INNOVATIVE WORK

Duration : 45 mins
Date : 12/ 12/ 17

Subject : English
Unit : II, Wings and Wheels
Sub Unit : The Marvelous Travel (Poem)
Theme : Travel and Adventure
Sub-Theme : New ideas on travelling adventure.

Curricular Statements:

1. Reads and enjoys poems

2. Develops a positive outlook of life
3. Appreciated rhyming tones
4. Happily enjoys the poem
Classroom Interaction Procedure
Informal interaction: The teacher communicates informally with the students to create a rapport
with them. Teacher sings a song for students that echoes chukk… chuckkk..chuckkkk….

Individual Writing: Teacher asks the learners to write a poem about train.

Individual Reading: Students read the songs they have written individually. Then they discuss with
groups. Teacher corrects their mistakes. Finally they built a new song.

Introducing Lesson: Teacher introduces the poem, From a Railway Carriage by R. L. Stevenson

Teacher shows the picture of the poet to students.

Teacher distributes unarranged pictures of the boggy which denotes lines and scenes from the
poem.

Teacher asks each students to explain the scene depicted

Teacher divided into groups and shuffles the pictures of the boggy.

Teacher asks the group to logically arrange the poem and stand in arranged boggies.

Teacher assumes himself as the main engine and starts to Chukkkk….Chuckkkk….

Students logically arrange the given pictures and form engine and boggies.

Students flag off the train and recite the poem boggy to boggy.
Students rhythmically chukk..chukkk… themselves and read the poem.

Students who have now formed the entire train chukk..chukkk around the class and come to the
station

Teacher appreciated the students and names the train as From a Railway Carriage.

Glossary Reference with the Help of Teaching Aids: Teacher asks the students to write words on the
blackboard in which they have not understand

Presentation of Word Meaning: Teacher presents the meaning of the words with the help of
teaching aids.

Individual Reading: Teacher read the poem individually with correct pronunciation, stress and
intonation.

Group Reading by Students: Students read the poem in groups

Scaffolding Questions:

1. Who is the speaker of the poem?

2. Who does he address?

Discourse Construction: Write an imaginary conversation between the stationmaster and a girl who
has lost her train to Cochin

Individual Writing: Learner’s write the discourse individually

Group Writing: Learner’s share their points and present their writings.

Editing by the Teacher: Teacher edits the learner’s discourse and presents her own version.

Assignment: Prepare an article about the difficulties by the loco pilot driver.

Reference:

Course Book

Source Book