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.

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.