Basic 2 English Language Term 1 Week 8 Lesson Plan

Engage learners to sing songs and recite familiar rhymes LITTLE POLLY FLINDERS Little Polly flinders Sat among the cinders Warming her pretty little toes! Her mother came and caught her, And whipped her little daughter, For spoiling her nice new clothes.

Read the printed Ghanaian story or dialogue aloud while learners listen, let them arrange the printed story-sequence cards to show key information, and have them record brief answers in exercise books with pencils. Activate the previous knowledge of the learners by making them think pair and share with their friends. Discuss illustrations accompanying the text. Have them predict the content of the text. Teach key vocabulary. Using word and sentence cards, read the text aloud to learners. Pause often and have learners talk about the content of the text and answer simple questions based on the text. Have learners retell the story. Let learners role-play the story.

Ask learners to tell you what they have learnt and what they will like to learn in the next lesson. Have learners to read and spell the key words on the board

Engage learners to sing songs and recite familiar rhymes ONE POTATO TWO POTATOES One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes ,four! Five potatoes, six potatoes, seven potatoes , more! Eight potatoes nine potatoes ten potatoes, all

Learners read the Ghanaian storybook and the printed passage about a Ghanaian community, then record the target ideas or reading responses in exercise books with pencils. and word and sentence cards, have learners read level-appropriate texts in pairs. Guide learners to ask and answer simple inferential questions on the texts

Ask learners to tell you what they have learnt and what they will like to learn in the next lesson. Have learners to read and spell the key words on the board

Display the printed substitution-table chart and read the choices in each column with learners. In pairs, learners select and arrange the movable sentence strips to form complete meaningful sentences, read them aloud and change one part to create new sentences. They copy their best sentences into exercise books with pencils and check capitals, spacing and full stops.

Ask learners to tell you what they have learnt and what

Engage learners to sing songs and recite familiar rhymes THERE WAS A JOLLY MILLER ONCE There was a jolly miller once Lived on the river Dee He worked and sang from morn till night, No lark as blithe as he, And this the burden of his song Forever used to be, I care for nobody, no not I, And nobody cares for me.

Learners place the calabash in, on, under, beside and behind the woven basket and select the matching words from the printed position-and-time cards. They then use the time cards to complete simple sentences with at, on and in. In pairs, learners give a position or time prompt and respond with a complete sentence.

Ask learners to tell you what they have learnt and what they will like to learn in the next lesson. Have learners to read and spell the key words on the board

Have a variety of age and level- appropriate books for learners to make a choice. Guide learners to select books.

Learners read the Ghanaian storybook and the printed passage about a Ghanaian community, then record the target ideas or reading responses in exercise books with pencils. Using word and sentence cards, use the Author’s chair to introduce the reading/ library time. Introduce narratives, pop-up and flip-the- page texts to learners. Introduce e-books to learners, if available.

Call learners in turns to tell the whole class what they read. Let Learners draw parts of the story they read