Primary 5 English Observation Lesson plan for Grammar and Vocabulary

Hi colleagues!

It's been a very long time since I've updated this blog with lesson ideas. Now I'm practically quite free and will be uploading all my lesson plans that I did for the past few weeks.

This is a lesson plan that I did for my CT's observation and got an 'excelling' grade for preparation. So hope to share with you.

Class: Primary 5-2 Number of pupils: 40 Date: 11th April 2008 Time: 11.30pm to 1.00pm		Unit: Save Our World! Ability: High Duration of lesson: 90 minutes
Pre-requisite skills	The pupils should be able to: 1) List the features of a narrative text. 2) Write a narrative text.
Specific instructional objectives	At the end of the lesson, the pupils will be able to: 1) Understand and use the grammatical structures related to adverbials of degree and intensifiers. 2) Understand how the writer’s purpose in an exposition is achieved through vocabulary. 3) Use vocabulary appropriately and learn new vocabulary.
Activity Type	Tuning in: (5 minutes) –Draw and tell - Resources: Stupid cupid worksheet, video clip and answer sheet. 1. Give out worksheet with the song lyrics – Stupid Cupid. 2. Prepare students to the listening activity that they are going to have. 3. Tell students that they are going to listen to a song and fill in the blanks in the worksheet. 4. Tell pupils that the blanks contain words that will lead to the next section of the activity that they are going to have.
	Development: (20 minutes ) Resources: Powerpoint slides, Stupid cupid worksheet, video clip and answer sheet. 1. Using the powerpoint slides, discuss the details of each language features and give examples to illustrate. 2. Get students to listen to the ‘Stupid Cupid’ song again and try their best to fill in the blanks. 3. Repeat the song once more, this time showing the lyrics of the song. 4. After students have gotten the answers, get them to categorize the words into two sections behind the worksheet as “words with positive connotation” and “words with negative connotation”. 5. After they have categorized the words, go through the answer briefly. 6. Explain the rules for the matchmaking activity and what the pupils are supposed to do.
	Hands on activity: (35 minutes ) Resources: Powerpoint slides, matchmaking clients sheets background music and textbook. 1. Get pupils to role play and work in pairs as a matchmaker. 2. They are to write down sentences to describe the ‘clients’ that they receive. 3. In both the ‘clients’ sets that students receive, they will receive a set that requires negative connotation and one with positive connotation. 4. Students are to change the neutral words to either with positive or negative connotation as stated on their portfolio for the ‘clients’. 5. Students will be given 15 minutes to complete the portfolio of their clients. They are to decide and split the wok in pairs. 6. Students are allowed to use their textbook to help them in filling up the portfolio of their ‘clients’. 7. After 15 minutes are up, teacher will be calling up the first ‘client’ and find his/her match. Student will have to present their write ups to the teacher. 8. The match will be one with the same word for likings/ dislikes/ hobbies written in the form of the grammar items taught or vocabulary taught. Students with the same word written for their pair for any ‘clients’ will have to raise their hand and shout “It’s a match!” 9. At the same time the words are presented and gone through, students are to record down new words on the worksheet given for connotations, to use in their compositions to describe people.
	Application: (20 minutes) Resources: Textbook Pages 104 – 105 (Chek Jawa: Worth Fighting For) 1. Get students to read the text quietly and at the same time, pick out words that have positive connotation and negative connotation. 2. Pupils are to underline the adverbials of degree and intensifiers in the text. 3. Students will be given 10 minutes to do so. 4. Elicit answers from students when scanning through the text with pupils.
	Summary of lesson: (10 minutes) 1. Students are to recall what adverbials of degree and intensifiers are. 2. Get students to list synonyms that they have done during the activities. 3. Students are to summarize what they have applied in the text “Chek Jawa: Worth Fighting For”.
Homework	English Test 3 - My Pals workbook 5A Pg 89 – 94. Remind students to complete the close-ended questions as they will be going through the answers on Monday.

Lyrics for the song that I used in class. I blanked out the words that contain positive and negative connotations and get students to sort out the words out.

For the matchmaking activity, all you need to do is find some cartoon pictures online as 'clients' for the students.

Stupid Cupid

By Mandy Moore

tupid Cupid
You're a real mean guy
I'd like to clip your wings
So you can't fly
I am in love and it's a crying shame
And I know that you're the one to blame

Hey hey
Set me free
Stupid Cupid
Stop picking on me

I can't do my homework
And I can't think straight
I meet him every morning
At 'bout half-past eight
I'm acting like a lovesick fool
You've even got me carrying his books to school

Hey hey
Set me free
Stupid Cupid
Stop picking on me

You messed me up for good
Right from the very start
Hey, go play Robin Hood
With somebody else's heart

You got me jumping like a crazy clown
And I don't feature what your puttin' down
Well since I kissed his loving lips of wine
The thing that bothers me is
That I like it fine

Hey hey
Set me free
Stupid Cupid
Stop picking on me

You got me jumping like a crazy clown
And I don't feature what your puttin' down
Well since I kissed his loving lips of wine
The thing that bothers me is
That I like it fine

Hey hey
Set me free
Stupid Cupid
Stop picking on me

Hey hey
Set me free
Stupid Cupid
Stop picking on me

Stupid Cupid (x 8)

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