TSL3113: DEVELOPING AND USING RESOURCES FOR THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

LESSON PLAN
Date

: 04 September 2015 (Friday)

Class

: Year 4

No. of pupils

: 30 pupils

Time

: 8.30 am 9.30 am (One Hour)

Focused Skill

: Language Arts

Integrated Skill

: Listening, Speaking, Writing

Language Focus

: Vocabulary

Previous Knowledge

: Pupils have learnt about the story "Red Riding Hood"

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Unit 6: Care for the sea

Content Standard

: By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to enjoy and appreciate rhymes, poems
and songs.

Learning Standard

: 4.1.1

Able to enjoy jazz chants, poems and songs through non-verbal response.

4.1.2 Able to sing songs and recite jazz chants and poem with correct stress, pronunciation, rhythm
and intonation
Objectives

: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to enjoy themselves by singing a song with the correct
stress, pronunciation, rhythm and intonation with the teachers guidance.

Teaching aids/Materials

: picture cards, song chart, music, puppets, laptop, manila cards

Educational Emphases

: Thinking skills, multiple intelligences (musical & kinesthetic), contextual learning, creativity and
innovation

Moral value(s)

: caring, careful, honest

Assessment

: Checklists, Observations, Presentations

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Stage/Time

Content

Instructional Language

Rationale

Notes/Remar

Set induction

Introduction of the 1. Teacher starts the lesson by 1. Good morning, children.

Contextual

ks
Teaching aids:

(5 minutes)

characters in Red

showing the pupils the

Riding Hoods

picture cards.

story:
Red Riding
Hood
Grandmother
Wolf
Samples of

Teaching/Learning Activities

2. The pupils name the

pictures.
3. Teacher asks a few
questions pertaining to the
pictures.

questions:

How are you today?

2. So, today, before we
start our lesson, Im
going to show you some
pictures.
3. Now, look at this picture.

learning by

picture
cards

drawing
students prior

Assessment:

knowledge.

Observations

Name the picture.

4. Well done, everyone.
5. Listen, Im going to ask a
few questions about the

What colour

pictures.

is the wolf?
What colour
is Red Riding
Hoods
cloak?
Where do
you think her
grandmother
live?
Presentation

Song Lyric: "Little

1. Teacher pastes the song

(10 minutes)

Red Riding Hood

chart on the whiteboard /

look here (point at the

the

and the Wolf

blackboard.

song chart) and listen

confidence in

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1. Now, I want all of you to To

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build

up

pupils

Teaching Aids:
-

Song
chart

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(refer to
Appendix A)

2. Teacher reads aloud the

song lyric once while pupils
listen.
3. The pupils read the song
lyric after the teacher.
4. Then they read the lyric on
their own with the teachers
guidance.
5. Teacher plays the song
once while the pupils listen.
6. Then the pupils will try to
sing the song with the
music.

while I read the lyric.

2. Ok, now I want you to
read after teacher.
3. Good, everyone.
4. Next, I want you all to
read

while

learning

the

(Appendix

language and
to

motivate

them

A)
Laptop

(ICT)
Music

teacher

points to the lyric. Ok,

Assessment:

are you ready? One,

Observations

two read.
5. Now, Im going to play
the song and I want you
to listen.
6. Now, I want you all to
sing

along

with

the

music. Are you ready?

Good.
Practice

Song - "Little Red

(20 minutes)

Riding Hood and

again and pupils sing along

again and I want you to

the language

the Wolf

in chorus, groups and

sing along (Pupils sing

learnt

Introduction of
puppets
character (Red
Riding Hood,
Grandmother &
Wolf)

1. Teacher plays the song

individuals.
2. Teacher shows the actions
as the pupils sing the song.
3. Teacher asks the pupils to
do the actions after him /
her.
4. Teacher and pupils sing the

1. Now, Ill play the song To reinforce

in chorus).
2. Next, I want you to sing To evaluate
pupils
in groups. Ok, on my

puppets
music

Assessment:
Observations,

right is group 1, in the

understanding

checklist &

middle is group 2 and

on the task

presentation

on my left is group 3.

given.

Are you ready Group 1?

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Teaching Aids:

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song and at the same time
Refer Appendix
B for the puppet
sticks.

do the actions.
5. Pupils in groups sing the

(Teacher will do the

same with Group 2 &

sing while doing the action.

Group 3).
3. Ok, I want everybody to

As the pupils sing the song,

look me. Next, Im going

teacher will check their

to

stress, pronunciation,
rhythm and intonation.
6. Then teacher shows the
puppets to the pupils and
explains the instruction.
7. Pupils take turn to hold the
puppets and do the actions
while the others sing the
song with action.

show

you

some

actions.
4. Everyone, please stand
up. I want you to do the
actions that Ive shown
just now. First, we do
together.

Are

you

ready?
5. Now, everybody sing
the song and do the
actions.
6. Next, I want you to sing
the song and do the
actions in your group.
Ok, Group 1 first. (Then
follow with Group 2 &
Group 3).
7. Ok, here Ive three
puppets. What puppet
is this? (Pupils
expected answer: Red

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Riding Hood).
8. Now, Ill distribute these
puppets to Mina (Red
Riding

Hood),

(Grandmother)

Jenny
&

Ali

(Wolf). (Here teacher

will explain the task to
the 3 pupils).
9. Ok, lets sing the song
again while Mina, Jenny
Production

Creativity on

(20 minutes)

making craft :
face mask of the
story characters

1. Teacher distributes the

manila cards to the pupils
and explains the task.
2. Pupils do the task given.

and Ali do the actions.

1. Now, Im going to

To produce

distribute these manila

and display

cards to everyone.
2. I want you to make your
own face mask about
your favourite storys
characters. For

good creative
works based

or Cinderella
1. Teacher sum up the lesson 1. Ok, from the story

Summing up the

(5 minutes)

lesson and sing

by

moral

"Red Riding Hood", how

along

values based on the story

many characters do you

inculcate

the

"Red Riding Hood"

2. Teacher asks the pupils to
sing the song again.

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heard.

Manila

cards
Scissors
Colour
pencils

Assessment:
Presentations

To inculcate
moral values
To reinforce

know in that story? And

pupils

which character do you

knowledge of

like / dislike? Why?

what they

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on the song

example, a mousedeer
Closure

Teaching aids:

Teaching aids:
-

Song

chart
music

Moral values:
-

caring
careful

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2. From the story, we

have learnt.

honest

learnt that:
- we must be caring
like Red Riding
Hood toward her
-

sick grandmother;
we must be careful
not to trust other
people who we do

not know;
we must be honest,
dont be like the
wolf who is trying to
cheat Red Riding
Hood to be her

3.

grandmother etc..
Now, lets sing the
song again. Are you
ready?

Reflection:
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