LESSON PLAN

Class

: Year 5 Ixora

Date

:18th July 2014

Time

: 10.30 a.m. 11.00 a.m.

Subject

: English

Theme

: World of Knowledge

Topic

: Culture and Traditions

Focussed skill: Reading

Integrated skills: Listening and Speaking
Learning Outcomes:
3.3 Read and understand phrases, sentences, paragraphs and whole text.
Curriculum specifications:
3.3.2 Read and understand simple and compound sentences.
3.3.3 Read and understand simple paragraphs

Behavioural Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. State the name of the festivals that we have in Malaysia.
2. Identify whether the statement is true or false by getting at least three out of four correct.
3. Answer Wh questions by getting at least three out of five correct.
4. State moral values from the text.

Teaching aids/materials: Copies of text and task sheet.

Educational Emphases:
Moral value: Respect other culture and traditions.

Stage/Min

Content

Set Induction

Names of

(2 minutes)

celebrations that
we have in
Malaysia.

Teaching and Learning Activities

1. Teacher asks pupils to state the names of
celebrations that we have in Malaysia.
2. Teacher asks their experience of celebrating

Rationale

Remark

Humanism Theory:

Materials:

1. To trigger the students

1. Whiteboard

interest on the lesson.

the celebrations.
Eg: How do you celebrate Chinese New
Year?

Pre- reading

- Introduction of the

(4 minutes)

topic of the lesson

1. Teacher introduces the topic Culture and

Traditions.

Cognitive Theory:
1. Students are able to

Culture and

2. Teacher gives each pupils the text.

recall and relate their

traditions

3. Teacher draws pupils attention to the

new knowledge with

picture in the text.

- Description of

1. Text.

their previous schema.

4. Teacher asks Wh Questions to the pupils

festival

regarding the picture.

Eg: What the

Eg: What the people in the picture are

people in the

doing?

picture are doing?

Material:

5. Teacher asks the pupils to identify the

festival that they are celebrating.

While reading

-Reading the text

1. Teacher gives each pupils task sheet A.

1. To develop reading

Materials:

(17 minutes)

-Identify the true

and false
statement
-Share their
answers

2. Pupils are required to identify whether the

statement is true or false.
3. Teacher asks the pupils to read the text
silently.
4. Teacher draws pupils attention to the table

skills.

(Task sheet A)

2. To test students
understanding about
the information in the
text.

provided in task sheet A.

5. Pupils fill in their answer as they read the
text.
6. Teacher and pupils discuss the answer
together.
Cognitive Theory:
Post reading

Answering Wh

1. Teacher gives each pupils task sheet B.

(7 minutes)

questions

2. Teacher asks pupils to answer the Wh

questions regarding the text.
3. Students will share their answers.

1. Students are able to

understand and follow
teachers instruction.
2. Students gain a
meaningful
understanding of text.

Closure

Summary of the

(2 minutes)

lesson.

1. The teacher will summarise about the

lesson and state moral values.

Behaviourism Theory:
1. Make the students

Eg: We have to respect other culture and

understand the lesson

traditions. We live in a multicultural society.

better.

Materials:
(Task sheet B)