Activity on Basic Reading and Writing - daily routine
Goal of the activity:
The students are able to read a passage aloud and write a few sentences based on the passage.
Competency:
Basic Reading and Writing.
Preparation:
Read and understand the Sentence Structure of Present Simple in English. Bring the “Meenakshi and Rohit’s Daily Routine” handouts.
Summary:
The situation for this Lesson Plan is Meenakshi and Rohit’s Daily Routine. The Lesson Plan is divided into 2 sections:
- The first section Read Out Loud helps the students read a passage.
- The second section Writing helps the students write sentences in different ways.
Section 1: Read out Loud
Time: 55 minutes
Objective: The students are given a passage to read.
Activity 1:
Distribute the following handout (Meenakshi and Rohit’s Daily Routine):
Handout:
Meenakshi is a good girl. She wakes up at five-thirty in the morning. Then, she goes for a morning walk in the park with her father. She takes breakfast at six-thirty. She gets ready for school at seven. She comes back from school at four-thirty in the afternoon. She plays badminton with her friends. At six-thirty, she starts doing her homework and studies till eight-thirty. She takes dinner at eight-forty five and watches TV after that. She goes to bed at nine-thirty.
Rohit is a naughty boy. He wakes up late at six-thirty and has breakfast at seven. He gets ready at seven-thirty. His school-van waits for him every day because he is ten minutes late. He comes home at four-thirty and goes to play cricket. He comes back at six and watches TV. His mother has to force him to do homework. He has dinner at eight-fifteen. After that, he takes out his school books to study. He always falls asleep on his study-table. {alertInfo}
Note to the teacher:
Read out the passage for the students, explaining the meaning of each sentence. Then, divide the class into groups. Let one group read out the first passage, and the other group can read the second.
Then, divide the class into groups of three. Make each group read alternate passages. Try and ascertain which student in each group makes errors in pronunciation or is hesitant. Pick out those students and form a separate group. Let this last group read out the passage again, and correct whatever error is recognizable in their reading.
Lastly, make each student read out the passage on their own. Again, you can let individual students read alternate passages.
Section 2: Writing
Time: 35 minutes
Objective: The students are given some sentences to write.
Activity 2:
Ask the students to consider the following sentences in their handout:
1. She goes for a morning walk in the park with her father.
2. She takes breakfast at six-thirty.
3. She goes to bed at nine-thirty.
4. He wakes up at six-thirty.
Tell the students that the above sentence can be written as follows:
1. She goes for a morning walk in the park with her father.
She and her father go for a morning walk in the park.
2. She takes breakfast at six-thirty.
She has breakfast at six-thirty.
3. She goes to bed at nine-thirty.
She sleeps at nine-thirty.
4. He wakes up at six-thirty.
He gets up at six-thirty.
Now, write down the following on the blackboard and ask the students to rewrite the sentence in a different way.
1. She plays badminton with her friends.
2. He has breakfast at seven.
3. He sleeps at nine.
4. He gets up at ten on Sundays.