● Name of the college : Pasdunrata National College of Education, Kalutara
● Name of the teacher trainee : S. A. U. Soorige
● Reg No : 2017/E/F/147
● Subject: English
● Grade : Grade 6
● Competency : Building up vocabulary using words appropriately and accurately
to convey precise meaning.
● Competency Level: 4.2 Uses terms referring to young ones of animals
appropriately
Lesson Plan
Date : 12/07/2021
Subject: English
Grade : 6-4
Time : 40 minutes
Unit : 09/Sugar and sand
Lesson: Animals and their young
Competency 04: Building up vocabulary using words appropriately
Competency level: 4.2 Uses terms referring to young ones of animals
appropriately
Learning Outcomes :
- Students will be able to learn and use terms referring to young ones of animals appropriately.
- Students will be able to identify the words used to refer to young ones of animals.
- Students will be able to engage in the activities enthusiastically.
- Students will be able to use such terms in sentences appropriately.
- Students will be able to use the new vocabulary in their day to day life.
- Students will be able to identify the different offspring of these animals.
Teaching Methods
- Activity based method
- Group method
- Questioning method
- Brainstorming method
Teaching techniques
- Questioning
- Discussions
- Eliciting
- Drilling
Learning - teaching resources
- Pictures of animals and baby animals
- Text book
- Worksheets
- Glue tags/ magnets
- Word cards
- Hand puppets
- White board pens
- Black board/ White board
- Pens
- Stopwatch
- Mini Whiteboard
Learning Teaching Process
Setting the scene / Warm up
- Teacher asks students about animals and asks the students to guess what they are going to
learn.
- Teacher shows some hand puppets of animals and ask their names from students
Examples:
● What is the name of this animal?
● Ask students to imitate the sounds that the animals make.
● Do you love animals?
● Do you have any pets with you?
● Who is your favourite animal?
- Students respond to the Teacher
- Time Allocation : 05 minutes
- Teaching - Learning aids : Hand puppets
Step 1
- Teacher introduces animals and their young to students with hand puppets.
- Teacher asks a question from students.
Example : Have you ever seen a new born baby?
Students respond to teacher.
- Teacher tells students that animals take care of their babies just like parents or guardians take care of their children.
- Students involved in the lesson and get an idea about animals and their young
- Teacher paste the names and the pictures of animals and their young on the board
Example:Show students images of a duck and duckling, a chicken and a chick, a cow and a calf, and a whale and its
calf
- Teacher asks students to listen to her and repeat after her.
- Students listen to the teacher and read new words after her.
- Assessment : Teacher asks to read some young animals’ names from random students.
- Learning teaching aids : Pictures, Word cards, Hand puppets
- Time Allocation : 12 minutes
Step 2
Activity 01
- Teacher displays the activity sheet on the black board and gives instructions to match
the animal pictures and their young’s names.
- Students follow the instructions and engage in the given task.
- Teacher discusses the answers with the students.
Activity 02
- Teacher displays
the missing namesthe
of incomplete
animals or activity sheetwith
their young andpeers.
gives instructions to fill it up with
- Students follow instructions and do the activity.
- Teacher discusses the answers with the students.
Assessment: - Teacher asks answers from random students.
Learning - Teaching aid : Activity boards, Black board/ White board, Mini whiteboards
Time Allocation : 15 minutes
Step 3
Activity 01
- Teacher pastes the images of the animals to the whiteboard randomly with magnets.
- Teacher asks some students to come up and find a matching pair.
- Students engage in the given activity.
Activity 02
- Teacher divides the students into two groups and ask two students come to the board and write a
name of an animal (taught during the lesson)
- Teacher ask other student to write the name of young animal’s name in front of previously written
animal’s name within 10 seconds.
- Teacher give marks to each group
- Students enjoying the game.
Assessment : Teacher asks students to check the answers on the board.
Learning - Teaching Aids : Picture cards, Word cards, White board pens, White board, Stopwatch
Time Allocation : 10 minutes
Summing up
- Teacher reads some animals and their young names and ask students to give answers
from activity 09 (Text book page number 118)
Examples:
- What is the name of baby elephant?
- What is the name of baby goat?
- What is the name of baby lion and bear?
- What did you learn today?
- Students give answers.
Learning - Teaching Aids : Text Book
Allocated Time : 04 minutes
Evaluation
- Teacher tells students a name of an young animal and asks them to tell the name
of the an animal.
- Students provide answers correctly.
Allocated Time : 04 minutes
Extended
-
Work
Find 10 new young animal names of animals.
Thank you!
