Students’ activities

I. Warm up: Spend a few minutes having the class play Bingo, using the titles of books/stories learnt in Lesson 1. Then ask pupils to ask and answer questions about what they are reading, using. What are you reading? I’m reading ...

II. New lesson:

1. Look, listen and repeat

-Tell the class that they are going to read about Mai and Quan. Ask them to look at the pictures, listen and repeat the lines in the  bubbles.

-Point to the pictures and ask these questions: Who are they? Where are they? What are they doing

-Play the recording all the way through for the class to listen and follow in their books. Play it again for them to repeat line by line.

-Check their understanding of the  story.

2. Point and say

-  Tell the class that they are going to practise  Tell the class that they are going to practise asking and answering questions about what the character of a book/story is like, using What’s ... like? He’s/She’s ...

-Have pupils look at the pictures and teach them to say the  words under each picture. Get them to practise the question What’s ... like? using the names under the pictures. Then have them practise saying the answers, using the given adjectives.

-Point to the first picture and ask What’s An Tiem like? for the class to answer He’s hard-working. Repeat the same procedure with the rest of the pictures.

-Ask them to practise in pairs. Monitor the activity and offer help, if necessary.

- Select some pairs to act out the exchanges.

3.Let’s talk:

- Tell the class that they are going to practise further by asking and answering questions about books/stories they like reading.

-Get them to work in pairs, using the questions and answers in their books.

-Set a time limit for them to practise. Monitor the activity and offer help, if necessary.

-Select some pairs to act out their exchanges in front of the class. Then give feedback.

III. Consolidation:

- Summary the lesson

IV. Homework:

-  Do exercises in workbook, learn by heart the new words

-Play the game

- Listen

- Look at the pictures and answer:

-Mai and Quan are at school.

-In Picture a, Mai asks Quan what he’s reading and he answers Aladdin and the Magic Lamp.

-In Picture b, Quan says the main character is a boy called Aladdin.

-In Picture c, Mai continues to ask What’s he like? and Quan answers I think he’s generous.

-In Picture d, Quan says Mai can borrow the book when he finishes it.)

- Listen

- Listen and repeat

- Do as directed

- Listen

- Listen and copy

+ Listen and repeat

+ Groups, individuals

- Listen and copy

- Do as directed

- Listen

- Work in pairs

- Some pairs perform in front of class

- Listen to the teacher

- Remember

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

I. Warm up: Play the game: Order the words

II. New lesson:

4. Listen and write one word in blank

•        Tell the class that they are going to listen to Hoa, Phong, Mai and Tony talking about their favourite books/stories. Get pupils to pay attention to the main characters of the books/stories.

•        Ask pupils to read the gapped sentences and guess the answers.

•        Play the recording for them to listen and complete the sentences.

•        Play it again for the class to check their answers. Monitor the activity and offer help, if necessary.

•        Get pupils to swap and read their answers in pairs before checking as a class.

Key:   1 kind       2 clever      3 hard-working                 4 generous

5. Number the sentences in the correct number

•              Tell the class that they are going to number the sentences in the correct order.

•              Have them read the sentences and check their understanding.

•              Set a time limit for them to do the task independently. Monitor the activity and offer help,      if necessary.

•              Get them to swap and read their answers before inviting one or two pupils to read the sentences aloud in the correct order.

Key:   1 Minh’s my classmate.

2  She likes reading fairy tales in her free time.

3  Her favourite fairy tale is The Story of Tam and Cam.

4  It’s a Vietnamese story about two girls.

5  Their names are Tam and Cam.

6Let’s sing:

•              Tell the class that they are going to sing Snow White and Aladdin. Teach the song, following the procedure in Teaching the unit components in Introduction.

•              Have them read each line of the lyrics aloud. Check comprehension.

•              Play the recording all the way through for pupils to listen and follow in their books. Play it again for the class to do choral and individual repetition until they get familiar with the melody of the song.

•              Play the recording again and get pupils to sing along with the music.

•              Divide the class into two groups: one sings the first four lines and the other sings the rest.

III. Consolidation

- Summary the lesson

IV. Homework

-  Do exercises in workbook, prepare the next period.

- Play game

- Listen to the teacher

- Listen to the tape

- Listen and do the task

- Listen

- Do the task

- Individually

- Work in pairs

- Some Ps

- The whole class

- Listen

- Do as directed

- Listen

- Play in groups

- Listen

- Remember