Lesson Planning of Hard and Soft Sounds of Letters “C” and “G”

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.

Hard & Soft sound of C/G

  • 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)

Hard & Soft sound of C/G

  • 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’.

Hard & Soft sound of C/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.

Hard & Soft sound of C/G

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