Time (Duration)

Stages

Teacher Activity

Student Activity

Teaching Aid/Equipment

5 minutes

Set Induction

1. Teacher played the tape (sound of tapir). 2. Teacher asks pupils to guess the sound from the tape. 2. Teacher showed the picture of Tapir to the pupils. 2. Teacher asks question to pupils: >>what is the name of this animal? >>what is the colour of tapir? >>where do they live? >>what do they eat?

1. Pupils guess name of the animal from the tape.

>>Recorder >>Picture Card

2. Pupils answer teachers question.

15 Minutes

Pre Listening

1. Teacher asks pupils to read the story on their own.

1. Pupils read the story.

>>Textbook year 4/pg 48

2. Divide pupils into a group. 3. Get each group to read one paragraph aloud. 4. Go through any difficult

2. Pupils get into a group. 3. Pupils read aloud the paragraph.

words. Encourage pupils to used dictionary. 5. Discuss what the chief rat and his friends did to the Tapir. Ask PS whether it would have been possible for him to have done it on his own. Draw PS attention to the fact that working together brings the desired result faster.
>>Mentioned that what the rats did was not something nice.

20 Minutes

While Listening

1. Teacher shows the picture of tapir again. 2. Teacher pastes the word cards to the picture shown. 3. Teacher draws pupils attention to the words on word cards. >>Shiny,Handsome,Blac k,Strong, Big 4. Teacher uses the notes in the Remember box to explain PS the adjectives. 5. Teacher highlights and uses the phrase / sentence level from the story for better understanding. E.g.: a) His body was shiny and
black.

1.Pupils read the sentences

>>Picture of Tapir (the same picture use on set induction stage) >> Words Cards

>>Remember box on textbook page 49

b) He was as strong as a tiger and only talked to big animals.

c) Long ago the tapir was the most handsome animal in the forest. 6. Teacher shows another examples by including the nouns that the adjective modify. E.g. :
Big car , tiny kitten , glassy alien

1. Teacher writes 20 nouns and adjectives on the board.

15 minutes Post Listening

Strong Fierce Greedy Friendly Shiny White Blue Hairy Red Furry Brown Scarlet Scaly Yellow Long-tailed Green Gold

tapir monkey parrot dog dragon horse ocean cat fire engine kitten coffee bean golden fish eyes paddy field mouse hut grass field

Small Tiny

mice ant

>>Give the time

limit between 3 5 minutes

2. In pairs get PS to match and write the noun to the correct adjectives. 3. When the times up, find the pair that has the most number of correct adjectives.

Discuss the moral value

5 minutes Closure

Do not be cruel to others if you do not want others to cruel to you