Video: Set Induction Stage

Video: Practice Stage

Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan

Subject:  English

Class: Year 3

Date: 20.4.2012

Time: 30 minutes

Theme: World of Interest

Topic: Hobbies

Specifications: 1.7.2 - Respond verbally by stating one's likes.

   2.2.2 - Ask questions to get information.

   2.7.4 - Talk about oneself to friends.

   3.2.1 - Recognize complete word.

   4.5.2 - Construct simple and compound sentences.

Learning Outcome: Pupils should be able to:

a)      Talk about one’s hobbies

Teaching Aids:

Word Cards	Sentence Cards	Coins	Key Rings
Stamp Album	Sticker Album	Badges	A Rabbit

Moral Values:

1.    Good habits

2.    Love animals

3.    Cleanliness

Development/ Time/Content	Teaching & Learning Activities		Notes
	Teacher’s Activities	Pupils’ Activities
Set Induction (5minutes)	1.    Teacher puts a pail in front of the class and asks the pupils to guess what is in the pail. 2  Teacher asks the pupils to wash     their hands.	1.    A pupil comes out to touch and guess the animal in the pail. 2   Pupils wash their      hands after      touching the      animal.	Teaching Aid: A rabbit in a pail
Presentation Stage 1 (10minutes)	1.    Teacher gets the pupils to sit in groups. 2.    Each group is given a jigsaw puzzle. 3.    Teacher introduces vocabularies and sentence structures to the pupils.	1.    Pupils discuss in their respective group and solve the jigsaw puzzle. 2.    A selected pupil from each group then come out to tell the answer by picking the word card on the table and put it on the board. 3.    Pupils practice the sentences.	Teaching aid: word cards, sentence cards, jigsaw puzzle
Practice Stage 2 (10minutes)	1.    Teacher picks a pupil at random and asks him / her to come out and talk about his / her hobbies. 2.    Teacher then gets the pupils to talk about their classmates’ hobbies.	1.    Selected pupil come out and talks about his / her hobbies. 2.     Pupil talks about his / her friend’s hobbies
Production (5minutes)	1.    Teacher gives individual exercise according to their level.	2.    Pupils complete the exercise.

70 Fun Facts...

1.  If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
2. The strongest muscle in proportion to its size in the human body is the tongue.
3. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
4. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
5. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
6. A person cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva. For example, if strong-tasting substance like salt is placed on a dry tongue, the taste buds will not be able to taste it. As soon as a drop of saliva is added and the salt is dissolved, however, a definite taste sensation results. This is true for all foods. Try it!
7. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
8. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself
9. It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
10. Dogs have four toes on their hind feet, and five on their front feet.
11. The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
12. A cockroach will live nine days without it's head, before it starves to death.
13. Butterflies taste with their feet.
14. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
15. Starfish don't have brains.
16. Polar bears are left handed.
17. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
18. An ostrich's eye is bigger that it's brain.
19. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
20. The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
21. Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
22. Porcupines float in water.
23. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
24. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
25. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
26. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
27. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into to shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.
28. The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to Test telex/two communications)
29. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".
30. Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
31. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
32. "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
33. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better than men.
34. Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
35. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
36. Pearls melt in vinegar.
37. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
38. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
39. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth.Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
40. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
41. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building, it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realise what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
42. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
43. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
44. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in aircrashes.
45. Certain frogs can be frozen solid, then thawed, and survive.
46. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
47. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
48. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
49. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
50. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
51. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
52. Every person has a unique tongue print.
53. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
55. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
56. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.
57. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
58. Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
59. First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer
60. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
61. Every day more money is printed for monopoly than the US Treasury.
62. The city with the most Roll Royces per capita: Hong Kong
63. Cost of raising a medium-sized dog to the age of 11: £4000
64. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
65. The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of fuel that it burns.
66. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
67. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
68. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
69. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear trousers.
70. Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine

Word Play

Ready for some brain exercise? If you answered yes, tell us, what do the following seven words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess

Are you peeking or have you already given up?
Give it another try. Look at each word carefully. You’ll kick yourself when you discover the answer, and no, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.
The answer:

In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.
Did you figure it out?

Why Learn English???

Why SHOULD YOU learn English? Good question. I believe everyone should learn the English language for the following reasons.

Distribution

English is the most widely spoken language in the world based on the distribution of native speakers.

• There are over 400 million native English speakers worldwide.
• There are over 500 million speakers of English as a second or foreign language.

900 million people using English, out of a total world population of about 6.7 billion people, is only 15% of the total population. Then why is English so important? The importance of English is not in the number of speakers, but what English is used for.

Communication, Friends

• English is the main language in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland.
• In many countries, English is widely used, particularly among people who have no other language in common, even though English is not the main language of the country. For example, English is widely used in Hong Kong, Singapore, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Malaysia. In these countries, it is often used as a means of communication between people who use different dialects of their native languages.
• English is studied as a foreign language in countries even though it is not used as a means of communication.
• In China, English language lessons are popular. Two hundred fifty million Chinese, are learning English on TV.
• English is the most commonly taught foreign language.
• Now online communities like My Space, YouTube, etc., offer people a way to make friends around the world and practice speaking English.

