FIRST COMPONENT: TOPIC AND UNIT PURPOSE

TOPIC: Animals and Us

SUB TOPIC: 1) Collective Nouns
2) Simple Past Tense
3) Animals and Their Young
4) Pets and Pests
UNIT PURPOSE: This unit focuses on the animals around us and demonstrates how useful
they are to man.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THEME / TOPIC: Pupils are introduced to all types of animals,
both domesticated and wild animals.
SECOND COMPONENT: PUPILS PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
Pupils previous knowledge:
Lesson 1: Pupils have seen in their real live, pictures or videos of animals in a group.
Lesson 2: Pupils have been to a zoo or watch circus before.
Lesson 3: Pupils have seen weird animal characters before in cartoons / movies.
Lesson 4: Pupils have their own pets at home and have seen pests in their house.

Plan to develop idea(s):

Lesson 1: Teacher shows pictures / videos of animals in their group.
Lesson 2: Teacher shows clips / videos / pictures of animals at a circus or zoo.
Lesson 3: Teacher shows pictures / clips / videos of strange animal characters in a cartoon

or movie.
Lesson 4: Teacher shows pictures / clips / videos of people with their pets and people
getting rid of pests.

Idea(s) / main objective(s) that may be hard to achieve:

Lesson 1: Pupils know and can remember the collective nouns for different kinds of
animals in a group.
Lesson 2: Pupils can describe about the experience at a circus or a zoo.
Lesson 3: Pupils can imagine and describe strange animal characters.
Lesson 4: Pupils can describe about having pets or getting rid of pests.

Misconception(s) that may occur and the real ones:

Lesson 1: Different animals in a group have different collective nouns whereas certain
animals may have the same collective nouns to describe them.
Lesson 2: Animals shows are the same at a circus and a zoo. On the contrary a circus or a
zoo might have their own animals shows according to different theme and format.
Lesson 3: There are strange animals in this world but actually all of them are only fantasies
and created only for cartoons / movies.
Lesson 4: Having pets is good while pests only bring bad things to us. However pets can
give us problems some time.

THIRD COMPONENT: LESSON CONTENT ANALYSIS

Learning outcome(s): At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able
Lesson 1:

A: To master the lesson content

1. State collective nouns.
B: To build scientific and thinking skill(s)
1. Arranging and sequencing a story.
C: To carry out moral values
1. Do not jump into conclusion without knowing the exact story.

Lesson 2:

A: To master the lesson content

1. Write a journal on experience at a circus or zoo.
B: To build scientific and thinking skill(s)
1. Making connection and association.
C: To carry out moral values
1. Being cooperative and love towards animals.

Lesson 3:

A: To master the lesson content

1. Listening to a story and writing about a character.
B: To build scientific and thinking skill(s)
1. Making association and connection; sequencing.
C: To carry out moral values
1. Diligence.

Lesson 4:

A: To master the lesson content

1. Reading and understanding about pets and pests.
B: To build scientific and thinking skill(s)
1. Classifying and categorizing.
C: To carry out moral values
1. Show cares for pets and avoid having pests in the house.

Main idea(s) using language that is suitable for the pupils ability and age:
Lesson 1: An animal story The Ugly Duckling.
Lesson 2: A sample journal written by Amargeet given in the textbook.
Lesson 3: An animal story entitled The Little Half Chick.
Lesson 4: A text in the textbook telling about pets and pests.

Objects, systems or real incident(s) which are related:

Lesson 1: Pupils have been to an animal farm at their village.
Lesson 2: Pupils have watch animal shows at a circus or zoo before.
Lesson 3: -noneLesson 4: Pupils have care for their own pets and get rid of pests in their house.

List(s) of terminologies, concepts, principles, rules or theories:

Lesson 1: duckling, nestling, cygnet, a nest of nestling, a flock of ducklings, a flock of

cygnets
Lesson 2: zoo, circus, bird, stork, performance, show, wolves
Last week, I went to animals circus show.
Last Sunday, my family and I went to the zoo.
Lesson 3: chick, hen, fire, water, wind, please, king, pot, cook
Lesson 4: pets, pests, cat, rat, cockroach, rabbit, chicken, fish, fly, ant, snail

Mind map:

Animals and Us

Collective Nouns

Explanation
about Collective
Nouns

Arranging and
Sequencing Story

Simple Past
Tense

Look at video
clip and read
sample journal in
the textbook

Guided writing of
a journal on ones
experience at a
circus or zoo

Animals and
Their Young

Pets and Pests

Listen to a story
and draw
character in the
story

Read about pets

and pest; then
categorizing
names of pets
and pests into
their respective
groups

FOURTH COMPONENT: TEACHING AIDS

Lesson 1: LCD projector, speaker, laptop, task sheet
Lesson 2: LCD projector, laptop, speaker, textbook
Lesson 3: audio of the story, task sheet, speaker, audio player
Lesson 4: textbook, word search puzzle, word cards, comprehension question

FIFTH COMPONENT: TEACHING METHODS AND ACTIVITES

Teaching methods and activities:
Lesson 1:

Phase 1: Explanation about Collective Nouns by looking at pictures.

