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Lesson overview
Name of lesson plan activity: Set to flame
Skill focus: Speaking
Teacher name: Dr Ranganayaki Srinivas
Organisation/school name: Fountainhead Global School
Target students: Primary school children, English medium school
Materials used in class: Art materials
Trinity English Language Lesson Plan Competition 2013
1. Objective of the lesson:
The aim of the lesson is to give freedom to the children to create something based on their life experience and weave a story using their imagination. Communication of one's own ideas through unbelievably
imaginative stories.
2. Instructions for teaching the lesson:
In this lesson the children draw flames, weave a story around them and present it to others.
Start with a whole school or whole class activity where all the children are introduced to different types of flames-watch a bonfire, a candle, a diya, watch a PowerPoint presentation with images, watch YouTube videos on drawing flames, think of what they want to draw and the story behind it, share initial ideas in assembly and in the classroom in groups and pairs, finalise their plans, create their final artwork, tell their stories to others and answer their questions about the sad or happy endings of their stories or what the characters go through.
3. Stages and timings:
Stage 1 (5 mins): Watching flames-a bonfire, candles, diyas, matchsticks
Stage 2 (5 mins): Watching flames on YouTube, Google images and other websites
Stage 3 (5 minsk Watching videos on how to draw flames
Stage 4 (10 mins): Whole class work-talking about flames, sharing initial ideas and preliminary pencil sketches, getting feedback
Stage 5 (10 mins): Group work-sharing initial thoughts on stories, getting ideas from others to improve the story
The children get a couple of days to complete their work as homework. On the submission day they come with their completed art work as well as the story. The presentation can be for the whole school in assembly or in the class.
Each child will come to the front with the art work and present the story. The audience reacts to the story.
They may ask for clarification on some characters' behaviour; they may comment on what somebody did and whether it is good or bad in their opinion; they may express happiness or sorrow related to the incidents of the story.
The language is unpredictable and the narrator has to respond to all reactions appropriately. In some cases they may use more than one language if they think they cannot express their ideas completely in one language. They may start in English and sprinkle a few words of their first language in-between.
The teacher will also respond to the art work and the story in a natural manner, just as the other children are doing, but mentally note some expressions and language practice the children may need. This will
be tackled in another class. In this activity children are allowed to have their say freely and focus on the meaning they want to convey and use language imaginatively and creatively.
I know of many children who revised their stories at the last moment because they wanted it to be more magical than the one that preceded it. The other children express their enjoyment, boredom, irritation or whatever they are experiencing frankly and give voice to their ideas.