Subject

: English Language

Class/Year

: 4 Ibnu Rushd

Date/Day

: 27.7.2016 (Thursday)

Time

: 12.15p.m.-1.15p.m. (60 minutes)

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: The Insects Investigators

Focused Skill

: Language Arts

Content Standards

: 4.1 By the end of the 6- year primary schooling, pupils will be

able to enjoy and appreciate rhymes, poems and songs.

Learning Standards

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

Objectives

: By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:

i)
Read the poem with correct pronunciation
ii)
Create models of any insects that they have learnt.

Vocabulary

: ants, dig, drag, foe, nest, attack

Moral Values

: Unity

Teaching Aids

: Pictures of insects, Learn about Insects video, The Ants poem,

modeling clay,

Thinking Skills

: Creating, evaluating

Multiple Intelligence

: kinesthetic, interpersonal skills, verbal-linguistic

Stage / Time

Content

Set Induction

To elicit pupils
response by asking
questions.

(5 minutes)

Activities
1
2

Teacher shows pictures of

insect
Teacher asks pupils
whether they can name
each of the insect in the
picture
Teacher plays Learn About
Insects video.

Resources
-Pictures of insects
-Learn about Insects
video

Presentation
(15 minutes)

Practice
(15 minutes)

To show correct
rhythm,
pronunciation and
intonation

1. Teacher displays The Ants

poem.
2. Teacher reads the poem
with correct rhythm,
intonation and
pronunciation with
gestures.
3. Teacher asks pupils if they
understand the poem.
4. Teacher explains difficult
words to pupils (if any).
5. Teacher asks pupils to read
the poem aloud.

Drilling activity to
enhance pupils
pronunciation.

1
2

Production

To create models of
insects learnt.

1. Teacher distributes
modeling clay to each
group.
2. Teacher instructs the pupils
to create any insects that
they know using the clay
within 10 minutes.
3. Teacher asks pupils to do
Gallery Walk/Carousel
Feedback activity.
4. The pupils will write
comments about their
friends work.

To conclude the
lesson & instill moral
values.

1. Teacher asks the pupils

name any insects they
know.
2. Teacher instills moral value
based on the poem.

(20 minutes)

Closure
(5 minutes)

Teacher assigned each

groups with a stanza.
Teacher asks each group to
practice reading their
stanzas.
Teacher calls each group to
come forward and read
their stanzas.

Example: Together
we stand, divided we
fall.

-The Ant poem

-The Ants poem

-Modeling clay

THE ANTS
The ants, the ants

When problems

on tips of plants

thrown in their path

on sticks, on stones,

they laugh!

on ice cream cones;

They move faster

and find a different

Beneath the ground

way to go.

they retreat and flow,

precisely know

But when a gang

whos friend, whos foe.

attacks their nest?

They beat their legs

They dig, they climb,

against their chests,

they drag, they pull

they never seem

They snap their

to play at all.

giant mouths
and drive them out
with great success.