TOPIC: PRONUNCIATION, EXPOSITORY WRITING AND GENERAL REVISION
A: TEACHING AND LEARNING MATERIALS
- Sound flashcards.
- Word cards.
- Sentence strips.
- Short reading passage.
- Revision chart.
- Pupils’ writing books and pencils.
B: REFERENCE MATERIALS
- Scheme of work.
- Recommended English Studies textbook for Primary 4.
- Online educational resources.
C: PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE
The pupils have learnt informal letters, comparison, speech sounds, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, sentence construction and composition writing during the second term.
D: PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:
- Pronounce selected consonant sounds correctly.
- Construct meaningful sentences.
- Explain expository writing in simple terms.
- Read and answer questions from a passage.
- Write a simple expository composition.
- Revise important grammar topics taught during the term.
- Answer general revision questions.
E: CONTENT
Revision of Pronunciation
Pupils should practise the following sounds:
/f/
- fish
- fan
- food
/v/
- van
- voice
- very
/t/
- ten
- table
- time
/d/
- dog
- door
- day
Revision of Sentence Construction
A sentence must give complete meaning.
Examples:
- Ada reads a book.
- The children are playing.
- My father drives carefully.
Meaning of Expository Writing
Expository writing explains or gives information about something.
It answers questions such as:
- What is it?
- What does it do?
- How is it useful?
Reading Passage: The Family
A family is a group of people related to one another. Parents care for their children and provide their needs. Children should respect and obey their parents. Members of a good family love, help and support one another.
Questions:
- What is a family?
- Who cares for children?
- What should children do?
- How should family members treat one another?
Simple Expository Composition: My Family
A family is made up of people who are related to one another. My family has five members. My parents take care of us. We love and help one another. A family is important because its members care for one another.
General Revision
Pupils revise:
- informal letter writing
- comparative and superlative adjectives
- vowel and consonant sounds
- punctuation
- adverbs
- determiners
- sentence construction
- composition writing
F: LESSON PRESENTATION
F1: Teachers’ Activities
- Revises selected consonant sounds.
- Guides pupils to pronounce words correctly.
- Revises sentence construction.
- Explains expository writing.
- Reads the passage about the family.
- Guides pupils to answer questions.
- Helps pupils write a simple expository composition.
- Gives general revision exercises.
F2: Pupils’ Activities
- Pronounce selected sounds.
- Read words aloud.
- Construct simple sentences.
- Read the passage.
- Answer comprehension questions.
- Explain a simple topic in writing.
- Revise grammar topics.
- Answer revision exercises.
G: CONCLUSION
The teacher revises the major topics taught during the second term and corrects pupils where necessary.
The teacher encourages pupils to practise pronunciation, reading, grammar and composition writing in preparation for their examination.
H: EVALUATION GUIDE
Pupils should be able to answer the following questions:
- Mention two words containing the /f/ sound.
- Mention two words containing the /v/ sound.
- What is expository writing?
- What is a family?
- Complete: _____ pupils must obey the rules. (Every/Those)
- Give the comparative form of fast.
- Identify the adverb in: Bola writes neatly.
- Write five sentences explaining why a family is important.