Lesson Plan 4

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

Higher Order Thinking Skills: Inferential Comprehension
1. Inferring supporting details
2. Inferring sequence
3. Inferring cause and effect relationship
Multiple Intelligences: Visual, interpersonal, intrapersonal, verbal/Linguistic
Kinetic
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. accept problems as part and partial of life
2. identify problems and make good decisions to handle them rationally.
3. possess an inquiry mind.
4. ask and give response

Prior Knowledge: The pupils know the problems faced by the

shoemaker and his wife.

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Teaching Rationale
Procedures Tasks Resources
Preparatory Activities
(5 mins)
1. T asks ppls to Ppls from Pictures to show To develop general
discuss and list down each group materials/things knowledge.
the materials or step out to needed to make a
things needed to write their pair of shoe in a
make a pair of answer on the traditional way.
shoes. board.
2. T shows pictures of - leather,
those thread,
materials/things on needle,
the screen. scissors and
 template.
To enhance
3. T asks a pupil to Two ppls A picture of a imagination and
draw a finished design his/her finished pair of creativeness.
product from the own pair of shoe.
materials. shoes on the
board.
To elicit new
4. T asks ppls to name Ppls name vocabulary and
parts of a finished parts of a general
shoe. shoe: knowledge.
- heel,toes

Main Activities (15 mins) Ppls recall and Flash - bags of To realize that
state the money. people encounter
1. T asks what the problems. problems in their
shoemaker did to the - no gold daily lives.
shoes. - no leather
- thread
2. T asks what did the To help ppls
shoemaker and his Ppls make a realize that
do with the money comparison problems are part
he received from the and give an and parcel of life.
sale of the shoes. example of
what type of Ppls are aware
3. T shows the contrast shoes that that we do not run
between the shoes were found in away from
drawn by the ppls. the shop problems. They
• 1 well-made pair can be settled
• 1 poorly made pair eventually if
Ppls picked up handled positively.
a good
4. T asks ppls which
attitude when To encourage a
pair
producing a good completion of
of shoes was probably
task. a task.
found in the shop.
To develop a
5. T explains that all the
Ppls answer sense of
shoes were made as
-ready made responsibility
good as the
shoes.
shoemaker.
To make
comparisons.
6. T asks ppls, what
Ppls respond
were the problems
correctly To develop
 faced by the - he sells them ownership.
shoemaker at the
beginning of the - he buys
story. more leather To understand the
7. T asks ppls whether principle of sowing
they face problems. and reaping,

Ppls are taught to

8. T asks ppls what did spend money in a
the shoemaker and wise way.
his wife see when
they entered the
shop the next day.

.
9. T asks whether there To show changes
are any changes in can happen in
the life of the one’s life.
shoemaker and his
wife.

Closing Activities (10 mins)

1. T explains a hot Pupil A acts as To personalize the
seat activity. the imaginative
shoemaker. experience.

2. T selects a pupil as Pupil B acts To develop

the shoemaker and as a reporter. confident in
another as a She/He reads listening and
reporter.(Both are out a set of speaking skills.
pre-informed on their prepared
roles) questionnaires
to interview
the
shoemaker.

3. T gives the reporter Pupil A gives Appendix 5

a set of questioners. appropriate Activity sheet
response as
from the A set of prepared
shoemaker questions to Pupil
point of view. B, the reporter.
 Appendix 5
Activity sheet: Sample questions for the reporter.

1. Mr shoemaker, could you please tell me how did you become so successfully
today?

Possible answers:
• I work hard
• Some kind people help me.
• My wife encourages me to be positive to overcome
problems and never gives up hope.

2. In what way did your wife encourage you?

• She never gives up hope easily.

• She always believes that something good will come out of the problem.
• As the saying goes, behind a successful man, there is a woman.

3. What are you going to do with the gold?

• I am going to buy more leather to make more shoes.

• I am going to build a bigger shop.
• I am going to give away some to the poor.
• I am going to repay the kind people who helped me.

4. Do you know who helped you to make those shoes?

• I am afraid, I don’t but I’m going to find out soon.

5. What advice are you going to tell those who are facing problems in their life?

• Be positive to believe that `Something good will come’.