Lesson 4

Class Level: Primary : 6

Time: 30 minutes
Genre: Short story :
Literary Focus: Prose
Plot Characterization Setting
Point of View
Theme

Integrated Language Skills: Listening, speaking and reading

Higher Order Thinking Skills: Inferential Comprehension
Multiple Intelligences: Visual /Spatial
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
2.7.1 Name the good and bad characters and tell why they are good or bad.
2.7.2 Read and tell and write why a person in a story is good or bad.
Prior Knowledge: Pupils have been taught the characteristics of a man and a tree

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Teaching Rationale
Procedures Tasks Resources
Preparatory Activities (05) Pupils list it Mahjong Paper Enable pupils to recall
down on a Marker Pen the incidents which
Step 1 mahjong took place in the story.
Teacher asks the pupils to list down the paper.
bad things that man has done to the
tree.

e.g 1. The boy plucked its fruits.

2. Chopped its branches.
3. Cut its trunk.

Main Activities (20)

To enable the students
Step 1 to
Teacher asks the pupils if they are to be a) Who do
the tree, how would they have felt. you think
we hurt?
Step 2
Teacher gives a situation to the pupils. b) Name
three
‘Sometimes we forget that our things our
doings hurt. Yet our parents will parents will
always be there to give everything Pupils discuss do for us?
could, just to make us happy.’ the questions
 and present c) What do
Teacher distributes a few questions for their parents
them to discuss among the group discussion. want from
members. us.

Closing Activities (05)

Pupils Worksheet (3)
Teacher gives a worksheet for the complete the
students to complete. worksheet
individually.
WORKSHEET 3
What lessons can you learn from the story? Put ticks ( _/ ) where appropriate.

1. We must be considerate to our parents. ( )

2. We must not be lazy and do our work properly. ( )

3. We must be optimistic when things go wrong. ( )

4. We must not hurt our parents. ( )

5. We must not take our parents for granted. ( )

6. There must be give and take in any relationship. ( )

7. We must enjoy ourselves when we are young. ( )

8. It is our parents’ duty to give us everything. ( )