LESSON PLAN

TESOL COURSE
Pham Ngoc Phuong Vy
Group: Young learners Date: Jan 21, 2018 Time: 9:00-9:45 Number of students: 15
Recent topic work: matching nouns with pictures Recent language work: nouns
Aims: Students can tell the correct article a or an to match with the singular nouns.
Objectives: Learners should be able to:
 name focused singular nouns
 match articles a or an with singular nouns
Assessment:
 match article a/an with nouns or pictures
 match sound of nouns with article a/an
Materials: video on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8MbH5Wwf5I), blue tac, pictures, article
cards, slides, awards.
Anticipated problems: Students don’t remember the vocabulary. Some students probably try to open their eyes
during the last game to follow their friends, so teacher needs to observe carefully.
Anticipated possibilities: Some students might know to use “an” before nouns beginning with vowel sounds but
the others do not know.
Homework/Further work: Homework is the handout attached. (English Word 2,Workbook, page 24)
Timing Teacher activity Student activity Success Aims of the
indicators stage
Lead-in -Teacher shows the video clip and -Students watch the video -Students are -Lead in the
(10 min) stops at the singular noun with the clip and repeat after the interested in topic
article and asks students to repeat. teacher. watching the
-Engage the
video clip.
-Teacher asks student to stand up -Students all stand up, dance students to
and make a circle, watch the clip and sing along the song. -Students are the grammar
again, dance and sing along the engaged in point which i
-Student pointed repeats the
song. dancing and going to be
word after hearing.
singing along introduced.
- After each word shown on the
the song.
screen, teacher points to a student
and the student repeats after -Students can
hearing the word. repeat
correctly
Present -Teacher presents: “people like -Students listen to the -Students pay -Explain wha
(15 min) boys or girls, animals, places and teacher. attention to singular
things are nouns. Nouns can be the teacher. nouns are and
singular meaning one or plural when we use
-At least 5
meaning more than one. When we a or an before
students
are talking about one person, singular
know the
animal, thing or place we use a nouns
word ship,
singular noun.”
woman, train, -Review the
-Stick a picture of a ship on the -Students answer: “ship” flower. key nouns
board and ask students “what is that are
it?”. previously
-Students answer: “one” learned
-Ask students “How many ships
are there?”
-Teacher will say: ‘when there is -Students repeat: “a ship”
one ship, we say: a ship. We use
“a” before a noun to mean one.
Write it on the board and ask
students to repeat.
-Students repeat: “a
-Teacher continues with woman, woman”, “a train”, “a
train, flower. flower”.
-Teacher sticks an owl on the -Students answer: “owl”
board and asks: “What animal is
it?”
- “How many owls do you see?” -Students answer: “one”

- “Do we say a owl?” -Some say yes and some say

no. Some might say “an
owl”
-Teacher corrects: “for the nouns -Students repeat: “an owl”
start with o sound, we will use an -
an owl” and asks students to
repeat.
-Teacher continues with apple, -Students repeat: an apple,
egg, ice-cream, umbrella an egg, an ice-cream, an
umbrella.

-Teacher asks: “Who knows when

do we use an before a noun?” -Students might keep quiet
or some perhaps say before
 a, e, o, i, u (based on the
video they watched).

-Teacher confirms: we use an for

nouns starts with vowel sounds -Students listen.
like: a, e, i, o and u. For the rest of
nouns, we use “a”
-Teacher asks students to keep -Students count 1,2,3,1,2,3, -Students can -Dividethe
counting up to 3. Then ask them to etc. and move to their group. group into classso that
group themselves with people three group students work
Practice having the same number. Teacher with people in new group
(10 min) locates 3 groups. having the
-Students
same number
-Teacher explains they are going -Students listen to the rules review
in one group.
to play a game named “Who runs of the game. vocabulary b
faster?”. Teacher will give each -Students get seeing the
group two cards: one a and one an. at least 6 words and
Teacher shows a picture on the correct pictures.
screen with a word (without answers out
- Students
article). Each member of each of 10.
recall
group will take turn choose the
-Student can vocabulary b
card a or an to stick it on the board
say 5/5 seeing only
and say aloud the phrase.The first
written words pictures
one stick it correctly and says the
and 3/5
word aloud will get the score for -Students
unwritten
their group. Teacher will show 5 recall which
words.
pictures with written words (boy, article (a or
octopus, girl, rabbit, insect) and an) to go with
5 pictures without words (flower, the noun
umbrella, apple, owl, hat). given.
Students in the group can consult.
Teacher asks to check their
understanding and demonstrates
the first one.
-Teacher shows the picture.
-The first member of each
group will keep the cards.
They will choose the card
and run quickly to stick it on
-Teacher will give mark to the one
the board and say aloud the
who put first. If students forget to
word.
say the word, teacher reminds or
gives turn to the other group. -Student who gets the score
 gets the card back and
passes them to the next one.
The other group also pass
-Teacher corrects if all students the cards to the next member
choose the wrong article. After and continue.
showing 10 pictures, teacher
-Students listen to teacher’s
finalizes the score and awards the
correction
winning team.

Productio -Teacher introduces the next game -Students listen to the rules -Around 12 -Students can
n (10 min) they are going to play named of the game. students get work
“Jumping in the dark”. All the correct individually,
students will stand in one line in article of each recognize the
the middle. Teacher write big “a” noun. sound of
on the left of the board and “an” words and
on the right. Students are going to define the
close their eyes, listen to the noun article a/an
from the teacher and decide to correspondin
choose whether a or an for the with the
noun they hear by jumping to the noun.
left or the right. Who jumps to the
wrong article will be recorded on
the board and the one who made -Teacher can
the most mistakes will have to sing check
a song. Teacher demonstrate one individual’s
word. (zebra, book, elephant, ice- understandin
cream, orange, box, doll, egg, .
train)
-Teacher asks students to stand in -Students move and stand in
one line in the middle of the class. one line in the middle of the
Teacher reorganizes the chairs to class.
make room for the activity.
-Teacher asks students to close
their eyes and say a noun.
-Students close their eyes,
hear the noun and jump to
-Teacher asks student to open their the left or the right.
eyes and confirms the correct
-Students open their eyes
answer. Teacher writes the names
and listen to the correct
of students who don’t have the
correct answer. answer.
-Teacher and students continue
until the tenth noun. Teacher
finalizes and find out who got the
wrong answer the most of times -The student will sing and
and ask him/her to sing a song. the others enjoy.