Lesson Plan of Expressing Ourselves
English Grade IV
Students’ Learning Outcomes
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Use appropriate expressions
in conversation to:
o Express needs and feelings.
o Express opinions.
Information for Teachers
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It is important to listen and
respect others’ opinions without conflict.
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Give your students vocabulary
to express needs and feelings and to express joy in a natural and polite way.
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Use your facial expressions
while talking to the students.
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Notice when you see facial
expressions in your routine life, they make your conversation livelier.
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These activities need to be
practiced more than once so the students start using the expressions.
Material / Resources
Chalks/markers, duster, board, chart depicting
pleasant and unpleasant feelings
Worm up activity
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Ask the students about their
feelings as how they feel that day.
(How are you feeling today? Sad/ Happy/ Bored/ Tired/ Sick/ great/ good/
bad)
Development
Activity 1
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Help the students read,
understand and discuss the pleasant and unpleasant moods on the chart in class
discussion.
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Decide how many of these
words you want to share. You may choose only five from each list.
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Act out some of the feelings
and ask students to guess from your facial expression if they have understood
the meaning.
Pleasant feelings
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Confident, interested,
happy, great, glad, important, calm, relaxed, loving, brave, hopeful, strong,
powerful, free, encouraged, active
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Unpleasant feelings
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Angry, irritated,
disappointed, bad, confused, upset, shy, tense, helpless, alone, frustrated,
bored, afraid, nervous, restless, hurt, sad, unhappy, lonely, scared.
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After knowing 5 words from
each of the above words for feelings, ask them to complete the following
sentence by adding any one feeling in the blank and adding a reason for that
feeling.
v I am feeling----------------------------------.
v Ask students to tell / write why they are
feeling like that.
Activity 2
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(Expressing opinions and
needs-class discussion)
v Ask the following question and get the students
‘opinion:
Why don’t we think the same?
v Take some students’ answers and explain that we
can agree or disagree on different things because of different reasons, e.g.
likes, dislikes, needs, past experience, etc. but we need to learn to express
and accept opinions nicely. We can simply say in his view/in my view/ in their
view or opinion, I think etc. (Write this on the board during the discussion)
Activity 3
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Put up a chart on the wall
that has drawing of big round faces on it. Each face should show a different basic
emotion such as happiness, sadness, worry, surprise, fear, excitement, etc.
also write these words under the faces.
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In the beginning of each
period, point to the chart and ask the students how they are feeling.
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Allow them to choose more
than one feeling, for example they may be feeling afraid and sad at the same
time.
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This will be an ongoing
activity and will not be done just once.
Activity 4
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Explain with the help of
diagram that ‘needs’ can be in the form of things or actions.
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Divide students into groups
of six and ask them to share their opinions on the following. They may agree or
disagree with each other:
For example: I need to work
hard to get good marks.
1.
When it’s cold I need-----------------------
2.
When I fall down and hurt
myself I need ------------
3.
When I am alone I need-------------------------------
4.
When I am scared I need-------------------------
Needs
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Things = food, water,
gifts, money, home, books, bicycle, pen, etc.
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Actions= care, love, hard
work, try, write, learn, eat, drink, talk, listen, etc.
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Sum up / conclusion
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Ask the students to share the
new words/sentences learn t.
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Ask the students to volunteer
to speak some of the sentences to express their feelings.
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Let them do it as separate
sentences or in response to each others comments, in the form of a
conversation.
Assessment
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Assess students through their
responses in different activities and during the concluding activity.
Follow up
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Keep asking students about
their opinions and feelings in their daily conversation. Ask their opinions on
music, food, sports, different seasons, etc.
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Model the behavior of
acceptance that you have told them about.
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Don’t criticize them for
their feelings. For example if a student says, ‘I am feeling bored’, don’t say
things like, “why are you feeling bored? You should feel thankful for what you
have”, etc.
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It is normal for children to
feel the way they do. If you start lecturing them, they will stop expressing
their true feelings.
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