Lesson Plan

Class: Seven                 Subject: English  Total time: 120

minutes
Unit: 5         Theme (if
any):
Lesson/Topic: How to Live to be 200
Major Learning Outcomes
The students will be able to:
● Identify major objective of the essay
● Understand the best method of living better life
Materials Required
● Textbook
● Slides
Sequential Outline of Classroom Activities
Warm Up
Classroom Management and Assignment checking
Review of the previous class Time: 5minutes
Engage/Engagement Time: 10 minutes
To begin with, the teacher will ask a few of the students to share the
review of the previous class.
Then, the teacher let students engage in some brainstorming section by
asking them few set of questionnaires
1. What suggestions would you give to the people who want to live a
healthy and longer life?
2. In your opinion, what are the things to keep in mind for keeping
yourself healthy?
3. Do you expect yourself to live up to 200 years?

Explore/Exploration Time: 15 minutes

Activity 1
In this section, the teacher will instruct the students to go with the
reading of the mentioned text from page no: 102-103 and answer the
given questions.

1. What kind of character is Jaggu in the text?

2. What did he try to achieve? What did he do?
3. Does his habit look mature?
4. Was he able to stop death? If not, what?
5. Have you ever heard a word like ‘Health Mania’ before? Do you
know what it means?
Activity 2 Time: 25 minutes
After answering the questions, then, the teacher will ask the students to
continue reading the text from page no: 103 to 105 and find out at least
three suggestions the writer offers to keep oneself healthy. Also the
teacher asks students to identify what sort of tone has been used in this
essay.

Day 2
Classroom Management and Book review presentation Time: 5
minutes
The students are instructed to give the review of the previous class.

Explain/Explanation Time: 20 minutes

At first the teacher will encourage the students to share their
understanding of the text in the class. Then, the teacher will also add on
the information by asking the students some questionnaires and sharing in
the classroom.
1. Do you know what literary term has been used here in the text?
Ans: The author has used an exaggeration (known as hyperbole) in the
text which refers to the representation of something as more
extreme or dramatic that in fact it is.

2. What is the intention of the author in this text?

Ans: (He wants to entertain the readers by using exaggeration and
satirical tone to talk about those people who are obsessed with the
idea of being strong and healthy.)
He also wanted to teach people that life is a gift of God and should
not be spoiled it in useless activities. Physical fitness and health
cannot postpone the death.
At last, the author humorously gives us some piece of advice by
saying life is a heavenly gift and we should enjoy it without being
obsessed with useless habits and activities.

3. Are Leacock’s health tips given in order of application?

Ans: Health tips in this essay aren’t actual health tips to help you live
longer but they’re the tips to help us enjoy our lives while we’re still
here.

Elaborate/Elaboration Time: 30 minutes

Here, the teacher instructs students to work on page no 107 exercise 10
and 11 in their notebook.

Evaluate/Evaluation Time: 5
minutes
1. What suggestions would you give to the people who want to live a
healthy and longer life?
2. What kind of tone has been used in this lesson?