LESSON PLAN

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TEXTBOOK: Tiếng Anh 4 Family and Friends National Edition
STARTER UNIT: WELCOME BACK!
Lesson One - Words (page 4)
A. DESIRED OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Core competences
- Recall the main course characters.
- Understand a short story.
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in pairs/groups to talk about family members.
- Problem-solving and creativity: find out their favorite color.
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners to complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth about feelings and emotions or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.
B. LANGUAGE FOCUS AND SKILLS
1. Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: recycled from previous grade
- Extra vocabulary: Welcome back! Learning, end (v)
2. Skills: Listening, Speaking and Reading.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Student book - page 4
- Audio tracks 01, 02
- Teacher’s Guide
- Website sachso.edu.vn
- Number, Color, Family member flashcards

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D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)
Aim: To motivate students and help students to remember the commands.

* Game: “Simon says...”

- Ask the students to stand at their desks. - Stand at your desk. Listen to the
Explain that you are going to give teacher’s instructions.
instructions. If the instruction begins
with the words Simon says… students
must do as you say. If not, they must
stand still and wait for the next
instruction. Any student who gets this
wrong is out of the game and sits
down. - Follow the teacher.
- Model the activity, e.g., Simon says - Play the game.
stand up. Simon says open your book.
Intermittently, introduce an instruction
that doesn’t start with Simon says and
see if any students follow the
instruction.
- Continue the game until there is one
winner or a group of winners, if you
prefer. - Volunteer to say the commands.
- Call some volunteers to say the
commands.
- Praise the winner.
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence:
Students can identify the commands
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can
remember the commands.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable
to remember the commands.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students recall the main course characters.

*Lead-in:
- Ask children to open their books to

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 page 4 and look at the three children at - Say the names of the characters.
the top of the page. Point to each one
for children to tell you their names. (If
it is the first time the class has seen
these characters, point to them and say
their names – Rosy, Billy, and Tim.
Children repeat their names after you.)
Explain that they will see these
characters all the way through the
coursebook.
- Tell the children that they are going to
begin the lesson with a song. If the
children have studied Family and
- Answer the questions.
Friends before, talk about the songs
with the class. Ask Can you remember
any songs from Family and Friends?
- Encourage children to tell you (or
sing) any lines they can remember
from the songs. If they remember one - Sing the song.
of the songs well, then sing it with the
class. If they want to sing, but they
can’t remember any of the songs, write
the words Hello, Hello! on the board
and sing (or chant) it with the class.
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence:
Students can say the words correctly
and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can say the
words.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable
to say the words.
* Listen and sing. (Track 1)
- Explain to the class that they are going
to listen and sing the Welcome song.
Play Track 1 once for children to listen - Listen and sing the song.
and follow the song in their books.
- Repeat each word after you hear it.
- Read each line for children to repeat
after you.
- Play the recording again for children to
sing along. - Repeat after the teacher.
Expected outcomes and assessment. - Sing along the song.
- Task completed with excellence:

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 Students can sing the song with actions
beautifully.
- Task completed: Students can sing
along the song.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable
to sing along the song.

PRACTICE (8 minutes)
Aim: To help students sing a song and understand the story.

*Sing and do.

- Ask children to think of some actions for - Think about the actions.
the song (see suggestions below).
- Play the song again. Children sing and
- Sing and do the actions.
do their actions.
Song actions
- Welcome back to all our friends – wave.
- Fun and learning never end! – punch the
air Welcome back. It’s a happy day. –
wave and smile.
- A day for learning, – mime opening a
book.
- A day for play! – jump in the air.
Differentiation
 Below level: Play the song and, in pairs,
children sing together and do the actions.
 At level: In small groups, ask children to
think of new actions for the song. Play
the song again for children to practice. If
time permits, children share with the
class.
 Above level: Ask children to walk
around the room and introduce
themselves in English, e.g. Hi, my name
is (Thanh).
* Listen and read. (Track 10) - Answer the questions.
- Hold up your book to present the story.
Ask what words children know in the
pictures.
- Ask What’s happening in the story?
Point to each frame one at a time for the

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 class to talk about them.
- Ask comprehension questions: What is
Rosy’s video about? What’s on Billy’s
bed? Is Billy in his bedroom?
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence:
Students can understand and answer
the questions about the story correctly.
- Task completed: Students can answer
the questions about the story.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable
to answer the questions about the story.

PRODUCTION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students remember main course characters and improve students’ integrated
skills.

*Game: “Mysterious bag”

- Put name cards into a bag. - Say the names aloud.
- Explain how the game is played. - Listen to the teacher.
- Call each student to put his/her hand in - Put your hand in the bag and try to
the bag and try to identify the names identify the jobs by touching the
by saying them aloud. things.
- Encourage students to say the name of
the main course characters. - Say the name of the main course
- The student who names the correct job characters.
is the winner.
- Praise the winner. - The student who names the correct
 Expected outcomes and assessment. characters is the winner.
- Task completed with excellence:
Students can identify the main course
characters correctly.
- Task completed: Students can
remember the main course characters.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable
to remember the main course
characters.

HOMEWORK (2 minutes)
- Learn new words by heart.

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- Do the exercises in Workbook page 4.
- Prepare for the next lesson (Starter Unit - Lesson 2).

REFLECTION
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