Phase 2: Complete crosswords puzzle.
Phase 3: Arranging and sequencing a story.

Lesson 2:

Phase 1: Look at video clips of an animal show at a circus or a zoo.

Phase 2: Read sample journal entry in the textbook.
Phase 3: Guided writing on a journal about ones experience watching an
animal show at a circus or a zoo.

Lesson 3:

Phase 1: Describe and imagine a strange / weird animal.

Phase 2: Listen and understand to a story.
Phase 3: Answer comprehension questions and draw picture of the character
in the story.

Lesson 4:

Phase 1: Read and understand about pets and pests.

Phase 2: Answer comprehension questions about pets and pests.

Phase 3: Categorizing pets and pests into their respective groups.

Time-line:
Lesson 1:

10 minutes Set Induction

10 minutes Presentation
10 minutes Practice
25 minutes Production
5 minutes Closure

Lesson 2:

10 minutes Set Induction

10 minutes Presentation
25 minutes Practice
10 minutes Production
5 minutes Closure

Lesson 3:

5 minutes Set Induction

10 minutes Presentation
15 minutes Practice
10 minutes Production
20 minutes Closure

Lesson 4:

5 minutes Set Induction

15 minutes Presentation
15 minutes Practice
20 minutes Production
5 minutes Closure

SIXTH COMPONENT: EVALUATION PLAN

Lesson 1:

Phase 1: Ask questions and get answers.

Phase 2: Describing pictures.
Phase 3: Complete crosswords puzzle and rearrange excerpts of a story.

Lesson 2:

Phase 1: Ask questions and get answers.

Phase 2: Complete guided writing.
Phase 3: Read aloud ones journal.

Lesson 3:

Phase 1: Ask questions and get answers.

Phase 2: Answer comprehension questions based on a story.
Phase 3: Draw the character in the story.

Lesson 4:

Phase 1: Ask questions and get answers.

Phase 2: Answer comprehension questions about pets and pests.
Phase 3: Categorizing pets and pests into their respective groups.

SEVENTH COMPONENT: FOUR LESSON PLANS

FIRST LESSON PLAN
Subject

: English

Date

: 13.6.2011

Time

: 8.20 9.20 am

Class

: 5 Maju

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Animal and Us

Learning outcome

: 1.7.2 Listen to stories and fables and recall details

: 2.4.3 Tell what happens next
: 3.6.1 Acquire a wide range and vocabulary

Language skill

: Listening

Educational emphasis : Multiple Intelligence ( verbal linguistic )

Moral values

: Dont jump into conclusion

Thinking skill

: Arranging and sequencing

Aim

: To allow pupils to enjoy animals stories, increase thinking skill and to

know about collective nouns.

Word list

: duckling, nestling, cygnet

Sentence pattern

: A nest of nestlings,
: A flock of ducklings
: A flock of cygnets

Behavioral objectives : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:: 1. Watch and listen to story entitle The Ugly Duckling.
: 2. Try predict the storyline of The Ugly Duckling.
: 3. Gain new vocabulary like duckling, cygnet and also collective nouns.
Teaching aid
Steps

: LCD projector, speaker, laptop, task sheet

Set

Content
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Activities
-Teacher shows a set of picture

Teaching aid
-Pictures of

induction

Spatial

of animals in group.

animals in group.

-Teacher discuss with pupils

-LCD projector

about what they see in those

-Laptop

(10 minutes)

pictures.
-Teacher says that the pictures
show animals in group.
-Teacher tells that animals in
group are called collective
Presentation

Grammar

nouns.
-Teacher shows a power point

(10 minutes)

Collective nouns

presentation of collective nouns.

-LCD projector
-Laptop

-Teacher tells pupils that

collective nouns are used to
describe animals in group.
-Teacher explains that certain
animal may have the same
collective nouns.
-Teacher shows again pictures
showed during set induction.
-Teacher reveals collective nouns
Practice

Grammar

used for animals shown.

-Teacher distributes task sheet to

(10 minutes)

Collective nouns

pupils.

-Task sheet

-Teacher asks pupils to complete

the crossword puzzle on
collective nouns.
-Teacher gives some time for
pupils to finish their task.
-After several minutes, teacher
stops pupils from doing the task
sheet and discuss the task sheet
and discusses the answer with
Production

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pupils.
-Teacher discusses with pupils

(25 minutes)

Verbal linguistic

about the pictures shown at set

-Laptop

Thinking skill

induction.

