UNIT 3:USING VOCABULARY RELATED TO THE THEMES OF THE DAY
Lesson 4: Rhyme “Tree in the forest”Key unit competence
Children are able to use vocabulary related to themes in songs, rhymes, poemsand games.
3.1. Introduction
This unit includes various vocabularies relating to different themes. The vocabulary will help learners to increase the number of English words they already know and be able to communicate in English
3.2. List of lessons
The table below shows lessons distribution according to the order provided in the scheme of work.
3.3. Crosscutting issues to be addressed
Communication and gender: Are tackled when all the children, boys and girls participate actively.
Inclusive education: all children are given equal chance in teaching and learning activities.For those who have visual impairment they will touch the learning material when teaching.
3.4. Sample lesson plan
Theme: My school
Lesson 1: Poems: My school
Learning Objective: Learners are able use correctly vocabulary related to the theme of the day “My school.”
Teaching and learning materials: Picture of class, children and the teacher.References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Lesson 2: At school
The head teacher is near his office.
Our classrooms are near the store.
Our latrines are near the play ground.My school is near my home.
Lesson 3: In my classroom
I see tables and chairs.
I see the cupboard and chalkboard.
I see pieces of chalk and notebooks.
I see pens and pencils.The methodology used to teach the first lesson above will also be applied in teaching lesson 2 and 3.
Theme: My Body
Lesson 1: Rhyme: My head
Learning Objective: Learners are able to dramatize confidently the rhyme related
to “head” using appropriate gestures.
Teaching and learning materials: A picture of a human body, molded human body.References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Lesson 2: Rhyme “Main parts of the body”
The methodology used above to teach the first lesson will be also be applied in
teaching the lesson 2.
I have one head
I have one trunk
I have two arms
I have two legsI like my body
Theme: My nuclear family
Lesson 1: Rhyme “There”: Vocabulary father and mother
Learning Objective: Learners are able to repeat correctly the vocabulary “father and mother”
Teaching and learning materials: Pictures and flashcards about family membersReferences: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work
Lesson 2: Rhyme “there”: Vocabulary about father and mother
The methodology used above to teach lesson 1 will also be used to teach lesson 2.Teaching and learning activities
- The teacher gives children clear instructions on what to do and on how to behave.
- The teacher shows learners, a picture of family members and asks some questions to the learners.
- The teacher asks children to recite a rhyme “there.”
There, there, there
There at home
There is a fatherFather, father and mother
Lesson 3: A song: Good morning my brother
Learning objectives: Children are able to repeat correctly the vocabulary about “my father”
Learning Materials: Pictures and flashcards of family membersLearning activities:
- The teacher invites children to follow attentively and sing the whole song
Good morning my brotherGood morning my brotherHow are you?Good morning my brotherHow are you?
- The teacher sings the first line of the song.
- The teacher repeats the same line together with learners.
- Learners repeat the first line alone and the teacher moves around to help learners who have difficulties or with special needs.
- The teacher sings the second line.
- The teacher repeats the second line together with learners.
- Learners repeat the second line alone and the teacher moves around to help learners who have difficulties or with special needs.
- The teacher sings the first line and the second line, he/she invites learners to repeat with him/her and then learners alone while the teacher is moving around to help learners with special needs.
- The teacher continues to use the same procedure up to the end of the song
- She/He repeats the whole song, invites the learners to repeat with him/her then learners repeat alone while the teacher is moving around to help learners with special needs
Conclusion: when children are repeating alone the teacher may ask them to repeat as a group then one by one depending on the number of the learners.
Extension and variations: Keep changing brother to sister, mother and father.
Evaluation/ exercises/ homework: The teacher asks children to sing the studied song and moves around to correct children who are making mistakes.
Lesson 4: A song “Good morning my sister” The methodology used above to teach a song” Good morning my brother” will be repeated.
Theme: My Home
Lesson 1: Rhyme “Home’’
a) Learning Objective: Children are able to repeat correctly the new words “Home, gate, house, compound and other related vocabulary”
b) Teaching and learning materials: Pictures, charts with drawings of home showing clearly the parts of a home.
c) References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Rhyme “Home’’
Home, home, homeLesson 2: Rhyme “Home ’’
I like my home
Here with a gate
There with a houseBig, big, big, iiiiiiii
Home, home,Home
I like my home
Here with a gate
There with a house
Big, big, big, iiiiiiiiHome, home, home
I like my home
Here with a fence
There with a houseBig, big, big, iiiiii
Home, home, home
I like my home
A compound here
Quarters thereBig, big, bi, iiiiii
Extension and variations: Keep increasing the number of stanzas (from 2 to 3) depending on the level and speed of your children.
The methodology to teach rhyme” There” taught above will be repeated.
