Helping Others in Need

This story is about:

helping others
belonging and identity
understanding the role of

helping organisations

Level 3 Chart 3
Steps:
CDRM Competencies

A. Let learners look whole picture and describe

what they see. Ask them to identify three examples
of people helping others near the clinic.

Helping others (empathy)

Belonging and identity as a member of a community
Understanding the role of helping organizations

B. Use 'Wh' questions to draw out learners'

individual experiences of helping others, for
example: "Whom did you help?" "What did you do
to help?", and so on.

Learning Outcomes
Describe the emotional state of someone who is
alone and in need of help.
Describe personal experiences of helping and being
helped.
Identify adults in the community who help others as
part of their professional duties, for example: doctor,
pastor, imam.

C. Read the story summary aloud and dramatically.

Introduce the key words and read the story again.

Key Words
sick, malaria, clinic, medicine, energy, guide,
temperature, blood test, weakly, kind, heart

Review Vocabulary
family, friends, village, help, tired, speak, nurse,
greet, grandfather, afraid

Teacher Guidance Notes

This story should be taught first orally in the language of
instruction so that learners can interact with the key messages in
a language that they understand well. The main objective is to use
the story to teach students important skills, values and behaviours
for life. This story focuses on the importance of helping people in
need. In this case, the main character is in need of help getting to
a clinic and receiving medical attention. However, learners should
be guided to think about other circumstances in which they can help
others. If the langauge of instruction at your school is not English,
you should prepare the lesson by translating the story into the
learners' mother tongue. After introducing and discussing the story
in the learners' mother tongue, the pictures can also be used to
teach English language and literacy by having learners tell a simpler
version of the story, learn the key words in English, and write
sentences describing each picture.

Moah is a very old man. He has no family or

friends in this village. He is sick with malaria. He
wants to go to the clinic to get medicine, but he
does not know the way. He has no energy to walk
or stand.
Maria is a student in primary six. She is on her way
home from school. She sees the old man and
greets him. "Hello, grandfather," she says.
"Do you need help?"
Moah is so tired he cannot speak. Maria takes his
arm and leads him to the clinic. A nurse meets
them at the door. "Come inside," she says. "We
shall take care of you." The nurse guided him
inside. She will take his temperature and prepare
him for a blood test. Moah is not afraid. He
believes that the people at the clinic will help him.
He smiles weakly, and the nurse thanks Maria for
her kind heart.
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D. Ask the learners questions like these:

Where did Moah want to go?
Why did he need help?
Why did Maria want to help him?
What will the nurse do?
Why did the nurse thank Maria?
What do you think will happen to Moah?

Activities
A. In groups of three, invite the learners to role-play the story.
Let the learners decide who will play the roles of Moah,
Maria, and the nurse.
After learners practice their role-plays, invite them to
perform for the whole class. Ask them to reflect on why we
should help people in need.
B. In pairs, have the learners brainstorm a lists of adults who
help each other as part of their professional duties, for
example: teacher, doctor, nurse, policeman, pastor, imam..
Guide each pair to meet with another set of partners to form
a group of four to compare their lists. Challenge each group
to write five sentences explaining how the people on their
list helps others in the community.
C. Sing or say poem about helping others. Here is one in
English:
What can we do to help today?
The one who cannot find the way,
The one who cannot see or stand,
We are there to show we care,
For every person in the land.