Date : 10 January 2010

Time : 10.00a.m – 11.20 am (80 minutes)

Enrolment : 36 students
Proficiency : High Intermediate
Previous Knowledge : Students have read the Act 1 Scene 1 in ‘Julius Caesar’
before.
Topic : Play (“Julies Caesar”- William Shakespeare)
Main Skill : Writing
Integrated Skill : Reading, Listening, and Speaking
Literary Device : Language - Pun
Objective : By reading this play, students should be able to develop
awareness of how language is used for different purposes
Specific Objective: By reading this play, students will be able to identify common
dramatic devices that playwrights employ to achieve their affects especially the usage of
pun in Julius Caesar
Behavioral Objectives: By the end of the lesson students should be able to:
1. List at least 8 out of 10 puns in Act 1 Scene 1 in Julius Caesar
2. Write a paragraph about their interpretation for the selected puns in the
context of the play in Act 1 Scene 1 in Julius Caesar with as many words as
possible
Lesson Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity Teaching Aids Rationale
Stages
1. Teacher plays 1. Students listen Computer This activity is to
Induction an audio for the to the audio Speaker attract the students'
(5 minutes) students to listen. attention and the
This audio is the spoken form of the
conversations speech helps the
between the students'
characters in Act 1 imagination and
Scene 1(Refer to generates a better
Figure 1) in understanding on
how certain lines
are spoken. In order
2. Teacher asks the 2. Students give to understand the
students what they their answers impact of pun,
understand about the event * Flavius and students need to
in the Act 1 Scene 1 after Murellus are listen to the right
they listen to the audio introduced in the way on how the
* What happened in Act 1 scene and lines are spoken
Scene 1 conversation
* What is your opinion on between Murellus
the cobbler's style in and a cobbler
communicating with * The cobbler
Murellus seems to
manipulate the
language in a
different way.
Maybe, there is a
hidden meaning
behind the
sentences that he
utters
 Whiteboard
The teaching of
Pre 1. Teacher uses the 1. pun takes place at
(5minutes) information given by the Students this stage. It is
students in the previous listen to important to teach
stage to teach pun to the the the students about
class teacher's pun before ask
* You said that the explanatio them to work on it
cobbler's language seems n carefully
to be different than the
others and you also
claimed that most probably
there are some hidden
meaning in the sentences
that he used. Our lesson
today is about the 'hidden
meaning' meaning how the
characters manipulate their
language in the
conversation. This is what
we call pun.
A pun is a word that is
used in an unconventional,
often humorous way, so as
to
suggest multiple meanings.
Shakespeare uses pun very
frequently in his work
especially in dramatic
conflicts. In this Act 1
Scene 1, we can see the
cobbler uses pun and it
seems that Murellus
misinterprets it.
While 1. Teacher 1. Students get into
teaching instructs the their This activity in group is
(40minutes) students to get into Group important as students
their respective will be able to work in a
group. group. Besides that, this
activity deepens their
understanding about
2. Teacher asks 2. Students note pun and also they will
the students to down the three able to explore the
work with Act 1 elements that they richness of language
Scene 1. There need to look at used in that particular
are 3 things that while working on scene. This also
the students need Act 1 Scene 1 indirectly generates
to consider while interest for them to
working on it, explore the play in
namely; depth
* Identify the lines or
sentences which are
examples of pun
* Figure a possible
meaning or hidden
meaning for the pun
* Interpret the reason why
that specific character uses
that particular pun

3. Before students start to

work on it, teacher shows
an example on how to do it 3. Students
listen
carefully to
1. For Example, Act the
1 scene 1. example

Truly, Sir, all that I live by is

with the awl; I meddle
with no tradesman's matters,
nor women's matters, but with

awl. I am indeed, sir, a

surgeon to old shoes; when
they are
in great danger, I recover
them.

• As well as punning
on "awl/all" and
 "recover/re-cover,"
the cobbler plays
on the dual
meaning of
"cobbler" itself
(shoe-repairer and
bungler) and the
two meanings of
"out" (angry with
and worn out), as
well as punning on
"sole/soul."
• This frivolity
serves to underline
the high spirits of
the common people
at the prospect of
Caesar's return in
triumph, and the
furious outburst
that it eventually
draws from
Marullus

4. Teacher asks the

students to start work in
their group

4. Students
start to
work with
their group
members
Post teaching 1. Teacher asks the 1. Students present This activity
(25 minutes) students to present their work gives chance for
their work the students to
evaluate their
2. After each 2. Other groups peers. While
presentation by a present their presenting, they
group, teacher asks feedbacks and also learn to
other groups to give debate on the justify their
feedbacks. When answers if necessary answers. Asking
there are different students to write a
interpretations, paragraph about
teacher asks the the usage of the
group to justify pun is necessary
their answers as through this the
3. Students take note teacher indirectly
3. Teacher corrects the the correction made assesses the
students if by the teacher understanding of
necessary. the students on the
4. Students write a usage of pun.
4. Teacher asks every paragraph about
student to write a their interpretation
paragraph about about puns used in
their interpretation Act 1 Scene 1
about the usage of
puns in Act 1 and
scene 1 with a
proper justification.
Approximately 15
minutes is given to
complete this
task(This is the
assessment part for
this lesson)

Students together with the

Closure Teacher recalls on the teacher recall the usage of
( 5 minutes) usage of pun in Act 1 Scenethe pun in Act 1 Scene 1
1 in Julius Caesar
Appendices
Appendix 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXJHN6kKYrE