-Speaker

Arranging and

-Teacher tells that the pictures

-Word card

sequencing

were taken from the animation

of The Ugly Duckling.
-Teacher picks a pupil to come in
front to tell the story of The
Ugly Duckling as much as
he/she knows.
-Meanwhile, teacher distributes
8 pieces of excerpt from the
story to 8 pupils at random.
-After the pupils finish telling
the story, teacher asks pupils to
open the excerpt and check the
excerpt they are holding.
-Teacher says that he/she has the
start of the story and pupils have
to finish the storyline of The
Ugly Duckling.

-LCD projector

-Pupils who are holding the

excerpts continue the excerpt
that the teacher is holding.
-After the story is finished,
teacher reveals the answer by
showing the animation of The
Closure

Ugly Duckling.
-Teacher recalls the lesson of the

(5 minutes)

day.
-Teacher asks the pupils how
they feel and what they have
learnt.
-Teacher gives the moral value
of the story.

SECOND LESSON PLAN

Subject

: English

Date

: 15.6.2011

Time

: 10.40 11.40 am

Class

: 5 Maju

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Animal and Us

Learning outcome

: 2.3.3 Talk about things heard, seen or read.

: 4.7.4 Write simple recounts with guidance

Language skill

: Writing

Educational emphasis : Multiple intelligence (verbal linguistic)

Moral value

: Co-operation, love toward animals

Thinking skill

: Making connection and association

Aim

: To enable pupils to write a journal about an event in their lives.

Word list

: zoo, circus, bird, stork, performance, show, wolves

Sentence pattern

: Last week, I went to animals circus show.

: Last Sunday, my family and I went to the zoo.

Behavioral objectives : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to :: 1. Write a journal a visit to the zoo.
: 2. Discuss with teacher about the video they watched.
: 3. Enjoy song about going to the zoo.
Teaching aid
Steps
Set induction

: LCD projector, laptop, speaker, textbook

Content
Speaking skill

Activities
-Teacher shows a video clip

Teaching aid
-LCD projector

(10minutes)

Speaking

of animal performing in a

-Laptop

circus show.

-Speaker

-Teacher discuss with pupils

about what they watched.
-Teacher asks pupils if they
had any experience watching
Presentation

Pre-writing stage

a circus performance.
-Teacher asks pupils to open

(10 minutes)

Grammar

their textbook on page 48.

Simple past tense

-Teacher asks a pupil to read

-Textbook

aloud a journal on Amarjeets

Experience at The Circus.
-Teacher guides pupils
understanding upon the text
by discussing with pupils.
-Teacher tells that the journal
is used to document ones
experience when having an
event.
-Teacher also reminds pupils
that the journal should be in
past tense form to show that
the person had already
Practice

experienced it.
-Teacher plays a video on

-LCD projector

animal that available in

-Laptop

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Alaska Zoo.

-Speaker

Verbal linguistic

-Teacher asks pupils to study

Writing stage

(25 minutes)

the video carefully.

Meanwhile, teacher
distributes a task sheet.
-Teacher asks pupils to do the

task sheet again.

( task sheet is a guided writing
activity about one persons
journal when he went to
Alaska Zoo )
-Teacher gives ample time to
pupils to finish the task given.
-Teacher stops pupils doing
the task when time came to an
Production

end.
-Teacher calls upon one pupil

Post writing

(10 minutes)

to share to the class about the

Language skill

journal he/she wrote.

Reading and listening

-Teacher collects all the task

Closure

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sheets for checking.

-Teacher plays a song entitled

-Laptop

(5 minutes)

Musical

Going To The Zoo.

-Speaker

-Teacher recalls the lesson of

the day.
-Teacher asks pupils what
they have done on todays
lesson.

THIRD LESSON PLAN

Subject

: English

Date

: 16.6.2011

Time

: 9.20 10.20 am

Class

: 5 Maju

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Animal and Us

Learning outcome

: 2.5.2 Talk about the actions of people and animals in a story heard,
read and viewed.
: 4.2.1 Match sentences to pictures.

Language skill

: Listening and writing

Educational emphasis : Multiple intelligence (verbal linguistic, spatial)

Thinking skill

: making association and connection, sequencing

Aim

: To allow pupils to listen to story-telling and to draw animal described.

Wordlist

: chick, hen, fire, water, wind, please, king, pot, cook

Sentence pattern

: I am of to Madrid to see the king.

Behavioral objectives : By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to :: 1. Give responses to the action by the character in the story told.
: 2. Match sentences to the pictures of sequence of the story.
: 3. Draw the character of the story.
: 4. Recall previous lesson as a recapitulation of the topic.
Teaching aid

Steps
Set induction

: audio of the story, task sheet, speaker, audio player

Content
Thinking skill

Activities
-Teacher describes a weird

Teaching aid

(5 minutes)

Making connection/

animal young that has one eye,

association

one leg and one wing.

