Students` Learning Outcomes
- Use appropriate vocabulary and tense to write a simple guided paragraph by explaining a process or procedure.
Information for Teachers
- Guided paragraph means to write with the help of some guidelines provided.
- Process or procedure means the steps involved in carrying out the activity. For example, to making of a kite, sandwich, fruit chat, lemon water, etc.
- In such types of writings, the steps are written in sentences using action verbs.
- Action verbs are the verbs that tell us something about the action. For example, ‘take’, ‘put’, ‘add’, ‘mix’, ‘paste’, ‘join’, etc.
- For developing connection and making the steps clear connectives or conjunctions like firstly, secondly, thirdly, then, next, after that, finally, etc. are used. This explains and describes the steps easily.
Note:
- This is a revision of the skills being developed in the previous lessons.
- Select an activity which is familiar to the students and easy to perform.
- While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also consult textbook at all steps where and when required to do.
Material / Resources
Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, textbook, charts, if possible the ingredients to demonstrate the activity
a. a. For a sandwich: 4 slices of bread, some butter, one cucumber, two tomatoes, some powdered black pepper, and salt
b. b. For lemonade: 1 fresh lemon, 2 tablespoon sugar, some salt, water, ice and transparent jug/container.
Introduction
- Ask the class about the routine tasks they do at home.(brushing teeth, making up the bed, polishing shoes, etc.).
- “How do you perform ablution before offering prayers?” ask a student to relate the steps followed for the activity.
- Ask them what do you learn from this? (That certain steps have to be followed in an order / a specific procedure has to be followed).
- Explain that this is called sequencing.
- Discuss the action verbs and connectives with them. (For reference, see information for teachers)
- If possible, ask the students to bring a wrapper of washing powder, medicine, custard or any other item on which steps of how to use it / instructions are written and read aloud to make it easier for students to understand.
- Take a wrapper where instructions are written.
Development
Activity 1
- If resources allows, tell the students that they will be making sandwich / lemon water in the class.
- If the activity isn`t possible practically, ask the students to come forward and describe the process.
Process 1:
- Put two slices of bread, flat on a plate. Now take a knife and spread butter on both the slices.
- After that, cut the cucumber and tomatoes in thin slices.
- Now put these on one slice of bread and sprinkle some salt and pepper; then cover it with the second slice of bread. Place the sandwich on a plate and cut it with the knife into two triangles.
Process 2:
- Stir two table spoons of sugar in a jug with two glasses of water.
- Now add a pinch of salt and stir again.
- After removing the seeds from the lemon squeeze th lemon juice into water.
- This is te time to add crushed ice.
- Your cool, refreshing drink is ready.
- Note down the process on the writing board as the students explain it, underlining all the words showing transition / steps followed.
Activity 2
Divide the class into groups of 4-5 students.
Allot a separate activity to each group (e.., how to polish shoes, how to brush teeth, how to wash dishes / clothes, how to boil an egg, how to make an omelet, grow a plant, change a flat tyre.)
Word bank for growing a plant is given below:
Dig the soil.
Add fertilizer.
Plough it.
Sow the seed.
Water it.
Wait for it to grow.
- Ask the students to write down the process / procedure to be followed.
Sum up / Conclusion
- Ask the students about other processes, such as washing a car, making a bed, packing bag for school, etc.
- Revise with them the vocabulary that is to be used. That is action verbs and conjunctions.
- Ask them, “What are action words and conjunctions?”
- Discuss with them where else we see and read the instructions on besides washing powders.
- Ask them “Why are instructions written or given on the wrappers?”
- Find the exercise related to the topic in the textbook. Students must to do this exercise in the notebook or on the textbook.
Assessment
- Assess the students` responses to know how much they have learnt.
- Students` work can be marked.
- Ask the students to write a guided paragraph on “Wheat Harvest and Cultivation”.
Follow up
- Ask the students to write down a simple recipe in their notebooks. They may consult their mothers, a cooking channel or newspaper recipe. They may paste a supporting picture if possible or draw one in their notebooks.
- Ask them to write a paragraph on “How to water the plants”.
