Duration: Lesson

Subject : English Class: Time

147
Theme : World of self, family
Focus skill: Reading CCE: Language Date:
and friends
Teaching aids: 21st Century Skills/Strategy/Activity:
Flashcards, audio CD, worksheet. Communication, collaboration.
Language/Grammar focus:
Comparatives: Short adjectives; Statements
TOPIC
The World Around Us
CONTENT STANDARD
3.2 Understand a variety of linear and non-linear
3.2 Understand a variety of linear and non-linear print
M print and digital texts by using appropriate
reading strategies
C
and digital texts by using appropriate reading strategies

LEARNING STANDARDS
3.2.2 Understand specific information and details 3.2.3 Guess the meaning of unfamiliar words from clues
M of short simple texts C provided by visuals and the topic
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to read the text and identify at least three out of five true or false sentences
M correctly.
At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to use pictures and words from the text to guess at least two out of three
C animals correctly.
1. Display animal flashcards around the classroom.
I. PRE-LESSON 2. Say one of the animals. e.g. giraffe. Pupils point to the corresponding flashcard.
3. Repeat with other animals.
1. Activity 1:
 Show the flashcard of the shark and elicit/teach the word shark.
 Ask pupils if they have seen a shark. Ask them what they think of sharks.
 Elicit or teach scary. Ask if they think sharks are scary.
 Do the same with the other sea animals and elicit adjectives for each.
 Show pupils the worksheet (section A) and ask them to guess which animal by circling it.
 Play CD track 52 and have pupils read along silently. They check their answers to the
worksheet.
II. LESSON
 Ask pupils to circle the words science and project. Encourage pupils to try to work out
DEVELOPMENT
what the words mean from the context and from the pictures, especially picture 6. They
should tell their partner before checking as a whole class.
2. Activity 2:
 Grammar box: Read it out loud and have pupils repeat. Ask pupils to look at the adjectives.
Explain how they are form in the comparative. (refer TB pg 147)
 Draw pupils’ attention to Section B of the worksheet. Pupils read the text and circle the
correct answer.
 Have pupils check their answers in pairs first, then check as a class.
1. Make true/false sentences about the sea animals.
III. POST LESSON e.g. Elephants are scarier than sharks. Blue whales are smaller than elephants. etc
2. Pupils stand up if the sentences are true and remain sitting if they are false.
REFLECTION
a. ___ out of ___ pupils were able to read the text and identify at Lesson postpone:
M least three out of five true or false sentences correctly. a. Course c. CRK
b. Sick leave d. Meeting
a. ___ out of ___ pupils were able to use pictures and words from the
C text to guess at least two out of three animals correctly. Other :
 Name:

a. Guess and circle.

Which one is…?
1. Bigger? blue whale elephant

2. Pretty? dolphin orca

3. Scary? dolphin shark

Now read and check.

b. Read the text and choose T for True and F for false.

1. Anna has a Science project for school. T F

2. The project is about sea animals. T F

3. Elephants are smaller than blue whales. T F

4. The shark is scary. T F

5. Greg’s teacher likes his projects. T F