English Lesson: The Ferry Boat Journey
Explore an English lesson focused on a ferry boat journey, discussing the use of country boats, a sinking boat incident due to overcrowding, and learning new vocabulary words. Engage in activities like reading texts, deciphering meanings, and engaging in pair work discussions to enhance understanding of the lesson.
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Good morning. How are you all?
Muhammed Nurul Quader Assistant teacher Garib-e-Newaz High School Halishahar,Chattogram
Subject: English For Today Classes 9-10 Unit 4 Lesson 1 Time 50 minutes
Section A (warmer) 5 minutes Look at the pictures and answer these questions. 1. Where can you find this kind of boat? 2. Why does the boatman carry passengers across a river? 3. Why do people use country boat?
Todays lesson: 9-10eft 4-1 The ferry boat
Section B 25 minutes 1. Read the text and guess the meaning of these underlined words. Is there anybody here who has ever crossed a river by a country boat? I have, teacher, said Jamil. And I clearly remember what happened in that journey. would you please tell us what happened? the teacher asked. okay, teacher. It happened while I was in class six. On a weekly bazar day, people were coming back with their shopping bags and baskets in hands, on shoulders and heads. They had to cross the river. It was not a big river. There was a ferry boat plying on the river. The boat could cross it in 8-10 minutes. It was just after sunset. The weather was getting worse. The wind started blowing from the north-west. Black clouds were moving fast in the sky. Everybody was trying to get into the boat. No more, no more, please wait, shouted the boatman. But nobody listened to him.
Read the last part of the text in B. What happened then, Jamil? asked Rumi. With too many people on board, the boat sank in the middle of the river, replied Jamil. Oh no! What happened then? asked the teacher. Thank God. It was not a fatal accident. All the passengers swam to the other side. But some of them lost their things such as oil, salt and milk, said Jamil. Were you on the boat? asked the teacher. No, teacher. Seeing the boat overcrowded, I waited for the next time, replied Jamil. You ve done the right thing, Jamil.
Word meaning: New words Let s see meanings 1. Ply 2. Worse 3. On board 4. Fatal 5. overcrowded 1. Travel along a route 2. Very bad 3. On the boat 4. Deadly 5. Too many people in a place
Section B (pair work) 2. Discuss the questions in pairs. Then write the answers individually. a. What is the text about? b.Why didn t Jamil get into the boat? (elicit ans. from Ss and give feed back))
Section B 3. Tick the best answer. 1. A ferry boat was plying on the river. Here plying means a. Playing with other boats. b. Sinking in the river. c. Travelling along a route. d. Waiting for passengers. 2. Why was everybody trying to get into the boat? Because a. It was a weekly bazar day. b. After sunset no ferry would ply on the river. c. Everybody had shopping bags with them. d. It was going to be a dark and stormy evening. Let s see answers. 1. c. Travelling along a rout. 2. d. It was going to be a dark and stormy evening.
3. The boatman requested the people to wait, because a. His boat was very small. b.The boat had already too many people. c. There were other boats they could go. d.He would not ferry people with bags and baskets. 4. With too many people on board, the boat sank --- Here the phrase on board means --- a. On the boat b.On the wooden board. c. Outside the boat. d.On the notice board. Let s see the answers. 3. b. The boat had already too many people 4. a. On the boat
5. It was not a fatal accident. The statement tells us that a. Nobody died. b.Nobody was wounded. c. Everybody accepted their fate. d.Nobody lost anything. 6. The boat was overcrowded. Here overcrowded means a. People were quarrelling on the boat. b.The boat was unable to carry any more people. c. The boatman did not like a crowd. d.People were sitting on the boat s bamboo hood. Let s see the answers. 5. a. Nobody died. 6. b. The boat was unable to carry any more people.
Section C: (group work) 20 minutes Discuss the questions in groups and write the answers individually. 1. Why do many people have little or no patience when the ferry boat was in danger of sinking.? 2. No more, no more, please wait who said this and why? Let s see the answers. 1. Because it was going to be a dark and stormy evening. The weather was getting worse. The wind started blowing from the north-west. Black clouds were moving fast in the sky. 2. The boatman said this, because the boat had already too many people.
Section C 3. Answer the questions below: a. If we have too many buyers of fish in the market, what is likely to happen? b. If we have too many passengers at a bus or train station, what may happen? c. If we have too many people in a village / town / city, what will happen? Let s see answers. (Answers may vary from person to person) a. If there are too many buyers of fish in the market the sellers may raise the price of fishes. The rich people will compete to buy fish and the poor may get no fish. b. The bus or train station will be crowded and noisy. Ticket crisis will arise and many passengers may have to wait for hours. c. Housing problem will arise. The cultivable land will be occupied with new houses, shops, mills and factories etc.
Home work Write 5 problems caused by too many people.
Thats all for today. Thank you all.
