LESSON PLAN: ALIEN AND MONSTERS
(an integration with Pixar Feature Film website)
Subject: English Day: Tuesday
Theme: People Time: 7.00 – 7.45am
Topic: Alien and Monsters No of students: 30
LEARNING OUTCOMES: 2.1 Obtain information for different purposes by; (a) listening to spoken texts such as talks, speeches, and from other multimedia sources 2.2 Process information by; (a) Skimming and scanning for specific information and ideas. (b) Extracting main ideas and supporting details. | LEVEL: 2.1 Levels 1, 2, 3 I. listening to and understanding a variety of texts of suitable length (e.g. instructions, descriptions) ii. reading silently and aloud with understanding a variety of texts of suitable length (e.g. simple passages, instructions) 2.2 B. Processing texts read by: Level 1 ii. scanning for details Level 2 vi. Identifying main ideas in simple text. vii. Identify supporting details or ideas in simple text. |
BEHAVIOURAL OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. choose appropriate phrases describing the characters
2. write appropriate phrases to describe the characters
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:
Shapes, human body parts
LANGUAGE SKILL(S):
Listening with the integration of reading, speaking and writing
LANGUAGE CONTENT(S):
a. Grammatical Item: Adjectives
b. Sound Systems: Plural forms: -s /s/ – hands, eyes
c. Vocabulary: long, big, red
TEACHING AID(S):
Handouts, Pixar feature film website
MORAL VALUE(S):
Co-operation, appreciation, responsibility
THINKING SKILL(S)
Analyzing, generating ideas, making prediction, making hypothesis
AIMS:
a. to practice listening, writing and reading
b. to describe the movie characters in the website
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
a. One computer per group of 2 -3 students
b. Internet connection
c. Web Browser.
WEBSITES:
a. http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/chars_pop1.html
PREPARATION:
a. identify a suitable website that provides pictures of movie characters
b. ensure the compatibility of the website with the computer and also the web browser
c. Ensure that the website has no inappropriate content for the students.
PROCEDURE:
PROCEDURE | THINKING SKILLS/MORAL VALUES | REMARKS (teaching aids, time allocation) |
Set Induction Teacher introduces the lesson by showing a picture of an alien to the students. Teacher initiates discussion with the whole class about the alien features. | Thinking skills: · Generating ideas Moral Values: · cooperation | (± 5 minutes) |
Activity 1 1. Teacher will read a short description of an alien. 2. Students will listen to teacher’s descriptions carefully and draw the alien on a piece of paper. 3. Teacher will read the descriptions two times. 4. Teacher and students will discuss the answers together. Teacher will explain and clarify the difficult and new words introduced to the students. | Thinking skills: · Making prediction · Making hypothesis | (± 15 minutes) Teaching aids: some posters from magazines, labels |
Activity 2 1. After the discussion, teacher will distribute worksheets contain the descriptions on some of the movie characters that can be found in the website. 2. Students will search and match the descriptions with the characters that can be found from the movie Monster Inc. 3. Then, teacher will ask the students to identify and circle all the adjectives that can be found in the worksheet (teacher explains briefly what is adjective). 4. Again, teacher and students will discuss the answers together. | Thinking skills: · Generating ideas · Analyzing Moral Values: · cooperation · responsibility | (± 20 minutes) Teaching aids: a description written on a manila card |
Closure Teacher recaps the lesson by clarifying the use of adjectives to describe nouns and how it can be used in daily conversations. | Moral Values: · appreciation | (± 5 minutes) |
FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES:
1. Teacher will ask the students to browse the internet and search for their favorite movie and also the characters. (minimum 5 characters)
*for students who has no internet access at home, they can search for their materials from magazine or newspaper*
2. Students have to write the descriptions according to the pictures of each and every character from the movie they chose.
3. Students will be asked to use the adjective and new words that they have learnt in the lesson earlier.
4. After that, teacher will ask students to send an email of their descriptions along with the pictures of the characters they have described.
*for students with no internet access at home can paste the pictures they obtain from newspaper or magazine in their exercise book along with written descriptions*
BIBILIOGRAPHY
http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/inc/chars_pop1.html
http://macmcrae.com/
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