Week 1

Introduce about English book
Class: 4 (A+B)

Date: 5-7/9/2023
Period: 1,2

UNIT 1 – ANIMALS
Lesson 1.1 (page 6)
1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to point out and say different animals.
Language knowledge and skills
Vocabulary: snake, monkey, horse, camel, hippo, rhino.
Sentence pattern: This is a monkey. - These are monkeys.
That's a snake. - Those are snakes
Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking.
1.1. Competences
Self-control and independent learning: point out and say different animals.
Communication and collaboration: work in pairs or groups to know different animals.
Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to know different animals and spell them
correctly and fluently.
1.2. 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 animals, generate students'
interests and lead in the new lesson.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Lucky number” or “Spin the Bottle”.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can join the game and say the words quickly
and correctly.
- Task completed: Students can get lucky number and say the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students say the wrong flashcards or pronounce the words
incorrectly.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Option 1: "Lucky number" game
- Divide the class into four teams.
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- Have each team stand in a line.
- Prepare some cards with points on their backs
“duck, goat, pig, cow, rabbit” and put them in a
box.
- Have each student pick a card from the box and
talk about the content of it, e.g., “What's it? – It's
a goat.” then get corresponding points for his/her
team.
- Continue with the other students. The team that
gets the most points win.
Option 2: Play “Spin the Bottle” game
- Divide the class into the groups of five.
- Have students sit in a circle with a bottle in the
middle. One student spins the bottle. When it
stops, the student who is pointed to has to say,
“Excuse me, please!” then continue spinning the
bottle. 
- Have students continue the game as the same
way.

- Follow and do as guided.
- Pick a card from the box and talk
about the content of it, e.g.,
“What's it? – It's a goat.”

- Follow and do as guided.
- Join the game.

B. Main lesson
1. Presentation (10 minutes)
a. Objective: To help students recognize and say the different animals.
b. Contents: Listening, pointing, and repeating.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify and read out loud the letters
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can identify and read out loud the letters.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to point and read the correct letters.
d. Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
A. 1. Listen and point. Repeat. (CD1 Track 02)
- Arrange the flashcards (the animals) on the
board.
- Ask the students to listen and pay their
- Listen and follow their
attention.
teacher's instructions.
- Use DCR on Eduhome to play the audio and
- Point to the pictures in their
point to each flashcard.
Student's Books.
- Then play the audio again and have them point - Listen and repeat.
to the pictures in their Student's Books.
- Play the audio and require them to listen and
- Work with their partner to
repeat.
complete the task.
- Help them with their pronunciation if
necessary.
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- Have the class work in pairs. One student
randomly points to the pictures in their book,
and the other one says the words. Then have
them swap roles and continue this activity.
- Walk round the class and support them if
needed.
2. Play Flashcard peek.
- Have one student come to the front of the
class.
- Hold one flashcard facing your body so no
one can see it.
- Very quickly show the flashcard to the
student and hide it again.
- Have the student guess the new word on the
flashcard.
- 5. Repeat with other students and flashcards.
2.
a.
b.
c.
-

- Play in individual.
- Follow their teacher's
instructions.
- Show the flashcard to his/her
friend and hide it again.
- Let his/her friends try to guess
the new word.
- Repeat.

Practice (10 minutes)
Objectives: To practice identifying zoo animals correctly.
Contents: Listening and Speaking.
Expected outcomes and assessment
Task completed with excellence: Students know how to identify zoo animals correctly.
Task completed: Students can identify zoo animals correctly.
Task uncompleted: Students fail or have a mistake to identify zoo animals.

d. Organization:
Teacher's activities
B. 1. Listen and practice. (CD1 Track 03)
- Use DCR to show the useful language and
have students look and read the useful
language silently.
- Explain that we use this for introductions,
when we meet someone for the first time and
their name is unfamiliar.
- Play the audio and have them look at the
useful language.
- Ask them to work in pairs and practice the
useful language.
- Require them to use the vocabulary from Part
A.
- Go around the class and support them if

Students' activities
- Look and read the useful
language silently.
- Listen to the teacher's
explanation.
- Listen and look at the useful
language again.
- Work in pairs and practice the
useful language.
- Use the new words from Part
A when practicing the useful
language.
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necessary.
2. Look and put a tick or a cross. Practice.
- Demonstrate the activity using the example.
- Have the students look and put a tick or a
cross.
- Divide the class into pairs and have them
check each other's work.
- Use DCR to check the answers as a whole
class.
- Have some students share their answers with
the class.
- Have pairs practice saying the sentences.
- Monitor the class and support if needed.

- Carefully look at the teacher
demonstrating the activity.
- Look and put a tick or a cross.
- Work in pairs and check their
partner's answers.
- Listen and check.
- Check the answers with the
teacher and friends.
- Practice saying the sentences
with a friend.

3.
b.
c.
c.
d.

Production (5 minutes)
Objectives: To help them identify zoo animals confidently.
Content: Spelling zoo animals or using DHA.
Expected outcomes and assessment
Task completed with excellence: Students can identify zoo animals confidently.
Task completed: Students are able to identify zoo animals confidently.
Task uncompleted: Students cannot identify zoo animals confidently.
Organization
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Option 1: Back - to - back dictation
- Divide the class into pairs and have them sit
- Do as guided.
back - to - back. Give each child a blank sheet
- Work in pairs.
of paper.
- Students take turns to say and
- Have children draw their favourite animals.
write the name of the animal.
Student A says: This is a monkey. - These are
monkeys. That's a snake. - Those are snakes
and St A writes down the name of that animal.
Swap the roles.
Option 2: Use DHA on Eduhome
- Open DHA (Unit 1 – Lesson 1) on Eduhome
- Follow their teacher's
to help students review the vocabulary through
instructions.
games: Look and find, Listen and find, and
- Play the game with the whole
Grammar.
class.

C.
a.
b.
c.

Consolidation and homework assignment (5 minutes)
Objectives: To help students remember and pronounce the vocabulary items.
Contents: Playing the game “Whispers” and assigning homework in the Workbook.
Expected outcomes and assessment
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- 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
- Have the students play the game “Follow the
leader”.
- Do as guided.
- Have students line up behind the teacher and
follow him/her around the classroom.
- Copy the action and repeat the
- Say a word about animal and say its sound.
word.
- Have students copy the action and repeat the
word. (E.g., a monkey - kiki).
Homework Assignment
- Require the students to do exercises on page 2 in - Follow their teacher's
the Workbook.
instructions.
- Have them copy letters and structure in their
- Do homework, copy the new
Tiếng Anh 4 i-Learn Smart Start Notebook,
words, and prepare the new
page 4.
lesson.
- Ask them to prepare Parts C and D, Lesson 1 on
page 7 in the Student's Book.
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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