PIB3014 Lesson Plan

Target Group: Form 4

Proficiency Level: Intermediate

Enrolment: 30

Date: 23 May 2019

Time: 10.05 am 11.05 am (60 minutes)

Theme: People and Culture

Genre: Song – Kill Them with Kindness

Focused Skill: Writing (Creative writing)

Integrated skill(s): Listening, reading

Literary Focus: Metaphor

Previous knowledge: Students have a general idea on poems and literary devices.

General Objective: 3.2 Express themselves creatively and imaginatively by composing simple poems, stories and dialogues.

Specific Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

a) Individually create at least one short poem which includes metaphor as shown by the teacher.
b) Individually draw a sketching of a metaphor from the lyric or the poem they created.
 Teaching Aid(s): “Kill Them with Kindness” lyric video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRtGs0ls9AA , speaker, white board, marker
pens, PowerPoint presentation, LCD projector.

Moral Value(s): Always be kind even if someone hurts your feelings.

HOTs: Creating.

Stage/ Time Rationale Teacher’s activity Students’ activity Teaching aids

Set induction To activate the students’
10 Minutes existing knowledge.
To strengthen the students’
understanding of the
expression.
Teacher tells the students they will Students try to guess the White board
play hangman. expression that is written on Marker pens
Teacher gives the students the clue: the whiteboard.
“It is an expression”/ “idiom”
Teacher draw the blank spaces
Once the students have guessed the Students answer what they
expression, teacher asks the students think of when they see the
what comes to mind when they see expression.
the expression. Students listen and
Teacher explains to the students the understand the meaning of
meaning of the expression. the expression.

Pre writing To stimulate the students’ Teacher asks the students to take
15 minutes listening skills. note of phrases in the song that they
like.
Teacher plays “Kill Them with
Kindness” by Selena Gomez.
To teach the students about Teacher explains to the students
metaphors. about metaphors.
Teacher asks the students to identify
the metaphors in the song.
Teacher discusses the metaphors in
Students listen to the song Kill Them with
and take note of the phrases Kindness lyric video
they like.
Students listen to the PowerPoint
teacher’s explanation on presentation
metaphors.
Students identify the
metaphors used in the song

While writing To enhance the students’
20 minutes creativity in creating poems.
To enhance the students’
critical thinking in
understanding why two
unrelated words can be said
the same.
Post writing To encourage creativity in
10 minutes linking metaphors and
drawings.
To encourage students to
understand metaphors better
the song with the students.
Teacher gives the students some
examples and have the students
participate in giving ideas.
Teacher tells the students they will
be doing a “Poem Shoot Out”.
Teacher asks the student to think of
one noun.
Teacher asks the students to ‘shoot’
the person next to them.
Teacher instructs the students to
write one short poem with the word
they have been shot with as the
metaphor in five minutes.
*teacher allows more time if needed
Teacher asks the students to refer to
the poems presented.
Teacher picks a few students to read
theirs aloud.
Teacher creates a small discussion
after each poem and ask other
students to give their understanding
of the poem.
Teacher conducts another round of
the Poem Shoot-Out.
The teacher presents some lyrics
from the song.
The teacher tells the students their
task it to visualise the lyrics into
drawings.
and discuss the meanings.
Students listen to the
teacher’s examples and
participate.
Students listen to the PowerPoint
instructed for “Poem Shoot presentation
Out”.
Students participate in the
“Poem Shoot Out” and create
poems.
Students share their
understanding of their
friends’ poems.
Students listen to the PowerPoint
teacher’s explanation. Presentation
Students draw a sketch of the Whiteboard
lyric or the metaphor they White board markers
have used in the poem.
 by visualising it.
Closure To strengthen their
5 minutes understanding of the lesson.
Example of drawing:
The teacher asks the students to A few students show their
draw the lyric or the metaphor that drawings and explain them.
the students have used in their
poems.
Teacher shows an example of the
sketching on the board.
Teacher continues to give ideas by
saying “you can draw good values as
weapons or things or creatures”.
Teacher chooses a few students to
show their drawings and explain
them.
Teacher recaps with the students Students recall what they
about what they have learnt today. have learnt.
Teacher gives a noun and ask the Students call out metaphors
students to think of a metaphor and suitable for the noun the
why. teacher gives.
Teacher ends the class.