Theme: Plants found in our environment
Learning Objective: Children are able to repeat correctly the new words “Tree, fence, compound and other related vocabulary”
Teaching and learning materials: Pictures, charts, flash cards of trees and real trees outside the classroom.References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Lesson 3: Rhyme “Shake a mango tree’’
Rhyme” Shake, shake mango tree”
Shake, shake a mango tree
Mango yellow, mango green
One for you, one for me
Green for you, yellow for meShake, shake a mango tree
Lesson 4: Rhyme “Tree in the forest”
Tree in the forestThe methodology to teach the rhyme “There” taught in lesson 2 page 38 will be
Stood, stood, stood
Along come a man
For wood, wood, wood
With axe, axe, axe
For chop, chop, chop
And a tree fell down
And a hooo, hooorepeated for lesson 4.
Theme: Food and drinks found in our environment
Learning Objective: Children are able to repeat correctly the new words “sugar, mango and other vocabulary related to food and drinks.”
Teaching and learning materials: sugar, mangoes, bananas.
References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Lesson 1: Rhyme ‘’John, John”
John, John
Yes papa
Eating sugar
No papa
Telling liesNo papa
Open your mouth
Ha ha ha
Close your mouth
Ho ho ho
John, John
Yes papa
Eating banana
Yes papa
Eating mango
Yes papa
Eating sugar
No papa
Open your mouth
Ha ha ha
Close your mouthOh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Extension and variations: Keep increasing the number of stanzas by changing types of food depends on the level and speed of your children. Examples: Sugar, banana, mango, pineapple, pawpaw, avocado, orange...The methodology to teach rhyme “There” taught on lesson 2, page 38 will be repeated.
Lesson 2: A song: The way
This is the way I eat my food
I eat my food, I eat my food
This is the way I eat my food
Early in the morning.
This is the way I drink my tea
I drink my tea, I drink my tea
This is the way I drink my teaEarly in the morning.
Theme: Domestic animals
Learning objective: Children are able to repeat correctly the names of domestic animals and their appropriate sounds. Teaching and learning materials: pictures of domestic animals.References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Lesson 1: Rhyme” Dad has a cow”
Dad has a cow
A big, big cow
A cow has a rope
To keep it at home
The cow says mooo mooo
Dad has a goat
A big, big goat
A goat with a rope
To keep it at homeThe goat says meee meee
Lesson 2: Rhyme: The sound it makes
Moo moo
Listen to the cow
Moo moo
That is the sound it makes
Maa maa
Listen to the sheep
maa maa
That is the sound it makes maa maa
Maa maa
Listen to the sheep
maa maa
That is the sound it makes
Extension and variations: Keep increasing the number of stanzas by changing names
of domestic animals depending on the level and speed of your children. Examples:
goat, cow, pig, sheep, rabbit, hen, etc....The methodology to teach rhyme”There”
taught above will be repeated.
Theme: Water
Lesson 1: Rhyme
Water, water, water, drink water
Water, water, wash your hands
Water, water, wash your clothes
Water, water, cook your food
Learning Objective: Children are able to recite a rhyme related to water using
appropriate gestures.
Teaching and learning materials: Picture of class, children, water and buckets
References: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Teaching and learning activities- The teacher gives children clear instructions on what to do and on how to behave.
- The teacher and children go out of the class to observe how to fetch water from taps.
- The teacher together with children play the game: “In water.”
- The teacher recites the rhyme related to the water.
- Children listen attentively.
- The teacher recites the two first sentences of a rhyme.
- The teacher together with children repeat the two first sentences of the rhyme.
- One after the other, children repeat two sentences of the rhyme.
- The teacher recites two sentences of a rhyme and adds the third using gestures .
- The teacher helps children to repeat and use gestures appropriately.
- In groups, children repeat the three sentences using gestures.
- One by one, Children repeat three lines.
- In groups, children repeat the whole rhyme and use gestures.
- All the children recite the rhyme.
- The teacher asks children individually to repeat the whole rhyme using gestures.
Lesson 2: Rhyme: We need water
Water, water
For drinking and cooking
We need water
Water, water
For washing and bathing
We need water
The methodology used to teach lesson 1 of this theme will be also applied in
teaching lesson 2.
Theme: Natural source of the light
Lesson 1: A song: My sun
Sun, sun, hot sun
Shining in the sky
Wake up! Wake up
It is a lovely day!
Learning Objective: Children are able to use correctly the new words about natural
sources of light in the song.
Teaching and learning materials: Pictures of sun, moon and stars.
Reference: Pre-primary syllabus.
Teaching and learning activities- The teacher presents teaching materials (pictures of natural source of light) to the children.
- Children observe teaching materials and discuss about them.
