The wind and the sun,CBSE, English, Class - II, Unit -3
B. Kayathiri,GPS-Manavely(v)
C. Sasi kumar,GMS-Manapet
J. Syamala @ Vasanthi,GPS-Irulansandai
Objectives:
• To bring out and develop good manners
• To develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
• To create awareness about environment.
Learning Activities
Warm up
• Blowing tamarind seeds and catching it – pair activity or small group activity
• Drawing sun and sunny day picture and talk about the picture
Teacher explanation
• Showing pictures in the text book and introducing the new words to students (wind, sun, road, coat, stronger, cheeks, quickly, wind and kerchief)
• Screening the story video “The wind and the Sun” – asking students comprehension questions to check whether they have understood the English version of the story.
Video link https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2qaBPthrUqs
Group Exercises
• Writing down good qualities of their friends
• Who is better? Discuss opposites in nature and give reasons for “who is better?” e.g. summer and winter, cow and dog, cat and mice, TV and books, knife and pot. Most of these examples will lead to a reconciliation of both having their strengths and uses.
• Matching exercise: Organize picture cards into their themes e.g. separate cards related to summer and winter.
• Draw-speak-writing: Write about imaginative scenarios - “What will happen if there is no sun?” Students will draw and talk about their picture and write about it with the help of teacher.
• Students could enact the story in bilingual form.
Term: Term 1