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SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 8)

WEEK: __ LESSON: 120 (Reading 23) MAIN SKILL FOCUS: Reading THEME: World of Knowledge

CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Language
TOPIC: Amazing animals
LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Comparative forms: as
[adjective] as [noun]

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES

Pre-lesson Get Smart Plus 4 Differentiate learning
Main Skill Main Skill according to the needs of
1. Choose a pre-lesson task using the picture to introduce dinosaurs’ body parts. Activity 1-2 your pupils and class.
Reading Reading These should include the vocabulary at the top of page 84 as well as the body parts Student’s Book Please see the seven
in the text. (pages 84 & 85) differentiation strategies
3.2 3.2.2 and Teacher’s listed in the introduction.
Lesson delivery Book (pages 126
Understand a Understand specific & 127) Please also consider the
variety of linear information and 2. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Activity 1. Draw attention to the following:
and non-linear details of simple usage of comparisons using Grammar Box on pg.85. Continue with Activity 2. Enlarged dinosaur Pupils may find it difficult to
print and digital texts of one or two 3. Show pictures of two different dinosaurs. Have pupils predict what will happen if pictures pronounce the dinosaur
texts by using paragraphs these two dinosaurs meet. Ask pupils to give reasons for their predictions, e.g. names. Allow them to give
appropriate Tyrannosaurus Rex would eat Gallimimus, because T-Rex was a carnivore. Repeat Body parts the dinosaurs nicknames.
reading strategies with other dinosaurs. flashcards Give plenty of support to

Complementary Post-lesson (Optional) pupils when they give
Skill worksheet reasons for their
Complementary 4. Choose a post-lesson task which consolidates learning in this lesson. It could
Speaking Skill relate learning to pupils’ own lives or their interests, or it could focus on any findings predictions, especially to
less proficient pupils, who
2.1 Speaking of prehistoric life locally/nationally/within Asia. may lack vocabulary and/or
ideas. You could do this by
Communicate 2.1.4 asking questions and
simple information Give reasons for suggesting vocabulary.
intelligibly
simple predictions

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