LESSON PLAN

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TEXTBOOK: Tiếng Anh 4 Family and Friends National Edition
UNIT 5: WE’RE HAVING FUN AT THE BEACH!
Lesson One - Words (page 38)
A. DESIRED OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Core competences
- Identify different beach activities.
- Understand a short story.
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in pairs/groups to talk about beach activities.
- Problem-solving and creativity: find out their favorite beach activities.
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners to complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth about feelings and emotions or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.
B. LANGUAGE FOCUS AND SKILLS
1. Vocabulary
- Core: read, surf, play with a ball, go on a boat, snorkel, collect shells.
- Extra vocabulary: water, stand on his hands, fall, swim.
2. Skills: Listening, Speaking and Reading.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Student book - page 38
- Audio tracks 58-60
- Teacher’s Guide
- Website sachso.edu.vn
- Flashcards

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 - Story poster 5
- Computer, projector, ….
* Values
- Be safe at the beach!
D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES

Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)
Aim: To motivate students and help students to remember things from the previous lessons.

* Warmer
- Hold up your book to review the story on page - Look at the page and answer the
32. Ask Can Tim play soccer in the end? questions.
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can
answer the questions fluently using long
sentences.
- Task completed: Students can answer the
questions with support from the teacher.
- Task uncompleted: Students are answer the
questions correctly with support from the
teacher.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students identify beach activities.

*Lead-in:
- Tell the children they are going to learn the
names of some beach activities.
- Hold up the Beach activities flashcards one at - Look at the flashcards and say the
a time to elicit the vocabulary for this lesson. words.
Model any unknown words.
- Listen and repeat.
- Say all the words again for children to repeat.
- Hold the flashcards up in a different order and
repeat.
* Listen and point. Repeat. (Track 58)
- Ask children to open their books and look at - Listen and point to the appropriate
the pictures of the beach activities. Ask Do picture.
you like doing these things? Do you like going
to the beach? What do you do at the beach?
Play the first part of Track 58 for children to

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 listen and point to the appropriate picture.
- Play the second part of the recording for - Repeat each word after you hear it.
children to repeat.
- Play the whole recording for children to listen - Listen, point and repeat.
and point, and then repeat the words in
chorus.
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can
point and say the words correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can point and say
the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to
point and say the words.

PRACTICE (8 minutes)
Aim: To help students remember beach activities and understand a short story.

*Listen and chant. (Track 59)

- Play the recording and teach the chant. - Listen to the chant.
- Play the recording a second time. Children - Listen to the chant again to repeat
repeat the words and phrases in pauses in the the words and phrases in pauses in
chant. the chant.
- Children say the chant as a class, without the - Say the chant as a class, without
recording. the recording.
- As a class, think of actions for each of the - Think of actions for each of the
beach activities, e.g., for snorkel, they mime beach activities and try to do the
swimming and looking around; for play with actions.
a ball, they jump and catch an imaginary ball,
etc.
- Listen and say the chant with the
- Play the recording for them to say the chant actions.
with the actions.
Differentiation
 Below level: Put children in pairs. Write the
vocabulary words on pieces of paper and
give one to each pair. Then give one
flashcard to each pair. Children work
together to see if they have a match. If not,
they should ask other children to swap papers
or cards.
 At level: Use the Beach activities flashcards
and a piece of paper with a 2.5-inch hole in it
to play Can you see? (see Games bank).

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  Above level: Play Can you see? but ask
children to make a sentence using the word,
e.g., I can surf.
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can
chant and do the actions fluently in the front.
- Task completed: Students can chant and do
the actions.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to
chant and do the actions.
* Listen and read. (Track 49)
- Remind children of the characters they met in
Lesson 5 of the Starter unit: Max, Holly,
Amy, and Leo. - Think about the characters they
- Focus children’s attention on the story. Talk met in Lesson 5 of the Starter unit:
about each frame and ask questions, e.g., Max, Holly, Amy, and Leo.
Where are the children? Who is in the - Look at each frame and try to make
picture? Who is Amy talking to? What is Max predictions.
doing? What does Holly have? Where is Leo?
What’s he doing? Is Leo surfing now?
Encourage predictions about the story.
- Play the video or the recording for children to
watch or listen to and follow along. - Watch or listen to and follow along
- Ask comprehension questions, e.g., What with the video or recording.
does Amy say about Max? What does she say - Answer the questions.
about Holly? Does Leo like snorkeling? Is he
good at surfing? What happens to Leo?
- Play the recording a second time for children - Listen again and follow the books.
to follow in their books again.
- Ask children to find the beach activities from - Find the beach activities from
Exercise 1 that appear in the story (play with Exercise 1 that appear in the story
a ball, read, surf) (play with a ball, read, surf)
Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can
listen to the story, point to the words and
answer the questions correctly.
- Task completed: Students can listen to the
story and point to the words with support from
the teacher.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to
listen to the story and point to the words with
support from the teacher.

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 PRODUCTION (10 minutes)
Aim: To help students remember beach activity vocabulary and improve students’ integrated
skills.

*Game: “Shuffle Cards”

- Give each group the beach activity cards and - Work in groups.
word cards. - Get the beach activity cards and
- Ask them to work in groups, put these cards word cards from the teacher.
face down on the table, take turns picking one - Listen to the teacher and play the
and talk about it. game.
 Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can
talk about different beach activities fluently.
- Task completed: Students can talk about
different beach activities, using short and
simple sentences.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to
identify different beach activities using short
and simple sentences.

HOMEWORK (2 minutes)
- Learn new words by heart.
- Do the exercises in Workbook page 38.
- Prepare for the next lesson (Unit 5 - Lesson 2/ Part 1).

REFLECTION
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