1. Secondary School Lesson Plan
Date : 28th February 2012
Time/Duration : 80 minutes (double period)
Class : Form 1 Epsilon
No. of student : / students
Proficiency level : Intermediate
Background knowledge: Students are exposed to the summary of the story.
Theme : Literature component
Topic : Flipping Fantastic by Jane Langford (extraordinary superb)
Language skill focus : Writing
Integrated skills : Reading, Speaking and Listening
Language focus : Characters and characteristic.
Learning outcomes : By the end of Form 1, students should be able to:
1.0 LANGUAGE FOR INTERPERSONAL USE
1.1b Take part in conversation and discussion
iii. responding appropriately to questions.
vi. participating in teacher-guided class discussions by giving
one’s opinion.
2.0 LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATIONAL USE
2.2a Skimming and scanning for specific information and
ideas
ii. scanning for certain details.
3.0 LANGUAGE FOR AESTHETIC USE
3.1b Recognizing elements in a story such as characters
vi. talking about the characters in a story and writing a paragraph
on one or two characters.

2. Learning objectives : By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. interact and participate actively in class during
discussion and question and answer session.
(Observable)
2. answer at least 6 out of 10 questions on the
characters of the story correctly by themselves
(Measureable)
3. act out to show the characteristic of the given
character for the rest of the classmates to guess in
groups. (Achievable)
Educational emphasis: a) Thinking skills
b) Preparing for real world
c) Multiple Intelligence
Moral values : Helpful, cooperative, respecting one and another.
Resource Materials : Pictures, handouts, worksheet, whiteboard, mahjong paper and
marker

3. STAGE/ CONTENT/ SKILL TEACHER/PUPIL AVA/
DURATION ACTIVITY RATIONALE
SET- Whole class 1. Teacher writes the Rationale
INDUCTION title of the story
Question: entitled ‘Flipping To create interest
(5 MINUTES) Fantastic’ on the in the topic of the
1. Can you still whiteboard lesson by eliciting
remember what the their feedback.
story is all about? 2. Teacher asks
students questions To determine
2. Who are the main related to the whether students
characters in the characters in the had already read
story? story. the story or not
AVA
Skills Whiteboard
Speaking marker
PRE- Whole class 1. Teacher exposes Rationale
WRITING students with the
characters of the story. To reinforce
(10MINUTES) students
2. Teacher pastes the understanding
picture of the main on the character
characters on the and
whiteboard. characteristics
of the story.
3. Teacher asks students
opinion on the
characteristic of each
character.
Skills
Reading 4. Students are called to
Speaking write the
characteristics beside
the picture.
AVA
5. Teacher discusses the
whole characteristics Pictures of
with all students. characters of
the story.
(Appendix 1)

4. WHILE- Whole class Task One: Rationale
WRITING
1. Teacher divides Allow students
(25MINUTES) students into group of to work in
4. group to
complete a
2. Each group will be group task.
given Worksheet
(Appendix 2).
3. Students will have to
match the correct
Skills characteristics with the
Reading respective character in AVA
Speaking the story. Worksheet 1
(refer to
4. Teacher discusses the Appendix 2)
answer with all Whiteboard
students. Marker
Task Two
Individually
1. Teacher distributes
Worksheet 2
(Appendix 3) to all
students. Rationale
Skills
Reading 2. Students will have to
Writing To persuade
answer all questions students to
individually. work
individually
3. Teacher discusses the and complete
answers with all the task given.
students.
AVA
Worksheet 2
(refer to
Appendix 3)
Whiteboard
Marker

5. POST- Individually 1. Student remains in Rationale
WRITING their same group.
Skills To make the
(20MINUTES) Listening 2. Each group will be class more
Speaking given a name of a interesting and
character with their to involve the
characteristic and they students in the
must act out a situation class itself.
which shows it for the
whole class to guess.
AVA
CLOSURE Whole class 1. Teacher will recap and Rationale
review the lesson with To ensure the
(10MINUTES) Skills the students. students learn
Speaking some values
2. Teacher discusses on from the
the moral values lesson.
attained from the story.
AVA
Homework
Evaluation :
Follow-up Activity : Students are asked to write a journal on their characteristics in a
short paragraph.
Self-Reflection :
Supervisor’s comment :

6. Appendix 1

9. Appendix 2
Match the characteristic of each character below.
Tristan ---
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James ---
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Boy’s Mother ---
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confident shy adaptable loving
strong responsible has initiative observant
lack self-confidence

10. Appendix 3