Celebration of Nature

LESSON PLAN

TOPIC: Oral Presentation on Shakespeare’s Macbeth
LANGUAGE SKILL: Speaking
LEVEL OF STUDENTS: Form Five, secondary Malaysian school level
TIME: 2 period (80 minutes)
NUMBER OF THE STUDENTS: 25

GENERAL AIM:
1) To enable students to converse in English proficiently and to think critically.

SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
1) Display understanding of Macbeth.
2) Construct critical thoughts through group discussion and question and answer session.
3) Speak English in a controlled environment.

TEACHING AIDS:
1) Internet:
· http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/quiz.html
· http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIPrZ4uIPQ&feature=related

PROCEDURES:
Activities
1.
Students have learned about Shakespeare’s Macbeth on the previous class. Thus, the teacher proceeds to the briefing of the class activity of the day.
(5 minutes)
2.
Teacher divides the students into groups of five. Each group is assigned to one computer each.
(5 minutes)
3.
As the computers are already switched on and connected to the internet, students are asked to browse the url http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/macbeth/quiz.html to do the online exercise.
(15 minutes)
4.
After finishing the exercise, students are required to watch Macbeth video on Youtube. Students are asked to browse the url http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irIPrZ4ulPQ&feature=related
(10 minutes)
5.
After the students finish watching the video, students are required to critically analyze the video by comparing the video and the written text on the topic of:
1) Characters development
2) Language
3) Sensation
4) Scene adaptation
5) Props and costumes
Each group will be given one topic. They discuss and share ideas as they react to the video.
(20 minutes)
6.
Each group presents their topic to the class. One presenter for each group. 5 minutes of presentation is allocated for each group. At the end of the presentation, there is a question and answer session.
(25 minutes)

EVALUATIONS:
The lesson’s learning outcomes are measured by:
1) Exercise on Sparknotes – the scores obtained by the students.
2) Presentation
· Proficiency : Students’ speaking fluency in English in terms of the grammar, pronunciation and structure of the sentence.
· Critical thinking : Exercising higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of the video.

REFLECTIONS:

This lesson plan is designed to give benefits to the students as it develops students’ speaking skill and also enhances students’ critical thinking. With the use of computer and internet, we hope that the students will actively participate in the activities, acquire new skills in using the computer and discover the best means in learning language through the assistance of computer.
We find this assignment challenging in deciding the specific topic and procedures. It is also demanding because we have to integrate the process of learning with the technology. The process of planning this assignment is also quite time consuming in order to choose the right video for the lesson.
Nevertheless, the process of producing this lesson plan is rewarding because we learn lots of new things from it. For example, we find lots of information about the Shakespeare’s Macbeth and get the idea on how to create an effective lesson plan from the internet. It also creates awareness that thorough online research is very beneficial for learners like us because it helps us to get the clear picture on how to form the best activities for the lesson plan. And most importantly, it proves that computer can be the best tool for the students to learn language.
The experience of producing this lesson plan would be useful to us if we intend to become a teacher someday. This is because, it gives us clear steps in producing a good lesson plan, creating effective and creative class activities and discovering new methods of teaching by using technology. Thus, this lesson plan would be a good example for us to create lesson plans in the future.
As a conclusion, throughout the course of producing this lesson plan, we had discovered lots of new skills and creative method of teaching. Apart from that, we realized that computer is the best companion in teaching and also learning.