Week 1:
Class : 4 (A+B)

Date: 5-7/9/2023
UNIT 1 – ANIMALS
Lesson 1.3 (page 8) – Period: 4

1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to introduce different animals.
1.1. Language knowledge and skills
Vocabulary: snake, monkey, horse, camel, hippo, rhino.
Sentence patterns: This is a monkey. - These are monkeys.
That's a snake. - Those are snakes
Skills: Speaking.
1.2. Competences
Self-control and independent learning: identify and introduce different animals.
Communication and collaboration: work in pairs or groups to introduce different
animals.
Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to introduce different animals correctly
and fluently.
1.3. Attributes
Kindness: support their friends to complete the learning tasks or play the games.
Diligence: focus on the lesson and work hard to complete all the tasks.
Honesty: play fair.
Accountability: appreciate kindness, diligence, and honesty.
2. Teaching aids and materials
- Teacher's aids: Tiếng Anh 4 i-Learn Smart Start Student's Book and Teacher's
book, Class CDs, Flashcards, DCR & DHA on Eduhome, Projector/Interactive
Whiteboard /TV (if any), PowerPoint slides.
- Students' aids: Tiếng Anh 4 i-Learn Smart Start Student's Book, Workbook,
Notebook.
3. Procedures
A. Warm up (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To review the vocabulary items about the different animals, to
generate students' interests and, lead in the new lesson.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Vocabulary Race” or “Slap the board”.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can slap flashcards or write the words
quickly and correctly.
- Task completed: Students can slap flashcards or write the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students slap the wrong flashcards or write the words
incorrectly.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
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Option 1: Playing the Vocabulary Race
game.
Divide the class into four groups and ask
them to stand in two lines facing the board.
Draw four columns on the board for Teams
A, B, C, and D.
Give a marker to the first student of each
team.
Say “1 2 3” and then the students run to the
board quickly to write an animal on it. Next,
the students pass the markers to the next
friends and join back of the line.
Have them one minute write the words on the
board and say “Stop”. The team with the
most words wins.

- Make four lines to play this
game.
- Follow their teacher's
instructions before playing the
game.
- Run to the board quickly to
write an animal on it.
- Pass the markers to the next
friends and join back of the
line.

B. Main lesson

1. Presentation (10 minutes)
a. Objective: To help the students introduce different animals correctly and
confidently.
b. Contents: Listening and repeating.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify the sentence structures
and read out loud the words correctly.
- Task completed: Students can identify the sentence structure and read out loud
the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to use the sentence structure or point and
read the correct words.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Present the sentence pattern.
- Use DCR on Eduhome to show to the class the - Listen and follow their
sentence structure on Part E, page 8 in their
teacher's instructions.
Student's Book.
- Give the students enough time to look at the
- Look at the target sentence
target sentence structure and have them read it
structure on the screen and read
silently.
it silently.
- Ask them what they can see in the picture.
- Answer their teacher's
- Control the class and give them help if needed.
question.
- Lead in the new lesson.

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2. Practice (10 minutes)
a. Objectives: To practice asking and answering the question by using the
vocabulary items in the target sentence pattern.
b. Contents: Pointing, asking, and answering.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can introduce different animals
smoothly and correctly.
- Task completed: Students can introduce different animals.
d. Task uncompleted: Students fail to introduce different animals.
e. Organization:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
E. 1. Point and say.
- Divide the class into two pairs.
- Work with their partner to
complete the task.
- Demonstrate the activity using the speech
- Follow their teacher's
bubbles.
instructions.
- Have the student A point to a person in the
- Point to a person in the
picture, have the student B introduce.
picture, have the other student
- Swap roles and repeat.
introduce.
- Afterwards, have some pairs demonstrate the
activity in front of the class.
- Present their work in front of
the class.
F.
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2. Role-play.
Divide the class into two teams.
Show a flashcard to the class and say "this,"
"that," "these," or "those."
Have Team A say the sentence and Team B
repeat. Swap roles and repeat.
e.g. (Teacher shows flashcard "hippo.")
• Teacher: "that"
• Team A: "That's a hippo."
• Team B: "That's a hippo."
Play the Finding the animals game.
Demonstrate the activity using the example.
Divide the class into pairs.

- Have Student A look at the picture, point, and
say what animals they see while Student B
listens.
- Have students swap roles and repeat.

- Work with their friends to
complete the task.
- Look and say.
- Do the activity.
- Swap and repeat.
- Do the task.

- Look at the picture of the zoo.
- Work with their partner to
complete the activity.
- Point and say about different
animals and change their roles
to continue the activity.

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3. Production (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To help them produce the target sentence patterns about different
animals.
b. Content: Role-playing the activity or using DHA.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can introduce different animals
naturally and fluently.
- Task completed: Students are able to introduce different animals.
- Task uncompleted: Students cannot introduce different animals.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Option 1: Role-play.
- Divide the class into groups of three.
- Work with their friends to
- Demonstrate the activity using the example.
complete the task.
- Ask them to role-play the activity.
- Role-play the activity.
- Swap roles and repeat.
- Afterwards, have some pairs demonstrate the
- Present their answers to the
activity in front of the class.
whole class.
Option 2: Use DHA on Eduhome.
- Open DHA (Unit 1 – Lesson 1) on Eduhome
- Follow their teacher's
to help students review the vocabulary
instructions.
through games: Look and find, Listen and
- Play the game with the whole
find, and Grammar.
class.
C. Consolidation and homework assignment (5 minutes)

a.
b.
c.
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Objectives: To help the students remember the target sentence structures.
Contents: Playing the game “Whispers” and assigning homework in the Workbook.
Expected outcomes and assessment
Task completed with excellence: Students can whisper the words to their friends
correctly and smoothly.
- Task completed: Students are able to whisper the words to their friends.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to listen the new words or whisper them to their
friends.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Consolidation
- Show a flashcard to the class.
- Work with their teammates to
- Have students practice the structure using the
complete the task.
new word.
- Follow their teacher's
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- Repeat with other flashcards.
e.g.
(Teacher shows the flashcard “monkey”.)
Class: “This is a monkey.”
(Teacher shows the flashcard “horses”.)
Class: “These are horses.”
Homework Assignment
- Require students to practice the structures at
home.
- Ask them to prepare Parts A and B, Lesson 2,
Unit 2 on page 9 in the Student's Book.

instructions.
- Make questions or answer the
questions from the other team.

- Practice the structures at
home.
- Prepare the new lesson.

4. Reflection
a. What I liked most about this lesson today:
…………………………………………………………………………
b. What I learned from this lesson today:
…………………………………………………………………
c. What I should improve for this lesson next time:
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