innovative lesson plan

INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN                                                                                                  

Name of the supervisor : Manjusha. S.                                                                                  Date:

Name of the teacher     : Sreelekshmy.S.                                                                         Standard : IX

Unit                                     : III, Tales of Toil

Serial No                            : 1                                                                                             Time : 45 min

Topic                                    : The Man Who Knew Too Much

Sub- issue                            : Dignity of Labour

Issue                                     : Lack of human resource development

Content analysis

The story dealt with an interesting story of the life of a soldier who is very sincere and dedicated to his work .He had a vast knowledge about everything and thus he was named as the professor. The first paragraph describes about the physical appearance of Private Quelch. Musketry, sergeant are the newly introduced words.

CURRICULAR OBJECTIVES  :  The pupils,

                                                develop the four fold language skills- listening, speaking, reading and writing .                                   answer orally in simple and correct English.

                                                      Understand the consequences of war.

                                                       Familiarise with new words and its meanings.

PRE- REQUISTES

The pupils will be knowing about the soldiers, their life and about the after effects of war.

TEACHING LEARNING RESOURCES

English course book, source book, laptop

                                               

Classroom instructions or procedures

Expected response

INFORMAL INTERACTION Teacher communicates with the students and makes a good rapport with them. Teacher : How are you ?                  Have you had your breakfast?                  How are your parents? ENTRY ACTIVITY Teacher asks students to say the name of films which tells the main theme about the life of soldiers and wars. Teacher writes the names on black board. LINK TALK Today we are going to learn about the life of a soldier who is very sincere and dedicated to his work. The name of the story is The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alexander Baron. Teacher shows the picture of Alexander Baron on laptop.  Let us know what was the incident happened to him, shall we?   MICROPROCESSING OF INPUT Teacher asks the students to read the first five paragraphs silently and asks them to mark five difficult words which they can ask to anyone of his friends to guess the meaning of those words. Then teacher shows the meanings of those words through laptop. Musketry, lanky, frowning, horn-rimmed , spectacles ,rifle ,bullet etc. on laptop. CAN YOU IDENTIFY? Teacher shows the pictures of different weapons and powerful machines and bombs used in a war in a laptop and asks them to identify those weapons they are familiar with. LET US ACT Teacher asks students to act the above mentioned words like musketry , lanky etc. on laptop. DISCOURSE CONSTRUCTION PAIR WORK Teacher shows the video clipping of a war from a film and asks students to watch clearly. The after effects of war, war front, destructions caused by war are shown through this clippings. LET US DO Teacher gives some newspaper headlines to students and asks one or two students to read aloud. Teacher asks them to sit in pairs and makes them to prepare a newspaper report by expanding these headlines. GROUP WORK Teacher shows the video clippings of the pathetic life of soldiers and the evil effects of war through laptop. Asks students to think and write,do we need war? Teacher appreciates and gives a star for the best group who presents the answer. HAVE A LOOK Teacher makes students into groups and asks them to perform a tableau against the cruelty towards war. REVIEW Teacher summarises the main points in the story through a small discussion by teacher and students. FOLLOW UP ACTIVITY Collect the newspaper cuttings related to war and make an album.

Students answer orally in simple and correct English Kandahar, Keerthichakra, Mission 90 days etc. Students listen carefully. Students read the passage silently and keep track of their reading . Students interestingly looks at. Students identify the weapons they are familiar with. Students act the words through actions. Students eagerly looks at the clippings Students read the headlines and writes the newspaper report and presents it in the class. Students see the clippings and thinks about war and do we need war and writes the answer in groups. Students very interestingly and actively present the tableau. Students answer orally in simple and correct English.