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UNIT 1 – MY FRIENDS
Lesson 2 (page 14)

1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify the /ə/ sound and practice the conversations.
1.1. Language knowledge and skills
Vocabulary: the USA, the UK, Italy, India, Japan, Alpha.
Sentence patterns: Where are you from, Alfie?/ I’m from the Alpha.
Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking.
1.2. Competences
Self-control and independent learning: identify the /ə/ sound.
Communication and collaboration: work in pairs or groups to ask and answer about the countries
people are from.
Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to ask and answer about the countries people are from
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 3 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 3 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 countries, generate students’ interests and, lead
in the new lesson.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Aha” or “Slap the board”.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can slap flashcards or/and say the words quickly and
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can slap flashcards or/and say the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students slap the wrong flashcards or pronounce the words incorrectly.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Option 1: Play the Aha game.
- Cover the flashcard with a piece of paper or card. - Follow their teacher’s instructions
before playing the game.
- Very slowly move the paper to reveal the picture. - Look at the teacher showing the
- Ask students to guess the picture on the flashcard. flashcard and try to guess the picture
on it.
- Have them say “Aha” and the vocabulary. - Say “Aha” and the vocabulary.
Option 2: Play the Slap the board game.
- Divide the class into two teams and have them form - Make two lines to play this game.
two lines.
- Place the flashcards about the countries on the board, - Look at the flashcards on the board.
showing the images. - Carefully listen and run to the board

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 - Call out a word and have the first student from each to slap the correct card and read aloud
group race to slap the correct image on the board and the word on it.
say it correctly. The first student to slap the correct
flashcard wins a point for their team.

B. Presentation (10 minutes)

a. Objective: To help students identify the /ə/ sound and practice saying the sounds in the chant.
b. Contents: Listening and repeating.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify the /ə/ sound and pronounce it correctly and
fluently.
- Task completed: Students can identify the /ə/ sound and pronounce it.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to identify the /ə/ sound and pronounce it.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
C. 1. Listen and repeat. (CD1 Track 20)
- Draw attention to the /ə/ sound. - Listen and follow their teacher’s
- Briefly explain and demonstrate the sound. instructions.
- Play the audio (using DCR). - Listen to the audio.
- Have the students notice the sound. - Listen and notice the sounds first.
- Play the audio again. - Listen to the audio again and repeat
- Have the students listen and repeat. the sound.
- Correct the students’ pronunciation if needed.
2. Chant. (CD1 Track 21)
- Write the words or put up the flashcards on the board. - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
- Play the audio (using DCR).
- Have the students listen to the chant. - Listen to the chant.
- Point to a word or picture on the board, say the sound - Listen and repeat the sound.
and word and have the students listen and repeat.
- Play the audio again. - Listen to the chant again.
- Have the students listen and clap along with the sound - Listen and clap along with the sound
and words as they hear them in the chant. and words as they hear them in the
chant.

C. Practice (10 minutes)

a. Objectives: To help students identify the people and things in the story and practice listening and
writing the missing words in the blanks.
b. Contents: Listening, speaking, and writing.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can understand the story and fill in the missing words
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can understand the story and fill in the missing words.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to understand the story and fill in the missing words.
d. Organization:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
D. 1. Look and listen. (CD1 Track 22)
- Introduce the situation: “Where are you from?” - Listen to their teacher’s
introduction about the situation.
- Have the students look at the story and ask these - Look at the story and answer their
questions. teacher’s questions.
• Who can you see? (Alfie, Tom, Nick)

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 • What can you see? (Alfie’s spaceship)
• What color is Alfie’s spaceship? (red)
- Play the audio.
- Have the students look and listen.
- Listen to the story.
2. Listen and write. (CD1 Track 23)
- Play the audio and demonstrate the activity using the - Listen and follow their teacher’s
example. demonstration.
- Play the audio and have the students listen and write. - Listen to the story and write.
- Play the audio again and check answers as a whole - Listen to the story again and check
class. the answers as a whole class.
3. Practice with your friends.
- Divide the class into two pairs. - Work with their partner to complete
the task.
- Have the students practice saying the sentences. - Practice saying the sentences.
- Have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of - Demonstrate the activity in front of
the class. the class.

D. Production (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To help them practice the stories and use their own ideas.
b. Content: Working with their partners.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can practice and use their own ideas to make a story
naturally.
- Task completed: Students can practice and use their own ideas to make a story.
- Task uncompleted: Students cannot practice and use their own ideas to make a story.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Make their own stories.
- Have students work in groups of three students.
- Work with their friends to complete
the task.
- Ask them to choose one of the stories from Part 2 –
- Choose one of the stories from Part
Listen and write. as a sample.
2 – Listen and write. as a sample.
- Give students enough time to make their stories using
- Make their stories using their own
their own ideas.
ideas.
- Walk around the class and support them if necessary.
- Invite some pairs to present their stories in front of the
- Present their stories in front of the
class.
class.
- Help students with feedback and correct them if any.

E. Consolidation and homework assignment (5 minutes)

a. Objectives: To help the students review the lesson by rearranging the sentences to make a meaningful
conversation.
b. Contents: Making a conversation and assigning homework in the Workbook
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
d. Task completed with excellence: Students can rearrange the sentences to make a meaningful conversation
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can rearrange the sentences to make a meaningful conversation.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to can rearrange the sentences to make a meaningful conversation.

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e. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Consolidation
- Ask the students work in groups of four or five students. - Work in groups to complete the
task.
- Give each group a set of sentences and ask them to make - Make a meaningful conversation
a meaningful conversation. from the given sentences.
- Give them enough time to rearrange the given sentences.
- Invite each group to present their answer. - Present their answer in front of the
- Have other groups comment and give the correct answer class.
if any. - Give comments to other groups.
- Check the students’ answers as a whole class.

Homework Assignment
- Require the students to do exercises on page 11 in the - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
Workbook.
- Ask them to prepare Parts E and F, Lesson 2 on page 15 - Do homework and prepare the new
in the Student’s Book. lesson.

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