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Mixed gender, aged 12-14, background from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, developing abilities.
Aims: Improve student ability to identify the components that make up a simple sentence and be able to write one autonomously.
Body
5 mins Think, Pair, Share for the following question and brainstorm the answers on the board: Individual, White board
o What is a sentence? Pair, Marker
Alert students that sentence structure is the focus of todays lesson Group
10 mins
Class discussion: what is a ‘subject’ in a sentence? Write the following example on the board Class
and see if they can guess what the subject is. Post it notes, pens,
o Noi was feeling happy today ‘subject’ card of word wall.
Once students are confident with the meaning conduct a post it note slam (students are in Large post it poster?
groups of 2. They write one example of a subject per post it note and slam it on the table Pairs
before writing the next one. Group with the most post it notes wins.)
At the end of the slam, get students to combine all post it notes on to the board/paper
15 mins Class discussion: what is a ‘verb’ in a sentence? Write the following example on the board and Class Post it notes, pens, ‘verb’
see if they can guess what the verb is. card of word wall.
o Noi was feeling happy today Large post it poster?
Once students are confident with the meaning conduct a post it note slam with verbs. The Pairs
pair with the most post it notes wins.
While the students are conducting the verb post it note slam teacher is to write the
With Instructions/Sample
5 mins Bring students attention to the fact that there is only one thing happening in each sentence.
This means that there is only one clause in the sentence.
1 clause = 1 idea and 1 verb.
What happens if there are 2 clauses or 2 ideas in a sentence? Let students know that is the
focus of next lesson
Conclusion
To pack away, get the students to stick the post it notes on the word wall under the
5 mins correct headings. Individual
Once the board is rubbed off, see if students can write down the equation for a simple White board
sentence. Once completed, files can be returned to teacher. Marker
If time permits, play one game of A to Z (letters A-Z are written down the board. Students
are given a topic and they must think of words within that topic that start with the letters Class
A-Z)