Date Day Subject Class Enrolment Time Duration Level Topic Theme Focus Skills

: 03.05.2007 : Thursday : English Language : Form 4 K : 29 students : 8.50 a.m 10.10 a.m : 2X40 minutes : Very Low Competency : Poem The Road Not Taken : Making choices in life and consequence of our decision : Reading Comprehension. (Bottom-Up Approach) : 3.1 Listen to, read, view and respond to literary works by: (a) understanding and telling in ones own words the story and poem heard and read and giving ones opinion of the text. (e) reciting poems with feeling and expression.

Level

: 1.i Reciting poems with feeling and expressions and with correct pronunciation, intonation, stress and rhythm. 1.ii Finding out the meaning of unfamiliar words by using contextual clues.

General objectives

: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. recite the poem with decent stress, rhythm and intonation. 2. complete the given worksheet.

Specific objectives

: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. match at least 5 out of 8 phrases with the correct meanings. 2. answer 4 out of 6 comprehension questions correctly.

Previous knowledge Moral values

: 1. Students have read poems before. 2. Students have been making choices in their life. : 1. To understand the importance of making the correct choices in life. 2. To make the best with the choices we have made.

Teaching aids

: picture, audio clip, notebook, handouts, and worksheet

Stage. / Time. Set induction. (+/- 10minutes) Rationale: 1.To stimulate students interest to the topic.

Activities. 1. Teacher shows a picture of a forked road and prompts the students to describe the content. 2. Teacher tells the students that people have to make choices everyday in their life and once a choice has been made, there is no turning back. 3. Teacher asks students at random a few questions. (a) Have you ever make any important decisions in life? (b) Do you ever regret the decision you made? 4. Students answer questions orally. 1. Teacher displays a list of difficult phrases and elicits the meaning from the students. 2. Teacher prompts and helps the students to understand the meanings of the phrases. 3. Teacher distributes the poem to the students. 4. Teacher introduces the poem and the gives background knowledge about the poet. 5. Teacher reads the poem with decent stress, rhythm and intonation while the students listen. 6. Teacher elicits the meaning of each line and stanza from the students and prompts when necessary. 1.Teacher plays the audio clip of the poem for the first time while the students listen. and the students repeat after each line.

Teaching Aids. Picture

Presentation. ( +/- 30minutes ) Rationale: 1.Enable students to understand the meaning of difficult phrases in the poem.

Word list

Handouts.

Production / Practice.

Audio clip

( +/- 25minutes ) 2.Teacher plays the audio clip for the second time Rationale: 1.To enable students to recite the poem with decent stress, 2 3. Teacher asks the students to read the poem stanza by stanza and prompts when necessary.

rhythm and intonation. worksheet 2.To evaluate students performance and understanding on what they have read. Closure. ( +/- 15minutes ) Rationale: To stress the importance of making wise choices in life and making the best with our choices. 4. Teachers distributes the worksheet and asks the students to complete the worksheet in pairs. 5. Teacher monitors while the students are carrying out the activities. 6. Teacher asks the students to read their answers aloud to detect and correct errors. 1.Teacher emphasizes the importance of making the correct choices in life and the need to make the best with the choices we have made. 2.Teacher gives the students a take home task. Describe a situation where you have to make a choice and the result of that decision in your life. 3.Students will present the task orally in the following lesson.

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