The Perfect Present

Title : Getting to know Sam

Lesson Plan 1

Class Level: Primary 6

Time: 30 min
Genre: Short Story
Literary Focus: Prose
Plot Characterization 
Setting Point of View
Theme

Poetry
Tone / Mood
Rhyme
Rhythm
Persona
Figurative language – simile / metaphor/
personification / onomatopoeia

Integrated Language Skills: Speaking, listening, reading and writing

Higher Order Thinking Skills: Literal Comprehension

Recognition of details ( characterization )in the story

Reorganization
Synthesizing from details
Predicting outline of the story

Multiple Intelligences: Verbal / Linguistic , visual / spatial

Learning Objectives:

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

• Acquire vocabulary and understand the meaning of words through context.

• Talk about the characters in the story.
• Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas.

Prior Knowledge: Pupils had prepared presents for their love ones
Procedures:

Teacher’s Task/ Teaching

Students’ Tasks Rationale
Procedures Resources

Preparatory Activities
(5 min)

Tr shows a puppet which is Respond to the Puppet To engage pupils

a gift from the pupil.
Engaging pupils in a sharing
session about the joy of
giving and receiving.
teacher by recalling into the meaning of
sweet moments giving and
when giving or receiving present
receiving a present - joy of giving and
receiving

Main Activities (15 min)

Tr displays the book cover
through power point.
Tr asks opinions of pp why
the cover was designed as
such and guess the story
outline.
Look at the book Power point To induce pp to the
cover and gives slide story outline and
opinions based on shows brainstorm through
prior knowledge visual perception
and predict the by looking at the
outline of story. cover

Useful questions:

1. What can you tell from the

cover ? What does it look

like ?
( A present )

2. Who do you think

prepare the present ?

3. Who do you think the

present is given to ?

4. You see names on the

cover. What do you
think they are ?

Tr then turns to the inner

page to reveal more details
 To enhance the
Listen to the Work sheet aural-oral skills of
Tr plays the recording. story read and ( LP1.1 ) the pupils by
( Narratives of page 2 until write down what is picking up the
page 5 ) heard as required important details
by the work sheet through listening.

Have some
discussions among
peers about what is
pen down in the
work sheet after
listening

To reinforce aural
Listen to the skill in acquiring
playback for the information
second time. Do
corrections where
necessary

Books are distributed to the

pupils Tr helps the pupils
Pp do shared to understand the
reading with the text by
Shared reading teacher emphasizing
( Page 2 to page 5 ) through body
language while
reading

Closing Activities (10 min)

A4 papers for To ensure the
Tr asks the pp to express Drawing pupils’ abilities in
their opinions on the main ( sample LP ) identifying the
character through writing or characteristics of a
drawing. character in the
story.
Tr display tacked clues: Tacked clues are
jumbled up. Tacked clues
Physical aspects of Sam Pupils need to by the teacher
dark, curly hair, handsome, categorize them in
thin, tall their work. (descriptive
Emotional aspects of Sam words)
loves to paint, good at
drawing, friendly, loves his
father

Work sheet ( listening )

LP1

Who ? Where ? Main idea ?

Item for portfolio

Sample: Mind map ( Characters in the story )

The Perfect Present- the main character

…his …has curly hair
father
… is dark

… to paint a … is handsome
picture of his father
Sam

He loves… He …
Evaluation by the teacher :

Drawing : ___________________________

Tags : ___________________________