The document provides details of an English class discussing the short story "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Alexander Baron. The class is discussing the main character Private Quelch, an ordinary soldier who is knowledgeable and corrects his instructor. A variety of teaching-learning activities are outlined to engage students in understanding the characters, events, and themes of the story.

1. NAME OF THE TEACHER:PUTHANPURAKAL JOSEPH FLORENCE
NAME OF THE SCHOOL:SNHS,SREEKANDESWARAM
SUBJECT :ENGLISH
UNIT :3,TALES OF TOIL
SUB-UNIT :THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH(1-4 paragraphs)
ISSUE :HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
SUB-ISSUE :DIGNITY OF LABOUR
SUCCESS OF HARDWORK
Standard:9th
Strength :45
Period :2nd
Duration:45minutes
Date :11/8/15
‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ by Alexander Baron is an
interesting story about an ordinary solider named Quelch. He was
sincere and devoted to his work. He was an unusual character.
Soon after his arrival at the training centre he got the nick name”
the professor because of his lanky, stooping speculated
appearance and air of knowledge.”Private Quelch was quite
knowledgeable. In class he used to correct the instructor if the
latter was not quite accurate in his statements. Thus one day when
the instructor told the class that the muzzle velocity of the rifle is
well over two thousand feet per second the professor corrected
him saying that it was two thousand hundred and forty feet per
second. he would give the correct answers even when the
instructor put questions to him in the hope of revenge .once a
sergeant wanted to know whether he knew all about musketry
because of his previous training.
Content Analysis:

2. The Learner,
- develops proper attitude towards work.
- constructs various discourse like narrative
description (pg.67)
- develops proper skills and attitudes needed
for the development of human
resources.
- reads and enjoys piece of literature like short
stories(pg.67 68)
Curricular Statement:
The learner,
- may read articles related to success of hard
work
-familiar with the different types of work
- reads and enjoys various stories.
Pre-requisites :

3. Black Board - to note down the title.
ICT -entry activity authors picture
Activity Card- collaborative learning
Chart - Teachers version
Chart2 - Word
Flash card - Word Meaning
Roller Board- profile of the author
Teaching learning resources :
course book std,9th page 67
source book std,19th page 80
oxford English dictionary 102, 345
Resources :

4. Classroom interaction procedure Assessment/expected
response
Informal Interaction
Teacher makes an informal interaction in order to
create a good rapport with them.
• good morning students
•Good morning teacher
•Teacher shows some picture from different
profession.
• Teacher, doctor , police.
•Which profession do you like?
•I like……………………
All the students interacted well with
the questions.
Entry Activity
Teacher shows a collage of different professions on
a chart and asks them to name the chart
Students eagerly listened to the teacher
And watched to the chart carefully.

5. Link talk
Teacher shows authors picture and present
the profile of the author. Teacher writes the
title on the board
‘The Man Who Knew Too Much
-Alexander Baron
They answered according to the
questions. They observed the black
board work.

6. Micro processing of the unit
Model reading by the teacher
Teacher reads the first four paragraphs of the
story with proper intonation , stress, rhythm and
feel. The necessary details are forwarded to them
. The students are asked to listen carefully.
The students listened well and
understand it.
Track reading by the pupil
Teacher asks the students to make accordingly
that is they have to put tick mark ()for known
words into mark ()for unknown word and
exclamation mark() for interesting words.
They marked according to the
instructions.
Silent reading by the pupil
Teacher asks the students to reads the lines
silently.
Students read according to the
teachers instructions

7. Sitting and sharing with peers
Teacher asks the students to share their ideas
with the peers.
Students sit in groups and share
their ideas with peers
Glossary reference
Teacher asks the students to tell the unknown
words. Then the teacher introduce the meaning of
the words.
Liable-is likely to get
Equipment-the informal, humorous name of a
person
Lanky-having long thin limbs
Stooping-bending
Musketry-training in the use of rifles
Attentive-careful
Students referred the glossary and
found out the meanings.

8. Collaborative learning
Students are asks to form groups and share
their ideas in groups . students are also asks
to write down the words in the personal word
lists
Activity:[find out the word]
P-ofe--or
V-l-c-ty
They wrote down the meaning in
their note book and also
participated in the activity session
Mega phoning the doubt
Teacher asks each groups to megaphone
their doubts with another group.
Group A to group B-what is the meaning of
the word attentive?
Group b to group A-careful.
Students mega phoned their
doubts with other groups.

9. Facilitation by the teacher
Teacher helps to clarify their doubts. Students understand it well.
SECOND MODEL READING BY THE TEACHER
Scaffolding question
Teacher asks some question to make
the content more clear…
oWhat is the name of the writer?
oWhat is the nick name of privet Quelch?
oWhat is the meaning of stooping?
Ans:
- Alexander Baron
- Professor
- Bending
Students answered well and
understand the content.

10. Presentation by the pupil
Randomly students are presented to each
group and asks to present their answers.
Students presented it well.
Discourse construction editing and presentation
Teacher asks the students to refer
dictionary and write what the following
word means?
Teacher explained it. Students
done the discourse part well.

11. Teachers version
SOCIAL
COMETEMENT
MANICHITRA THAZHU-”ORU MEETAG VANTHU
PARTHAYA.”
PAZHASSIRAJA-”KUNNATHE KONNAYKUM.”
SARGAM”SANGEETHAME AMARA SANGEETHAME”
Students corrected their version
from compared with teachers
version

12. Assignment
GENERALISATION AND CONCLUSION
With the help of the students teacher conclude
the portion.
The Man Who Knew Too Much is a short story
written by Alexander Baron. It is a story about an
solder name Private Quelch. When he came
training center he got the nickname ‘The
Professor”
Students helped the teacher to
conclude the portion .and they
understood the content well.
Write your full name and say which is your first , middle and last name.