The document provides a lesson plan for a 45-minute English class for 10th grade students on storytelling using the past simple tense. The lesson plan includes a warm up activity introducing fire, vocabulary presentation of key words from the story, reading of the story "The Story of Fire" aloud and individually, comprehension questions to check understanding, and a production activity where students share fire experiences and write a short paragraph on the importance of fire. The story is about early humans discovering fire when lightning struck a tree during a storm, providing light and warmth in their dark, cold cave.

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LESSON PLAN
School name: Nicoadala Secondary School
Teachersname: Darmin Domingos Mutenda and Velasco Carneiro Francisco
Grade: 10
Level: elementary
Number of students: 55
Stream: B morning
Length of the lesson: 45 min
Topic of the lesson: Story telling (Past Simple)
Students’background: students are already familiarized with simple language, and the
past simple and present of some verbs.
Skills: reading, listening and speaking
Aim: by the end of the lesson, students should be able to read and understand the story
and answer comprehension questions from the text and tell a story.
Warm up (5min)
Aim: to draw student’s attention, and prepare them for the topic or engage them in
the topic.
T: do you know what fire is?
T: what do we use fire for?
T: is fire important? Why
T: today we are going to talk about the story of fire.
1. Presentation
Vocabulary presentation (7 min)
Aim: to get students familiarized with new words that come in the text or that
are part of the topic.

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T; writes the vocabulary on the board, and explain its meaning, within the
context of the topic of the lesson.
T; writes the vocabulary on the board, and explain its meaning, within the
context of the topic of the lesson.
Cosy, flash, frightened, huddled, storm, cave.
Feedback: the teacher may ask weak students and the shy to explain the meanings of
the words.
Reading (10 min)
T: the teacher reads first the text and then the students read silently, and then teacher
ask volunteers to read aloud or can point anyone.
Aim: to help the students with the pronunciation of some words that they may find
difficult to pronounce. The students read to understand the information in the text, so
that they will be able to extract information.
Comprehension ( 7 min)
Aim: to check students understanding of the text.
Write true (T) or false (F) for the statements below.
a) They did not want the fire to keep on burning. ( )
b) They were frightened at first and huddled in a group. ( )
c) They live in a caves where it was both dark and cold ( )
d) They did not discover that the fire made the cave both warm and light ( )
Feedback: have some volunteers correcting on the board, involve always the weak and
shy students.
2. Production ( 7 min)
T: ask volunteers to talk about their experience with fire. And in no more than ten
lines students will write about the importance of fire.
Aim: to involve students in speaking, and make use of the new vocabulary that they
have learnt.

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The Story of Fire
Many, many years ago people did not have warm, cosy houses like ours to live in. they
lived in caves where it was both dark and cold. Once when a great storm was raging, a
tree was struck by lightning and the flash set it on fire. It happened to fall near a cave
where some of the cave people were hiding. They were frightened at first and huddled
in a group. After the storm was over they ventured out to look at the burning tree. One
of them took a burning branch and brought it into the cave. They discovered that it
made the cave both warm and light. They wanted the fire to keep on burning so they fed
it with sticks and dry leaves. From this time on fire became a great blessing to man.
Ida Wolchok