Giving and Responding to Commands/Instructions/Directions and Making Requests

Curriculum details

Strand

Oral Language (Strand 1)

Sub-strand

Giving and Responding to Commands/Instructions/Directions and Making Requests (1.9)

Content standard

B3.1.9.1 - Demonstrate understanding in commands, instructions, directions and requests

Indicator

B3.1.9.1.2 - Make and respond to polite requests

Suggested placement

Term 1, Week 10 (Week 10 of the year)

Our suggestion, laid out in curriculum order across three terms of twelve weeks. NaCCA does not fix the week, so follow your school's scheme of learning.

Curriculum reference

English Language Curriculum (Basic 1-3), 2019, p. 79

Transcribed from the official NaCCA publication. Check this page against the source.

Exemplars (from the NaCCA curriculum)

- Show pictures of requests to learners and ask them to guess the requests from pictures:
e.g. a picture of a closed door, a picture of an open door, a picture of someone carrying books etc. (Can you help me carry the books?, Please, close/open the door.)
- Invite pairs of learners to the front of the class to make and respond to polite requests. Let learner A pick a picture and Learner B make the request. Then, Learner A responds to the request made.
- Have learners draw pictures of requests for their partners to guess the requests
- Let learners practise making and accepting or declining requests using expressions such as "Yes, Of course, No problem, I'm sorry, I can't, etc.