Lesson Plan Pair 30 Mins

Date: 23rd March 2020
Time: 9.10 am – 9.40 am (60 minutes)

Form: 2
Proficiency: Mixed abilities students consist of LEP and HEP
Number of students: 30
Topic: Phrasal verb related to money
The general objective of the lesson: To enable students identify clues to solve a murder case
and use past tense accurately while presenting their arguments verbally and through written text.
Specific objectives: Pre-Reading- Students recognize the prompting questions for
investigations by analyzing 3 comic strips about
investigation and verbally respond to the teacher’s
questions.
While reading- Within 20 minutes, students comprehend their own
character descriptions and use prompting questions to
get clues from all the main characters by filling the
worksheet provided in groups of 5 using past tense
to find out the murderer.
Post Reading- In 15 minutes, students roleplay as detectives and
one or more representatives from each group
verbally present arguments and their final judgments
regarding who the murderer is.
Curriculum specifications: 2.1 Obtain information for different purposes by
(a)listening to spoken texts such as talks, speeches and viewing
documentaries and multimedia.
(b) interviewing and using questionnaires
2.3 Present information to different audiences by
(b) instructing, describing, narrating, explaining and reporting
orally.
(c)responding to questions and comments orally and in writing
Skills focused: Speaking skill
Previous knowledge: Students are familiar with the concept of criminal cases.
Students are familiar with conversing and writing using past tense.
Materials required for the lesson: Video (lead-in activity), music (while activity), reading texts
(pre-stage activity), worksheets (while activity), props (while and post activity), PowerPoint
slides (pre-stage, while and post activity).
Websites and softwares used: Canva, Storyboard That, Slides Carnival, Avatar Maker and
Sony Vegas Pro 13.
PROCEDURE:
Lead-in activity steps
Time: 5 minutes
1. Teacher plays a video about the background
Material: Video information of the murder case that happened at a reunion,
(Bertha to help them predict the topic and content of the lesson.
Crookshanks Instruction before playing the video: Watch the video and
murder case) guess what the video is about.
2. Teachers ask questions to check students’
comprehension about the video.
Questions:
● What do you think the video is all about?

Expected answers: murder case, criminal, victim,
witness, investigation
● Do you understand what was really happening?

Expected answers: yes. An English teacher was
murdered at a party. The killer is still free.
● What do you think we are going to do today?

Expected answers: solve the murder case
3. Teacher inform students that the focus of this lesson is to
identify alibi, motives and clues to solve a murder case and
use past tense, a grammar item they have learned before,
accurately while presenting their arguments verbally and
through written text.
Pre-stage Steps
Time: 8 minutes
1. Teacher displays a comic strip about a detective giving
Material: Comic investigation questions to witness or suspect.
strips about 2. After a while, the teacher asks the students questions to
detective improve comprehension and generate interest.
conducting an Questions:
investigation ● Who are those people in the comic?
interview with a Expected answer: A police officer, witness, suspect,
suspect or witness, criminal
slides and ● What are they doing?
projector screen. Expected answer: The police officer is conducting
an investigation interview.
● Do you see any unfamiliar words? Can you guess
what do they mean?
Expected answer: Alibi, witness, evidence
3. After listening to their answers, teacher then pointed out the

new vocabularies used in conducting a murder case
investigation and tense used.
4. Teacher asks students if they understand before proceeding
to the next comic strip and dialogue.
5. Teacher asks the students again if they understand before
moving on to the next stage.
While-Activity Steps
Time: 20 minutes 1) Each student is given an envelope containing their character

cards and a mission for the “find the murderer” game.
Material: Music, 2) Students that are assigned to be the detectives, form groups of
nametags, 5.
character 3) Students who are assigned to be the main characters, have to
descriptions, read and memorize the information from the character cards that
worksheets. they got.
3) Students read the character card individually to comprehend
the information.
4) Teacher can answer any questions that students might have
about their characters.
5) Teacher distributes worksheets to each group.
6) Teacher explains to the class that they need to collect
information about everyone who was at the party (main characters)
and fill any relevant information on the worksheets.
7) Students are encouraged to use prompting questions; “what is
your name?”, “What were you doing at the party?” and
vocabularies learned in Pre-stage such as alibi, motive, and clue.
8) In groups, students discuss the clues and figure out who the
murderer is and prepare their pieces of evidence and judgments.
9) Teacher acts as facilitator during the game.
Post-Stage Steps
Time: 27 minutes
1. Teacher gives instruction regarding the role play activity
Material: Props displayed on the slides.
Instruction:
To catch the murderer, you need to present your findings as
detectives after all the clues and evidence that your group
have found.
i. The students who role-played as suspects gets into the
same group as the detectives based on the alphabet written
on their cards.
ii. Every group have 5 minutes to present their judgments
and you are allowed to pick only one main character to be
the real murderer.
iii. You may take into account:-
- Justifications for choosing the character as the
murderer.
- Reasons the other characters were not involved in
the murder.
iii. Make sure to not exceed the time limit which is 5
minutes.
2. Students present their roleplay in front of the class using the
props given and are monitored by teacher.
3. Teacher act as a judge in a court and respond to students’
judgments.
4. To conclude the class, teacher asks the students to orally
state what they have learnt today and teacher briefly
explains the benefit of the lesson.

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Date: 23rd March 2020

Time: 9.10 am – 9.40 am (60 minutes)

Lead-in activity steps

● What do you think the video is all about?

● Do you understand what was really happening?

● What do you think we are going to do today?

3. After listening to their answers, teacher then pointed out the

Time: 20 minutes 1) Each student is given an envelope containing their character

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