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Primary Year 3 SK Scheme of Work
UNIT 10
SCHEME OF WORK: TEXTBOOK BASED LESSON (Unit 10)

LESSON: 145 (Listening 28) MAIN SKILL FOCUS: Listening THEME: World of Knowledge
WEEK: TOPIC: The world around us CROSS-CURRICULAR ELEMENT: Language LANGUAGE/GRAMMAR FOCUS: Comparatives: Short

adjectives; Statements

CONTENT LEARNING MATERIALS / DIFFERENTIATION
STANDARD STANDARD LEARNING OUTLINE REFERENCES STRATEGIES

Main Skill Main Skill Pre-lesson Get Smart plus 3 Differentiate learning
Listening 1.2 Listening 1.2.2 1. Play a mime or guessing game to review animal vocabulary. Student’s Book, p.95 according to the needs of
Understand Understand with your pupils and class.
meaning in a support specific Lesson delivery Teacher’s Book, p.144 Please see the seven
variety of familiar information and 2. Use animal flashcards to further review animal words pupils know and to Animal flashcards (enough differentiation strategies
contexts details of short then introduce new animal vocabulary. for one per pupil, to include listed in the introduction.
simple texts all the animals in the song) Please also consider the
3. Follow instructions for Warm up (Teacher’s Book, p.144) and then ask following:
Complementary pupils what they can tell you about the animals. You could try to elicit the
Skill 4. Play a guessing game as a class. comparative sentence from
Listening 1.1 Complementary some pupils in this lesson,
Recognise and Skill You say: This animal is tall/small/thin etc. although do not insist on it
reproduce target Listening 1.1.1 from all pupils.
language sounds Recognise and Pupils guess: It’s the giraffe/rat etc.
reproduce with Have pupils play the game in pairs. Monitor carefully as pupils do this
support a range of activity and note down any common problems to return to later on. You
target language could ask one or two pairs to present in front of the class.
phonemes
5. Follow the instructions for Activity 1 in Teacher’s Book, p.144.
6. Give out the animal flashcards, one per pupil. Pupils listen to the song
again and identify their partner from the comparisons in the song (e.g.
Pupil with lion flashcard + pupil with tiger flashcard; horse + cheetah).
Partners join together and try to remember the adjective used to compare
the animals in the song, e.g. horse + cheetah: fast.
Feed back without insisting on a comparative sentence at this stage.
Post-lesson
7. Learning diaries:
Ask pupils to think back on their learning so far this week, in both units 9
and 10. In their learning diary, they can write:

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