Subject: English

Class: 6 Innovative

Level of proficiency: High level proficiency

Enrolment: 36 pupils

Date: 18 May 2010

Time: 12.30 - 1.30

Theme: World of Knowledge

Unit: A Day to Remember

Focused skill: Writing

Integrated skill: Listening, Speaking

Intended learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson, pupil should be able to;

4.6 Write simple factual descriptions of things, events, scenes and what one saw
and did.

Curriculum specification: 4.6.2 Write simple descriptions with little or no guidance.

Behavioral objectives: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:

i) Provide practice in constructing simple past tense forms and checking for subject verb agreement.
ii) Give students a context to write a narrative paragraph using appropriate temporal adjectives and past
tense forms.

Teaching materials: Video segment depicting a series of actions, Power Point Presentation.
Language focus: Simple past tense.

Previous knowledge: Simple present tense, verbs.

Educational emphases: i) CCTS: recognizing.

ii) Moral Value: Be confident in writing; do not afraid to try something new.

Stage/time Contents Teaching activity Rationale Remarks

Set induction 1. Teacher flashes list - To tap pupil’s Verb list
(± 5mins) Schemata activation of lexical verbs previous knowledge
through the list of including those that about verb forms.
lexical verbs from might be useful in - To increase some
PowerPoint the following activity awareness of subject
Presentation. by using Power Point verb agreement in
presentation. present tense forms.
2. Teacher reads the
present tense of the
lexical words one by
one to students.
Student should
supply the correct
simple past form.
3. Teacher reads the
past tense using a
pronoun form with
the verb.
Pre –writing Videos of the 1. Teacher tells the To prepare pupils for Videos of significant
(± 20mins) celebration of class that they are the next activity celebrations in
Independence Day, going to watch short which is to write a Malaysia.
Hari Raya, Chinese videos of the narrative description
New Year, Deepavali significant by teaching the
and Christmas. celebrations in language structures
 Malaysia. needed.
Temporal adjectives: 2. Teacher asks
- First, then, next, pupils to guess what
finally, at the end, the video is about.
etc. 3. Teacher flashes all To model how to
the temporal write a narrative
WH- questions: adjectives tags on description.
- what, who, when, the board.
why, how, which, etc. 4. Teacher explains
the function of all the
temporal adjectives.
5. Teacher also
explains that they
might even ask
themselves with WH
questions while
brainstorming.
5. Teacher
demonstrates how
they are going to
write a narrative
description.

Writing 1. Teacher form small To check their

(± 15mins) Format of the groups (3/4 pupils) understanding.
narrative description: and watch video
(Refer to Appendix ..) segment.
2. After they have
While pupils write finished watching the To give practice in
their poem, teacher videos, teacher writing the narrative
checks and facilitate assign each group paragraph.
their work. will be assign with
one video and they
are to write a short
summary of what
happened, step by
 step in simple past.
3. Teacher reminds
pupils to use
temporal markers
like first, then, next,
finally, at the end,
etc.

Feedback 1. Ask one group To give immediate Pupils’ narrative

(±15mins) member to read the feedback so that description.
summary aloud. pupils are aware of
2. Ask a different their mistakes.
group member to list
the verb forms used
on the board, writing
both the simple past
and the present
tense forms.
3. Repeat steps 1
and 2 for each group.
4. Circle the verbs
common to each
group’s summary,
underline those that
are different, correct
any that are ill-
formed.

Closure What have you 1. Teacher asks 1. To check their

(±5mins) learnt? pupils what they understanding.
have learnt. 2. Teacher recall on
what pupil has learnt.
Moral values: 3. To inculcate the
-be confident with pupils with moral
yourself. values.
-do not afraid to try
something new.