THEME: People
TOPIC: Can you solve the problem?
TIME: 40 minutes
LANGUAGE CONTENT: Cause and Effect conjunctions
PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE:
- Students should have learn on cause and effect conjunctions
- ICT skills
- Creative and Critical Thinking Skills (CCTS)
- Multiple Intelligences
by the end of the lesson, students should be able to
- understand the usage of different cause and effect conjunctions
- use the appropriate conjunctions in sentences
- understand the importance of cause and effect in problem solving skills in daily life
- One computer per group 2/3 students
- Internet connection
- Web Browse
- Locate the Crimson Room website
- Browse through the website to make sure that it is suitable for the language content
- Prepare worksheet based on the information in the website
http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson e.php
PROCEDURE:
Set Induction (3 minutes)
1. The teacher asks the students what they will do if they are trapped in a room.
2. Teacher links the question with problem solving skills and cause and effect consideration in daily life.
3. Teacher recaps the previous lesson on cause and effect conjunctions.
Activity 1 (18 minutes)
1. Teacher instructs the students to work in a group of two or three students. Each group is allocated with a computer.
2. Teacher instructs the students to surf into the specific website:
http://www.fasco-csc.com/works/crimson/crimson e/php
3. Teacher explains to the students on how to play the crimson room game.
4. Teacher allocates about 15 minutes for the students to play the game.
5. Teacher assists each group if necessary.
Activity 2 (10 minutes)
1. Teacher chooses 2 students randomly to make a sentence from the game that they play by using the cause and effect conjunction that they have learned.
2. Teacher then distributes a worksheet to every student and asks them to complete the worksheet by using the appropriate cause and effect conjunction to complete each sentence.
3. Teacher allocates about 7 minutes for the students to finish their work.
4. Teacher guides the students in their work.
Activity 3 (7 minutes)
1. Teacher selects any student randomly to present the answers.
2. Teacher assists the students towards the correct answers if necessary.
3. Teacher relates the importance of considering "cause and effect" in decision making and problem solving skills in life to the students.
Conclusion (2 minutes)
1. Teacher selects any student randomly to recaps what they have learned in the lesson.
2. Teacher inculcates moral values.
Follow up activity:
Teacher asks the students to write a short cause and effect essay by using all cause and effect conjunctions that they have learned. The teacher assigns the students to e-mail the essay to the teacher before next class.
Teacher also asks the students to continue the game at home.
APPENDIX:


a) crimson room website

b) worksheet