Transactional Plan Format
Grade: 3
Month:
Subject: English
Week:
Lesson No.: 3
Lesson: The Lady with the Lamp
Competency:
- Develops reading and listening skills
- Learns about kindness and service to humanity
- Reads simple paragraphs with correct pronunciation
- Answers simple questions from the lesson
Teaching Materials:
- English textbook
- Picture/chart of Florence Nightingale
- Blackboard and chalk
- Flashcards of difficult words
- Picture of hospital and nurse
Pre-Knowledge Test:
- Who helps sick people in hospitals?
- Have you seen a nurse?
- Why should we help others?
- What do nurses do?
Introduction:
Teacher will show the picture of Florence Nightingale helping sick soldiers and ask:
- What is the woman doing?
- Where are the patients lying?
- Why are nurses important?
Teacher introduces Florence Nightingale as “The Lady with the Lamp” and explains that she spent her life helping sick and poor people.
Concept Building:
- Teacher reads the lesson aloud with proper pronunciation.
- Students repeat paragraph by paragraph.
- Difficult words like nursing, soldiers, illness, injured are explained.
- Teacher explains the life of Florence Nightingale in simple language.
- Students learn:
- She was born in Italy.
- She wanted to help people.
- She cared for injured soldiers during the Crimean War.
- She started a nursing school in London.
- Teacher discusses the values of kindness, service, and care for others.
Consolidation and Reinforcement:
Teacher asks oral questions:
- Who was Florence Nightingale?
- Where was she born?
- Why was she called “The Lady with the Lamp”?
- Whom did she help during the war?
- What school did she set up?
Students read short lines from the lesson aloud.
Practice:
- Read the lesson loudly.
- Fill in the blanks:
- Florence Nightingale was born in ________.
- She helped sick and ________ people.
- She set up a ________ school in London.
- Write 3 sentences about Florence Nightingale.
- Draw and colour a lamp or a nurse.
- Speak a few lines on “Helping Others.”