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1. CED 2223 APPROACHES
& METHODS IN TESL
[Assignment 2: Task 2 (Lesson Plan)]
Lecturer : Mr. Lim Seong Pek
Prepared by:
Harith Zakuan B Rosman (310 101 7181)

2. Date : 21st September 2011 (Wednesday)
Time/Duration : 2pm – 3pm (60 Minutes)
Class : 4B
No. of Students : 30/40 students
Proficiency Level : Lower Intermediate
Theme : World of Knowledge
Topic : Inventions: Computers
Background Knowledge : Pupils have had experience browsing the internet and playing
games using computers. Pupils have basic knowledge of simple
present tense and what verbs are.
Language Skill Focus : Reading (70%)
Integrated skills : Writing, listening, speaking (30%)
Language Focus : Simple Past Tense, Verbs
Moral Values : Appreciating and Loving Your Own Body
Staying Healthy
Learning Outcomes : By the end of Year 5, students should be able to:
3.3 Read and understand phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and
whole texts.
3.3.2 Read and understand simple and compound sentences.
3.4 Read aloud expressively and fluently pronouncing w ords
correctly and observing correct stress and intonation and sentence
rhythm.
3.4.2 Read aloud sentences in texts observing correct stress and
intonation.
3.5 Read and understand the meanings of words by guessing
their meaning through the use of contextual clues.
3.5.1 Understand the meaning of words by looking at the words
before and after.
3.8 Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas,
supporting details, sequence, and cause and effect
3.8.4 Read and understand simple factual texts by answering
comprehension questions in relation to:
- details.
Learning Objectives : By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
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3. 1) Respond to the teacher’s questions about the usage of
computer;
2) Able to read the text by pronouncing words correctly and in
suitable speed;
3) Answer questions using full sentence and the correct tense;
4) Able to identify mistakes made in simple past tense and
provide corrections;
5) Able to complete the homework given with 80% accuracy.
Educational Emphasis : Thinking Skills
-Pupils are asked to think about how computers benefit the human
kind.
Knowledge Acquisition
-Pupils are taught the history of the development of computer.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Skills
-Pupils are exposed to the many uses of computer and arouse their
curiosity to go back home and try what they have learned.
Resource Materials : LCD, whiteboard, handouts, worksheets, textbook
Vocabulary List : went changed invented
Created produced made
Crafted designed ran
Was were
Stage Skills/Content Teacher/Student Activities AVA/Rationale
Set Skills: 1. The teacher starts the lesson Rationale:
Induction 1. Thinking by showing some pictures of 1. To attract the pupils
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4. (5 minutes) 2. Speaking popular websites and interest on the
computer games, to the lesson.
Content: students projected on the 2. To promote pupils
1. To casually expose the topic slides. to speak up and
by having a conversation about 2. The teacher asks the pupils express their
things pupils might enjoy what are the pictures all opinions.
doing with a computer. about. 3. To increase the
3. Then, the teacher asks some curiosity of the
2. Questions: questions related to the students by eliciting
• What do you need to pictures and computers. feedbacks.
access the internet or play 4. The pupils answer the
the games? questions voluntarily or AVA:
• What else can you do with chosen by the teacher. • Slides
a computer aside from
browsing the internet and
playing games?
• Do you think people back
in the past own computers?
Stage 1 Skills: 1. The teacher distributes a Rationale:
Pre - 1. Listening handout containing 1. To teach the pupils
writing 2. Reading sentences to be read by the the correct
(15 3. Thinking pupils. pronunciation and
minutes) 4. Speaking 2. The teacher instructs the spelling of the
class to read aloud the selected words.
Content: sentences by repeating after 2. To expose the
1. A time line of how computers the teacher. correct usage of the
transformed from simple 3. The teacher reads the text words in a sentence.
calculators. loudly and accurately 3. To teach the pupils
2. Topics to be covered: according to the correct how verbs change
• Conjugation of ‘be’ to past pronunciation and with form in the past
tense suitable speed. tense.
• Conjugation of regular 4. The teacher stops after
verbs to past tense reading each sentence and AVA:
• Conjugation of irregular asks the pupils to underline • Handout (Appendix
verbs to past tense selected words. 1)
5. After all the selected words
are underlined, the pupils are
asked to find the similarity
of the spelling found in the
words.
6. The teacher asks any
volunteers to share their
discovery.
7. The teacher reveals that most
of the words end with ‘ed’.
Then, the teacher explains
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5. that the words are verbs in
past tense.
8. The teacher explains and
writes about simple past
tense on the white board that
the pupils should learn.
9. Then, the teacher asks the
students to copy down the
notes into their exercise
book.
Stage 2 Skills: 1. The teacher distributes a Rationale:
Practice 1. Reading worksheet to the pupils. 1. To check the pupils
(20 2. Thinking 2. The teacher informs the class understanding of the
minutes) 3. Writing that they will be practicing presentation..
4. Speaking the simple past tense verb 2. To teach the
now. students how to
3. The teacher notifies the class apply the knowledge
Content: that there are two parts of they gained in the
Exercise on the simple past tense exercise in the worksheet previous stage.
and conjugating verbs into simple that they have to complete.
past tense. The teacher also informs the AVA:
class that the first part is • Worksheet(Appendi
comprehension questions x 2)
based on the illustration
given in the worksheet.
Pupils may work in pairs.
4. For the first part, the teacher
explains to the class that they
need to answer the questions
in a full sentence, an
example of answer is given
for the first question.
5. The teacher reminds the
pupils to read the questions
carefully before answering
it.
6. The teacher provides time
for pupils to answer each
question. Teacher picks
random pupils to read out
loud their answers. Answers
for each question are
discussed before moving on
to the next one.
7. For the second part, the
teacher explains that the
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6. pupils are required to change
the underlined verbs into
past tense, an example is
also given on how to change
the tense. The pupils must
rewrite the full sentence.
8. The teacher goes through the
items one by one and
discusses the answers like
part one of the worksheet.
Stage 3 Skills: 1. The teacher asks the pupils Rationale:
Production 1. Reading to take out their textbook and 1. To check upon the
(15 2. Thinking turn to page 104. pupils’
minutes) 3. Speaking 2. The teacher instructs the understanding on
class to read the poem. the lesson.
Content: 3. The teacher chooses random 2. To drill students by
Poem containing usage of verbs in pupils to identify the one of giving similar but
simple past tense. past tense verbs used in the easier exercises.
poem. The teacher asks the
chosen pupil to pick a friend AVA:
to spell out the root word of • Textbook (page
the verb. 104)
4. Step 3 is repeated until all
the past tense verbs in the
poem are covered.
Stage 4 Skills: 1. The teacher recaps the whole Rationale:
Closure (5 1. Reading lesson. 1. To refresh and get
minutes) 2. Thinking 2. The teacher asks some feedback upon the
3. Writing questions to check pupils’ lesson learned.
understanding. 2. To remind the pupils
Content: 3. The teacher reminds the the moral values.
• Summary of the lesson students computer has a lot
of usage and that we should AVA:
appreciate the effort of the • Textbook (page
inventors to give our 105)
generation a gadget that
makes our life easier.
4. The teacher then instructs
the class to list down all the
verbs in page 105 and write
the root word or the past
tense of the verb as
homework.
Self – reflection:
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7. Supervisor’s Comment:
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