-Teacher asks pupils to
imagine such animal that
described before.
-Teacher allows pupils to give
their responses about the
animal he/ she described
earlier.
-Teacher reveals that such
animal is a character they will

Presentation

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listen afterwards.
-Teacher says that pupils will

(10 minutes)

Verbal linguistic

listen to a story entitle The

-Speaker
-Audio player

Little Half Chick.

Language skill

-Teacher requires pupils

Listening

attention to listen to the story

attentively.
-Teacher plays the audio of

Practice

Language skill

Little Half Chick.

-After playing the audio,

(15 minutes)

Speaking

teacher asks pupils feeling

towards the story heard.
-Teacher checks pupils
understanding upon the story
by asking the pupils several
comprehension questions
about the story.
-Teacher discusses the answers
provided by the pupils.
-Teacher distributes
worksheets for the pupils to

-Worksheet

answer.
-Teacher allows several
minutes for pupils to finish the
Production

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worksheet again.
-Teacher reminds pupils about

(10minutes)

Spatial

the animal that he/she

described earlier and the
character from the story.
-Teacher asks pupils to draw
the character based on their
imagination.
-Teacher allocates several
minutes for pupils their
drawing.
-After they finished drawing
teacher calls upon several
pupils to share their drawings

Closure

Grammar past tense,

with their friends.

-Teacher recaps the lesson for

(20 minutes)

collective nouns

today.
-Teacher asks the moral value

Vocabulary young of animal,

of the story they listened

animal pets, animal pests

earlier.

Writing journal

-Teacher recalls pupils

knowledge about what they
had learnt for the several week
past.
-Teacher checks for pupils
understanding about things
taught.

FOURTH LESSON PLAN

Subject

: English

Date

: 17.6.2011

Time

: 7.50 8.50 am

Class

: 5 Maju

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Animal and Us

Learning outcome

: 3.8.4 Read and understand simple factual text by answering

comprehension question in relation to main ideas and details.

Language skill focus : Reading

Educational emphasis : Multiple intelligence (linguistic)
Moral value

: show care for pets and avoid pests in house.

Thinking skill

: classifying and categorizing

Aim

: To acknowledge pupils the differences between pets and pests by

reading from the text.

Word list

: pets, pests, cat, rat, cockroach, rabbit, chicken, fish, fly, ant, snail

Behavioral objectives : By the end of the lesson pupils should be able to :: 1. Read a text on page 47 in their textbook about pets and pests and
discuss the content of the text with the teacher.
: 2. Categorize animal pets and pests together with their details.
: 3. Answer comprehension question correctly as many as they can.
Teaching aid

: textbook, word search puzzle, word cards, comprehension question

Steps
Set induction

Content
Language skill

Activities
-Teacher shows several pictures

Teaching aid
Picture of

(5 minutes)

Speaking

of animal cartoon characters

animals

which pupils familiar with.

character in

-Teacher asks pupils their

cartoon show.

names and what kind of animal

are they.
-Teacher asks pupils which

among the animals showed that

they prefer to keep at home.
-Teacher says that animal that
people do not keep but live at
Presentation

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home are called pests.

-Teacher asks pupils to open

(15 minutes)

Verbal linguistic

their English textbook page on

47.

Thinking skill

-Teacher asks pupils to read

Making connection /

aloud a paragraph from the text

association

and discuss the content of the

paragraph with the pupils.

Moral values keep clean in

-The procedure above is

their house

repeated for the next paragraph.

-Each time pupils stop at each
paragraph, teacher asks
question to check their

Practice

Thinking skill classifying

understanding.
-Teacher writes several

(15 minutes)

and categorizing

comprehension questions on the

whiteboard and asks pupils to
copy the questions.
-Teacher asks pupils to answer
all questions within predetermine period.
-After several minutes, teacher
discusses the answer with the
pupils.

Production

Thinking skill : classifying

-Teacher checks pupils book.

-Teacher pastes a word search

(20 minutes)

and categorizing

puzzle on the whiteboard.

-Teacher tells pupils that there

-Texbook

are several animal names

hidden in the puzzle.
-Teacher gives several minutes
for pupils to study the puzzle.
-Later, teacher calls several
names to come in front and
circle the animal names they
found.
-Teacher takes out the names
and list all of them after all
animal names were found.
-Teacher draws a table with two
columns each for pests and pets.
-Teacher calls several pupils
names to come in front and put
the names into the correct table
or column.
-Teacher discusses the answer
Closure

Moral value : maintain the

with pupils
-Teacher recaps the lesson of

(5 minutes)

house/surrounding,

the day.

cleanliness/tidiness

-Teacher asks the pupils about

the differences between pets
and pests.
-Teacher asks pupils how to
avoid pests from their home.