LESSON PLAN

(Action Research Lesson Plan Descriptive Writing)

Date

: 19th September 2014

Day

: Friday

Class

: 4ST1 (2 periods)

Time

: 70 minutes

Subject

: English Language

Level

: Intermediate

Theme

: People

Topic

: Describing Everything

Number of students

: 23 students

Language aspect

: Adjectives

Language skills

: Writing skills
2.0 Language for Informational Use
2.3 Present information to different audiences by:
c) Responding to questions orally and in writing
Level 3
vii. Writing brief reports, descriptions

Learning objectives

: By the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

i.

Answer all the occupation correctly for the occupational routine hand-out given to each group of students

ii.

Write a simple paragraph using at least 2 appropriate sequence connectors in each row of the comic hand-out

Previous knowledge

: Simple sentence construction, sequence connectors, adjectives

Moral values

: Time management / Daily responsibilities and duties of a student

Teaching aids

: Whiteboard & Marker, comic pictures and hand-outs (Comic strips)

STAGE/ TIME

TEACHING LEARNING ACTIVITIES

AUDIO VISUAL AIDS/

REMARKS

SET INDUCTION

Teacher states what they are going to learn for the day.

5 MINUTES

The teacher gives hand-out of a picture from the comic series Upin & Ipin to each
group of students.

The teacher asks a series of WH questions regarding the picture shown.

Example:

Rationale:
To introduce and prepare the
students for the lesson

A hand-out with
comic picture of
Upin & Ipin

Whiteboard &
Marker

What do you think is going on in this picture? Who are they?

EXPLANATION

15 MINUTES
Rationale:
To integrate the teaching and
recalling the students memory on
sequence connectors and how to
use them properly

The teacher explains about routines and how much it affects our daily lives sequence
connectors in the class

The teacher then elicit responses from the students about their daily routines and
smoothly integrates the grammar teaching of sequence connectors

The teacher uses the example given by the students to show the usage of sequence
connectors correctly and then proceeds on explaining about occupational routines.

PRACTICE

The teacher gives a hand out on occupational routines to the students in groups

15 MINUTES

The teacher then instructs the students find out the occupation, based on the
occupational routine description given on the hand-out

In the same group, the students are asked to read out the each of the description to the
other students as they guess the answers together.

The teacher gives another hand-out to students that show a comic strip of Upin &
Ipin, individually.

The students are required to write, in simple sentences, about what they think is
happening in the comic strip according to each row, using appropriate sequence
connectors.

5 MINUTES

The teacher recalls back on what was learnt on the lesson earlier.

Rationale:

The teacher emphasises on the moral value stated on the lesson plan, based on the
topic of the lesson

Rationale:
The students are able to
understand the concept of routine
and the topic in focus

PRODUCTION
30 MINUTES
Rationale:
The students are able to write
based on the comic with the
guided hand-out
CLOSURE

To end the lesson and refresh the

content of the lesson

Occupational
Routine
hand-out

Sentence
Construction
activity hand-out
(Comic strip)