English language
example lesson plans
Selected entries from the
Trinity College London Lesson Plan Competition at the British Council and English and Foreign Languages University’s 3rd International Teacher Educator Conference
Hyderabad, India, March 2013
In partnership with
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Contents
Integrated skills
4. Past continuous yoga (winning entry) — Aditya Rajan 6. Let’s talk — Paresh Pandya
Speaking
8. Congratulating someone — Prasanta Borthakur
10. Introducing yourself — Shruti Fernandez
11. Teaching communicative spoken English skills — Geeta Gujral 13. Teaching speaking — Basheer Ahmed Hamood Mufleh 15. Preparing a news bulletin — Dr Nitya Rani Rao
17. Developing speaking skills in learners — Bhupinder Singh 19. Information gap activity — Discovering missing information — Achi Srinivas 20. Set to flame — Dr Ranganayaki Srinivas
Speaking and listening
22. Asking and answering questions to develop spoken English skills — Meena Vinod Naik Speaking and reading
23. Funny horoscopes — Making predictions and giving advice — Dr Albert P’Rayan 26. Night of the Scorpion (poem) — Satheesan V P
Speaking and writing
27. Market day — Nisha Butoliya
Listening
28. Listening and learning — Adity Chamuah
Reading
31. Reading a narrative text — Wildan Mahir Muttaqin 33. Lead-In stage, pre-vocabulary and prediction/gist reading — Amandeep Singh Vocabulary
36. Find the places — Waddah Saleh Mohammed Mahwari Grammar
39. Adjectives — Rachna Khosla
40. Use of present continuous tense — Farzana Shamim www.trinitycollege.co.uk April 2013
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Introduction
About us
Trinity College London is an international exam board with a rich cultural heritage and over 70 years’ experience in assessing English language proficiency. Recognised by regulatory authorities, our English language qualifications are widely accepted as robust evidence of English language proficiency. We have a range of qualifications for teachers and learners and details of these are described on our website www.trinitycollege.co.uk
Trinity at TEC 2013
Trinity is proud to be a leading supporter of the International Teacher Educator Conferences (TEC) hosted annually by the British Council in Hyderabad, India. Over 1,300 teachers from 22 countries attended the Conference in 2013 and a number of our academic staff presented papers and held workshops on topics of interest to teachers in the region.
The Trinity English language lesson plan competition In the weeks preceding the 2013 Conference we worked in partnership with the British Council to promote a Trinity Lesson Plan Competition, inviting delegates to submit their ideas for teaching English language in the classroom. The competition proved to be a great success and we had entries from teachers all around India and the region.
Our Teacher Development Panel reviewed submissions and selected a winning entry which was announced on the last day of the conference. A further 19 lesson plans were selected for their diversity to share among teachers via this compilation booklet. You will find the winning entry first, then the lesson plans are grouped by the skill area the lesson focuses on.
‘We are delighted to be able to promote the sharing of teaching activities and ideas among practitioners in this way.’
Julian Kenny,
Head of Teacher Development, Trinity College London Note: The lesson plans contained in this document represent a selection of ideas submitted by teachers for the purpose of competition entry and sharing among peers. Publication of this selection is intended to inspire teachers to develop their own interactive classroom plans for developing communicative skills in English. They are intended to give you some ideas for interactive teaching. They are not required for any exam preparation. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 4
Lesson overview (winning entry)
Lesson name: Past continuous yoga
Skill focus: Integrated skills
Teacher name: Aditya Rajan
Organisation/school name: Deloitte Consulting India Pvt Ltd Target students: Ages 8–12, CEFR A2 level
Materials used in class: Large clock, worksheet with a clock face, whiteboard, whiteboard markers Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
Use the past continuous to talk about actions in progress at a point in time in the past 2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
You will need open carpeted space
Research various asanas (body positions associated with yoga) on YouTube Stage Instructions Timings
Lead-in Ask students what they know about yoga and asanas. Inform students that asanas are named after animals and plants.
Assign the words ‘Cobra’, ‘Frog’, ‘Lion’, ‘Lotus’ and ‘Tree’ to students and ask them to form groups in 10 seconds.
Divide the groups across the room. Ask groups to figure out what the asana associated with their group name might look like. Demonstrate a simple pose.
Ask students to show you their poses. Teach them the actual asana and ask them to practise.
Call attention and challenge groups to stay in their yoga pose for one minute without moving.
Call time and praise everyone for doing well.
10 mins
Highlight target
language
Ask students to describe their asanas.
Re-frame responses and ask ‘you are standing’ or ‘you were standing’? Elicit were.
