Basic 5 Ghanaian Language Term 1 Week 9 Lesson Plan

Engage learners to play games and sing songs to begin the lesson.

Write a list of words on the board comprising of common nouns and proper nouns. Ask learners to group the nouns. Discuss with learners the proper nouns. Let learners recognize the use of capital letters to begin the proper nouns. Ask students to write some more proper nouns on the board. Ask learners to use some of the proper nouns in sentences. Write a paragraph on flash cards with all punctuations used. Ask learners to recognize where capital letters occur in the paragraph. Discuss the colon and the use of capitals after the colon. Use flashcards to help learners understand the use of capital letters after a colon. Allow learners to read a passage. Discuss with learners the occurrences of the question mark in the passage. Let learners recognize the words that occur after the question mark. Discuss the occurrence of the capital letter to begin the word after the question mark. Write a few sentences on the board and ask learners to write them out correctly, placing in them question marks and capital letters, etc. For this activity, learners use printed cards of Ghanaian names and place names, chalkboard and chalk and exercise books and pencils to identify the proper nouns or sentence openings and write them with the correct capital letters.

Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt