The Use Of Herbal Medicine
Subject: English Studies
Class: Basic 2 / Primary 2 / Year 2
Term: Second Term / 2nd Term
Week: Week 4
Topic:
WEEK 4
Previous Knowledge: The pupils have previous knowledge of
Dangers of Wrong Use of Pesticides
that was taught in their previous lesson.
Behavioural Objectives : At the end of the lesson, learners will be able to
- Spell some herbal related words
- Understand the meaning of some simple medical or herbal related words
- Say the dangers of taking herbal drugs without first seeing a doctor
Instructional Materials
- Wall charts
- Pictures
- Online Resource
- Textbooks
- Laptop
Methods of Teaching
- Role modelling
- Questions and Answers
- Explanation
- Discussion
- Recitation
- Imitation
- Story Telling
- Dramatization
Content:
WEEK 4
TOPICS
Vocabulary word building
- Vegetable
- Okra
- Traditional
- Medicine
- seeds,
- berries,
- roots,
- leaves,
- bark
- flowers
The use of herbal medicine
The use of herbal medicine involves the use of herbs, plants, roots, barks or flowers of plants in the preparation of traditional medicine for patient with the aim of getting cure for the patients.
It should be noted that most of the drugs that are used in orthodox treatment are often manufactured by mixing one or two herbs materials together.
Most people believe that the use of herbal medicine is safe and at times effective in treating some medical conditions like infertility, poor sight, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, just to mention a few.
Medical herbal drugs may come in various form ranging from herbal tea, mixed meal or concoction, dried leaves or powder, liquid extract or agbo
Answer the following questions with either true or false
- Mention four parts of the plants that can be used for herbal medicine
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- Mention four medical conditions that herbal medicine can be used for
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- Mention two forms in which herbal medicine occur
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Occupation Work That People Do
These are examples of work that people do
- Farming
- Printing
- Baking
- Plumbing
- Driving
- Teaching
- Banking
- Journalism
- Medicine
- Law
- Accounting
- Blogging
- Graphics
- Trading
- Preaching
Vocation is the job that someone does to earn a living. There are many factors that can make someone to choose a particular job as his or her vocation. Some of these factors are
- Interest
- Love
- Acceptability by member of the public
- Callings
- Need to serve
Presentation :
The topic is presented step by step
Step 1: The class teacher revises the old topic
Step 2: The class teacher introduces the new topic
Step 3: The class teacher allows the pupils to give their own contributions and gives room for pupils” participation
Class Teacher and Pupils Activities. Interaction or Participation
This involves class teacher and pupils’ interaction, conversation, imitation or modeling through discussion, play method or just by recitation or asking and answering questions that are related to the topic that has just been taught
Evaluation
Write out the vocations of the following people
- Lawyer
- Bricklayer
- Carpenter
- Chef
- Tailor
- Teacher
- Banker
- Baker
- Pilot
- Policeman
Previous Lesson
Vocabulary Building reading. Teaching of the new words and reading
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