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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The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

Teaching children biographies (Primary 5)

My class went through biography of Marco Polo. It is in the theme "The Great Explorers" in My Pals 5A for English.

I used this video for my class and it was rather useful as it allowed pupils to visualize the places that Marco Polo went to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ihQi5-JUoI

More lesson ideas for "The Great Explorers" to come :)

-elly-

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author, editor and printer.

Idea for teaching apostrophe S

There are different uses for apostrophe S ('s). It is used in indicating possession - example: This pen is May's. Or it can be used in speeches to combine two words - example: "What's (what is) in this box?".

Most of the children will have seen apostrophe S with or without the knowledge of the appropriate use in different sentence structure. Perhaps using this activity may help to promote awareness of the existence of apostrophe S in different forms and the original form of the word.

Using cards, write down the pair of words containing a word showing apostrophe S and the other showing the original word. Randomly give each of the pupils a card containing the word and they have to go around the class to find their matching partner. After they have found their partner, they will have to come up with a simple sentence each to illustrate the use of the words that their cards show.

For example:

John - John's
what - what's
Alice - Alice's

Special cases (have to decide whether your class is ready for list below) :

*you - yours / *you - you're
he - his / he - he's
she - hers / she - she's
*it - its / *it - it's
we - ours / we - we're

*People tend to get these mixed up for their usages in sentences.


Personally, I tried this method for Mathematics in my class for equivalent fractions and it was fun! Hope that you can have fun teaching apostrophe S in your class too :)

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Education is teaching people behaviors they don't currently practice.

Great tuning in website for English

Got this website from Shihui. Thanks a lot for sharing!

http://gardenofpraise.com/mugram8.htm

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Education is teaching people behaviors they don't currently practice.

Idea for teaching adverbs of manner (Primary 3)

An idea for teaching of adverbs of manner. The theme is 'Amazing Animals'.

You will have to teach children what is adverbs before they are able to do the activity below.

Using the clip 'einstein the parrot' from
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnTT7u5U4Yo, get children to take down the list of animals that the parrot mimicked.

List of animals that the parrot mimicked:
1. wolf
2. bird
3. owl
4. rooster
5. penguin
6. chimpanzee
7. pig
8. tiger
9. skunk

After the children have gotten the list of animals, get them to describe how Einstein the parrot mimicked each of the animals. For example: Einstein mimicked the owl and hooted happily.

After the children have completed the listing the adverbs of manner for each of the animals mimicked, get them to describe Einstein's performance using adverbs of manner. Example: Einstein performed proudly to the audience.

You may wish to write up a template worksheet for children to work on. After the children have completed the list of adverbs of manner, get them to present and pick out the adverbs of manner that you think are good and worth learning. Write the adverbs of manner on coloured paper and paste on the noticeboard for children to learn and use in their composition.

This idea came to me while I was surfing the net for some ideas for teaching for a friend. I find these two websites rather useful for teaching of adverbs of manner:

http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Adverbs/Adverbs.htm

http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/adverbmanner.htm


Hope this helps :)

-elly-



Education is teaching people behaviors they don't currently practice.

Idea for teaching homophones

Teaching of homophones can be fun and enjoyable for children. Homophones appear in Primary 5 My Pals textbook.

What are homophones?
They are words that spelled differently but sound the same.

Interestingly, I was introduced to a video clip (Bush vs Rice) which largely illustrates the concept of homophones. I have censored some of the areas so that it is 'children friendly' on this page. You can get the full version of it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFSoPQbY6Uk.

LESSON PLAN
Tuning in:
1. Show the video clip of 'Bush vs Rice' to pupils.
2. Get pupils to discuss the words that sound the same which create misunderstandings in the conversation.
3. Tell students that they are to learn a new term called 'homophones'. Define the meaning of homophones.

Development:
1. Get students to come up with a pair of words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings.
2. After they have come up with the pair of words, get them to come up with a joke using the words to show communication misunderstanding.

Example (It is not really a good one, but hope it illustrates what the children can do.):

An illegal stall holder has a stall at the flea market. He did not know why it was called a ‘flea market’ when there was no flea there. Policemen came to catch illegal stallholders and people were shouting “Flee! Flee!”. After the stallholder got to safety, he said to himself, “So now I know why it is called a flee market.”

Flea/ Flee

3. Get pupils to present their jokes to the class. Sit back and enjoy the fun of this lesson.

Conclusion:
1. Gather some of the words from the pupils that they have presented and make a list of homophones.
2. Reinforce what homophones are and the use of homophones.


This is my first attempt at putting up teaching ideas. There is room for improvement. Do comment on the areas that I can improve on. Thanks :)

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Education is teaching people behaviors they don't currently practice.