Summary
(summarize what has been taught and how it is important for the learner)
Take an empty BINGO grid and have the learner lay coins (or pictures of coins) on 24 of the squares.
Say the name (or value) of a coin and have the learner pull the appropriate coin(s) off the grid. Round Two: Say a "price" and have the learner pull coins off the grid that amount to that price.

Homework: page 220 from Hands On!
Naw-Po is to tell me about her next trip to the store. What did she buy? What did it cost?
What coins did she use to purchase it? What things did the clerk at the store say?
Naw-Po worked very hard during the lesson and accomplished quite a bit. In addition to the planned lesson, we also discussed paper money, which was easy for her to remember. No drills were done since she did not think it was necessary.

Naw-Po has some difficulty with the differences between numbers such as 13 and 30, 14 and 40 etc.
We discussed the differences in the vowel sound between numbers such as 15 and 50 and the importance of emphasizing the "n" sound when talking about "teen" numbers. Naw Po can add and subtract (as demonstrated by the exercises that she did later in the lesson on page 220). She has obviously worked with money in Myanmar and feels relatively comfortable with it.
Naw Po knew the majority of the numbers when written in their numerical form; however, as words (one, two, three…) she is still uncertain about some of them. Review work will need to be done during the next few lessons.

Objectives for the following sessions:
Give her more practice writing words such as cent, penny, nickel etc. She will be able to do basic transactions at a store (respond to requests for money and give appropriate amounts of money).
She will be able to check change received to make sure that it is correct.

Future plans
Lesson 5: Practice purchasing food items using money; discuss phrases used for purchasing.
Items to include in portfolio Written work

Once again, the tutor was able to do some of these activities with Naw-Po because she had some of the prerequisite skills. Although Naw-Po was only in school a short time and has difficulties reading and writing, she does possess numeracy skills. She knows what numbers are and she is able to do basic addition and subtraction. What if a learner who was preliterate (did not understand that there was a sound-symbol correlation or a numerical system) made the same request? What activities would work for a preliterate learner? What additional steps would need to be taken?

Teaching numbers to a preliterate learner may be very time consuming. You may find that, rather than just using one or two tutorial sessions to "teach English numbers," you may have to spend several sessions just establishing what numbers are. Cards such as the ones shown below may assist the preliterate learner, while others will need to see real objects because they will not know that the pictures represent real objects.