News, Information

• English is the main language of news and information in the world.
• English is the language used in business and government even in countries where it is not the main language.
• 75% of all telex messages and telegrams are sent in English.
• 80% of computer data is processed and stored in English.
• Most satellite transmissions are carried in English.
• Five thousand newspapers, over half of the newspapers published in the world, are published in English. Even in many countries where English is not the main language, there is at least one newspaper in English. In India alone, there are three thousand magazines published in English.
• In many countries, television news is broadcast in English.
• Because of the power of television, demonstrators even use signs printed in English to send their messages to the world.
• Much of the information countries disseminate about themselves outside of their borders is in English.

Business, Government, International Relations

• English is the main language of international business, diplomacy, and science.
• It is a common language that a Russian businessman and a Japanese businesswoman are likely to use to communicate.
• English is an official language of many professional and international organizations, including the United Nations.
• It is usually the language of international conferences, and international athletics.
• English is the language of maritime communication and international air traffic control, and it is used even for internal air traffic control in countries where it is not a native language.
• Most commodities such as silver, gold, and hard currency are traded in English.
• Throughout the world, many professional papers are published in English. Even papers that are published in other languages often have abstracts in English.
• English is used in government and as a medium of communication among people who do not have another language in common.
• In some cases, it is a neutral language that is used to avoid giving any one indigenous language too much prestige. English is often used in India, because it is neutral.
• People who speak English have a certain status in society.
• In Singapore, English is a second language, but it is necessary for daily life. Many companies there use English.
• In addition, sixteen countries in Africa have retained English as the language of government. Now standard English is taught in schools in those countries, because it is necessary for careers.

Entertainment

• Popular culture has played an important part in spreading English.
• American and British popular music are heard all over the world.
• American movies are seen in almost every country.
• Books in English are available even in countries where few people actually use English.
• It is used for books, music and dance.
• One reason that students give for learning English is to understand these songs, movies and books.

Travel

• English is spoken in large hotels and tourist attractions, at airports, and in shops that tourists frequent.
• Tours are almost always available in English. Even in countries where few people speak English on the street, people who work with tourists generally speak English. In some countries even drivers of buses or streetcars and sellers at newsstands speak English well
  
  
   

Some more fun facts about English Language...

Tricky Plurals
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We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes;

but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes.

One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,

yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice;

yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,

why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,

and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,

yet hat in the plural would never be hose,

and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of a brother and also of brethren, Save

but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis and shim.

Lets face it, English is a crazy language! says Today's Joke

Feeling bored??? Check out these fun facts about English...

1. In what other language do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

2. Why does night fall but never break and day break but never fall?

3. Why is it that when we transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when we transport something by ship, it's called cargo?

4. Why are people who ride motorcycles called bikers and people who ride bikes called cyclists?

5. In what other language do they call the third hand on the clock the second hand?

6. Why is it called a TV set when you get only one?

7. Why - in our crazy language - can your nose run and your feet smell?

Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane:

8. If olive oil is made of olives, what do they make baby oil from?

9. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian consume?

10. A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings.

11. But fingers don't fing and grocers don't groce.

12. If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?

13. If the teacher taught, why isn't it also true that the preacher praught?

14. If harmless actions are the opposite of harmful actions, why are shameless and shameful behavior the same?

15. English is a language in which you can turn a light on and you can turn a light off and you can turn a light out, but you can't turn a light in;

16. In which the sun comes up and goes down, but prices go up and come down.

17. In which your nose can simultaneously burn up and burn down and your car can slow up and slow down, in which you can fill in a form by filling out a form and in which your alarm clock goes off by going on.

18. English is a crazy language. What is it that when the sun or the moon or the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible; and why when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I shall end it?

Yearly Scheme of Work..

