Transactional Plan
Grade: 4
Subject: English
Month:
Week:
Lesson No.: 1
Lesson: When the Forest Got Friendly
Competency:
- Learners will be able to read the story with proper pronunciation and fluency.
- Learners will identify characters, places and events from the story.
- Learners will develop listening, speaking and vocabulary skills.
- Learners will understand the value of kindness and helping others.
Teaching Materials:
- English textbook
- Pictures of elephant, swan, forest and villagers
- Blackboard and chalk
- Flashcards with new words
- Chart paper
Pre-Knowledge Test:
Teacher asks learners:
- Have you seen an elephant?
- What sounds do birds or elephants make?
- Have you ever helped someone who was lost?
- What do we see in a forest?
Introduction:
The teacher shows pictures of forest animals and asks learners to identify them.
Teacher discusses forests and animals briefly.
Then the teacher introduces the lesson “When the Forest Got Friendly” and tells learners that it is a story about a baby elephant named Golu who gets lost and receives help from kind villagers.
Concept Building:
- Teacher reads the lesson aloud with proper pronunciation and expression.
- Learners repeat after the teacher paragraph by paragraph.
- Teacher explains difficult words such as:
- lush
- explore
- excitedly
- glad
- chasing
- Teacher explains the storyline:
- Golu lived in a forest with his mother.
- He loved exploring the forest.
- One day he wandered too far and got lost.
- Villagers helped him return home safely.
- Teacher asks short oral questions:
- Who was Golu?
- Where did Golu live?
- Why was Golu frightened?
- Who helped Golu?
- Learners match sounds with animals:
- coo-coo → bird
- splash-splash → water
- pawoo-pawoo → elephant
Consolidation and Reinforcement:
- Learners retell the story in their own words.
- Teacher discusses the moral of the lesson:
“Kindness and helping others make the world better.” - Learners read selected paragraphs loudly.
- Teacher revises new words and meanings.
Practice:
- Write two new words from the lesson.
- Answer orally:
- Who helped Golu?
- Where did Golu live?
- Draw and colour an elephant.
- Match the sounds with the correct pictures.
- Make one sentence using the word “forest”.