multiple Intelligences

: Bodily-kinesthetic, visual-spatial, interpersonal,

verbal-linguistic

Stage / Time
Set Induction

Content
Video

(5 minutes)

Teaching and Learning Activities

1. Teacher asked students to make
various sounds of animals. (eg: cat,
dog, bees, cow, fish, snail)
2. Teacher explains that some animals
use sounds to communicate and
others used sign language like bees.

Rationale
To allow pupils to think
out of the box and apply
their thinking by relating
to their knowledge of
animals.

Reading text:

(25 minutes)
Dancing with
the Bees

Focused words:

1. Teacher asks the students to refer

the text on their textbook page 107.
2. Teacher asks students at random to
read the text. For each of the
sentences, teacher will explain the
meaning of certain words to help
students understand the text.

Nectar

3. After reading, teacher discusses the

text with students. Teacher would
throw some questions that would
help the discussion to flow and help
students to think critically.

Waggle

4. Teacher asks students to answer the

Unique

Resources:
None
Multiple
Intelligences:
Audio

3. Teacher introduces the topic.

Presentation

Remarks

Thinking skill
relationship

To widen pupils
knowledge on the ways
bees communicate and
use their reading skills to
read the text and
questions that follows.

Resources:
Textbook
Multiple
Intelligences
Visual-spatial
Moral Value:
Respecting
differences and be
grateful for the
animals.

Vigorous

questions about the text on page

108.

(Reinforcement)

5. Teacher discusses the answer with

students after they have done the
work.

Stage / Time

Content

Production

Group work:

(20 minutes)

Role play

Teaching and Learning Activities

1. Teacher divides the students into
groups.
2. Teacher explains that each group has
to choose one animal and does a role
play of how the animal chosen interact
with one another.

Rationale
To let pupils make their
own research and
explains their findings.

Remarks
Resources
Manila cards, marker
pen, scissors, other
props, etc.
CCTS:

3. They also have to make props to

shows what animals they are implying
to.

Make a research.

4. Other than that, the students need to

make some research and do a
presentation on the animals chosen.

Co-operation

Moral Value:

Multiple
Intelligence:
Bodily-kinesthetic

Stage / Time

Content

Teaching and Learning Activities

Closure

Song:

1. Teacher shows a video of a song.

(10 minutes)

Walking In The
Jungle

2. Teacher asks the students to do the

action and sing the song together.
3. Teacher asks the students to guess
what animals that hides in the song
based on their sounds.

Rationale
To have fun while
learning about other
animals

Remarks
Resources:
Worksheet

Multiple
Intelligence:
Verbal-linguistic,
bodily-kinesthetic

CCTS:
Predicting