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SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 8)

WEEK: __ LESSON: 126 (Writing 24) MAIN SKILL FOCUS: Writing THEME: World of Knowledge

LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Review of descriptive
TOPIC: Amazing animals
CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Creativity and
language
Innovation / Language

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES

Pre-lesson Get Smart Plus 4 Differentiate learning according to
Main Skill Main Skill the needs of your pupils and
1. Choose a pre-lesson task which reviews the animal vocabulary. Activities 1-2 class. Please see the seven
Writing Writing Student’s Book differentiation strategies listed in
Lesson delivery (page 87) and
4.2 4.2.5 Teacher’s Book the introduction. Please also
2. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Warm up. consider the following:
(pages 130 & 131)
Communicate Connect sentences 3. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Activity 1. Have pupils work in mixed
basic information into a coherent Pupils’ pictures of proficiency pairs for steps 3 and 4
intelligibly for a paragraph using 4. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Activity 2. their favourite so that more proficient pupils can
range of purposes basic coordinating animals support less proficient ones. Offer
in print and digital conjunctions and 5. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Writing tip. Have pupils plenty of support so that pupils
media reference pronouns find examples of conjunctions in the text in Activity 1 and draw attention Animal pictures can work quickly but effectively.
to the mind map in Activity 2 as a technique for planning.
Complementary Complementary Note that more time should be
spent on writing the paragraphs.
Skill Skill 6. Have pupils make a writing plan about their favourite animal. Have
pupils write about their favourite animal using the plan. If time does not Setting homework can give you
Writing Writing permit, this could be finished as a homework. the opportunity to see how
4.3 4.3.3 Post-lesson individual pupils are progressing
in their written work. Make sure
Communicate Produce a plan or 7. Follow instructions in the Teacher’s Book for Optional 1 activity. Pupils that all pupils understand exactly
with appropriate draft of one use their plans for this activity. what and how much they should
language form paragraph for a write.
and style for a familiar topic and
range of purposes modify this
in print and digital appropriately in
media response to
feedback

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