Lesson Plan 5

Class Level: Intermediate Primary 5

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, Reading, Writing

Higher Order Thinking Skills: 1. Literal Comprehension
1.1 Recognition of Comparison.

2. Inferential Comprehension
2.1 Inferring Comparisons

Multiple Intelligences:
3. Appreciation
3.1 Identification with Characters or Incidents
Interpersonal
Verbal/Linguistic
Bodily/Kinesthetic

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. tell how the problems are sorted out.
2. state what happens to the characters at the end of the story.
3. tell the ending of the story.
4. say how do the shoemaker and his wife repay the good deeds done by elves.
5. take the role of the elves and tell why he or she helped the shoemaker.

Prior Knowledge: Pupils have learnt to compare the differences in

characters such as then and now.

Procedures:
Teacher’s Task/ Students’ Tasks Teaching Rationale
Procedures Resources
Preparatory Activities
(5mins)

1.T shows the storybook to Pupils look at the Storybook To recall the
the pupils and asks storybook. previous lesson.
questions.
• What is the most Pupils answer To recall the
exciting moment in the questions. exciting moment in
the story? the story.
• Who do you think -The shoes are
made the shoes? ready when the
• Where does the shoemaker and
his wife entered
scene take place?
the shop.

-Any possible
answers.

-Shop

Pupils look at the Pictures To introduce and

2.T shows the picture of
pictures. draw pupils
elves on the screen.
attention to the
Pupils name the elves.
3.T asks questions based on
picture;
the picture.
- Elves To arouse the
• Who are these? pupils’ interest
- Short and
• How do they look small towards the
like? - Accept lesson.
• Why do they look like any
that? answer

Main Activities (15mins)

1.T reads the last part of the Pupils listen to Storybook, To encourage
story. the story. LCD,pictures pupils to involve in
the lesson.
2.T asks how the problems Pupils answer
are sorted out. the question
based on the
story told.
-Elves helped the
shoemaker.

3.T displays pictures on the Pupils look at the To identify the

screen. pictures and pupils’
come out with understanding
their answers. about the story.
4. T asks pupils how they Pupils answer
will thank others who helped the question.
them.

5. T asks pupils how did the Pupils will

shoemaker and his wife answer the
thank the elves. question by
referring to the
text.

-They made them

some little
clothes.

6.T asks pupils to get into Pupils get into

their group. their group and Appendix 6 To enable pupils to
discuss about the Worksheet LP5 do comparison.
main character.

7. T provides them a Pupils in their

worksheet. perspective
group discuss
8.T asks pupils to compare and compare the
the differences in the main differences in the
character revolve around main character.
ideas such as ‘beginning’
and at the ‘end’ of the story. Complete the
given worksheet.

‘Beginning’
-sad, depressed, To encourage
worried, unhappy pupils to work as a
team.
Ending‘’
-happy, secure,
satisfied, rich

9.T calls out a few groups to A few groups

present their work. present their
work.

Closing Activities (10mins)

1.T gives a situation to the Pupils imagine Appendix 7 To encourage

pupils. themselves as Situation pupils to talk from
elves and talk others point of
2.T asks pupils to imagine from the elves view.
themselves as elves and point of view.
talk from the elves’ point of
view. Pupils at
• Why you helped the randomly come
shoemaker to make out to present.
those shoes?

Appendix 6
Worksheet LP5

Compare the differences in shoemaker’s behaviour and life revolve

‘beginning’ and the ‘ending’ of the story. Then fill in the mind-map.

Beginning
Ending
 Appendix 7

Situation

Now imagine that you are one of the elves. From the elves point of view explain
why you helped the shoemaker to make those shoes.