5 mins
Meaning Ask students what they were doing at 2.00pm
(use appropriate time). Elicit ‘We were doing yoga.’ 2.05pm Now
Ask concept check questions (CCQs):
Did you start doing yoga before 2.05pm? Yes.
Were you still doing yoga after 2.05pm? Yes.
Are you still doing yoga? No.
5 mins
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Stage Instructions Timings
Pronunciation Drill marker sentences focusing on the pronunciation of ‘w’. 5 mins Form Board marker sentences. Use substitution table to show change in was/ were. Highlight verb + ing. Highlight negative and interrogative forms. 5 mins
Pair activity Put students in pairs. Distribute a worksheet with the clock (as below) and ask them to discover what their partner was doing yesterday at the times shown and make notes. Put students in new pairs and ask them to repeat the task.
10 mins
Writing exercise Ask students to work individually to write four sentences about what their partners were doing yesterday. Monitor and correct. 10 mins
12 o’clock
6 o’clock
9 o’clock 3 o’clock
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Let’s talk
Skill focus: Integrated skills
Teacher name: Paresh Pandya
Organisation/school name: Azim Premji Foundation
Target students: 11-year-olds where the classroom is the only place where they are exposed to the target language
Materials used in class: Lots of pictures
Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
The learners begin to use the target language to compare things/objects/living things
Learners will be able to describe a place/thing in the target language 2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Use first language and English if the learners are not comfortable with English
Farms and animals are used for context, which can be replaced with another context
The focus is on the oral work — don’t ask the learners to write in their books 3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1 (5 mins)
Warm up activity: the recitation of the rhyme: ‘Old MacDonald had a farm’. Later MacDonald will be replaced by ‘Laxmanchacha had a farm, EE — I — EE — I — O’, and the poem will have animals and birds like cows, dogs, buffalo, parrots, oxen etc. Then the learners will be asked to say which common animals or birds are on their farm and Laxmanchacha’s farm.
Stage 2 (8 mins)
The teacher will show the picture of two cows (one is the learners’ cow and other is Laxmanchacha’s cow) and form the sentence: my cow is taller than Laxmanchacha’s cow. The same is done with all the common animals and birds found in both the farms like dogs, buffalo, parrots, etc. Stage 3 (10 mins)
Classroom situation: Two learners will volunteer to come forward, for example Mohan and Smita. Sentences are framed by the teacher to expose the learners to the target language: ‘Mohan is older than Smita’, ‘Smita is taller than Mohan’, ‘Mohan runs faster than Smita’, ‘Smita is healthier than Mohan’ etc. This will be done five times or more as needed.
Another pair of volunteers will be on the stage and the teacher will ask some questions to the class: ‘Who is shorter between Anil and Sunil?’, ‘Who is older between Anil and Sunil?’, ‘Who is more active between Anil and Sunil?’, ‘Who is lazier between Anil and Sunil?’. Try to get answers from the class by helping them. Stage 4 (12 mins)
The class is divided into pairs and each pair has to come up with two sentences comparing each other and each pair comes forward and shares their set of sentences so each learner will say a sentence. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 7
Stage 5 (10 mins)
Some cards will be shown with the picture of two objects on it, so that the learners can compare the two objects and form the sentence on their own and say it to the class. For example, dog A is more beautiful than dog B, house A is cleaner than house B, etc.
Stage 6 (5 mins)
The teacher will display five pictures in front of the class and she or he will speak for one minute about any picture and the learners will identify the picture after listening to a description from the teacher. This can be done in groups as well.
Stage 7 (5 mins)
The class will form groups of four and each group will have a picture to talk about. They will discuss within the groups and present to the whole class at the end. They will hold the picture and describe it to the class. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 8
Lesson overview
Lesson name: Congratulating someone
Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Prasanta Borthakur
Organisation/school name: AHDHS school, Amguri, Assam Target students: Ages 14–15, intermediate level
Materials used in class: Mask, role cards
Lesson plan
1. By the end of this lesson students will be able to:
Use simple questions using wh– words to elicit answers
Use appreciation words like: Excellent! Well done! Keep it up!
Know how to interview
Improve English speaking skill
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Stage 1
Introduce the lesson
Encourage students to come up with model interview questions Stage 2
Make pairs: A and B
A acts as interviewee and B plays a reporter
Ask questions based on model questions in Stage 1 Stage 3
Make groups of three
Prepare role cards
Change roles after each interaction
3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1 (5 mins): Lead-in
The teacher says:
You must have won medals in games, music or drama. Did your friends congratulate you? What did they say? (Congratulations! Well done! etc.)
Imagine you are reporters from the Assam Tribune. I am Raju. I came first in the class 10 board exam. How will you congratulate me? What questions will you ask Raju? Probable questions:
How do you feel now?
Who would you like to thank?
What will you study next?
Stage 2 (10 mins): Taking the interview
Tell the students to form pairs (A and B). A will play the role of Raju and B will be a reporter. The reporter will ask questions about Raju’s performance and Raju will answer. Tell participants to recall the questions they asked the teacher. The next time, A becomes the reporter and B plays Raju. Monitor and help. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 9
Stage 3 (30 mins): Practice
Divide the students into groups of three. Name participants in each group A, B and C. A will be Raju while B and C will be Anil and Biraj, friends of Raju. They come to Raju and enquire about the interview taken. Tell them to prepare role cards on the questions they are going to ask Raju. When A plays the role of Raju, B and C play the role of his friends. When it is over, B plays the role of Raju and A and C play his friends. The process continues until the last member plays the role of Raju. Give them 10 mins to prepare the role cards. Possible questions:
How did the interview go?
Which paper did the reporter represent?
What did you say?
Homework: ask learners to bring some paper cuttings of face-to-face interviews published in a newspaper or magazine.
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Introducing yourself Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Shruti Fernandez
Organisation/school name: Cambridge University Press, India Pvt Ltd Target students: Young learners (primary level)
Materials used in class: Writing board and pen
Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
The lesson aims to help learners introduce themselves in English. 2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Step 1
Introduce yourself to the class, pausing after each phrase. For example: I am Shruti Fernandez. I am a teacher. I am 26 years old. I am from Kerala. I love making paper boats. Step 2
Introduce yourself again, once again pausing after each phrase. Write down each sentence on the board. Step 3
Encourage the students to introduce themselves. They can use the phrases on the board as a model. Step 4
Once they have all introduced themselves, they can change details like name, age, nationality etc. and introduce themselves as fictional characters. They may make up these details as they wish. Encourage them to be funny. For example: I am Cinderella. I am 16 years old. I love fairy godmothers. 3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1 (5 mins)
Teacher introduces himself/herself.
Stage 2 (5 mins)
Teacher writes the expressions used on the board and introduces himself/herself again. Stage 3 (20 minutes)
Learners introduce themselves.
Stage 4 (30 mins)
Learners create fake identities for themselves and then introduce themselves. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 11
Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Teaching communicative spoken English skills Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Geeta Gujral
Organisation/school name: Delhi Public School International, New Delhi Target students: 18 students, grade 3
Materials used in class: Story book and regular stationary, placards of the characters/objects in the book Lesson plan
1. Objectives of the lesson:
Teaching communicative spoken English skills
Students with a variety of learning preferences (visual, reading and writing, kinesthetic and aural) are taught English language as per their learning styles
Group activity, individual activity and working in pairs
Reading, writing, speaking and listening skills go hand in hand as all these form the basis of any language learning process
Vocabulary building
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Stage 1 (35 minutes, 1 period)
A paragraph or a story is read out — for example, ‘The Three Little Pigs’. If the story is read then the pictures have to be shown — or if preferred a PowerPoint presentation can be structured with dialogues. Story mapping by the children: characters, plot, etc. (discussion/use of board for writing thoughts while mind-mapping). Individual activity leading to the understanding of the components of the story. Students take turns to be on the hot seat to be one of the characters from the story, for example, the wolf. The other students ask them questions related to the character. Stage 2 (2 periods of 35 minutes each)
Police interview with the big bad wolf. The students think of two questions and work in pairs in a role play. A child is shown a character/object from a book to enact (miming it). The other children have to guess who this character is, and explain their reasoning as to why they thought it was a particular character or a particular object. It could even be the straw house. How does it feel when it is blown away? Each student gets a chance. Accept, reject or modify the statement — for example, ‘The three pigs made a mistake by making three different houses. Do you agree? Why?’ For higher classes this can be followed by a debate. Stage 3 (2 periods of 35 minutes each)
The children narrate the story from the point of view of the wolf/pigs. Then they do a group activity, where two groups are formed. Similies/homophones will be introduced during the discussion. Students are then asked to write a paragraph/story. They can then write about a time when they were brave and displayed courage. Selected entries from the Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013 12
Stage 4 (1 period of 35 minutes)
Choral recitation related to the animals/courage. The story will be given to the students to learn from home. Picture dictation by the teacher, restructuring the characters/plot of the story. The students will draw while the teacher speaks and repeats twice. About six instructions in all, for example, in the field on the right hand top corner of a sheet of paper draw a wolf hiding behind a tree. 3. Stages and timings:
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Teaching speaking
Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Basheer Ahmed Hamood Mufleh
(from Yemen, currently doing MA in English at EFL University, Hyderabad) Organisation/school name: EFL University, Hyderabad Target students: Teenagers, intermediate level
Materials used in class: Pre-prepared text of a conversation about weddings in Japan, talking about customs regarding wedding clothes, party and place Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
To give a students a chance to speak about weddings using English as much as they can. This lesson plan is designed to minimise Teacher Talking Time (TTT) and maximise Student Talking Time (STT). This leads to a student-centred class.
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
First, divide the class into groups, preferably three in every group. To make the class student-centred, interact with students only when necessary. Let every group member interact with each other and keep checking every now and then to make sure they have not changed the topic. Also, time every activity
— otherwise the class could become bored as students hate to wait for the next step or they could start talking about something else.
Warm up the class
Ask the students general questions for a smooth move to the topic. Since the topic is about weddings, you can ask questions like these:
What do you think is the best age to get married?
What do you think about arranged marriage?
Personalise the lesson
This step makes the lesson more interesting. Since the topic is about wedding customs in Japan, the students would find it awkward in the beginning.
Ask the students to plan a wedding in their groups: give them questions like these as a key:
Whose wedding is it?
Where is it taking place?
Who is attending?
What food? What clothes? What music? What’s special about this wedding? Pre-teach new vocabulary
Since the conversation is about weddings in Japan there would be words, phrases and customs the students might not know. Here is a good way for pre-teaching vocabulary:
Scan the pre-prepared text of the conversation and write the words your students might not know on the board
The students discuss the words in their groups
Check the words with the students
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Practice
Students stand up in two lines facing each other
They role-play the conversation, with you changing the student’s positions
Control: the students read the conversation from the books
Semi-control: Students in one of the lines close their books
Free: they close their books, asking and answering freely Production (Freer practice)
For more speaking practice, you can ask them these questions:
Tell your partners about the last wedding you went to
Tell your partners about the wedding customs you like and those you don’t like
Which do you like more now, weddings in Japan or where you come from? Why? 3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1 (10 minutes): Warm up the class
Stage 2 (10 mins): Personalise the lesson
Stage 3 (10 mins max): Pre-teach the new vocabulary Stage 4 (20 mins): Practice
Control
Semi-control
Free
Stage 5: Production (Freer practice) (10 minutes)
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Preparing a news bulletin Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Dr Nitya Rani Rao
Organisation/school name: Freelance Trainer at 2 Enrich Consulting Target students: Students of a general English or proficiency course in English around 15 students of a tutorial class (with an ability level of CEFR B2)
Materials used in class: One news bulletin of two or three minutes duration from any popular news channel or the internet, overhead projector/whiteboard and markers, flip chart/chart papers and markers and pins to display
Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
The activity will raise students’ awareness of the spoken form, and give them hands-on experience using formal and informal varieties of spoken English. In groups they will prepare and present a two minute news bulletin which will stimulate a great deal of peer interaction which will include a brainstorming session to decide on what should be included in the two minute bulletin. The group will choose a news reader to present. The group prepares a draft bulletin and a final one to transfer on to a flip chart. The students will practise the presentation which will focus mainly on the spoken skill, other skills will also be employed.
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Stage 1: The teacher explains what a news bulletin is A news bulletin is a short news announcement of an ongoing news story/newsflash for immediate publication or broadcast.
A two minute film clip of a news bulletin should be played (the sample can be from a popular news channel) to give real world experience focusing on the spoken form. The teacher briefly discusses the bulletin with possible varieties of speech. Differences between formal spoken and formal written language are drawn out. Conversational language between the news reporter and the interviewee and the informal language of the interviewees is explained.
The teacher makes a student read the text of the same sample bulletin so that the students can prepare a similar one. (Sources such as BBC One Minute World News/Euro News could be used). Stage 2: Teacher does group activity
The class works in groups of five.
The news bulletin will require a news reader, a reporter and an on-the-spot reporter and two interviewees
(five). The teacher may present three current topics, students to brainstorm for three minutes on the topic and come up with ideas and the roles as above.
Ideas to be noted on blackboard or flip chart. Keywords to be organised and pronounced by the teacher. Put the ideas in a sequence. List contractions of written words in speech. This is done in groups with the teacher going around.
A two or three minute bulletin is scripted and edited. The teacher gives examples to show the difference in voice quality for news presentations. The students could practise it with voice modulation before presenting it to the class.
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Stage 3: Teacher gets each group to present
Each group will present the news bulletin for two or three minutes with the modulated voice of a broadcaster. Stage 4: Teacher gives feedback
The teacher comments on each group’s performance (for not more than a minute). Peers are also encouraged to give feedback.
Wrap up and follow-up activity: Students listen to two news bulletins and consciously note the differences in the spoken form and the written form and report in the next session. 3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1: 10 mins
Stage 2: 15 mins
Stage 3: 6–8 mins
Stage 4: 7–9 mins
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Developing speaking skills in learners Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Bhupinder Singh
Organisation/school name: Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Lalpani, Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) Target students: Intermediate level, 16 to 18-year-olds who understand the basic structure of the English language
Materials used in class: Blackboard, handouts for reference Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
Developing fluency
Expressing points of view
Showing intentions
Tone modifications
Active participation of group
Topic: Exposure to Western culture is doing more harm than good to India Time : 45 minutes
Lesson
Stages Teacher activity Rationale Student
activity
Problems
anticipated
Time Materials
/aids
1. The teacher will bring
learners to the topic
indirectly through an
introductory motivational
talk.
To draw/arouse
learners curiosity
and draw their
attention towards
the skill.
They will be
listening to the
talk.
Initially there could
be some difficulty in
becoming familiar
with the teacher’s
tone/pitch.
2–3
mins
2. Teacher will engage the
learners in a brainstorming
session to elicit points for
the topic and will put these
points on the blackboard.
Learners will be
actively involved.
Learners will
be engaged
in making
responses.
Some of the
learners may not
respond.
5 mins Blackboard
3. The teacher will form
groups of learners and pass
handouts around to the
learners.
To enable the
learners to develop
a point of view in a
group.
Discussion will
be in groups.
Some of the
learners may
overreact.
5–7
mins
Handouts
4. The teacher will support
each group.
To develop
speaking skills,
fluency and a point
of view.
Representatives
from groups
will be putting
forward the
group’s points
of view.
Some learners may
fumble and falter in
making their points
clear.
20
mins
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Topic: Exposure to Western culture is doing more harm than good to India
—Harm +Good
Family
Moral Values Ancient
Social
Development
Technology
New gadgets
Fashion
Violence Youth Crime
Manners
Investment
Export/ Commerce/ Cheap goods
import economy
Multinationals
Vulgarity
Clothing Culture Food
Music
Increased life expectancy
New medicine Health Control over
disease
Telephone advice
Race for money
No spirituality Materialism Frustration
Corruption
Food
Transport Self dependence Defence
Personal space
Less traditional vocations
Unemployment
Dependence on technology
High self-esteem
Good will Greater role in the world World leader
Respect for opinion
Stress
Suicide New diseases Drugs
Depression
More jobs
Opportunities
Different career options
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Information gap activity — Discovering missing information Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Achi Srinivas
Organisation/school name: Government Degree College, Nirmal, Andhra Pradesh Target students: Intermediate
Materials used in class: Handouts (tables showing distances between various towns) Lesson plan
1. Objectives of the lesson:
Learners
Try and use their existing knowledge and logic to ‘fill in the gaps’ in information
Try and use their imagination
Learn to work in pairs
Learn to use different tenses
Learn to form simple questions and answers
2. Introduction:
This lesson is about developing spoken English skills through the information gap activity of discovering missing information. It is done in pairs. Learner A and learner B have information in tabular forms (e.g. tables showing distances between various towns). Some items of information have been deleted from both the tables. Each learner has to complete her or his own table by asking her or his partner for the information that is missing.
3. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
Pass out handouts
Explain the objectives of the activity
Explain the rules (only closed questions)
Form pairs and conduct the activity
Help learners form simple and closed questions to gain more information and extra clues
Provide specific language forms to be used (if needed) 4. Procedure
Stage 1 (8 mins): Pre-activity warm-up
Provide information to both the learners
Ask questions relating to the objective/exercise Stage 2: During activity (30 mins)
Provide specific language forms (How far? How many kilometres? etc.)
Learners start thinking of closed questions
Learners fill the tables with missing information by asking their partner questions Stage 3: Post-activity (7 mins)
Questions that helped fill in the gaps
Make a selection of the best questions
Reflection
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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Set to flame
Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Dr Ranganayaki Srinivas
Organisation/school name: Fountainhead Global School Target students: Primary school children, English medium school Materials used in class: Art materials
Lesson plan
1. Objective of the lesson:
The aim of the lesson is to give freedom to the children to create something based on their life experience and weave a story using their imagination. Communication of one’s own ideas through unbelievably imaginative stories.
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
In this lesson the children draw flames, weave a story around them and present it to others. Start with a whole school or