English lesson plans for Grade 5

5.3Listening to a monologue:The TV wasn’t workingObjectivesGrade 5 curriculumstandards 1.2, 2.1, 2.2,3.2, 3.4, 5.1, 5.2, 9.2Pre-listeningResourcesWorksheet 5.3Vocabularywavy linessoundher favourite programmethe aeriala ladder(to) straightenWhilelisteningResourcesTape script 5.3Post-listeningResourcesWorksheet 5.3• Listen and understand the sequence of events in a recount.• Understand and use the intensifier too.• Retell the story in their own words and write it up as a personal recount usingsimple past and past continuous.Pre-teach vocabularyCut up the pictures in worksheet 5.3 and give each group a set. Get students themto take it in turns to describe what’s happening in each picture. Through theirdescriptions elicit and teach the new vocabulary (wavy lines, sound, her favouriteprogramme, the aerial, a ladder, (to) straighten) and check known key vocabulary(turn on, broken/not working, tired, having a rest, fix, climb up, the roof).Ordering picturesPut students into groups of three and get them to order the pictures fromworksheet 5.3 in a logical sequence. Do not correct any order that they choose aslong as they can justify it within the story they have created. Encourage differentgroups to come up with different orders and different stories. Get them to take it inturns to tell the story they have created, for example, the first student tells the firstpart of the story, the second student tells the next part, the third tells the next part,and so on to the end. Monitor, get students to use the new vocabulary and elicitlonger utterances from students by asking questions like the following.• What was it she wanted to watch on TV?• Why couldn’t her husband help her?• Why didn’t her daughter help her?Listening comprehensionRead tape script 5.3 aloud to the class or play the tape. After listening, get groupsto re-order their pictures according to what they have heard. Discuss how the storythey heard was different from the one they made up. Find out if they missed seeingany details in the pictures that then became important to the story they listened to –for example the cat following the boy everywhere or the cat sitting on the aerial. Ifthere are any disagreements, don’t correct them but get students to listen a secondtime and work out the right order for themselves.RecallStill in their groups of three, get students to recall as many sentences as possiblethat they heard with the past continuous and get them to write the sentences onsmall slips of paper – one sentence per slip of paper. Put two groups together andget them to share their sentences and add any more they can think of.The TV wasn’t working.They were playing her favourite programme.137 | English sample lessons | Grade 5 © Supreme Education Council 2004