			2012 Yearly Scheme of Work
			ENGLISH YEAR 3
Month	Date	Week	Topic / Specification	Remarks
Jan	4/1-6/1	1	Unit 1: Meeting People
			Theme: World of Self , Family and Friends.
			1.3.1: Listen to and understand key words in stories.
			2.1.3: Repeat expressions with correct intonation and stress.
			3.4.1: Read aloud words and phrases correctlly and with          correct pronunciation.
	9/1-13/1	2	1.3.5: Listen to and understand simple spoken sentences.
			2.7.1: Thank people
			2.7.2: Seek permission
			2.7.3: Say sorry
			3.2.2: Read and learn the meaning of 5 key words for each          topic taught.
			4.6.1: Spell seen words correctly.
	16/1-20/1	3	2.1.3: Repeat expressions with correct intonation and stress.
			3.3.1: Read and understand phrases
			3.2.4: Learn another 5 key words for each topic and use          these key words in sentencesof their own.
			4.7.1: Use commas in a list.
			4.8.2: Write simple messages to friends and relatives.
	23/1 - 27/1	4	Chinese New Year Holiday
Feb	30/1 - 3/2	5	1.1.1: Listen to and repeat words that contain initial blends
			1.2.3: Listen to and repeat simple rhymes.
			2.1.1: Pronounce wprds that have initial blends.
			2.1.3: Repeat expressions with correct intonation and stress.
			3.2.2: Read and learn the meaning of 5 key words for each          topic taught.
			3.6.3  Make small words from big words.
			4.5.1: Form simple sentences by arranging words.
	6/2 - 10/2	6	1.2.2: Listen to and repeat correctly phrases and expression.
			2.1.4: Ask question and give answers clearly and correctly.
			3.6.3  Make small words from big words.
			4.2.1: Write capital and small letters clearly and legibly.
	13/2 - 17/2	7	Unit 1: Numbers 21-30
			Theme: World of Knowledge.
			1.3.2: Listen to and understand the numbers 21-30.
			2.3.3: Give replies pertaining to numbers.
			2.4.1: Recite simple poems and chant nursery rhymes by          joining in with words and phrases.
			3.2.3: Recognise and read aloud the numbers 21-25 in its          numeral and word forms.
			4.1.2: Write clearly and legibly numerals 21-30 in both number          and word forms.
	20/2 - 24/2	8	1.3.4: Listen to and understand the numbers 26-30, when          the numbers are added and subtracted.
			2.3.4: Give replies pertaining to numbers 21-30; identifying ,           stating.
			2.3.6: Give replies after adding and subtracting numbers.
			2.3.7: Refute statements and give the correct answer/ number.
			3.2.3: Recognise and read aloud the numbers 21-25 in its          numeral and word forms.
			4.2.2: Write clearly and legibly numerals 21-30 in both number          and word forms.

Month	Date	Week	Topic / Specification	Remarks
Feb /	27/2 - 2/3	9	1.3.3: Listen to and understand key phrases.
March			1.3.5: Listen to and understand simple spoken sentences.
			2.2.3: Ask questions about numbers.
			3.3.2: Read and understand simple sentences.
			3.7.3: Answer simple comprehension questions
			4.2.4: Write sentences ( at least 3-5 words per sentence)          in clear legible print.
	5/3-9/3	10	MONTHLY TEST (1)
	12/3-16/3		SEMESTER BREAK
	19/3-23/3	11	1.1.3: Identify the correct sound ( initial,medial blends)
			2.1.4: Ask questions and give answers clearly and correctly.
			3.2.4: Learn another 5 key words for each topic and use          these key words in sentences of their own.
			3.7.1:Talk about pictures of a simple factual text.
			4.5.3  Construct simple  and compound sentences          independently by looking at a picture.
	26/3-30/3	12	Unit 3: Plants, Trees and Flowers
			Theme : World of Knowledge
			1.2.1: Listen to and repeat the pronunciation of monosyllable          and 2-syllable words.
			2.1.4: Ask question and give answers clearly and correctly.
			2.2.2: Ask questions to get information.
			2.3.2: Give one word replies when identifying, naming objects,          plants, animals, etc.
			3.2.1: Recognise complete words
			3.6.1: Read and recognise words.
			4.3.1: Match phrases to pictures
Apr.	2/4-6/4	13	1.3.1: Listen to understand key words in stories.
			2.1.2: Pronounce monosyllable and 2-syllable words correctly.
			3.2.2: Read and learn the meaning of 5 key words for each          topic taught.
			3.6.1: Read and recognise words.
			4.6.1: Spell seen words correctly.
	9/4 - 13/4	14	1.1.1: Listen to and repeat words that contain initial blends
			2.1.1: Pronounce words that have initial blends.
			3.3.2: Read and understand simple sentences.
			4.1.1 Copy words, phrases, sentences in clear  & legible print.
	16/4 - 20/4	15	1.1.2: Listen to and repeat word families (all family & at family)
			1.3.5: Listen to and understand simple spoken sentences.
			2.3.2: Give one word replies when identifying, naming objects,          plants, animals, etc.
			3.8.3: Read aloud simple rhymes or poems
			3.7.2: Read and give details.
	23/4 - 27/4	16	Unit 4: Hobbies
			Theme: World of Self,Family and friends.
			1.7.2: Respond verbally by stating one's likes and dislikes
			2.2.2: Ask questions to get information.
			2.7.4: Talk about oneself and one's family to neighbours and          friends
			3.2.1: Recognise complete words
			3.3.2: Recognise and understand simple sentences.
			4.5.2: construct simple and compound sentences.
May	30/4 - 4/5	17	1.7.2: Respond verbally by stating one's likes and dislikes
			3.2.1: Recognise complete words
			3.3.2: Read and understand simple sentences.
			3.7.3: Answer simple comprehension questions
			4.6.1: Spell seen words correctly.