ENGLISH LESSON (UNIT 10: MALAYSIA, MY COUNTRY) THEME: WORLD OF KNOWLEDGE

DATE: 23rd September 2011 (9.40 AM-10.40 AM) YEAR: 4 CEKAL LESSON DURATION: 60 MINUTES FOCUSED SKILL: WRITING SKILL INTEGRATED SKILL: READING SKILL STUDENTS LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY: MIXED-ABILITY (MEDIUM TO LOW) LEARNING OBJECTIVES: By the end of this lesson, students should be able to: y Read and understand simple factual text by filling in the table with information about location, main attractions and fun activities to do at a famous place in Malaysia. y Create a brochure using the information from the table. y Write three sentences to describe the fun activities to do at the famous place by using the sentence starter Visitors can...

LEARNING OUTCOMES: 3.8. Read and understand simple factual texts for main ideas, supporting details, sequence and cause and effect. y 3.8.2. Scan for specific information in texts. 4.2. Construct simple and compound sentences with guidance and independently. y 4.5.3. Construct simple sentences independently. 4.8. Give accurate information when writing messages, instructions, simple reports, and when filling out forms. y 4.8.1. Write a message for a purpose/information transfer.

LEARNING CONTENT: 1. Factual information about interesting places in Malaysia. 2. Format of brochure. LANGUAGE FOCUS: 1. Simple present tense. 2. Action words to describe fun activities to do at the places. EDUCATIONAL EMPHASES: 1. Multiple intelligences (spatial intelligences and kinaesthetic intelligences). 2. CCTS y Application (create a brochure from the information given in the passage). y Comprehension (locate information such as location and main attractions of the place from the passage). y Analysis (use the information about the main attractions of the place to come out with suggestions on fun activities to do at the place) TEACHING AIDS: Wheel of fortune made from cardboard, pictures of famous places in Malaysia, passage about famous places in Malaysia, empty table with three columns of location , main attractions and fun activities to do , manila cards.

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PreTourist attractions writing in Malaysia: (5minutes) y Petronas Twin Tower y Genting Highland y Sunway Lagoon y Jonker Street Malacca y Langkawi Resort y National Museum y National Zoo y Niah National Park y Kinabalu National Park y Fraser s Hill y Cameron Highland While1. Information on writing famous places in (50 Malaysia: minutes) y Location y Main attractions y Fun activities to do 2. Scanning for specific details about particular place. 3. Categorize information into two categories:

Teacher-student activity WHEEL OF FORTUNE 1. Teacher divides the students into three groups according to their seating row. 2. In turn, each group will send a representative to spin the wheel and the respective group will be shown a picture of interesting places in Malaysia. 3. If the group can guess the picture correctly, they will get the point as pointed on the wheel. 4. Group with the most point wins.

Teaching aids 1. Wheel of fortune made from cardboard. 2. Pictures of interesting places in Malaysia.

Presentation 1. Teacher tells the students that they are going to make a brochure to promote interesting places in Malaysia as shown in the pictures from the wheel of fortune game. 2. Teacher shows an example of brochure to the students. Teacher asks the students if they have ever seen a brochure and where do they usually see it.

1. Passage about interesting places in Malaysia. 2. Example of a brochure. 3. Empty table with three columns of location , main attractions and fun activities to do . 4. Manila cards.

location of the place and main attractions.

4. Write three sentences to describe fun activities that can be done in the place 4. Teacher demonstrates how to by using sentence make a brochure to promote starter Visitors Petronas Twin Tower. can... 5. Teacher highlights to students that before they make the brochure, they have to collect information on the location, main attractions and fun activities to do at the Petronas Twin Tower. 6. Teacher gives a passage about Petronas Twin Tower to the students. 7. In pairs, the students read the passage quietly and underline the information about the location, main attractions of KLCC and fun activities to do at KLCC while reading the passage. 8. Teacher asks a few students to fill in the table on the whiteboard with the information that they have underlined. 9. Teacher models to the students how to make a brochure by folding a manila card into three parts. 10. Teacher models to the students how to create a brochure using the information from the table.

3. Teacher highlights the important things that should be in their brochure: y Location y Main attractions y Fun activities to do.

11. Teacher models how to write the sentences to describe fun activities to do at KLCC based on the information they get from the passage. The sentences must start with the phrase Visitors can.... Practice INFORMATION HUNT 12. Teacher tells the students that they will play Information Hunt in order to find the information needed for the brochure. 13. The students are divided into groups of three. 14. Teacher emphasizes to students that they will only be given 10 minutes to get all the information and the teacher will blow the whistle when the time is up. 15. Teacher explains to students how to play the information hunt. 16. Each group is assigned one interesting place and is given a table for them to fill in the information on location, main attractions and fun activities to do at the place assigned to them. 17. Each group has to find information about the place assigned to them (location, main attractions, and fun activities to do).

18. The first information (location) will be pasted on the class s wall. The clue for the second information is written at the back of the first information and the clue for the third information is written at the back of the second information. 19. Once the students have collected all the information, they have to fill in their table with the correct information. 20. All of the information is marked by the picture of the place. The students use their previous knowledge from the wheel of fortune game to identify the right information for their group. 21. The group that has completed their table will sit back at their table and write three sentences about the fun activities to do. Production 22. The group that has all the information in their table will be given a manila card. 23. The students fold the manila card into three parts and create a brochure using the information from their table. Post (5minutes) 1. The students decorate the cover of their brochure. 2. The group that has finished their brochure can paste their brochure on the whiteboard. 1. Pictures of interesting places in Malaysia.

*Remark: if the students could not

finish decorating the cover of their brochure, they can continue doing it in the next lesson.

3. Teacher concludes the lesson by inviting the students to recall what they have learned and done in today s lesson.