Subject: English LEVEL: B1 Class VI Lesson 1.

A tale of two birds

Lesson 6. The Monkey and the Crocodile

Skills Focused Target Learning Outcomes Suggested Strategies

Speaking Reading Comics, designing comic Individual work

strips.
Listening Pair Work
Telling stories - Increase children's
Reading Group Work
willingness to communicate thoughts
and feelings

Encourage active participation

Increase verbal proficiency
Encourage use of imagination and
creativity
Encourage cooperation between
students
Enhance listening skills
Writing stories based on the lessons
learnt

ACTIVITY1.

TLO: Students will be able to make a Visual Representation of the stories from the book.

1. Read the Comic Strip of your lesson ‘ The Monkey and the Crocodile .’ Conduct a
Musical or a role play based on the Comic. Divide the class into tree groups-Actors,
singers forming a choir group and choreographers adding movement on the stage.
2. Discuss in groups the lesson that you learn from it.
3. Can you make a similar story based on friendship and betrayal ?
4. Make a comic Strip on ‘ A tale of two birds.’
 Comic : A Tale of two Birds

Example :
 Subject: English LEVEL: B1 Class VI Lesson 2. The friendly Mongoose.
Lesson 9. What happened to the Reptiles

Skills Focused Target Learning Outcomes Suggested Strategies

Speaking Reading Comic story, staging a play Group Work

Listening Listening and expressing points of

view.
Reading Whole Class Work

ACTIVITY1.

TLO: Students will be able to stage a drama showcasing Inclusive Education

Here is a school founded by the King of the forest. Expand on the Comic Story and stage a play
including the roles given in the Comic. You may add your own. What lesson do we learn from here?
Here is a quote from the great scientist Albert Einstein ““Everybody is a genius. But if you judge
a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
ACTIVITY2.

TLO: Students will be able to conduct a role play based on the lesson ‘The Friendly
Mongoose’

The Friendly Mongoose showed how small misunderstanding between animal and man can kill.
Sometimes one mistake costs us dearly. Loved ones can destroy lives and bring untold suffering
to people , animals who are loyal to us. Organise yourself in groups and enact short role plays
showing this sad reality. Show the class how we can correct the mistakes and learn Life’s
lessons from them.
 Subject: English LEVEL: B1 Class VI Lesson 7. The Wonder called Sleep.
Lesson 8. A Pact with the Sun

Skills Focused Target Learning Outcomes Suggested Strategies

Reading Reading Charts, health and Nutrition Group Work

facts from newspapers and General
Speaking
Science text book.
Listening Pair Whole
Speaking on related topics in a clear
Writing and concise manner. Class Work
Listening and expressing points of
view.

Making Charts & Placards for Display

Board to outline Lifestyle related
Health Benefits

ACTIVITY1.

TLO: Students will be able to collect and disseminate information across the Curriculum.
1. Make a detailed list of the above mentioned topics in a Chart and Conduct a special
programme in the Assembly titled ‘Healthy Living to a better You. ’
 ACTIVITY2

TLO: Students will be able to collect information, and record the findings by making
Health Charts.

Read the passage below. Answer the questions :

Once it's 9:30 p.m., all is quiet at Maya’s house . Maya and her brother Kishan are sleeping
soundly. "My husband and I sleep-trained them at an early age, and our routine will not
change" says Deepali, who works as a teacher. "They have a bath, brush their teeth, say a
prayer, and get a story. Then it's lights-out. I'm convinced that's why they have fewer health
problems. They also don't get as many colds as other kids in their class."

Parents have always felt that sleep directly affects a child's mood, and most would agree it's
got a big impact on learning and behavior. But pediatric researchers' latest findings suggest that
sleep is also essential to good health. When kids get the sleep they need, they may have a
lower risk of becoming overweight and developing diabetes as well as fewer learning problems
and attention issues. Sleep is as important as nutrition and exercise. It's when the body
repackages neurotransmitters, chemicals that enable brain cells to communicate. And experts
have recently been able to demonstrate that sleep allows brain cells to "take out the trash"
each night, flushing out disease-causing toxins.

(a) When does Maya and her brother go to sleep? Why ?

(b) What does her mother believe?
(c) Make a of list of at least five benefits of a good night’s sleep.

A good Night’s Sleep

1. Promotes Growth- It helps children to grow well. "Growth hormone is specially secreted
during deep sleep," says a doctor and a Parents’ advisor.
2. Sleep helps the heart- __________________________________________
3. Sleep helps beat germs
_________________________________________________________
4. Sleep promotes learning
__________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________
 Subject: English LEVEL: B1 Class VI Lesson 3. The Shepherd’s Treasure.
Lesson 10. A Strange Wrestling Match.

Skills Focused Target Learning Outcomes Suggested Strategies

Reading Speaking skill through Story Telling Individual

technique : use story skeletons to help
Speaking remember the key events Pair Work

Listening thinking of the plot as a film or a series Group Work

of connected images
Writing
telling the story in own words

creating your own version of the story

(adapt and improvise)

Language learning as a intuitive

process through dramatization.

