LESSON PLAN

Class: 3rd graders

Teacher: ………………
Date: …………………..
Title of the lesson: ” Little Red Riding Hood”
Content:- short story
- key words: cake, Little Red Riding Hood, house, mother, grandma, wood
- key sentences: ”What big ears you’ve got”/ ”All the better to hear you!”
”What big eyes you’ve got.”/ ”All the better to see you!”
”What a big nose you’ve got.”
”All the better to smell you!”
”What big teeth you’ve got.”
”All the better to eat you!”

Aims: developing listening, reading and speaking skills

Aids: flashcards, tape, worsheets, stickers, masks ( Mr Wolf and a red hood)
Objectives: at the end of the lesson students will
1. read a few words in English
2.will be able to act a short dialogue ( between Mr Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood....”What big
ears you’ve got”/ ”All the better to hear you”)
3. experience hearing and seeing some English words and short sentences
4. be familiar with these words and sentences

Steps of the lesson

1. Warm up- get students ready for the class
2. Checking the previous material/ story ( The Ugly Duckling)
-retell the story leaving out the key words ( duckling, ugly, sad..)
3. Link- show students some pictures ( wolf, wood, basket, cake, Little Red Riding Hood) and
ask them frontal questions
”What’s this?”
”It’s a basket” etc
4. Teaching the new material
 activity 1- play the tape and ask students to listen and look at the pictures- point to each
picture and emphasize the key words.- ask students to sing ”Happy Birthday” to
grandma.

 activity 2- retell the story leaving out the key words and let students utter them- point the
key words/ sentences and emphasize them- ask questions to check the students’ atention.
( What colour are the flowers?)

 Activity 3- ask students to read and then act the sentences and correct the pronunciation (
if necessary), give them the mask of Mr Wolf and a red hood.

5. Assessment- ask students to act the dialogue in front of the classroom.

6. Homework- ask students to copy the dialogue paying attention to the spelling.

Resources

Activity 1-students are required to answer general questions about fairy tales as a tool for
introducing the topic.

1. Do you like fairytales?

2. What’s your favourite one?

3. Can you name some famous fairytale authors?

4. What do you think about changing the fairytales?

Activity 2- in writing, students have to solve the following exercise. This was done as a pair
work task.

Match the following names of fairytales with the corresponding characters.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Wicked Witch
Cinderella Cinderella
Little Red Riding Hood Snow White
 The Three Pigs Grandmother
Goldilocks The Big Bad Wolf
Pinocchio The three bears
The Ugly Duckling Gepetto
Hansel and Gretel Mother Duck

Activity 3-teacher tells the students they are going to read a short version of the fairytale and
gives the students some clues( key words-bonnet, hood, little girl, bad wolf) regarding the title
After guessing the title, students are asked to read the story silently.

Read the following short version of the famous fairytale Little Red Riding Hood.
Once upon a time, at the edge of a big forest, a little girl lived with her mother. Her name was
Little Red Riding Hood because she always wore a red hat and a cape. One day, her mother
asked her to take a basket with some cake inside and to give it to her grandmother who lived on
the other side of the forest. On the way to her grandmother, the little girl met the Big Bad Wolf.
“Where are you going little girl?” he grinned.
“To my grandmother’s house” said Little Red Riding Hood.
The wolf took a shortcut, ran ahead to Grandma’s house, entered the house and swallowed her.
Then he put on her cap and nightgown and climbed into her bed. When Little Red Riding Hood
got there, she walked right up to the bed.
“Grandmother, what big ears you’ve got”, she said.
“All the better to hear you, my dear”, said the wolf.
“Oh, Grandma, what big eyes you’ve got”.
“All the better to see you, my dear”.
“Oh Grandma, what big teeth you’ve got”, said the little girl.
“All the better to eat you with “ said the wolf and swallowed the little girl. After that, he went to
bed and started snoring. A huntsman heard the noises, came inside the house and cut the wolf’s
belly with some scissors. Then he helped Little Red Riding Hood and her Grandmother to get
out. Together they filled the wolf’s stomach with rocks. When he woke up, the wolf wanted to run
for his life but fell to the ground and died.

Activity 4- Students practice new vocabulary items and solve reading comprehension exercises.
Complete the sentences with information from the text.

1. A little girl lived with her mother at ………………………………………………………

2. She wore a ………………………………………………………………………………….

3. The wolf asked the girl where she was going and………………………………………….

4. The wolf took …………...................................….and ran ahead to Grandmother’s house.

5. He went into the house and ……………….....…… ………………………………………

6. Then he put on a ………………………………………………………………………….

7. The huntsman came inside the house and ………………………………with some scissors.

8. They ………………………the wolf’s stomach with ……………………………………..

Activity 5-teacher gives the students a chart containing information from the text and together
with the students they change information. The following one is an example.

Imagine the same story with big changes:

The place: the forest/ the jungle

The characters: Little Red Riding Hood/ Mother Elephant

Mother/ The giraffe

Grandmother/ Baby giraffe

The big Bad Wolf/ The Thompson Gazelle

The huntsman/ A Scared American Tourist

Activity 6-when all the students have the new information at hand they receive the homework
task of rewriting the story using the changed data.

Rewrite the story of The Little Red Riding Hood using the information above.
Once upon a time, at the edge of a big African jungle, lived Mother Elephant with the
giraffe………………………………………………………………………………………………
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