WEEK:  Five

CLASS: Basic Five

TERM: 1^st Term

SUBJECT: English language

TOPIC:  Speech Work: Reading poem on good   Neighborliness; Reading:

Teaching of new words meanings and Comprehension;  Grammar: Formal letter to a village head or any   Other constituted authority; Writing: Features of formal and informal letters  

BEHAVIOURAL OBJECTIVES:At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to:

1. Read and comprehend a poem
2. Learn new words
3. State the features of a formal letter
4. Write a formal letter

BUILDING A BACKGROUND: Pupils are familiar with letter writing and poems 

INSTRUCTIONAL  MATERIAL: Pictures, charts and textbook REFERENCE MATERIAL:  Nigeria Primary English. Book 5

CONTENT:

Speech Work

A POEM 

Take turns to read different lines of the poem               

 Pay serious attention to its message.

 The girl who was too busy chatting

 She didn’t stop, look or listen,

 just carried on with her conversation

 and crossed the road.

 Now look what’s happened.

 She’s bandaged all over because of a car

 hit her in every imaginable place,

 including her face.

 Her friends were the same and shared

 the blame. Lumps and bumps came up

 in clumps

NEW WORDS

Different

Attention

Chatting

Conversation

Cross

Happened

Imaginable

Lumps

Bump

Clumps

Bandaged 

Writing                          

FEATURES OF FORMAL AND INFORMAL LETTERS

EVALUATION: Pupils are evaluated thus:

A. Find the dictionary meaning of these words and use each of them in a sentence

1. Different
2. Attention
3. Chatting
4. Conversation
5. Cross
6. Happened
7. Imaginable
8. Lumps
9. Bump
10. Clumps

B. Write a letter to your village head requesting that the road to your village be repaired.

What are the differences between a formal letter and an informal letter