Teacher Name: Tr.

Tin Zar Lwin Class: YEAR 5 Subject: English Duration: 50mins

Unit: 7 Topic: Leaving Home Lesson Title:
To be able to discuss use of language, discuss themes in a poem and write descriptive phrases
Lesson Objectives:

Summary of Tasks:

Review adjectives and nouns.

• Recap the poem’s storyline with the students.
• Read the poem again. Ask students: What things does the poem character associate with ‘home’? Have students find the lin
p21) that tell us this information.
• Discuss the poet’s use of descriptive language to build a picture of her home in the West Indies (… heat of the tropics; …warm
(lines 12 and 15, p20), and the mention of incidental things such as lamowee (line 2, p21).
• Have students find the lines in the poem that describe her new home (e.g. lines 2, 5–8, p21). Highlight the adjectives used to
white), and the use of the single sentence, I had settled in (p21, line 9) to highlight when this important event happened.
**Discuss similarities/differences with their own experiences. What things do they associate with home? Encourage them to t
special objects etc.
Materials/Resources
Book page: AB -111,112, PPT
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 Date & Week: 21& 23.12.21 (week 4)
Use of language and theme of the poem (L2 & 3)
e descriptive phrases

me’? Have students find the lines in the poem (e.g. lines 12–15, p20; line 2,

s (… heat of the tropics; …warmth of home); identify repetition of I missed

ighlight the adjectives used to describe the contrasts (e.g. snow, crisp and
portant event happened.
h home? Encourage them to think about people, places, food, weather,

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AB -111,112, PPT
Teacher Name: Tr.Tin Zar Lwin Class: YEAR 5 Subject: English Duration: 50mins
Unit: 7 Topic: Leaving Home Lesson Title:
To discuss use of language: past simple tense
Lesson Objectives: To analyse the character of the poem narrator

Summary of Tasks:

Students are able to share ideas and talk about their understanding of the poem so far. (revision)
• Read the first two lines of the poem. What do these two lines tell us? (Why the narrator’s family have moved to England and
for her journey). Point out that these lines are at the start because they set the scene / context for the poem.
• Have students read the poem again to tell you what verb tenses are used? Highlight the use of the past simple, and give stud
Time to find examples. How does the tense change in the last verse? Why? (Changes to present simple, because it reflects the
experience of the narrator).

Materials/Resources
Book page: AB-113
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 Date & Week:
28.12.21 (week 5)

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ly have moved to England and the reason
or the poem.
the past simple, and give students Think
simple, because it reflects the present-day
Teacher Name: Tr.Tin Zar Lwin Class: YEAR 5 Subject: English Duration: 50mins
Unit: 7 Topic: Leaving Home Lesson Title:
Lesson Objectives:
To introduce the term ‘expanded noun phrases’, including adjectives and the use of ‘a/an’
To be able to use noun phrases to make writing clearer and more interesting
Summary of Tasks:

Students draw on their vocabulary stores of adjectives and nouns. (Revision)

• Explain to students that in this lesson they are going to look at one way that poets make the words they use interesting and
• Nominate a student to give you the name of an animal. Take this example, and remind the students that the animal word, e
• Explain that to make writing clearer and more interesting, we can turn nouns into noun phrases by adding adjectives and oth
• Discuss how adding words and phrases tells us more about the rabbit.
• With the class, think of ‘a rabbit’ of your own by adding adjectival detail before and after the noun, for example ‘A fluffy rabb
• Remind the students of the descriptive language from the poem, Leaving Home. Highlight some examples of noun phrases (e
warmth of the sun). Tell the students that this lesson will give them practise in writing descriptive phrases, which will help the
Composition.

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Book page: AB- 114, PPT
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 Date & Week:
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the use of ‘a/an’

ting

ords they use interesting and exciting.

dents that the animal word, e.g. ‘rabbit’, is a noun.
es by adding adjectives and other adjectival detail.

oun, for example ‘A fluffy rabbit with floppy ears’.

e examples of noun phrases (e.g. snow, crisp and white;
e phrases, which will help them with the Long

114, PPT

AB-115
Teacher Name: Tr.Tin Zar Lwin Class: YEAR 5 Subject: English Duration: 50mins
Unit: 7 Topic: Leaving Home Lesson Title:
Lesson Objectives:

Summary of Tasks:

Materials/Resources
Book page:
Web link:
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