Duration: Lesson

Subject : English Class: Time

80
Theme : World of self, family
Focus skill: Speaking CCE: ICT Date:
and friends
Teaching aids: 21st Century Skills/Strategy/Activity:
Question cards, picture, survey template, computer Communication, collaboration, survey.
Language/Grammar focus:
Present simple questions (various)
TOPIC
My New House
CONTENT STANDARD
4.3 Communicate with appropriate language form and
M 2.1 Communicate simple information intelligibly C style for a range of purposes in print and digital media
LEARNING STANDARDS
2.1.5 Describe people and objects using suitable 4.3.1 Use capital letters, full stops and question marks
M words and phrases C appropriately in guided writing at sentence level
LEARNING OBJECTIVES

M At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to describe their house by answering four survey questions correctly.

At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to write one survey question using capital letter and a question mark
C correctly.
1. Show a picture of a house to the pupils.
2. Elicit what they can see.
I. PRE-LESSON
3. Prompt questions to encourage active participation. e.g. Is there a kitchen? How many
bedrooms are there? etc
1. Activity 1:
➢ Ask pupils to close their eyes and imagine their own house. Ask some hands-up questions
that relate to the questions on the question cards, e.g. Hands up if you have three rooms
in your house. / Hands up if your bedroom walls are pink. etc.
➢ Put pupils in groups of four. Hand out the cards and put them in the middle, face down.
Pupils pick a card, in turn, and answer the question on the card.
➢ Feed back on this activity, but leave the cards with the pupils.
2. Activity 2:
➢ Tell pupils they will create a survey about the class houses. First each group should write
II. LESSON DEVELOPMENT four questions (one per pupil) in their notebooks. Monitor and help as necessary. Note
that pupils can copy the questions on the cards or use them as models if they need to.
Make sure that each pupil has all four questions in their notebook.
➢ Pupils should now ask others their questions – one question each. Set a number of pupils
(minimum and/or maximum, depending on time) they should ask. They should note the
answers in their notebooks.
➢ Pupils return to their groups and put their findings together.
➢ Where possible, groups use the computer to create a table or chart to present their
findings. Have pupils save their work and either post to the class or school website/blog
or print out. If no computers are available, this can be done on paper by hand.

III. POST LESSON 1. Groups present their findings to the class.

REFLECTION
a. ___ out of ___ pupils were able to describe their house by Lesson postpone:
M answering four survey questions correctly. a. Course c. CRK
b. Sick leave d. Meeting
a. ___ out of ___ pupils were able to write one survey question
C using capital letter and a question mark correctly. Other :
 Group:

Survey
Questions

Name 1. 2. 3. 4.

1.

2.

3.

4.
 Survey Sample
Questions

Name 1. How many rooms are 2. Do you have a garden? 3. What colour are the 4. How many TVs are there
there in your house? walls in your bedroom? in your house?

1. Abu 6 No white 2

2. Mimi 4 No yellow 1

3
3. Chong 5 Yes purple

4. Vellu 7 Yes green 2

Template for suggested question cards for Lesson 40

How many rooms How many people Do you have a What’s your
are there in your live in your house? garden? favourite room?
house?

Do you have your What colour are Is there an How many TVs
own bedroom? the walls in your upstairs in your are there in your
bedroom? house? house?