Students` Learning Outcomes
- Articulate hard and soft sounds of the letters ‘c’ and ‘g’.
Information for Teachers
Skill: Vocabulary and pronunciation
- Soft ‘c’ is pronounced letter‘s’ as in cell, city, mice, citrus, cycle.
- A hard ‘c’ is pronounced letter ‘k’ as in clock, correct, cup, cage, class.
- A soft ‘g’ is pronounced letter ‘j’ as in giant, giraffe, and gypsy.
- A hard ‘g’ is pronounced letter ‘g’ as in golf, gun, great, gum, and goat.
- While teaching the lesson, the teacher should also use textbook where required.
Material / Resources
Writing board, chalk / marker, duster, pictures given at the end of the lesson plan starting with the letters ‘c’ and ‘g’ or the same things can be drawn on the board
Introduction
- Ask the class: Tell the names of the things that start with letter c. (Expected answer may be as; cap, car, cup, cow)
- Appreciate the students who give correct answers by saying good / very good.
- Tell them that the sound of letter ‘c’ here is hard as it is pronounced as ‘k’.
- Name a few things that start with letter ‘g’. (Expected answer may be as; giraffe, gun, gate, goat, etc.)
- Tell them that giraffe has ‘j’ sound; it is soft ‘g’.
- While in gun, gum, gate, goat, it is hard ‘g’.
Development
Activity 1
- Show the picture card 1 to the students for soft ‘c’ sound and ask them:
- What can you see in the picture? (Expected answer may be as; two mouse/rats)
- Tell the students they are called mice when two are together.
- What can you see in the picture number 2 and 3? (Expected answer may be as; city, cylinder)
- Ask the class to clap for the students who has given a correct answer.
- Write the words on the writing board under the soft ‘c’. (Write the words on the board making four columns like this):
- Tell them that if the sound of the above mentioned words in first column is ‘s’, it is called the soft ‘c’.
- Where are you sitting? (Expected answer may be as; in the classroom)
- Tell the students that the ‘k’ sound is called a hard ‘c’.
- Take a cap, cup, clock, copy and cat in the class or the pictures cards to the class and ask them:
- What are these things called? (Expected answer may be as; cat, cup, cap, clock, copy)
- Appreciate them by asking to clap for correct answers given by the students.
- Show the class a picture of a giraffe/giant/gel.
- Ask them “what is it?”
- When they answer, write it in column 3.
- Tell the students that the sound ‘j’ is called a soft ‘g’.
- Show plastic gun or the picture of gun and ask them:
- What is it?
- When they answer, write the word in column 4.
- Tell the students that the ‘g’ sound is a hard ‘g’.
- A soft ‘c’ is pronounced letter‘s’; a hard ‘c’ is pronounce letter like ‘k’.
- A soft ‘g’ is pronouncing letter ‘j’; a hard ‘g’ is pronounced letter like ‘g’.
- Read the words written on the writing board aloud.
- Correct the students if they pronounce it wrongly.
Activity 2
- Students will work in pairs and read the words written on the writing board from the previous activity.
- They can give more words with the same sounds.
- Ask them to identify if the word has soft sound of letters ‘c’ and ‘g’ or hard sound of letters ‘c’ and ‘g’.
- Ask the students to draw the four columns from activity 1 in their notebooks and note all the responses.
Assessment
- Ask the questions:
- Name a few things that start with soft ‘c’.(Expected answer may be as; cell, city, cycle, cylinder)
- Name a few things that start with hard ‘c’. (Expected answer may be as; call, clock, cup, cage, class)
- Name a few things that start w2ith soft ‘g’. (Expected answer may be as; giant, giraffe, gypsy)
- Name a few things that start with hard ‘g’. (Expected answer may be as; golf, gun, great, gum, goat, grass)
- Involve the students in solving the problems given in the exercise at the end of unit/chapter.
Follow up
- Paste pictures or draws two things that start with soft ‘c’ and ‘g’ or hard ‘c’ and ‘g’.
- (Soft ‘c’) cell, city; (hard ‘c’): cup, cap, cream, clock, cage, class
- (Soft ‘g’): giant, giraffe; (hard ‘g’): goat, golf, gun
- Picture cards for activity 1: (bring newspaper cuttings/magazines for the following pictures. Don`t cut from here.
