Reading Lesson Plan 96WD Michelle
Title : Quick as a Cricket
Teacher	Student Level & Age	No of Students	Length
Michelle	beginner/ 7years old	19	50 mins
Materials: - Picture cards of animals -22 Word cards of adjectives - 22 Sentence card of "I'm as as " Worksheet - 19
Aims: - To comprehend the story. - To learn and practice names of animals, opposite adjectives and comparatives. - To listen and speak the sentence pattern I'm a ~~~. I'm as~~as~~. - To read the book without a teacher's lead.
Language Skills: Listening: Teacher's demonstration. Speaking: Make a sentence, Opposite adjectives. Reading: ' Quick as a Cricket' Writing: 'This is Me' worksheet.
Language Systems: Phonology: rhyme- lark~shark / fox~ox/ chimp~shrimp/ mean~weak. Lexis: names of animals, opposite adjectives. Grammar: comparative. Discourse: comparatives who am I through the characteristics of animals. Functions: comparing.
Assumptions: - Some Ss may already know opposite adjectives.
Anticipated Errors and Solutions: -Ss may be difficult to understand the adjectives meaning like 'tame' & 'wild' , 'nice'&'shark' → T shows Ss enough example sentences to understand the adjectives meaning.
References: http://blog.daum.net/alicia4kids/7134390 http://kizclub.com/storypatterns/cricket.pdf http://blog.daum.net/cutejinny/1806235 'Teaching Reading and Writing in Primary English' written by Kim Hyae Ree
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Michelle Times TESOL Lesson Plan

Pre Task or Warmer
Title: Greeting and Eliciting		Aims: To lead Ss into the story by guiding questions.	Materials: - Board, Marker.
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
5mins	Whole class	- Greeting each other. - Answer the questions Ss talk about many different kinds of animals.	- Greeting and asking the guiding questions to lead into the story. Hello, everyone. How are you doing? We are going to talk about animals. Do you like animals? What's your favorite animals? Have you ever gone to the zoo? There are pets, sea animals, birds, wild animals and so on. Do you know what kinds of pets there are? What are the animals living in the sea?
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Task Preparation or Presentation
Title: Name of animals and the characteristics of animals.		Aims: To learn and practice name of animals and describe the characteristics of animals.	Materials: - Picture cards of animals, Word cards of adjectives, Board, Marker.
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
5mins	In group Whole class	- Discussing the characteristics of animals. - Answer the questions. Ss describe the characteristics of animals.	- Giving instruction. I'll give you some animals pictures. You have to talk about the characteristics of these animals. You have to be able to describe characteristics in each of these animals like a shape, a color and character. - Ask the question about characteristics of animals.
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Task Realization or Practice
Title: Read ' Quick as a Cricket'		Aims: To comprehend the story and learn the opposite adjectives.	Materials: - Book, Picture cards of animals, Word cards of adjectives, Board, Marker. Sentence cards of ' I'm as as '
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
5 mins 10mins 5min s 5 mins 5mins	Whole class In group Whole class	- Listen and read the book ' Quick as a Cricket'. - Read the book 'Quick as a Cricket' together. - Answer the questions by reading the book. - Make sentences and read it. - Match the card with the opposite word card. - Speak the opposite adjectives loudly. - According to the teacher's instructions, Ss make sentences ' I'm as ~as~.'	- Show Ss demonstration. We are going to read the book ' Quick as a Cricket' Read it carefully and let's find out how to express the characteristics of animals. First , I'll show you how to read this book - Let Ss read the book together. - Check the characteristics of animals in the book. T asks the question and makes sentences. 'Name of animal is adjective.' ex) A cricket is quick. - Give the word cards of adjective and instruction. I'll give many cards of adjective. Choose one card and then match the word with the opposite. - Check it whether correct or not. T put the adjective cards on the board and asks question the opposite adjective. T and Ss match the card together. - Make a sentence ' I'm as ~ as~.' 'I'm as quick as a cricket.' What does that mean? It means 'I'm quick like a cricket'. Let's make sentences more. T lets Ss choose adjective and name of animal and then T lets Ss make sentences.
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Post Task or Production
Title: Reread the book and make a book.		Aims: To read the book without a teacher's lead	Materials: Book, Worksheet.
Time	Set Up	Students	Teacher
5mins	Whole class	- Reread the book . - Work the worksheet. According to the teacher's instructions, Ss make sentences about themselves with the characteristics of animals.	- Let Ss reread the book and give instruction for worksheet. Let's reread the book. Which one do you think is alike you in these character? I think I'm very close to the lazy lizard. I'll give you worksheet and then make sentences of yourself by expressing the character of animals. Ok, good!! We read ' Quick as a cricket' and learned the character of animals with reading the book. By doing so, I hope that you will get to know more about yourselves. That's all for today. See you!
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Worksheets, handouts and lesson materials

This is Me.

I'm as     as     .  I'm as      as