English lesson plans for Grade 5

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Her husband was reading the newspaper and smoking.Her daughter was lying down.The TV still wasn’t working.The cat was sitting on the aerial.Have students throw away any repetitions and then have them copy their sentencesfrom the slips of paper into their books.Word cue drillGet students to practise the structure too + adjective to (do something). Get them torepeat the model sentence and have them write it in their books.Model sentence:He was too busy to help.Use word cues written on cards or on the board to practise the structure. Getstudents to repeat it chorally and individually, showing them just the cue andgetting them to formulate the utterance for themselves.Word cue… busy … help… busy … notice… tired … help… lazy … get up… late … see her programmeStudents sayHer husband was too busy to help.Her husband was too busy to notice.Her daughter was too tired to help.Her daughter was too lazy to get up.It was too late to see her programme.RecallGet students to retell the whole story, using the pictures, the past continuoussentences they wrote down, the structure with too from the word cue drill and thenew vocabulary you taught at the beginning. Have them tell it as if it happened tothem. Get them to change ‘Mum’ to ‘I’, and make the other characters my dad, mymum (or my sister) and my brother.Yesterday I wanted to watch my favourite programme but the TV wasn’tworking. I asked my dad to fix it but …Have them practise in their original groups of three. Monitor, provide ideas, getthem to include the target vocabulary and language structures; correct irregular pasttense forms.Write it upGive everyone a copy of worksheet 5.3. Have them choose some of the pictures(not all of them) to illustrate the text when they write up the story. Get them to addspeech bubbles or thought bubbles to the pictures to illustrate the characters more.Elicit what the people in the pictures might be saying.The woman:Oh no! I’m going to miss my favourite programme!The girl on the bed: I’m SO tiredDad, thinking: Leave me alone.The cat on the aerial: It’s nice up here.Working on their own, get students to write up the recount. Have them plan andleave spaces in the text so that they can stick in the pictures with the speechbubbles.138 | English sample lessons | Grade 5 © Supreme Education Council 2004
Monitor and focus on correcting the following mistakes:• spelling mistakes in key vocabulary;• punctuation such as capitalisation and contractions;• regular -ed- simple past endings;• irregular simple past forms;• ‘-ing’ endings on the past continuous.FeedbackHave students swap scripts, read, appreciate and help each other correct anyobvious mistakes. Ask students to re-draft a final version at home, copying thepictures by hand with their speech bubbles as well as the corrected text and getthem to hand it in the next lesson. Use this final draft for lesson evaluation andindividual assessment purposes.Summary for studentsIn ArabicThe purpose of today’s lesson was to give you further practice in listening to,retelling and writing up recounts. You had to sequence the events in a logical wayand connect them in a story. You also got further practice in using the simple pastwith the past continuous.139 | English sample lessons | Grade 5 © Supreme Education Council 2004
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