Daily Lesson Plan -- Unit 9

Different Professions

Subject: English | Class: 1 | Series: Leeds (SNC 2020)

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Overview

This unit features a passage about different professions (farmer, cobbler, doctor, teacher, dress designer). Students learn about consonant blends, gender of naming words (masculine/feminine), vocabulary (repair, treat, provide), classroom commands, and creative writing about their morning routine.

Learning Objectives

• Use pre-reading strategies to predict the story by looking at pictures
• Interact with the text and use reading strategies to guess what follows
• Respond to text through pantomime
• Recognise consonants and vowels; use common consonant blends (/fl/, /sk/, /st/)
• Recognise formulaic expressions to listen and respond to commands
• Identify initial and final consonant blends
• Identify gender of naming words from the immediate environment (masculine/feminine)
• Construct simple sentences of three/four words using correct capitalisation, punctuation, and spelling

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Day 1: Reading (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 53-54, profession flashcards (farmer, cobbler, doctor, teacher, dress designer)

Warm-Up (10 minutes)

• Show pictures of different professionals
• Ask: "Who are these people shown in the pictures?"
• Discuss: "What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Main Activity (20 minutes)

• Read the passage aloud:
  • "We live together. We can not do all jobs. Different people do different jobs. We need each other."
  • "Farmers grow crops. They provide us food, vegetables and fruits."
  • "Cobblers make and repair our shoes. They work honestly."
  • "Doctors work in hospitals. They treat the sick people. They give medicine to them."
  • "Teachers teach students with love and care. They help them in their study."
  • "Dress designers make beautiful dresses for men, women and children."
• Ask while-reading question: "Who treats sick people?" (Doctors)
• Ask post-reading question: "What do you want to be when grown up?"

Wrap-Up (10 minutes)

• Students share what profession they want to follow and why
• Emphasise that all professions are important and we need each other

Differentiation

• Support: Focus on 3 professions; use pictures to reinforce
• Extension: Students name additional professions not in the text

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Day 2: Comprehension, Professions Matching & Vocabulary (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 55-56, matching cards, vocabulary list

Warm-Up (5 minutes)

• Quick review: "What does a doctor do?"

Main Activity -- Comprehension (10 minutes)

• Answer comprehension questions:
  1. What does a doctor do? (Works in hospitals, treats sick people, gives medicine)
  2. How do farmers help us? (They grow crops, provide food, vegetables, and fruits)
  3. What is the duty of a teacher? (Teaches students with love and care, helps in study)
• Fill in the blanks with correct options:
  1. Farmers provide us ___ (crops)
  2. ___ give us medicine. (Doctors)
  3. Dress designers make beautiful ___ (dresses)

Main Activity -- Match Professions (10 minutes)

• Match pictures of people with their profession names: teacher, cobbler, doctor, farmer

Main Activity -- Vocabulary and Dialogue (10 minutes)

• Teach vocabulary:
  • repair = mend
  • treat = to deal
  • provide = to supply
• Practise the classroom dialogue:
  • Student: "Good morning teacher!"
  • Teacher: "Good morning!"
  • Student: "Yes, teacher."
  • Teacher: "Sit down and open your English book."

Wrap-Up (5 minutes)

• Review profession vocabulary

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Day 3: Consonant Blends, Gender & Creative Writing (40 minutes)

Materials

• Textbook pages 56-57, blend word cards, writing notebooks

Warm-Up (5 minutes)

• Quick review of professions and vocabulary

Main Activity -- Consonant Blends (10 minutes)

• Consonant blends are two consonants together where both sounds are heard
• Examples: /fl/ in flag, floor; /sk/ in skip, sky; /st/ in star, stop
• Identify initial blends in words: flag, skip, star, frog, tree
• Identify final blends: mask, hand, help, jump

Main Activity -- Gender of Nouns (10 minutes)

• Masculine nouns: boy, father, brother, king, uncle
• Feminine nouns: girl, mother, sister, queen, aunt
• Match masculine with feminine:
  • boy / girl
  • father / mother
  • brother / sister
  • king / queen
  • uncle / aunt

Main Activity -- Creative Writing (15 minutes)

• Colour sketches and write a simple sentence about each picture
• Write at least four sentences about your morning routine using the word bank: get up, brush, wash, bath, exercise
• Students write sentences in their notebooks:
  • "I get up early in the morning."
  • "I brush my teeth."
  • "I wash my face."
  • "I take a bath."

Wrap-Up (5 minutes)

• Recap: professions, consonant blends, gender, morning routine writing

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Teaching Tips (from textbook)

• Model the text in front of students with correct pronunciation and intonation
• Guide them to read the text on their own
• Guide them about different professions
• Help students write a few sentences about their morning routine on their own