Learning delivery of language as a first

language, i.e thought, understanding
and expression are in the same
language.

ACTIVITY1.

TLO: Students will be able to imbibe speaking skill through Story Telling technique using
multi-sensory, non-linear approach to make the child a confident user of English.
Have you visited the world of Karadi, the storyteller bear from India, who takes you on an
exciting and magical journey with his stories? If not, you must visit online his forest, and he will
enthrall you with wonderful stories of man and beasts, their homes, their fights, and their
exciting lives in the forest, villages and just about everywhere.

Read any Karadi Tales or stories from the Panchatantra. In groups or pair prepare for a story
telling session in the class. You can use Props, small items or dresses to make your story
interesting. Adding music or song will make your story come alive. Practise voice change,
modulation, swinging your hands and legs. You are now ready to be the Story teller of your
class. You will find that It is more than exchanging information and extending ideas, it is the
means of reaching out and connecting with other people.

ACTIVITY2.

TLO: Students will be able to imbibe speaking skill through Story Telling technique using
multi-sensory, non-linear approach to make the child a confident user of English.

This story is an invitation to all children to read along with your friends. Each narrator begins by
asking, “Will you read with me?”, and takes the others on a journey into the world of the story.
This reading will transport you into another world that is filled with wondrous possibility.

This story will fire your imagination and set it free. You can start thinking of writing your own
ghost story.

Ghosts in the Verandah

Ruskin Bond
Bibiji, my neighbour, a warm, attractive woman in her early thirties, is fond of odd, scary
stories, most of which have their setting in her village near Mathura.

The other night Bibiji launched into an account of various types of ghosts she had known - the
ghosts of wicked women - churels -who appeared with their feet facing backwards; ghosts with
long front teeth who sucked human blood and ghosts who take the form of snakes and animals.
One species that I found particularly fascinating was the munjia (supposedly the disembodied
spirit of a Brahmin youth who died before his marriage) which is said to take up its abode in the
branches of a lonely peepul tree. When the spirit is annoyed, it rushes out from the tree and
upsets tongas, bullock carts and bicycles; even a bus is known to have been overturned by
a munjia. According to Bibiji, should anyone be passing beneath a peepul tree at night, he must
be careful not to yawn without covering his mouth or snapping his fingers in front of it. If he
doesn't remember to do this, the munjia will dash down his throat and completely ruin his
digestive system.

Among other things, Bibiji told us of the night she had seen the ghost of her husband's first
wife. The ghost had lifted Bibiji's baby, then a few months old, out of its cradle, rocked it in her
arms for a little while, and announced she was glad the child was a good boy- a sentiment
which is not shared by those who know him, for Bibiji's son, now ten, is the most exasperating
and dangerous character in the neighbourhood.

The villagers around Mathura, (according to Bibiji) have a means by which they can tell what
form a departed person takes in his or her next life. After the cremation, some of the loved
one's ashes are placed in a basin and left outside at night, covered with a heavy lid. Next
morning a footprint is found in the ashes. It may be the footprint of a man or a horse or an
elephant according to the form taken by the departed soul. Bibiji told me that one of her more
unpleasant aunts left the foot print of a pig.

In the course of the evening, I mentioned that a friend

of mine had found a snake under his bed that very
morning. Snakes, declared Bibiji, were very lucky omens
if seen early in the morning.

"But what if the snake bites the lucky person? I asked.

"He will be lucky all the same," said Bibiji with a logic
that is all her own. She then told us the story of the
snake who married a princess.

At first the princess did not agree to marry the snake

whom she had met in a forest, but the snake insisted "I
will kill you if you don't marry me." This settled the
question. The snake led his bride away and took her to
a great treasure. "I was a prince in my previous birth,"
explained the snake. "It is all yours," and then he very
gallantly disappeared.
By eleven o'clock I was feeling almost reluctant to leave the company at Bibiji's verandah and
spend the night alone in my room. I could not help recalling the story of the man who woke up
in the middle of the night and putting his hand under the pillow for his watch, touched a mouth
with long teeth and hair around it. It did not make me feel any better to be told that I should
recite certain mantras to keep away the more mischievous spirits.

But the more I repeated it the more uneasy I became. When I got into bed (taking care not to
put anything under the pillow) I could not lie still but kept twisting and turning and looking at
the walls for suspicious shadows. After sometime I heard knocking on the door, I found Bibiji's
daughters looking pale and anxious. In frightening me with their mother's stories, they had also
succeeded in frightening themselves.

"Are you all right?" they asked, "Wouldn't you like to sleep in our house? It might be safer.
Come, we will help to carry your bed across."

"I'm quite all right," I protested but I was hustled along to the next flat as though a band of
ghosts was conspiring against me. Bibiji had been absent during all this activity and the first we
heard of her was scream. We ran towards the sound and found her emerging from my room.

