### Lesson Plan: English Comprehension
#### Class: Senior Secondary 2
#### Topic: Revision of Last Term’s Work and Examination
#### Duration: 80 minutes
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#### Objectives:
1. **Review and reinforce comprehension skills learned last term.**
2. **Detect areas where students face difficulty and provide targeted practice.**
3. **Prepare students for upcoming examinations by practicing past paper questions.**
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#### Materials Needed:
- Copies of past comprehension passages.
- Whiteboard and markers.
- Worksheets with multiple-choice questions, true/false questions, and short answer questions.
- Projector for displaying questions and marking schemes (if available).
- Pencils, erasers, and highlighters.
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#### Lesson Outline:
1. **Introduction (10 minutes)**
- Greet students and briefly outline the goals of the lesson.
- Recap main concepts covered last term (e.g., identifying main ideas, inferencing, vocabulary in context, author’s purpose).
- Engage students with a quick warm-up activity: Ask a few questions about major themes or ideas from last term’s comprehension exercises.
2. **Group Activity: Revisiting Last Term’s Texts (20 minutes)**
- Divide students into small groups.
- Provide each group with a different comprehension passage that was studied last term.
- Each group will re-read the passage and summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and any challenging vocabulary.
- Groups will present their summaries to the class.
3. **Focused Review: Key Skills (20 minutes)**
- Use the whiteboard/projector to review the key skills necessary for comprehension:
- **Main Idea vs. Supporting Detail:** Explain and show examples.
- **Inference:** Provide practice sentences and ask students to infer meanings.
- **Vocabulary in Context:** Review strategies for understanding difficult words.
- **Author’s Purpose and Tone:** Discuss how to identify these elements.
4. **Practice: Past Examination Questions (20 minutes)**
- Distribute worksheets with a variety of questions from past comprehension examinations.
- Individually, students will attempt the questions within a set time frame.
- Encourage students to underline key parts of the passage and make notes in the margins.
5. **Peer Review and Feedback (15 minutes)**
- Pair students to exchange worksheets and peer review each other’s answers.
- Discuss answers as a class and clarify any misunderstandings.
- Provide the marking scheme and go over the correct answers together.
6. **Conclusion and Homework (5 minutes)**
- Summarize today’s activities and key takeaways.
- Address any remaining questions or concerns.
- Assign a comprehension passage for homework with a set of questions to answer, ensuring it covers areas identified as challenging.
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#### Assessment:
- Monitor group discussions and presentations for understanding of main ideas and details.
- Observe individual performance during the practice session.
- Evaluate peer review and class discussions for comprehension accuracy.
- Collect and grade homework to assess individual progress.
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#### Reflection:
After the lesson, consider:
- What areas did students struggle with the most?
- Were the past paper questions effective in simulating examination conditions?
- How can the lesson be adjusted to better meet students’ needs next time?
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This lesson plan aims to reinforce comprehension skills while identifying and addressing areas where students may need additional practice in preparation for their upcoming examinations.