- The teacher and children go out and observe the sun in the sky.
- The teacher tells children the name of the song they are going to study.
- The teacher sings the song “my sun” alone and children listen.
Shining in the sky
Wake up! Wake up
It is a lovely day!- The teacher sings the first two sentences of the song; children repeat in group, then one by one and use gestures.
- The teacher sings two sentences of the song and adds the third in group and one by one. Children repeat the song as the teacher did.
- The teacher recites all the poem and asks children to repeat it in groups.
- The teacher helps all the children especially those who have a problem of pronunciation.
- The teacher helps children to use appropriate gestures when they sing the song
- The teacher asks children to sing the whole song in small groups.
- The teacher asks children to sing a song one by one at the end of the lesson.
Lesson 2: Poem: Look at the moon and the stars
Oh! Look at the moon
It is shining up in the sky
Oh! Look at the stars
They are shinning up in the sky
What a wonderful sky! lovely day!
Learning Objective: Children are able to use correctly new words about natural
sources of light in poem.
Teaching and learning materials: Pictures of the sun, moon and stars.
Reference: Pre-primary syllabus and scheme of work.
Teaching and learning activities
• The teacher gives children clear instructions on what to do and how to behave.
• The teacher presents teaching materials (pictures of moon and stars).
• Children observe teaching materials and discuss about them.
• The teacher tells children the name of the poem they are going to study.
• The teacher recites all the poem “Look at the moon and the stars” alone and
children listen.
• The teacher recites the first two sentences of the poem and children repeat in
group, then one by one and use gestures.
• The teacher recites two sentences of the poem and adds the third, children
repeat in group and one by one.
• The teacher recites three sentences of the poem and adds the fourth, children
repeat in group and one by one.
• The teacher recites the whole poem and asks children to repeat in groups.
• In small groups, children repeat again the poem under their teacher’s guidance.
• The teacher helps all the children especially those who have problem of
pronunciation.
• The teacher helps children to use appropriate gestures when they repeat and
recite the poem.• At the end of the lesson, the teacher asks children to recite the poem one by one.
Theme: Transport by road
Lesson 1: A song: Driving a car
I’m driving my car
I’m driving my car
Bibibi bibibi
My car runs quickly
Saying bibibiiiii
Learning objective: Children are able to sing confidently the song “driving a car.”
Teaching resources: A drawing showing cars traveling on the road and some toy cars.
Learning and teaching activities
• The teacher introduces energizer saying ring, ring, ring like a car, like a motor
cycle, like a bus.
• The teacher asks children things that can be used for carrying goods from one
place to another.
• The teacher sings the whole song to children.
• Children listen to the song.
• The teacher sings the refrain and the children repeat after him or her.
• The teacher sings a big part of the song and the children repeat many times
• Children repeat the song by themselves.
• The teacher repeats the whole song and the children repeat many times after
him/her.
• Children repeat the song by themselves.
• The teacher sssesses children’s individual performance.Lesson 2: A song: Driving bicycle
My father drives, drives, drives a bicycle
My mother drives, drives a bicycle
I drive my bicycle wooo wooo
Let’s say wooooo woooooo
Lesson 3: A poem: My motorcycle
Hello my bicycle
Good bicycle
Big motorcycle
Yellow motorcycle
I like your speed
Lesson 4: A song My bicycle
Hello my bicycle
Good bicycle
Big bicycle
Speed you have
I like my bicycle
The lessons 2, 3 and 4 will be taught similarly as lesson one.
Theme: Means of communication
Lesson 1: A song: my phone
When my phone says
Ring, ring, ring (2)
The sound it makes
Triiing, triiing, triing
I ran to take it and say
Hello to my friends!!!
What are you doing?
We are listening, listening to the radio!!!!
Learning Objective: Children are able to sing confidently the song as a means of
communication.
Teaching and learning materials: Stick. Drum, rings, a drawing of a person who is
making a phone callTeaching and learning activities
• The teacher gives children clear instructions on what to do and how to behave.
• The teacher displays drawings of different tools of communication and asks
children to name them.
• The teacher asks children to stand up, stretch their arms by turning around.
• The teacher tells children that they are going to sing the song while standing.
• Children listen to the song.
• The teacher sings the refrain and children repeat after him or her.
• The teacher sings a big portion of the song and children repeat many times after
him or her.
• Children repeat the song by themselves.
• The teacher repeats the whole song and children repeat many times after him/her.
• Children repeat the song by themselves.
• The teacher assesses children’s individual performance.Lesson 2, 3 and 4 are taught the same way as lesson 1 of this theme.
Lesson 2: A song: Radio
It is your time father!
