‘The English Hour’

1. : ‘The English Hour’

2. Steps of The English Hour Review, reflect, consolidate, what has been taught during the lesson Teacher reads a book together with the pupils Whole Class Step 1 Step 4 15 mins 10 mins Summing up Introduce lesson by using a Dialogue, Role Play etc. Reading, Chants, Songs, Poems Step 3 Whole class 20 mins Step 2 Teacher’s interaction with selected pupil or Writing and Independent Work 15 mins Teacher works with 2 groups per day on a specific area that needs attention. Group Work Focused Word Work – sentence pattern, grammar item, pronunciation, spelling, word attack skills Other pupils will do word or sentence level work, or independent reading Phonics/Pronunciation, grammar, spelling and meanings of words

3. Daily Lesson Plan Impact/ Reflection Class Topic Objectives Activities • Step 1 - Shared reading • Do guided reading and Jazz • Chants with the pupils. • Step2 - Focused word work • i) Vocabulary - names of fruits • banana, pear, starfruit, • mango, papaya ,apple, orange, • grapes. • Phonics – Initial digraph /ch/ • and initial blend /st/ • iii) Grammar -Countable/ • uncountable nouns • Arrange words in • alphabetical order • Step 3 - Independent work • i) match words to pictures • ii) label pictures of fruits • iii) Group words-countables and • uncountables. • iv) Rearrange words in • alphabetical order • Step 4 – Summing-up • Jazz chants " Fruit Salad “ Fruits we eat – Skills : 1.3.3 (L2) 1.4.2(L2) 2.3.2(L1) 2.7.4(L2) 3.6.2(L2) 3.4.3(L3) 4.2.2(L2) 4.3.2(L2) 5.1.1 At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to : i) read the text ii) identify and name fruits iii) rearrange words in alphabetical order. iv) Group words- countables and uncountables 3 Arif

4. Do shared reading with the pupils for 15 minutes.

5. Ani and Liza are in the kitchen. Ani is chopping up some bananas. Liza is putting them into a bowl.

6. Now, Ani is cutting up a pear and Liza is going to put the pear into the bowl.

7. Ani is chopping up a starfruit and putting it into the bowl herself.

8. Ani is chopping up a mango and Liza is putting it into the bowl.

9. Ani is chopping up a papaya and putting them into a bowl.

10. Ani is chopping up an apple and putting them into a bowl.

11. Ani is chopping up an orange and putting the small pieces into a bowl.

12. Liza is putting in some grapes into the bowl.

13. Liza is adding some sugar to the fruits.

14. Ani is pouring some water into the bowl.

15. Ani and Liza are stirring the fruits. Stir, stir, stir.

16. Now, Ani is adding some ice – cream to the fruits.

17. Ani and Liza are tasting it.

18. Their mother is joining them to eat the fruit salad. Yum, yum, yum.

19. Vocabulary • Grammar • phonics

20. Vocabulary: sugar banana water apple starfruit grapes pear orange mango papaya ice-cream

21. Uncountable nouns: Countable nouns: apple orange pear starfruit banana mango papaya grapes ice-cream water sugar

22. PHONICS /ch/ /st/ (Initial digraph) (Initial blend) chopping starfruit stirring

23. Activities • Individual • group

28. Jazz chants

29. GROUP TASK • Plan a lesson using the steps of the ‘English Hour’ and using a book from ‘The World of Knowledge,Stories or Family and Self’ • State the skills you plan to teach. Make sure that you cover all 4 skills as far as possible. (But not all 4 skills in one activity). • What phonics will you cover? • What language content will you cover (vocabulary)? • What grammar items will you teach? • ** Provide sample worksheets **

30. Add some Now you taste it Yum yum yum. Chop up a Chop up a Chop up a Chop chop Add some Add some Add some Stir stir stir.