LESSON PLAN

Subject

: English Language

Class

: 4 Terbilang

Level

: Mixed Abilities

Enrolment

: 30 pupils

Date / Day

: 18th April 2016 / Monday

Time

: 11.30 a.m. 12.30 p.m.

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Unit 7 Blogging

Module

: Listening and speaking

Previous Knowledge

: Pupils are familiar with reading and sharing information online

Content Standard

Learning Standard

1.1 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils

will be able to pronounce words and speak
confidently with the correct stress, rhythm and
intonation.

1.1.4 Able to talk about related topics with guidance

Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
1. Talk about a blog with their partner
2. Listen to the teacher and fill in the blanks with at least 5 out of 7 correct answers.
Cross curricular elements:
Thinking skill
Constructivism
Moral Values

Pupils listen to the teacher and fill in the blanks with correct answers
Pupils build new knowledge of the topic using their prior knowledge of social
media
We should write good things in the blog
We should not write or share wrong information on the blog

Language Content:
Vocabulary

blog, experience, travelling, review, share

Anticipated Problem:

Pupils are not able to fill in the blanks correctly

Proposed Solution:

Teacher reads the text several times and pauses several times before moving on to the next question.

Teaching Aids:

Blogs sample
Dialogue
Flash cards
Pictures
Task sheet
Cue card

Stages/
Time

Content

Teaching-learning Activities

Rationale

Set Induction
(5 min)

Questions:
Who have a blog?
Have you ever
read a blog?
What can you
write in the blog?

1. Teacher displays several

1. To activate their
schemata
2. To draw the pupils
interest towards the
topic

Language Content:

1. Teacher introduces new

words using the flash cards
before
teaching
the
dialogue.
2. Teacher
explains
its
meaning using pictures.
3. Teacher
pastes
the
dialogue on the board.
4. Teacher
reads
the
dialogue.
5. Teacher selects pupils to
read the dialogue.

Presentation

(15 min)
Vocabulary:
-blog
-experience
-travelling
-review
-share

examples of a blog online.

2. Teacher explains what a

blog is.

3. Teacher

asks
some
question to the pupils.
4. Teacher introduces the
topic.

1. To introduce new
words
2. To model correct
pronunciation
3. To practice reading
the dialogue

Remarks
Blogs sample

Flash cards
Pictures
Dialogue
Constructivism
-Pupils build new
knowledge of the
topic using their
prior knowledge of
social media

Practice
(20 min)

Activities:
Individual work
Listen to the
teacher and fill in
the blanks with
correct answers.

Production
(15 min)

Activity:
Whole class
Poison box game
Sentence pattern
-I have a blog.
I write about ____.

Closure
(5 min)

Questions:
-Why do people
write a blog?
-Can we share
bad things in the
blog?

1. Teacher distributes a task 1. To ensure that the

sheet to the pupils.
pupils understand
2. Pupils are required to listen
the topic learnt
to the teacher and fill in the 2. To practice listening
blanks
with
correct
skill
answers.
3. Teacher reads the text
slowly so that pupils are
given enough time to listen
and answer the questions.
4. Teacher discusses the
answers by selecting pupils
randomly to give the
correct answers.

Task sheet

1. Teacher tells the pupils that 1. To inculcate fun

they are going to play a
learning
2. To practice listening
poison box game.
2. Teacher
informs
the
and speaking
procedure and rules.
3. The person who holds the
box when the music stops
has to take a card from the
box.
4. The pupil has to speak
about the blog using the
sentence pattern in the
card as a guide.

Cue cards
Poison box

1. Teacher recaps the lesson 1. To instil moral values

by asking the pupils some 2. To stimulate thinking
questions.
2. Teacher
instils
moral
values about the topic.

Moral values
- We should write
good things in the
blog
-We should not
write or share
wrong information
on the blog