Subject: English

Year: 4 Bestari

No. of pupils: __/41

Date : 6/9/2018

Day : Thursday

Time : 7:40am – 8:40am

Theme: World of Knowledge

Topic : Unit 11: Insect Investigator

Focused Skill: Grammar

Proficiency level: Intermediate

Previous Knowledge: Pupils know what are adjectives.

Content standards:

By the end of 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to use different word classes
correctly and appropriately.

Learning Standards:
5.1.6 Able to use adjectives correctly and appropriately:
(a) comparative
(b) superlative

Behavioural objectives:
1. Pupils able to paste the word cards correctly.
2. Pupils able to answer 10/14 questions correctly.
3. Each group is able to correctly use comparative and superlative adjectives in at
least 5 of the sentences written.

Language Content: Adjectives: big, slow, colourful, scary, dangerous

Resources/Teaching aids: Mah-jong papers, pictures of insects,

Cross Curriculum Emphases

 1. Thinking skills: Critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills.
2. Multiple Intelligences: Visual spatial intelligence, interpersonal skill
3. Moral Value(s): Pupils learn how to cooperate with one another to achieve a
common goal.

Stage/Time Content Teaching-Learning Remarks

Activity
Pictures of different insects: 1. Teacher pastes Preparation Phase
Set photos of an ant, (Setting the tone of
Induction caterpillar and a lesson)
butterfly.
(5 minutes)
2. Teacher asks pupils Rationale:
questions.  To introduce
3. Teacher introduces pupils to
the 2 kinds of today’s
adjectives: lesson.
comparative and
superlative.

1. Questions:

- Which is the smallest

insect?

- Which is the biggest?

- What is bigger than an

ant?

- What is smaller than a

caterpillar?

Presentatio Activity: 1. Teacher pastes Imagination Phase

n Learning time! mah-jong paper with (Exploring,
(15 an empty table of generating,
comparative and probing and
e
Superlativ

ve
Comparati

Adjectives

minutes)
superlative synthesising ideas)
adjectives.
2. Teacher pastes word Rationale:
cards on the To teach the
whiteboard. functions/uses of
Colourful

3. Teacher picks adjectives.

random pupils to
come out and stick
the word cards on the
mah-jong (according Teaching aids:
ger
Big

to its category). Mahjong paper

Pictures
st
Slowe

Word cards
 Assessment for

Scary
learning objective 1

Dangerous
Word cards:
1. More colourful
2. Most colourful
3. Big
4. Biggest
7. Slower
8. Slow
9. Scarier
10. Scariest
11. More dangerous
12. Most dangerous

Practice Activity: 1. Teacher distributes Development

(10 worksheets to each Phase
minutes) pupil. (Guided practice)
Example questions: 2. Teacher discusses
answers with pupils. - To provide
1. We saw the ______ opportunity for
(beautiful) butterfly today.
2. The butterfly was the pupils to practise
_____ (colourful) we had more on what
ever seen.
3. Then we saw two they have learnt.
caterpillars. They were both
_____ (ugly)! Teaching aids:
worksheet

Assessment for
learning objective 2
Production Activity: 1. Teacher distributes Action Phase
(25 picture of insects and a (Independent
minutes) piece of paper to each practice)
group.
2. Teacher
demonstrates how to Teaching aids:
play the activity by -Papers
Example sentence: writing an example -Colour pencils
1. The butterfly is more
sentence using insects
colourful than the Assessment for
cockroach. in the picture.
learning objective 3
3. Pupils work in
respective groups to
Instruction: come up with as many
  Teacher pastes 10 sentences as they can
pictures of insects on by comparing the
the whiteboard. insects using
 Each group will use comparative and
as many adjectives superlative adjectives.
as they can to 4. At the end, teacher
compare the insects. pastes the mah-jong
 Pupils are given 10 papers on the
minutes to write whiteboard and cancels
sentences on the
out repetitive
mah-jong paper
sentences.
provided.
5. The group that has
Rule: the most sentences
1. The sentences cannot be wins.
repetitive. If other group has
the same sentence, the
sentence will be cancelled
out from both groups.
2. Each sentence is 1 point.
Closure Conclusion of lesson 1. Teacher asks pupils Closure phase
(5 minutes) some questions to (Summary and
recap the lesson. reinforcement)

To revise what had

been taught and
reinforce pupils’
learning.