Lesson Plan 2

Class Level: Primary

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

Poetry
Tone / Mood
Rhyme
Rhythm
Persona
Figurative language – simile / metaphor/
personification / onomatopoeia

Integrated Language Skills: Listening, Speaking and Writing

Higher Order Thinking Skills: Inferential Comprehension
1. Recall of details
2. Recall of a sequence
3. Recall of character traits

Multiple Intelligences: Visual, Interpersonal, Verbal/Linguistic

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. know the beginning of the story.
2. where does the story take place?
3. when does it take place?
4. who are the main characters?
Prior Knowledge: Pupils know the storyline of the short story, The Elves
and the Shoemaker.

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Rationale
Procedures Resources
Preparatory Activities
(5 mins)
1. T shows the Pupils look at the LCD, Computer
illustrated picture of illustrated picture
page 2. shown.

2. T asks ppls to relate Pupils retell the To recall details of

the story shown on beginning of the page 2.
that picture. story.
Main Activities (15 mins)
1. T asks ppls to state Ppls’ answers: First illustrated Ppls knows the
the time and the - A long time ago. picture on page setting of the
place of the story. - In a village 2. story.

2. T asks ppl, who is - The shoemaker

the person at the
shop.

3. T asks ppls, does - Sad, gloomy, To elicit words to

the shoemaker look unhappy,sorrowful, describe feelings.
sad or happy? depressed.
Explain.

4. T asks about the - poor To describe the

background of the characteristic of
shoemaker. the shoemaker.

5. T asks the ppls to - by the clothes he To observe and

point out what make was wearing, the interpret the
them say so. outlook of the surroundings.
shop and the
setting.

6. T asks what the - the shoemaker

shoemaker was was closing his
doing at that time. shop.

- by the word
7. T asks them to
‘CLOSED’ on the
elaborate.
door.
Closing Activities (10 mins)
T asks pupils to do a silent Ppls do the silent
mime on the beginning of mime.
the story.