To turn on my radio
Listen to the radio, radio, radio
Let’s say radio, radio, radio
Lesson 3: A song: My television
I am happy today
My father buys for me
Buy, buy, and buy a television
Television, television
My television, your television
Lesson 4: Song: Big drum
Big, big ,big drum (2)
I like to hit big drum (2)
Drum says bumbu, bumbu, bumbu
Peter hits drum
Drum says bumbu, bumbu,…….
Theme: Religious institutions - Church/ Mosque
Lesson 1: Sing the rhymes my best future
Wee wee wee!!!
We are pastors
We are pristies
I am a brother
You are a sister
Weeeweeee weeeee
Yeeeeyeeee
Come and we pray
We pray, we pray
Learning Objective: Children are able to sing confidently the song on religious
institutions.
Teaching and learning materials: Bibles, Qur’an, a drawing of a preacher.
Learning and teaching activities:
• The teacher asks children to sing any song from the church they know
• Children sing the church’s song.
• The teacher tells the children to stand up.
• The teacher asks children to keep quiet and get to listen to what the teacher singsso that they may repeat after him or her
Lesson 2: A rhyme: We like to read
This lesson is taught the same way as lesson one of this theme.
We Christians
We like, we like
We like to read
Read, read Bible
We Muslims
We like we like
We like to read, read, read Qu’ran (2)Theme: Special days in family
Lesson 1: Poem: My birthday
My birthday
The day that I smile
Day of love
Day of joyLet’s enjoy my birthday
Learning Objective: Children are able to repeat confidently the poem on family
special days
Learning and teaching materials: The drawing of persons who are celebrating a
birthday.
Learning activities
• The teacher gives instructions on what to do and how to behave
• The teacher asks children who have ever celebrated their birthdays.
• The teacher reads the whole poem to children.
• Children listen to the poem attentively from teacher.
• The teacher reads the verse by verse then children repeat after him/her.
• Children repeat the poem by themselves
Lesson 2: Rhyme: Happy new year
Call in all your friends
Shout and dance
Happy New Year (2)
Wishing you happy new year.
Learning objective: Children are able to repeat confidently the rhyme on celebration
of happy new year in family.
Teaching and learning materials: A drawing of people who celebrate the New Year.
Learning and teaching activities:
• The teacher gives children clear instructions on what to do and how to behave.
• The teacher displays drawings of people celebrating new year.
• The teacher asks the children to stand up, stretch arms and turn around.
• Teacher repeats the rhyme with gestures to interpret it.
• Children listen to the rhyme.
• The teacher repeats the rhyme and children repeat after him/her
• The teacher repeats a big portion of the rhymes and children repeat after him /her.
• Children repeat the rhyme by themselves and they do it many times.
• The teacher assesses children’s individual performance.
3.5. Additional content
Theme: Church/ Mosque
A Song: Sing in choir
We sing in choir
Sing words of God
Our best future
Best future!!
Wee wee wee!!!
We are pastors
Theme: A song: My school
There is a piano
In our classroom there is a piano
There is a piano children like to play
There is a piano piano piano
There is a piano pia pia piano
We’re so proud of our school
We’re so proud of our school
And everything about it
We’re so proud of our school
So don’t you ever doubt it
Though all of us are different
On this we all agree,
We’re so proud of our school
Because it’s made by you and me (x2)
Theme: Natural sources of light
Song : Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How, I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Now, I wonder what you are
Theme: Water
Rhyme: Yellow ducks swimming in the water
One yellow duck swimming in the water
Two yellow ducks swimming in the water
Three yellow ducks swimming in the water
Swim, swim,swim my little ducks
Theme: Transport by road
A song: Riding a bicycle
Four little babies ride the bicycle
Saying bibibibi and falling down
One slipped off and got hurt
Mama called the doctor
Doctor, no more babies riding the bicycle
Three little babies riding the bicycle
Saying bibibibi and falling down
One slipped off and got hurt
Mama called the doctor
Doctor said no more babies riding the bicycle
Theme: Domestic animals
A song: Pussy cat, pussy cat
Pussy cat, pussy cat
Where have you been?
I have been to London
To look at the queen
What did you do there?
I frightened a little mouse
Under her little chair
A song: Mary had a little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
Little lamb, little lamb
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white and snow
And everywhere that Mary went
Mary went, Mary went
And everywhere Mary wentThe lamb was sure to go
A song: The kennel has no puppy
The kennel has no puppy, puppy, and puppy
The kennel has no puppy
Come and see
The poultry is empty, empty, empty
Come and see
The calf is in the calf pin, calf pin, calf pin
Come and see
3.6. End unit assessment
At the end of this unit, the teacher provides a summary leading to deeper
understanding of all taught content whereby children are helped to revise whatthey have learnt in the whole unit.