This lesson plan is for teaching the short story "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde to 8th standard students. The plan aims to help students comprehend the story through activities like watching an animated video, reading aloud, discussing in groups, and answering questions. Key activities include introducing the story, reading it together, defining difficult words, acting out verbs from the story, and assigning students to write a conversation between the giant and boy. The goal is for students to understand the story, vocabulary, and demonstrate their comprehension through discussion and assignment.

1. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Lesson plan for the prose “THE SELFISH GIANT”
Name of the teacher : Rima Tom
Name of the supervisor : Ansa
Name of the school :
Standard : VIII
Subject : English
Topic :The SelfishGiant
Strength :31/31
Date :
Period :
Duration :40 minutes
Curricular statement : To enable the learner to comprehend the prose “The SelfishGiant” written by Oscar Wilde”
. through listening , speaking , reading and writing.
Learning outcome : The pupil will be able to
a)comprehend the passage
b)comprehend vocabulary and sentence pattern
c)communicate using appropriate language
Content analysis : This part of the story is deal with a selfishness of a giant

2. Teaching learning resources : picture of Oscar wilde and animated video of the story
Pre-requisites :The pupil might be familiar with the poet .The pupil might know about the selfish
people around them.
TEACHER ACTIVITY PUPIL ACTIVITY
INFORMAL CREATIONBY THE TEACHER
The teacher enters the class and creates a rapport with
the students . Showing a animated video of ‘the selfish
giant.’
INFORMAL CREATIONBY THE STUDENTS
The teacher asks the students the questions about the
video.
1.What is the specialty of giant’s garden?
2.Did giant like children?
3.What did he do when he sow children in his garden?

3. TEACHER ACTIVITY PUPIL ACTIVITY
LINK TALK
Today we are going to learn a story ‘The Selfish
Giant’(BB) by Oscar Wilde(BB)
MICRO PROCESSING THE INPUT
1.READING
The teacher reads the story aloud with correct
pronunciation , stress and voice modulation.
2.INDIVIDUAL READING
The teacher asks the students to read individually

4. TEACHER ACTIVITY
3.READING ALOUD BY THE STUDENTS
The teacher makes the students to read the passage
aloud one by one with correctpronunciation , stress and
voice modulation.
4.GLOSSARYREFERENCE WITHTHE HELP OF
TEACHER
The students are asked to refer the glossary to find out
the meaning of difficultword.
a) Stayed - remained
eg: I stayed two days in Landon.
b) Frighten – get afraid of
eg: He was frightened by a large dog.
c) Crept – came secretly
eg: She creptin to the bedroom.
d) Rattled – made brisk sound
eg: The strong wind rattled the window.
e) Wrapped – covered around
eg; He wrapped his handkerchief round his bleeding
finger.
5.COLLABORATIVELEARNING
The teacher asks the students to sit in groups and
discuss their understanding to the group members.
PUPIL ACTIVITY

5. TEACHER ACTIVITY PUPIL ACTIVITY
6.MEGAPHONING THE DOUBTS
Each group is given opportunity to raise their doubts.
SCAFFOLDING QUESTIONS
In order to make the content clear scaffolding questions
are asked to the students. The students are asked to write
down the answer and presentthe answer from each groups.
a) Where had the giant gone for seven years?
b) Why is the giant called selfish?
c) Why the giant loved the little boy?
d) What happened when a beautiful flower put its head out
from the grass?
ACTIVITY
The teacher places a box containing lots on the table. In
each lots written some verbs from the lesson.The teacher
asks ten students to come forward and ask each students to
take lot and act what is written in it. And asks other students
to find the verb. Then the teacher asks the students to
change the verb to past , continuous , past participle form.
Dance, play, sing, drink, work, help, wash, mix, go, try etc..

6. ASSIGNMENT
Imagine that the Giant and Little boy have a conversation with each other about gaint’s garden. Write the
conversation would take place between them.
SUMMARIZATION
The teacher summarizes the lesson