lesson plan

1. Lesson Plan
Level: Intermediate-Advanced
Time: 90 mins
Materials: A3 paper, story below and song.
Skills: Extended Listening, Collaborative Writing and Speaking.
Language Focus: Narrative Tenses and Vocabulary.
Procedure
1. Tell students that you are going to tell them about a fairy tale.
2. Tell them the fairy tale involves a Princess with a terrible secret that she must conceal, an isolated
mountain, a swirling storm, fear and a realisation. Board these terms, clarify any unknown language and
ask students to predict what will happen in the story.
3. Ask students to compare their predictions. Tell them they will find out the secret at the end of the
lesson.
4. You can now tell students the story but this time they should just listen and not write anything down.
Once upon a time there was a beautiful Princess, but she did not live in a castle, she lived alone on top of an
isolated mountain. On the mountain it was winter all year round. The wind howled and storms raged.
Every night, the Princess listened to the howling wind and thought about the terrible storm that raged inside
of her. A secret so terrible that she had to keep it concealed from everyone.
The secret prevented her from ever seeing her people and even her own family. She feared the secret could
hurt her sister. She could never let them see what was inside and would never let them in.
One day the storm inside got so strong that she could not hold it back anymore. She realised that the only
thing she had to fear was fear itself. She didn’t care what people would say. Once she told her family she
realised that the fear inside didn’t bother her anymore. She stayed in her kingdom and the storm on the
mountain raged. She knew she was not perfect but the storm inside was gone.
I wonder what her secret was?
5. Tell students that you will read again and this time they can take short notes. Remind them they should
just note down key words and phrases.
6. Students compare notes with a partner.
7. Put students in to small groups of 3 or 4. Using their notes they reconstruct the story. Encourage them
to make a rough draft and then write the story out on A3 paper as accurately as possible.
8. When they have finished, put the stories up around the room for everyone to read.
9. Ask students to discuss what they think the big secret is.
10. Reveal by playing song.

2. 11. Discuss the song- What was the secret? Have you seen the movie? Was the story similar? Have you thought
about the song like this before? Have you ever felt like this before? Is it always better to share your secrets? Could
the secret be a metaphor for something else?
I hope you enjoy the lesson and please let me know how you get on with it.
Thanks for reading and please share.
Pentaksiran Pusat Menengah Rendah 2014
Bahasa Inggeris
Known as English Language Skills Acquisition (ELSA)
Three papers:
ELSA 1 - Paper 1 (Reading and Writing)
ELSA 2 - Paper 2 (Speaking)
ELSA 3 - Paper 3 (Listening)
Paper 1 (Reading and Writing)
Consists of 4 sections
-Section A – Error identification of a text
-Identify and edit grammatical errors in a short written text
Section B – Comprehension
-Non-linear text of about 150 – 200 words
-Short response answers
Section C – Comprehension
-Linear text of about 300 words
Section D – Writing
-Two parts – Short and long writing tasks
-Short writing task in about 100 words
-Write in response to a stimulus
-Long writing tasks in about 150 – 200 words
-Based on a given stimulus in the form of recount, speech, article, letter, etc.
Total marks
Section A – 20 marks
Section B – 20 marks
Section C – 15 marks
Section D – 45 marks (15 from short task, 30 from long task)
Duration – 2 hours
Constructs:

3. -Knowledge of language system
-Information processing skills
-Language application skills
-Language creativity
Scoring methods:
-Analytic
-Holistic
Paper 2 (Speaking)
Consists of 2 sections
Section A – Reading Aloud
-Students will read from a contextualised reading text (about 200 words).
Section B – Spoken Interaction
-Students will engage in interactions with two assessors (1 from school, 1 from outside of the school).
Total marks
Section A – 10 marks
Section B – 20 marks
Duration – 10 minutes for each candidate, will take place in several sessions for groups of students.
Constructs:
-Oral reading skills
-Communication skills
Scoring methods:
-Holistic
Paper 3 (Listening)
Consists of 4 sections
Section A – Multiple-Choice Questions
-Listen to recorded text twice
-3-option or 4-option MCQ
Section B – Limited Response
-Listen to extended recorded texts twice
-10 limited response questions
Total marks
Section A – 10 marks

4. Section B – 10 marks
Duration – 30 minutes
Constructs:
-Listening comprehension
-Information processing skills
Scoring methods:
-Dichotomous
-Analytic
P/s:
-For all papers, the contents, the questions, structure are 'fluid'. It is flexible and may change from year
to year. This is due to restrict publishers to come up with workbooks, or predictions to what may come
out for the assessment.
-For this year, the HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) items are included, but not many, due to soft-landing
the current Form 3 students into the new format. Over years, the number will increase.
-No summary and literature component included in the papers. But it does not mean we do not need to
teach the students, since these two items are assessed in School Assessment (Pentaksiran Sekolah).
-The assessors for speaking may not be necessarily one from the school and one from outside of the
school. It may be both of them from different school.
-Up to now, writing assessment will take place in October, while oral/aural assessment will take place in
August.
-Each paper is marked on its own. Its mark will not be added together, averaged, or presented in the
form of percentage. It will be represent by Grade A to E.