This lesson plan is for an intermediate English class on February 11th. The lesson will focus on reading comprehension and introduce vocabulary related to the story of the inventor of the USB flash drive. Students will read a passage about the inventor, complete true-false questions to check comprehension, sequence jumbled sentences from the story, and do a word search activity with target vocabulary. The goal is for students to better understand linear texts and practice reading skills.

1. LESSON PLAN
Class
: 4 Budiman ( Intermediate proficiency level)
Enrolment
: 20 students
Date
: 11th of February 2014 (Tuesday)
Time
: 11.50 pm -12.50 pm (1 hour)
Theme
: World of Stories
Topic
: Yesterday and Today (Unit 3)
Focused skill : Reading
Integrated skill(s): Writing
Content Standard:
2.2 By the end of the 6-year primary schooling, pupils will be able to demonstrate
understanding of a variety of linear and non-linear texts in the form of print and non-print
materials using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
Learning Standards:
2.2.2 Able to read and understand phrases and sentences in linear and non-linear texts.
2.2.3 Able to read and demonstrate understanding of texts by:
(a) Sequencing with guidance
Language focus
: Vocabulary (conduct, device, invent, research, pursue,
information)
Behavioural Objectives
: By the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to:
-
Read and answer 3 out of 5 true-false questions correctly
Read and sequence at least 4 out of 7 story lines correctly.
Identify the 3 out of 5 vocabularies learned in word search
activity.
Prior Knowledge
: Nouns
Educational Emphasis
: CCTS
 Decision making
 Contextual learning
 Knowledge acquisition
Moral value
: We need to work hard to be successful in life

3. STAGE/ TIME
CONTENT/SKILL
Set Induction
Aural-oral discussion
(+ 5 minutes)
-USB
flash
drive’s
video
TEACHING/ LEARNING ACTIVITIES
REMARKS
1) Teacher greets pupils
-Start off the day’s
Teaching aid:
2) Teacher shows a USB flash drive
lesson and arouse
-USB
pupils’ attention.
drive’s video
video to the pupils.
-Realia (USB flash
RATIONALE
3) Teacher asks pupils to name the
flash
-Realia ( USB
drive)
thing that they can identify in the
-To lead-in to the
Sample Question:
video.
lesson.
: “Do you know what
Flash drive)
4) Then, teacher shows the real USB
is in the video?”
flash drive to the pupils and leads
: “Have you seen an
pupils to the topic of the lesson.
USB
flash
drive
before?
: “Has anyone used
the USB flash drive
before?”
Pre-Reading
VOCABULARY
(+ 20 minutes)
WORK
: conduct
: device
1) Teacher shows the words to be
-To give input on
Teaching aids:
introduced today using PowerPoint
vocabulary by showing
-PowerPoint
Presentation.
pictures and
Presentation of
descriptions.
vocabularies.
2) Teacher explains the meaning of the
:invent
words by showing pictures and
:research
descriptions of the words.
:pursue
:information
3) Teacher tells the pupils that they will
encounter those words later in the
(appendix 1(a))
- To familiarize pupils’
with the vocabulary in
-PowerPoint
Presentation of
“The Inventor of

4. text.
Aural-oral activity
the text.
USB flash drive
4) Then, teacher shows a Ppt of a text
text. (appendix
: “What is the story
entitled “The Inventor of USB flash
-To generate pupils’
about?”
drive”.
idea of the story.
: “Who is the inventor
of USB?”
: “What is the function
of USB?”
1(b))
5) Teacher reads the text and pupils
follow after teacher.
6) Teacher asks volunteers to read the
text and brainstorms the idea of the
text to the pupils.
While- Reading
True-false statement
( + 15 minutes)
activity
:PowerPoint
presentation (truefalse activity)
Sample Questions:
: Pua Khein Seng
invented the flash
drive (True)
: A flash drive is a
memory device for
camera (false)
Activity 1 (True-false Statement)
1) Teacher picks pupils randomly.
2) Pupils need to read the true-false
-To
measure
understanding
text learned.
pronunciation and intonation of the
words if there are mistakes.
4) Pupils need to click the true or false
answer on the ppt.
5) Teacher discusses the answers in
the class.
of
the
Teaching aids:
-PowerPoint
questions given.
3) Teacher corrects the pupil’s
pupils’ Individual work
Presentation of
-to
enhance
reading skill.
pupils’ True-false
activity
(appendix 2)

5. Post-reading
Sequencing Jumbled
(+ 15 minutes)
up sentences
Sample questions:
1) Teacher divides the class in group of
four.
2) Teacher explains that they are going
1) Pua Khein Seng is
to rearrange jumbled up sentences
a young Malaysian
-To reinforce pupils’
Teaching Aids:
comprehension of the
:task
story in the different
sheets(appendix
context.
3)
and sequence the text accordingly.
who invented the
flash drive.
2) flash drive is a
memory device for
storing information
to or from a
computer.
:Scissors
3) Teacher distributes task sheets
: Glue.
(sequencing)(refer to appendix 3) to
each group.
4) They need to cut the sentence strips
and paste it to the correct box
according to the number.
5) Teacher checks pupils’ answers.
Closure
(+ 5 minutes)
Moral value:
: Work hard to be
successful in life
Word search of the
vocabulary.
1) Teacher recaps the lesson by telling
the moral values of the story.
2) Teacher distributes word search for
pupils to complete.
-To sum up the lesson
Teaching Aid:
: Word search
(appendix 4 )