Subject : English Language

Class : 1E
Date : 30/8/13
Enrolment : 28 students
Theme : World of Knowledge
Topic : The Ant And The Cricket
Learning Outcomes : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
1. Acquire vocabulary and understand the meaning of words and phrases in context..
2. Give three out of five short replies in response to teachers questions.
3. Read 7 keywords from the text with correct pronunciation and stress.
4. Match the six words to the each both characters in the story.


Educational Emphases : 1. Moral Values hardworking, responsibility, appreciate, kind generous
2. Thinking Skills listing, identifying main ideas and categorizing.

Teaching Materials : Slide MS Powerpoint and worksheets.


Stage/Time

Contents Teaching Learning Activities Notes

Set Induction
(5 minutes)


i) Who are they?
ii) What are they doing ?
iii) What are the different between
the two pictures?


1. Teacher shows the picture in the card
2. Teacher asks 3 questions to the pupils
according to the pictures. Teacher introduces the
topic for the day;- The Ant and The Cricket.



Text Book

Stage 1
15 minutes

i) Reading text:
The Ant And the Cricket


Shared Reading

1. Teacher shows the text on the text book.


Shared reading

Keywords:
Grains, loading, plenty, autumn,
shivering,
starving, summer and share.

Short Questions based on the text:
i)What is the story about? A lazy
cricket and hardworking ant.
ii) Which character do you like
most? All logical answers: I Like
ants because they are hardworking.

iii)Who is singing cheerfully on a
branch of tree?The cricket.

iv)Who is helping the cricket? The
ant

v)Who gives food to the cricket?
The ant



2. Teacher carries out Shared Reading with the
class.

3. Teacher reads the text once and asks few
people to read it continuously.

4. Teacher asks pupils to tell what happen in the
story.

5. Teacher shows the keywords and pupils read
along with her.

6. Teacher asks question based on the text and
the pupils answer three out of five questions orally.


Text Book

Stage 2
15 minutes

Keywords:
Grains, loading, plenty, autumn,
shivering,
starving, summer and share.
.


Grammar:
1) Simple past tense:-

Focused Word Work (Teaching Points)
1. Teacher drills the pupils to the pronunciation
of highlighted words on the blackboard.
2. Teacher asks pupils to match the words to the
characters in the story .
3. Teacher asks pupils to circle words in simple
past tense that can be found in the text.
4. Pupils rewrite the root words of each simple

Text book
sang, worked,started,went,learned,
woke up.
2) Articles :-
A , The
past tense that they found.
5. Pupils underline the articles that can be found
in the text.
6. Teacher practices the usage of articles with
the pupils.
7. Teacher asks pupils to fill in the blank with
aricles to complete the phrases in the worksheet.


Stage 3
15 minutes

Group-work



Guided Reading /Writing or Independent Work

Writing or Independent Work
1. Teacher divides the class into 5 groups.
2. Teacher asks the pupils to read the text once
silently.
3. Pupils need to make sentences about each
characters based on the word given.
4. Group who answer at least 8 correct sentences
out of 12 sentences is the winner.

Manila card

Closure
5 minutes

Summing Up
We have to be hardworking and
always make an early preparation
and caution.

1. Teacher goes through the days lesson
2. Teacher highlights the moral value of the text.
3. Teacher advice pupils to practice good moral
value in day life.


Hardworking,
responsibility, and
kind generous.