TASK 3: WWW.LESSONPLAN.COM

Level: Form 4 (Intermediate and above)

Time: 2 Periods (1Hour and 10 Minutes)

Topic: Describing Your Friends

Theme: People

Language Content:

i. Adjectives

ii. Simple Present Tense

Educational Emphases:

i. ICT Skills

ii. Learning How to Learn Skills

iii. Multiple Intelligences

iv. Knowledge Acquisition.

Previous Knowledge:

i. Students have already acquired the basic browsing skills to obtain information from the World Wide Web.

ii. Students have the fundamental skills in conversing using English language.

iii. Students have learned how to construct a mind map based on available information.

iv. Students have learned to integrate the rules of Simple Present Tense into their writing skills.

Moral Values:

i. Cooperation

ii. Friendship

Aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

i. Use English as the medium of communication effectively to extract important and required information from individuals without any misunderstanding.

ii. Apply the necessary writing skills in constructing a simple paragraph in the Simple Present Tense form using the information that have extracted earlier.

Technical Requirements:

i. One computer with Internet connection shared by 2 students

ii. Web browser

iii. Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007

iv. Email account

v. LCD and screen

Websites:

i. http://www.google.com.my/

ii. http://www.google.com.my/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

iii. http://www.youtube.com/

iv. http://www.quibblo.com/

v. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuoMWFQKH1U

vi. http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/dJC1Klg/What-Kind-of-Secondary-School-Student-Are-You

Preparation:

i. Browse for websites that can create quizzes for free using Google.com.

ii. Locate or Create (recommended) a quiz with the title “What kind of Secondary School Student Are You?” using the application provided in the website.

iii. Carefully create the quiz so that it will be within the students’ life cycle in Malaysian context.

iv. Prepare a worksheet based on the information available in the quiz that has been created earlier.

Procedure:

Set Induction (5 minutes)

1. Teacher recaps the previous lesson about using the fundamental browsing skill to extract information from the World Wide Web.

2. Teacher instructs the students to settle down and take a seat before giving any further instruction.

3. Teacher shows a video on YouTube about types of students to attract their attention towards the learning session.

4. Teacher asks the students what they can understand from the video that they have watched.

Activity 1 (30 minutes)

1. Teacher explains to the students what they are going to do for today lesson.

2. Teacher instructs the students to find their partner because this is a pair activity. Each pair will execute the activity on a single computer.

3. Teacher instructs the students to surf this specific websites: http://www.quibblo.com/quiz/dJC1Klg/What-Kind-of-Secondary-School-Student-Are-You

4. Teacher asks the students to answer to quiz within 25 minutes and explains how they are going to answer the quiz.

a. Student A will answer the quiz for Student B by asking the questions to Student B and Student B will provides answer to Student A in answering the quiz.

b. The process still remains the same when Student B is taking the place of Student A.

c. The medium of communication for this activity is specifically restricted to English language.

5. Teacher monitors the students’ development and provides assistance if necessary.

Activity 2 (30 minutes)

Part 1 (10 minutes)

1. Teacher distributes a worksheet (Worksheet 1) that is related with the quiz for each student.

2. Students are required to complete the mind-map in the worksheet within 10 minutes.

3. The information should be based on the result of quiz that each pair has answered earlier.

4. Students can discuss with each others to recall the information of their partner.

5. Teacher observes the students’ performance and offers assistance if needed.

WORKSHEET 1A

WORKSHEET 1B

WORKSHEET 1C

WORKSHEET 1D

WORKSHEET 1E

Part 2 (20 minutes)

1. Teacher distributes another worksheet (Worksheet 2) to each student to be completed.

2. Students are required to construct a simple paragraph describing their friends based on the mind-map that they have completed before.

3. The information of the paragraph must include all of the information in the mind-map, but any additional information that is relevant can be included in the paragraph.

4. The sentences in the paragraph should be in The Simple Present Tense form.

5. Teacher supervises regularly the students’ task and supplies assistance when needed.

Conclusion (5 minutes)

1. Teacher concludes the lesson by explaining to the students what they have learned in today lesson.

2. Teacher asks some students to test their understanding.

3. Teacher inculcates moral values at this stage.

Follow-up Activity:

The students are required to take the quiz again at home. However, this is to be done individually. Next, the students are required to write an essay “What Kind of Student Am I?” in the worksheet (Worksheet 3)provided by the teacher and to be submitted within a week via e-mail. Mark will be deducted for late submission.