The cartoon The lion and mouse
Pre listening. Before watching, support them with unfamiliar words on PPT and go through each one by giving examples. Ask them to put them down on their copy books. As a home task they will revise and make up a story for most able students while less able students find synonyms for them. More able students make up sentences using them
A den, to play nearby, run up and down, to waken, to be frightened, to pray, pardon, little creature, to do a good return, to be amused, to let somebody go, to walk in the jungle, hunters net, to roll, to get out of the net, roar, to worry, to save, to cut through the net, to escape, to thank
Descriptor
1.Name the adjectives 2.Finds the syn / ant with support 3. Finds the syn / ant without support
Watching time. Share with me method
Most able students stay in the classroom while less and more able students are asked to leave the classroom. While they are outside the classroom, more able students prepare questions on what the most able students will have watched.
The most able students watch the cartoon and make notes if essential. As soon as they finish watching, more and less able students enter the classroom.
More able students will be in one group with the most able student. Then one by one, they ask their questions on which the most able students must reply.
Outside the classroom, less able students make up sentences in a group to understand the meaning of new words better.
The most able student in the crowd of less able students reads their sentences aloud and correct for grammar mistakes if there are. Then the most able student holding the list of words and words expression taught by teacher, tells about the cartoon.
Then all together watch the cartoon again.
Comprehension task. The teacher may prepare true, false statements to check for their understanding the content of the cartoon.
Descriptor 1 They understood the content of the cartoon 2They could perform true, false statements correctly
