Basic 6 Ghanaian Language Term 1 Week 11 Lesson Plan

Read out excerpts from speeches made by important individuals in the country. Let learners relate to the speeches and share ideas on such speeches Get a tall list of action words on it. Select a student to stand at the front of the room and act out a word from your list (no speaking allowed). The rest of the class must then guess what the student is attempting to portray. Whoever guesses correctly can act the next word

Let learners mention some action words and use them in sentences. Write the sentences on the board and discuss the perfect tense with learners. Allow a learner to give an action word (verb) and another learner to use it to form a sentence with the verb in the perfect tense. Talk about the perfect tense and give examples on the board. write some sentences and allow learners to identify the perfect action words in the sentences. Allow the learners to use the verbs to form sentences orally. Tell the learners to put the verbs in the perfect tense. Write sentences with the subject in singular form and discuss with learners the agreement between the verb and the subject. Allow learners to give more sentences orally and talk about the subject-verb agreement. Give other sentences with the subject in the plural form. Discuss the agreement between the verb and plural subject. Ask learners to give more examples and write them on the board. Call learners in turns to underline the verb. Let learners change the verbs in the sentences into the perfect tense For this activity, learners use printed action-picture cards of farming and fishing, locally made verb cards and exercise books and pencils to match each local action picture to the correct tense form and use it in a sentence.

Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt Use questions to review their understanding of the lesson Ask learners to summarize what they have learnt