Giáo án tiếng Anh lớp 1 Unit 10 At the zoo

Procedure

Teaching and learning activities

Classroom management

Warm-up

5 minutes

Option 1: Singing the song in Unit 9, Lesson 3.

- Ask pupils to sing the song in Unit 9, Lesson 3 and make the gesture (e.g. showing fingers when singing about numbers).

- Have some pupils demonstrate the song in front of the class, the rest of the class listen to them and clap hands.

Option 2: Reviewing.

- Ask some pupils to count from one to five.

- Get some pairs of pupils to practise asking and answering about quantity of things in the classroom, using How many ___? - ____.

Option 3: Talking.

- Show pupils some pictures/slides of popular animals in the world (monkey, tiger, elephant, snake, goat, cow, dog, cat, …).

- Ask pupils some questions about the animals (in Vietnamese), e.g. Have you ever seen …? Do you like …? What animal can you see at the zoo?

Whole class

Whole class

Pair work

Whole class

1. Listen and repeat. 10 minutes

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Extension:

Have pupils look at the picture, saying Look at the picture, please! and describe the picture. Draw pupils’ attention to the letter M/m, the words next to the person, the things/animals and the colour of the letter M/m. Check comprehension.

Ask pupils to point to the letter M/m. Have them listen and repeat the sound of the letter M/m, saying Point to the letter M/m, listen and repeat, please! more than once, if necessary.

Tell pupils to point to the mango and/or the word mango, saying Point to the mango and the word “mango”. Ask them to listen and repeat the word, saying Listen and repeat, please! Then play the recording again, if necessary, for them to repeat individually and in chorus. Correct pronunciation, if necessary. If they repeated well, praise them, saying Well done!

Repeat the same procedure with the monkey, the mother and the mouse. Correct pronunciation, if necessary.

Play the recording again and have them listen, point to the letter M/m and the words mango, monkey, mother and mouse and repeat until they feel confident. Give further support to those pupils who find it difficult to do the task, if necessary.

Play the recording again and call a few pupils to say the sound of the letter M/m and the words mango, monkey, mother and mouse in front of the class, saying Excellent! when they performed well.

For better pupils, using the new and learnt in the previous units vocabulary and have the pupils make labels for the animals (cat, dog, duck, goat, horse, monkey, mouse). Ask them to attach the cards to the corresponding animals and practise saying the words.

Whole class

Individual work

Whole class

Whole class

Whole class

Individual work

Individual work

2. Point and say. 7 minutes

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Have pupils look at the picture again. Ask them to describe the picture. Draw their attention to the letter M/m, the person/thing/animals, if necessary.

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Get them to point to the letter M/m and say it, saying Point to the letter M/m and say, please!

Let them point to the mango in the picture and say the word mango as a model, saying Point to the mango and say “mango”, please! Remind them of the sound of the letter m in the word mango.

Follow the same procedure with other animals/ person. Go around and correct pronunciation, if necessary. Give further support to those pupils who find it difficult to do the task.

Have pupils work in pairs or in groups to look at the picture, point to the letter M/m, the person and thing/animals, say the sound of the letter and the words. Say Point to the picture and say, please! Go around and offer help or correct pronunciation, if necessary.

Invite a few pupils to point to the picture and say the sound of the letter and the words in front of the class. If they performed well, praise them, saying Good work!

Whole class

Individual work

Whole class

Group/Pair work

Individual work

Fun corner:

Find the odd one out 8 minutes

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Explain how to play the game, saying Now look at the flashcards/ pictures, find the odd one out and say it, please!

Divide the class into four groups. Put three cards/pictures on the board, one of which is obviously different from the others, for example, a dog, a cat and a bag.

Call the first group to go to the board. Ask the pupils to point to the odd one out in the first set of the flashcards/pictures. The pupil who points to the correct word (bag) then says it correctly gets one point for that group. If the pupil has difficulty, ask other pupils in the group to help him/her.

Put the flashcards/pictures on the board and continue the game in the same way with other groups

Whole class

Group work

Group work

Group work

Homelink

5 minutes

- Revise the main teaching point of the lesson: the sound of the letter m and the words mango, monkey, mother, mouse.

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Using sachmem, have pupils look at the things in the picture and repeat the words after the recording.

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Using Poster for Unit 10, ask pupils to point to the things in the picture and say the words. For better pupils, teacher may cover the words and ask them to point to the things and say the words aloud.

Option 3:

Using pictures and flashcards, get some pupils to match the words mango, monkey, mother, mouse and the pictures. Then ask the class to say the words aloud.

Whole class

Whole class

Individual work

Individual work