By the end of the lesson the students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the main points of a short factual text about a town (My home town is Mpanda/Mpanda town is the capital of Katavi Region)
- Describe the location, population, economic activity, and main buildings/activities in their own town (Mpanda town is at the centre of the region/It is in the southwestern part of Tanzania)
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LOCATION
OF MY TOWN
Take a map with you in the class (especially a region,
district or a country map)
Write the name of the town where your school is
situated.
Write the name of the region, and ask: ‘Which region is our town in?’
Accept various responses. The correct response is
‘Katavi’.
Also ask them: ‘Which
town is our school in?’ Allow them to try, and check their responses.
If the school is not in the capital of the region, ask
them: ‘Which district is our school in?’
For example, if the school is in Mpanda District, the correct response is
‘Mpanda District’.
These questions help students to express their
locations by using English Language. Make sure there are more exercises for
them to understand the correct way to express their location.
Write the word ‘near’
on the board and ask: ‘Which other towns
are near our town?’ (Allow them to check the map you have brought in the
class if it is relevant).
Allow their various responses to flow from them.
After various responses, guide them to use the correct
sentence structure like:
- ‘Our town is near ………. Town’
- ‘Our town is near Namanyere town’
- ‘Our Mpanda town is near Inyonga town’
- ‘Our town is near Sikonge town’
- ‘Our town is near Sumbawanga town’
Ask them another question: ‘Which other regions are near our region?’ Encourage them to follow
the correct sentence order as they respond:
- ‘Our region is near ……region’
- ‘Our region is near Rukwa Region’
- ‘Katavi region is near Kigoma region’
- ‘Our region is near Tabora region’
- ‘Our region is near Mbeya region’
Substitution
table 1.
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Mpanda town
Namanyere and Inyonga towns
Our town
Katavi region
Rukwa and Kigoma regions
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are
is
|
near
|
our town
Inyonya town
our region
|
JOBS
AT MY TOWN
Write the word ‘jobs’
on the board and ask; ‘What is the
meaning of the word jobs?’ Accept their responses. Help them out if they
can’t come up with the proper answer. Then ask them: ‘What jobs are found in your town?’ or ‘What jobs do people in our town participate?’
Write the word ‘industries’
on the board and ask: ‘What is an
industry?’ Allow them to respond. Help them the simple meaning and
continue.
‘What industries
are in our town?’ Accept any factory name they give.
Write the word ‘buildings’
on the board and ask them to tell what they know about the term. Then ask them:
‘What buildings are there in our town?’
MY
TOWN
(A Text on any town describing a region, neighbouring
regions, neighbouring towns, jobs, industries, and buildings in the particular
town)
Katavi region has a population of more than six
hundred thousand people. It is located in the Western part of Tanzania. It is
bordered by four regions. It is bordered by Rukwa region in southeast, Tabora
region in the northeast, Mbeya Region in the east, and Kigoma region in north-western
part. It is also bordered by Lake Tanganyika in the West. Mpanda is the capital
of the region. The towns which are near our town are Namanyere town which is
about 128 KM from our town and Inyonga. There are many jobs in Mpanda. People
like miners, farmers, tour guide, fishermen, traders, and others actively
engage themselves in activities like mining, agriculture, tourism, fishing,
trade and pastoralism. Industries are also available in Mpanda town. Some of
these industries are mineral processing industries. The town also has famous
buildings. The famous buildings in Mpanda include Mpanda Hotel, Mizengo Pinda
Bus Terminal, Mpanda Railway Station, Mpanda District Hospital, Super City
Hotel, and many more. People who come to our town can have a lot of fun.
Ask individual, pairs or groups to make sentences
about the town in the story.
If possible allow them to draw the table, then let
them fill in the information they have found in the text:
Exercise: Ask students to complete the information
that is missing in Column B
|
Column A
|
Column B
|
|
The Population of the region
|
|
|
The location of the region
|
|
|
Neighbouring regions
|
|
|
Some economic activities in Mpanda
|
|
|
Neighbouring towns
|
|
|
Some Jobs in Mpanda
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|
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Industries in Mpanda
|
|
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Some famous Buildings in Mpanda
|
|
If there are students who come from a different town
in the region or country, ask them if the town in discussion is similar to the
town they come from. Get their responses.
Guide them to draw this chart and fill in as they
compare information read in the text and the information from their home town.
|
Information
|
Mpanda town
|
Namanyere town
|
|
Economic activities
|
Tourism and mining
|
………………………
|
|
Jobs
|
Farmers, traders, etc
|
………………………
|
|
Industries
|
Mining industry
|
……………………….
|
|
Buildings
|
Railway Station
|
………………………
|
For
more practice, ask students the following questions:
- Where can I get Panadol in our town?
- Where can I buy some clothes in our town?
- Where can I watch football match in our town?
- Where can I pray in our town?
- Where can I drink a beer in our town?
- Who can tell me the way to the bank?
- Who can show me the way to the Bus Terminal?
- Who can show me the way to the Regional Commissioner’s Office?
At the end, the teacher encourages students to use the
information they already know to write and speak about things in their home
town.
PRACTICE
TEST:
Fill
in the blank spaces in the sentences below by choosing the correct word from
the box.
|
School, market, police station, cinema, restaurant,
post office, banks, farm, courts, lodge
|
(i)
The
place where movies are shown ________________
(ii)
The
place where letters and other parcels are received and delivered _______
(iii)
The
place where sick people are treated _____________
(iv)
The
place where students study _______________
(v)
The
place where people get financial services _________________
(vi)
The
place where people sell and by things ______________
(vii)
The
place where people cultivate various crops _______________
(viii)
The
place where people eat and drink ______________
(ix)
The
place where people sleeps ______________
(x)
The
place where cases and crimes are resolved ___________
Resources
Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (2015) Baseline: Orientation Course for Form One –
Students’ Book, Science, Mathematics and Social Sciences, MoevT, Dar es Salaam.
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