LESSON PLAN
The Story of a Mother
GRADE: 3rd grade
TIME: 40 minutes
ACTIVITY: storytelling
MATERIALS: short stories, pictures…
AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
- Students will be able to learn to classify the stories
- Students will be able to learn how to convey meaning from a text.
- Students will be able to develop their listening abilities and understanding
skill.
PROCEDURE:
CONTENT
I. Warm up
II. New lesson
1. Pre - telling
activites
2. While - telling
activities
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
- Play crossword game.
- Introduce a new story:
The Story of a
Mother
- Tell the whole story.
STUDENTS’
ACTIVITES
- Play game.
- Listen
- Listen
- Answer:
- Guide students to tell each
part of the story with
pictures and questions
Picture 1:
+ What is the mother doing?
+ The mother is sitting by
her little child.
+ Her face looks sad.
+ How is the mother’s face + Death took the child
away.
like?
+ What happened to her little
child?
+ The mother met Night.
Picture 2:
+ Night said: “You must
+ Who did the mother meet?
sing to me all the songs
+ What did Night ask for?
that you have sung to your
child.”
Picture 3:
+ What did the mother see?
+ What did the mother do to
get directions?
Picture 4:
+ Where did the mother go?
+ What did a mother do to get
directions?
3. After – telling
activities
III.
Homewor
k
Picture 5:
+ Where did the lake bring the
mother?
+ What did an old gray-haired
woman say?
+ She saw a thorn-bush.
+ She pressed the bramble
to her bosom quite close.
+ She came at length to a
great lake.
+ She wept, her eyes fell
into the depths of the lake,
and became two costly
pearls.
+ A wonderful building
many miles in length.
+ The old woman said:
“You can give me your
long black hair.”
Picture 6:
+ She asked for her child
+ What did the mother do back, or else she would
when she met Death?
tear up Death’s flowers.
+ Death said: “Would you
+ How did Death prevent the make another mother as
mother from tearing up the unhappy as yourself?”
flowers?
+ Death carried her child
+ What did Death do in the to the unknown land.
end?
- Practise in group of 6.
- Demand students work in
group of 6 and practise
playing the whole story.
- A group play the whole
- Invite a group to play the
story.
story in front of whole
class.
- Listen
- Give comments for the
group playing the story.
*Tell the meaning of the
story
- Ask: What is the meaning
- Answer: The great
of the story?
sacrifice of mother.
- Give comments.
- Listen.
- Ask students to draw a
- Listen.
picture of their own mother
Request about lesson plan:
Idea 1: Content
- Give accurate knowledge of the basic subjects in accordance with
division, ages and lesson content.
- Ensure the logic of knowledge, question systems and appropriate with
lesson content.
- There is actual contact, have the effect of ideological education,
emotional.
Idea 2: Method
- Use appropriate teaching methods and means of teaching specific
subjects, capable of applying effective methods to promote student
capacity.
- There is the creative application of advanced teaching methods in
appropriating the subject.
- Full training steps,
Idea 3: Skills in using English
-The transitions between the steps is smooth and seamless.
- Have an abundant vocabulary.
- Use sentence structure correctly.
Idea 4: Form
-Produce clearly and beautifully.