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📘 “The Monkey and the Crocodile”
(Blossom Class 3 – Pages 34–38)
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Transactional Plan Format
Grade: 3
Month:
Subject: English
Week:
Lesson No.
Lesson: The Monkey and the Crocodile
Competency:
• Listening and comprehension
• Story sequencing
• Moral understanding
• Speaking skills (dialogue practice)
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Teaching Materials:
• Textbook (Blossom Class 3)
• Picture cards of monkey, crocodile, river, tree, rose apples
• Flashcards of key words: friendship, clever, invitation, danger, idea
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Pre-Knowledge Test:
• Ask:
– Have you seen a monkey? What does it eat?
– Have you seen a crocodile? Where does it live?
– What is a friend?
• Ask students to share any story they know about animals.
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Introduction:
• Show pictures from the story (monkey on rose apple tree, crocodile in river).
• Ask: “What do you think this story may be about?”
• Tell the students: Today we will learn a story about friendship, trick, and cleverness.
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Concept Building:
• Teacher reads the story aloud with expressions and gestures.
• Introduce characters: Monkey, Crocodile, Crocodile’s wife.
Story Highlights:
1. Monkey lives on a rose apple tree.
2. Monkey and crocodile become friends.
3. Monkey gives rose apples to the crocodile daily.
4. Crocodile’s wife becomes greedy and wants the monkey’s heart.
5. Crocodile tries to trick the monkey.
6. Monkey cleverly saves himself.
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Explanation & Discussion:
• Discuss key ideas:
– Sharing and friendship
– Greed and betrayal
– Clever thinking in danger
• Ask oral comprehension questions:
1. Where did the monkey live?
2. Why did the crocodile visit the monkey every day?
3. What did the crocodile’s wife want?
4. How did the monkey save himself?
5. What did the monkey tell the crocodile at the end?
• Explain moral: Use intelligence in difficult situations; don’t trust blindly.
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Consolidation and Reinforcement:
• Ask students to retell the story in 5 sentences.
• Fill in the blanks activity:
1. The monkey lived on a ______ tree.
2. The crocodile’s wife wanted to eat the monkey’s ______.
3. The monkey said he kept his heart on the ______.
• Match the following:
– Monkey → clever
– Crocodile → friend
– Crocodile’s wife → greedy
• Sequence cards: Students arrange 4–5 picture cards in the correct order of the story.
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Practice:
• Pair activity: Students act out a short dialogue between monkey and crocodile.
• Draw and label: Monkey on the tree / crocodile in water.
• Write 3–4 sentences about “A time I used my cleverness” or “Why honesty is important.”
• Group role play:
– Group 1: Monkey
– Group 2: Crocodile
– Group 3: Crocodile’s wife