"Ruskin's disappeared!" she cried, "His bed has gone too!"

And then, when she saw me dashing out of her flat in my pyjamas, she gave another shriek and
fainted on the verandah.
 Subject: English LEVEL: B1 Class VI Lesson 4. The Old Clock Shop.
Lesson 5. Tansen.

Skills Focused Target Learning Outcomes Suggested Strategies

Reading Speaking skill through Story Telling Individual

technique : Remembering and
Speaking retelling it numerous times until it Pair Work
feels like a story
Listening Group Work
creating own version of the story (to
Value Education
adapt and improvise)

retelling a story numerous times until

it feels like a story
Reading passages to realize the power
of compassion,

Exploring and enabling their

understanding on how to create a just
and gentle world.

ACTIVITY1.

TLO: Students will listen to stories for pleasure and imbibe values like loyalty,
compassion and love for fellow beings. Children have an innate love of stories. Stories
create magic and a sense of wonder at the world. Stories teach us about life, about
ourselves and about others. Storytelling is a unique way for students to develop an
understanding, respect and appreciation for other cultures, and can promote a positive
attitude to people from different lands, races and religions.
Stories also promote a feeling of well-being and relaxation
Have you heard or read about Emperor Akbar and his famous Courtier Birbal. Birbal was
known for his intelligence and humour. Read the story to appreciate that you can be
intelligent and funny at the same time.

1. Once a man sold his well to a farmer. Next day when a farmer went to draw the water
from that well, the man did not allow him to draw the water from it. He said, “I have
sold you the well, not the water, so you cannot draw the water from the well.”
2. The farmer became very sad and came to the Emperor’s court. He described everything
to the Emperor and asked for the justice.
3. The Emperor called Birbal and handed over this case to him. Birbal called the man who
sold the well to the farmer. Birbal asked, “Why don’t you let him use the water of the
well. You have sold the well to the farmer.” The man replied, “Birbal, I have sold the well
to the farmer, not the water. He has no right to draw the water from the well.”
4. Then Birbal smiled and said to him, “Good, but look, since you have sold the well to this
farmer, and you claim that water is yours, then you have no right to keep your water in
the farmer’s well. Either you pay rent to the farmer to keep your water in his well, or
you take that out of his well immediately.”
5. The man understood, that his trick has failed. Birbal has outwitted him.
6. Moral: Don’t Try to Cheat. You will end up paying for it regardless of how smart you
think you are.

ACTIVITY2.
TLO: Students will learn the value of Empathy , and be aware of the changes that can be
brought about through the power of kindness and generosity.

1. Here are a series of short Golden Rule Stories. A golden-rule story should have an
easily expressed moral. The author uses this story to introduce the golden rule
which is “We need to imagine our actions being done to us (switching places).
Make a list of lessons that you learn from the stories.

The old man and his grandson

We need to imagine our actions being done to us (switching places)

There once was a grandpa who lived with his family. As Grandpa grew older, he began
to slobber and spill his food. So the family had him eat alone. When he dropped his bowl
and broke it, they scolded him and got him a cheap wooden bowl. Grandpa was so
unhappy. Now one day the young grandson was working with wood. "What are you
doing?" Mom and Dad asked. "I'm making a wooden bowl," he said, "for when you two
get old and must eat alone." Mom and Dad then looked sad and realized how they were
mistreating Grandpa. So they decided to keep quiet when he spills his food and to let
him eat with the family.

"We need to imagine our actions being done to us (switching places)." Others might give
the moral as "Different generations can respect and learn from each other" or perhaps
"How we can unthinkingly hurt those we love." When you tell a golden-rule story, you
might ask people what they think the moral is. Often people may come up with different
answers that are equally insightful.
 The Karate Kid
(A Lesson From Mr. Miyagi)
In hurting others, we hurt ourselves
Seeking revenge is one way a person might react to being hurt. It might be a very
natural reaction, at that. In this regard, we can learn a lot from going to the
movies: A young man approaches a karate master and asks him to teach him
karate. The master asks him why he wishes to learn this art. The young man
answers, "To seek revenge." The master responds with this caution: "If you wish
to learn the art of karate to seek revenge, you will then be digging two graves,
one for your enemy and one for yourself."

We might recall the "Golden Rule" here: Do unto others as you would have
others do unto you.

The shopkeeper and the robber

A random act of kindness can change someone's life
Mohammad owned a small convenience store in New York. One day a robber
came and demanded money. Mohammad took out his rifle (which he never
loads). The robber pleaded for mercy, explaining that he had no money and that
his family was hungry. The shopkeeper, considering what it would be like if his
own family were hungry, felt bad for the man; after making him promise never
to rob again, he gave him $40 and some food for his family -- and said a prayer of
thanksgiving when he left.

Six months later, Mohammad got a letter from the robber, with $50 and a note
about how the event changed his life; the robber now has an honest job and
supports his family well.