This lesson plan is for a Year 4 English class on speaking skills. The topic is different professions and their required characteristics. Students will first discuss in pairs characteristics needed for professions like firefighter and footballer. They will then choose a profession and justify why they would be best suited for it. Finally, students will participate in a debate activity where they argue why their chosen profession is most important to remain in a crashing hot air balloon. The lesson aims to improve students' ability to explain their point of view and understand complex questions related to familiar topics like various jobs.
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Lesson 17
This lesson plan is for a Year 4 English class on speaking skills. The topic is different professions and their required characteristics. Students will first discuss in pairs characteristics needed for professions like firefighter and footballer. They will then choose a profession and justify why they would be best suited for it. Finally, students will participate in a debate activity where they argue why their chosen profession is most important to remain in a crashing hot air balloon. The lesson aims to improve students' ability to explain their point of view and understand complex questions related to familiar topics like various jobs.
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LESSON 17 (Speaking 3) FORM 4 Bestari
SUBJECT English DATE / DAY UNIT 2 TIME TOPIC Ready for anything Duration THEME People and Culture MAIN SKILL Speaking CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENTS Values 21ST CENTURY LEARNING Choose an item. LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: words / phrases describing people’s TECHNIQUE(S) characteristics / expressing an opinion / supporting a point of view CONTENT STANDARD(S) Main: 2.1 Communicate information, ideas, opinions and Complementary: 1.1 Understand meaning in a variety of familiar feelings intelligibly on familiar topics contexts LEARNING STANDARD(S) Main: 2.1.4 Explain and justify own point of view Complementary: 1.1.5 Understand independently more complex questions on a wide range of familiar topics LEARNING OBJECTIVE(S) By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to: Choose a profession and talk about at least three characteristics required for the profession chosen. Answer one complex question related to profession. Full Blast Plus 4 FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE(S) Choose an item. MATERIAL(S) Student’s Book p26 Teacher’s Book p26 ACTIVITIES Write on the board: fire-fighter, politician, football player, librarian, flight attendant. Check meaning then ask pupils to work with their talk partner(s) to come up with a list of characteristics that a person from each profession should have and PRE-LESSON why, i.e., a footballer needs to be fit because he/she needs to run around the football pitch a lot. When ready, collect responses. 1) Ask pupils to look at the pictures and read the accompanying captions. Ask pupils to read through the phrases in the boxes and check understanding. Point out to them that some of the phrases can be used to describe more than one profession. Draw pupils’ attention to the TIPS and explain them. Divide the class into small groups. LESSON Ask pupils to choose which of the four professions they would be best at and justify their answer by describing their own DEVELOPMENT characteristics. Get pupils to do the activity and go round the class helping them when necessary. Choose some groups to report their answers to the class. (Student’s book p26 -Speaking) 2) Ask complex questions. For example: Explain why it is so important for an athlete to be passionate about what he/she does? Why would somebody who is anxious not make a good paramedic? Use wait time, repeat if necessary and select pupils for response. Play the hot air balloon game. Divide the class into groups of 4-6. Each pupil chooses a different profession from the lesson. Explain that they are all in a hot air balloon but the balloon is going down so one person must leave. POST-LESSON Each pupil takes it in turn to explain why their profession is the most important and therefore why they must remain in the balloon. Once everyone has spoken, everybody in the balloon votes for who should leave. By amount of teacher’s support: Low-proficiency pupils DIFFERENTIATIO - pupils complete the tasks(s) with teacher’s guidance. N High-proficiency pupils - pupils complete the tasks(s) on their own. TEACHER’S _____ out of ______ pupils achieved the learning objectives. REFLECTION _____ pupils were given remedial treatment.