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UNIT 2 – HOLIDAY
Lesson 1.1 (page 20)

1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer questions about people's favorite
holidays.
1.1. Language knowledge and skills
Vocabulary: Halloween, New Year's Eve, Lunar New Year (Tết), Christmas, Teachers' Day, Children's
Day
Sentence pattern: What's your favorite holiday? - It's Halloween.
What's her favorite holiday? - It's Christmas
Skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking.
1.2. Competences
Self-control and independent learning: point out and say different holidays.
Communication and collaboration: work in pairs or groups to learn about different holidays.
Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to know different holidays and spell them 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 5 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 5 i-Learn Smart Start Student’s Book, Workbook, Notebook.
3. Procedures
A. Warm-up (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To review vocabulary items about holidays, generate students’ interests and lead in the
new lesson.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Holiday Bingo” or “Holiday Scavenger Hunt”.
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 the 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: " Holiday Bingo" game.
- Briefly introduce the holidays covered in the game:
Halloween, New Year's Eve, Lunar New Year, Christmas, - Follow and do as guided.
Teachers' Day, and Children's Day.
- Show the bingo cards and explain that each square
contains a word or image associated with one of the
holidays.
- Demonstrate how to mark a square when a word is
called out.
- Distribute bingo cards and markers to each student.
- Call out words randomly from the caller's list. As you

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 call out each word, use it in a sentence or give additional
context to reinforce learning.
- Students mark the words on their cards that match the
called word.
- The first student to complete a horizontal, vertical, or
diagonal line shouts "Bingo!" and wins the round.
- Verify the winning card by matching the marked words
with your list.
- Congratulate the winners and hand out any prizes if you
have prepared them.
Option 2: “Holiday Scavenger Hunt” game
- Divide students into teams to promote collaboration. - Follow and do as guided.
- Give the first clue to each team.
- Allow teams to hunt for cards based on the clues - Join the game.
provided. Each clue leads them to a card that provides the
clue for the next location.
- Use a timer to add excitement and limit the duration of
the hunt.
- After all teams have collected their cards, review each
vocabulary word as a class.
- Ask students to use each word in a sentence or describe
the word using other English vocabulary they know.
- Discuss what students learned about each holiday
through vocabulary.
- Encourage students to talk about which clues were
challenging and how they solved them.
- Congratulate all participants and optionally reward the
team that collected all their cards the fastest.
B. Main lesson
1. Presentation & Practice (10 minutes)
a. