LESSON PLAN NUMBER OF SESSIONS: NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 30 TIME PER CLASS: HOUR (60 MINUTES) MAIN GOAL: To practice a short story reading exercise while identifying some adjectives in context CLASS / DATE NOVEMBER 22 ND CLASS N° MONDAY INTRODUCTION AIM ACTIVITIES TOPIC: Adjectives in context EVALUATION MATERIALS WARM UP ACTIVITY (10 minutes): Write down in Ask SS for their previous BOARD, MARKER, ERASER To introduce a short story (The the board some common adjectives like BIG, knowledge about adjectives Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde) in HAPPY, BEAUTIFUL, GOOD, BAD… and ask SS for 30 COPIES FROM order to practice the reading ability their meanings and places in which they have WORKSHEET N°1 found or seen them THE ACTIVITY (5 mins): Introduce the story:”The Evaluate their concentration and Selfish Giant” by telling them information about the participation in each one of the author and the context of the story activities about the story ACTIVITY (10 mins): Give each SS a copy of the Check the respect they have for story and ask them to focus on the pictures in each other turns and opinions order to guess what is going to be the story about ACTIVITY (35 mins): Read the story aloud, Check the pronunciation and making emphasis on the feelings expressed on the intonation they have for literary dialogues and ask SS to follow the story lines endings while its reading Read again and make SS to repeat it aloud NOVEMBER 24TH CLASS N° MONDAY DEVELOPMENT WARM UP ACTIVITY (5 minutes): Write down in the Ask SS for their previous BOARD, MARKER, ERASER To identify some known adjectives board”The Selfish Giant” and ask them about how knowledge about the reading in the reading much information they remember about the story 30 COPIES FROM WORKSHEET N°1 ACTIVITY (10 mins): Ask SS to take out their Evaluate their concentration and worksheets and read the story”The Selfish Giant” participation in the reading of the DIFFERENT COLORS PER SS aloud, practicing the intonation, while they follow story the reading with their materials DICTIONARY ACTIVITY (20 mins): Give them a short Evaluate the completing of the explanation about Adjectives and ask SS to activity and give grades like a underline with colors the adjectives they could find class exercise in the reading Ask them to use a different color for the ones they know and a different one for the ones that are unknown for them ACTIVITY (35 mins): Ask them to write the Check their level of concentration adjectives in the correspondent square in the in the looking of adjectives and worksheet, making a list of at least 10 of them the use they make of the THE Then, indicate them how to look for them in the dictionaries dictionary for knowing their meanings NOVEMBER 26TH CLASS N° MONDAY CONCLUSION To identify more adjectives and WARM UP ACTIVITY (20 minutes): Ask SS to make paraphrase the most important a summary of the story In groups of 10, make a parts from the reading contest in which each group has to make a list of adjectives and explain their meanings The winner will be the one that writes on the board and explains the more in turns of two minutes Give chocolates to winners Ask SS for their previous knowledge about adjectives found in the reading Evaluate their concentration, memory and participation in the activity BOARD, MARKER, ERASERS 10 CHOCOLATES FOR WINNERS 30 COPIES WORKSHEET N°2 COLORS ACTIVITY (10 mins): Check the list of adjectives Evaluate the completing of the they made last class with their meanings and activity and give grades like a pronunciation class exercise ACTIVITY (10 mins): Give each SS a copy of worksheet N° and ask them to color it ACTIVITY (20 mins): Organize SS in groups of Ask them to prepare a summary of the story using the pictures from the copy and choose SS per group for presenting it in front of the class WORKSHEET N° Give a grade to each group according to the SS presentation of the summary of the story Give also a feedback of the activity and their general development on it FROM THE THE SELFISH GIANT Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit Once a beautiful flower put its head out from but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry children that it slipped back into the ground went off to sleep the grass, for the again, and The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them "How happy we are here!" they cried to each other "I cannot understand why the Spring is so late said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window out at his cold white garden; "I hope there will change in the weather." in coming," and looked be a One day the Giant came back He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle When he arrived he saw the children playing in the garden But the Spring never came, nor the Summer Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but Giant's garden she gave none "He is too she said So it was always Winter there, and Wind, and the Hail, and the Frost, and the danced about through the trees The to the selfish," the North Snow "What are you doing here?" he cried in a very gruff voice, and the One morning the Giant was lying awake in bed when he heard some lovely music It sounded so sweet to his ears that he thought it must be the King's musicians passing by children ran away "My own garden is my own garden," said the Giant; one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to in it but myself." "any play It was really only a little linnet singing outside his window, but it was so long since he had heard a bird sing in his garden that it seemed to him to be the most beautiful music in the world So he built a high wall all round it, and put up a notice-board TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED He was a very selfish Giant The poor children had now nowhere to play They to play on the road, but the road was very dusty full of hard stones, and they did not like it They to wander round the high wall when their lessons over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside happy we were there," they said to each other tried and used were "How Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds Only in the garden of the Selfish Giant it was still winter The birds did not care to sing in it as there were no children, and the trees forgot to blossom Then the Hail stopped dancing over his head, and the North Wind ceased roaring, and a delicious perfume came to him through the open casement "I believe the Spring has come at last," said the Giant; and he jumped out of bed and looked out What did he see? He saw a most wonderful sight Through a little hole in the wall the children had crept in, and they were sitting in the branches of the trees In every tree that he could see there was a little child And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children's heads The birds were flying about and twittering with delight, and the flowers were looking up through the green grass and laughing It was a lovely scene, only in one corner it was still winter It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy He was so small that he could not reach up to the branches of the tree, and he was wandering all round it, crying bitterly The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it "Climb up! little boy," said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny And the Giant's heart melted as he looked "How selfish I have been!" he said; "now I why the Spring would not come here I will put poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then knock down the wall, and my garden shall be children's playground for ever and ever." out know that I will the He was really very sorry for what he had So he crept downstairs and opened the front quite softly, and went out into the garden done door But when the children saw him they were so frightened that they all ran away, and the became winter again Only the little boy did not run, for his eyes full of tears that he did not see the Giant And the Giant stole up behind him and took him gently in his hand, and put him up into the tree garden were so coming And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them round the Giant's neck, and kissed him And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the Spring "It is your garden now, little children," said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall And when the people were going to market at twelve o'clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen WEB SOURCE: http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/stories/The_Selfish_Giant/page6.htm WRITE HERE THE UNKNOWN (NEW) ADJECTIVES THAT YOU FIND IN THE STORY WRITE HERE THE KNOWN ADJECTIVES THAT YOU FIND IN THE STORY WORKSHEET N°