Lesson plan
Week : 4 Day: Monday Date: 30/11/2020
Subject : English Language
Focus Skill: Listening Complimentary Skill: Speaking & writing skills
Time: 10.30 am Duration: 25 minutes
Topic: Natural Disaster Theme: Mother Nature
Students Level of Proficiency: Intermediate Level (Form 3)
Content Standard: Learning Standard:
Understand meaning in a variety of Understand independently the main
familiar contexts ideas in simple longer texts on a range
of familiar topics
Understand independently longer
sequences of classroom instructions
Teaching Materials: audio and worksheet
Teaching Aids:
Previous Knowledge:
Students have general knowledge about natural disasters
Students able to construct sentences
Aims:
Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
1. Identify at least 4 from 5 main ideas of natural disaster from the 30-40 seconds audio.
2. Practice the note-taking skills of at least 4 from 5 main ideas from listening to 40 seconds
audio twice.
3. Practice the skill of speaking for 1 minutes and enhance the understanding of the students
about natural disaster.
Subskills: Listening For General Idea
Stage/ Teacher’s instruction Students’ Activity
Time
Set 1. Teacher shows a picture of natural disaster 1. Student give their answer
Induction incident. about what they know of
natural disaster.
2. Teacher asks the student what they know
about natural disaster. 2. Students list the natural
disasters that happened in
2. Teacher asks students to list natural Malaysia.
disasters that happened in Malaysia.
3. Students take note on new
4. Teacher adds 3 new words to the slides. vocabularies.(unpredictable,
(unpredictable, grave, horrible) grave, horrible)
5. Teacher explains the meaning of the words
and relate with natural disaster.
Pre 1. Teacher plays the audio on Hurricane
listening for 30 seconds. 1. Students listens to the audio on
2. Teacher asks the student to write the Hurricane for 30 seconds
(5 description of the natural disasters. 2. Students write the description
minutes) 3. Teacher asks the student to write 3 of the natural disaster
guesses of the type of natural disaster 3. Students write 3 guesses of the
from the audio. type of natural disaster from
4. Teacher reveals the correct answer the audio.
and replay the 30 seconds audio. 4. Students learn how to look for
5. Teacher pauses the audio in the the general idea and
middle and highlights the part with information from audio.
the general idea and information on
the answer.
6. Teacher explains how to look for the
general idea from audio.
While The audio: https://youtu.be/ae3FVmcGgug 1. Students listen to the audio
listening 1 (17:14-18:03) closely.
(5 1. Teacher plays an audio recording of a 2. Students jot down the words
minutes) disaster news caused by weather. that they feel might help for
2. Teacher asks students to jot down main ideas from the audio.
words/ terms that they feel important 3. Students give a true or false
from the audio recording. answers.
3. Teacher repeats the audio again. 4. Students and teachers discuss
4. Teacher conduct a Q&A session; true the answers.
or false activity
5. Teacher provide the correct answer
right away after each questions.
While The audio: https://youtu.be/3m9I4juKUmw 1. Students listen to the audio
listening 2 (0.00-0.40) attentively.
(5 2. Students list down the main
minutes ) 1. Teacher plays an audio recording of a points of the audio.
disaster news caused by weather. 3. Students answer the worksheet
2. Teacher asks students to take notes given.
from information given in the audio 4. 4. Students and teacher discuss
recording. the answers
3. Teacher repeats the audio again
4. Teacher gives a worksheet for
students to answer.
1. 5. Teacher and students discuss the
answers
Post 1. Teacher show 4 pictures; 1. Students will guess the type of
listening 1 hurricane, typhoon, flood, and the natural disasters from the
(5 tornado pictures.
minutes) 2. The teacher will ask; 2. Students give their opinion and
What are these natural reactions if they are facing the
disasters? natural disasters.
Their reaction if they face 3. Students choose can organize
the natural disasters. their ideas about natural
3. Teacher show the students the disasters by using given 9
flashcards of words related to the words (from the reaction and
reaction towards natural disaster consequences flashcards) in
and encourage them to come up their short story.
with more words related. 4. Students will express their
Panic/sorrow/scared/devastated creativity in writing and use
4. Teacher will instruct students to high order thinking abilities to
be into pair to discuss and write a make the story become more
two paragraphs short story interesting.
consisting the words provided in
both previous (reactions) and new
flashcards (consequences):
Massive evacuation/separation
with their families/lost their
home/ food-shortage/panic-
buying
5. Teacher helps to generate ideas,
by including their opinion or
reaction towards the disaster or
experiences if they have any.
Post (Continuation from writing a story;
listening 2 The storytelling activity.)
1. Students prepare to do
1. Teacher check the progress of storytelling.
the students. 2. Students brainstorm alternative
2. Teacher asks students to be ways of expression in
prepared for the storytelling. storytelling.
3. Teacher give the turn of each 3. Students present their stories
students to talk and keep the with their own creativity
time limit which is three 4. Students get feedback from
minutes per pair. their friends on the story.
4. Teacher response to the
students on their speaking
skill.
Closure
(5
minutes)
Reflection
