This lesson uses a story and quiz to develop the reading and vocabulary of primary age young learners. One of the main aims of using stories at this level is the general development of reading skills. Using longer story texts develops a far wider range of skills than is usually included in texts in primary coursebooks. In this story lesson students
are given the opportunity to hear and read an original narrative story and build their knowledge of how a story develops.
Topic: Animals (monkeys)
Age: Primary
Level: Primary/Low Intermediate
Timing: 60-90 mins
Aims:
- To develop reading skills in younger learners by using a short, narrative story
- To reinforce forms of the present tense, particularly third person
The lesson can be done in class using the paper-based materials or, to add an extra level of engagement, it can be done using the interactive materials on British Council's LearnEnglish Kids site.
Note this is an old plan, so the webpage it links to is no longer available. You can print out the texts from the lesson plan below though.
Plan components
Lesson plan: guide for teacher on procedure including story text and answers to tasks.
Download lesson plan 109k pdf
Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:
- Pre-reading quiz
- Picture labelling exercise
- Comprehension check questions
- Text completion exercise
- Vocabulary word search
Download worksheets 99k pdf
For more information about this topic you can visit these BBC and British Council sites:
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_1697000/1697568.stm
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_3255000/3255294.stm
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/quiz/newsid_3388000/3388905.stm
- http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/antics/index.html
- http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/phonics/index.html
Sue Clarke, British Council
This lesson plan was first published in 2004.
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. Where indicated, there is also audio available to be downloaded. Audio is supplied in mp3 format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.
Copyright - please read
All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place these materials on any other web site without written permission from the BBC and British Council. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org
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Comments
Thank you for adding lesson plans for elementary and pre intermediate level of students. It will work out well with my students. Some of my students like to read books. This is reading lesson followed with interesting activities . I am going to use it in my lesson.
Thank you for adding reading lesson plan for elementary and pre intermediate level of students. I am going to use it with my 6th grade students who like reading books in english.
I have used it in my class. My students liked it a lot. The story itself was very interesting. My students especially liked the "Crossword" where they were assingned to find out 12 words that was in the text.
Thank you for this lesson plan.My students liked it.They act and showed the main character of the monkeys and they made their own stories about their favourite animals