LESSON PLAN ON THE LEP MODEL

Class;4                                                      unit:7, The story of bakasura.

Learning out comes:

The pupils will be able to

1 listen to some informal English in the class

2enjoy reciting the rhyme “ little Robin breast”

3: speak English using the verb NEED and learn to thank others when he/she is helped.

Comment: The teacher should give some live examples to reinforce the structure and its function. Learn the meaning of new words. Read and understand the text(passage) individually and in groups. The teacher should scaffold(help) the children in comprehending the passage.

Motivation/trigger/urge creation: The teacher uses a picture/some informal talk to create some urge among the children to read the passage. Example: have you ever heard about Rakshasas or giants? Tell me some thing about the giants you know. or read.

Pre-Reading:The teacher asks questions like “do you know the story of the Maha Bharata?Who is the strongest  among the pandavas? Who are Pandavas’ mothers? Etc and substantiate the answers.

Model Reading: The teacher should read out the passage aloud with proper pace, gestures, stress and intonation. He/she should never try to translate the passage into mother tongue. The teacher may read the passage twice or three times so that the children may understand it.He may explain it in English using different structures.

Individual Reading: The pupils read the first two paragraphs individually and try to understand the words and the sentences.

Reading in groups: The teacher asks the the children to sit in groups and share their ideas to comprehend the text.

Comment:The teacher should help the group by facilitating them with some meanings of difficult words like fierce, cave, fled and attacked Etc. He may explain the meanings of the words in mother tongue or may write the meanings on the black board.. He/she  may ask the questions given below.

1 what was the name of the giant?

2What kind of giant was he?

3Where did he live?

4what was the name of the city?

5Why did the giant carry women, men and cattle?

6What did the king do after being defeated?

Comment: the teacher should ask some imaginative questions like those given below

1What do you think happened as a result?

2If you were in the king’s place , What would you do?

3:Do you think that anybody will defeat the giant? How can you say?

4: Do you believe stories like this? Can you narrate them in English or in your mother tongue?

Loud Reading by the pupils: The teacher asks a few pupils to read the text aloud.Then he asks other pupils to do so. Then the teacher may read the text aloud with proper stress , intonation.

Comment: Most pupils are not able to read the text. So the teacher should give utmost importance to reading and writing.

Note: the teacher should follow the same strategy with the other paragraphs in the text

Home work:

1Read/recite the rhyme at home

2 Practise the dialogue on page no 69.

3 write the meanings of the difficult words in your mother tongue and in English.

Note:All the lesson can not be completed within a period.The teacher should prepare the unit plan and other perod plans. One Unit may take 15 days.

The teacher should use Black-board and TLM(TEACHING LEARNING MATERIAL) wherever necessary.He may make use of the class room situations and resources from the environment. He should use more and more informal English in the class.

                                           Prepared by JVL NARASIMHA RAO

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