This document outlines an innovative English lesson plan about rivers for 8th standard students. The lesson aims to help students understand the importance of rivers by remembering their special qualities, applying vocabulary in new contexts, and creating awareness about river conservation. Key activities include informal discussion, dividing students into groups to analyze rhyming words in a poem about rivers, identifying rhyming word definitions and examples, reading the poem to find more rhymes, and rearranging rhyming words as a follow up activity. The overall goal is for students to appreciate rivers and the need for sustainable development.

1. INNOVATIVE LESSON PLAN
Name of the teacher trainee : Priyasree.A.R Standard : VIII
Name of the school : N.H.S.S. Nellimoodu Strength :
Subject : English Period :
Unit : As we saw so shall we Reap Duration :
Subunit : River Date :
ISSUE : Lack of Eco-friendly urbanization and industrialization.
SUBISSUE : Total imbalance in nature and pollution of land water and air inability
to
Realize the need for leading a life in harmony with nature.
CURRICULAR STATEMENT : Realising the value of river in our society.
LEARNING OUTCOME : The learner is;
1. Remembering the speciality of river.
2. Understanding about how river affect human life.
3. Applying new vocabulary in new situation.
4. Comparing the life span of rivers in Kerala.
5. Evaluating the pupils pre-knowledge about the speciality
of river.
6. Creating an awareness about the importance of saving
river.

2. CONTENT ANALYSIS : IDEATIONAL CONTENT
The river in all its glory in a dynamic and vital symbol of nature.
The poem has philosophy understone also. The flow of the river
shows the journey of life to eternity. The different stages of life are
brought in through the imagery.
LINGUISTIC CONTENT
New words like tickling, skylark, praised used in new situation
PRE-REQUISITES : The learner may have an awareness about the specialities of a river.
TEACHING- LEARNING
RESOURCES : Charts, Sourcebook, coursebook, dictionary etc.

3. CLASSROOM INTERACTION PROCEDURE PUPIL RESPONE
Informal interaction
Greeting and chatting
Teacher initiates an informal interaction with the pupil and tries to sustain the interest
throughout the class
Entry Activity
Teacher talks speciality of the words shown on blackboard. Then teacher divides the class into
five groups and gave appropriate name.
Link Talk
Teacher shows a chart which containing rhyming words of different poem. Teacher tells them
to identify the speciality of the words are written in the chart
- Do you find these type of words anywhere?
- What is the speciality of these words?
Things – clings
Rings - brings
Sun - run
Mead - lead
Never- ever
Then teacher shows another chart which contains the definition of rhyming words with the
help of a chart.
RHYMING WORDS
Rhyming words are words that ends with same sound.
Eg: sun-run, King-ring, near-fear

4. Then teacher gives a chance to the pupil to take their textbook and read the poem “River”
and findout rhyming words from the poem.
Way-play
Dancing-glancing
Leaping- sweeping’
Smooth-youth
Motion- ocean
Time-prime
Sounded- rounded
After that teacher shows a chart which contains the rhyming words written disorderly and
also give a chance to the pupil to arrange it in correct order.
Youth- eyes
Lies- truth
Day-Band
Hand- play
Town- bow
Glow- down
FOLLOW UP ACITIVITY
Findout more examples of rhyming words.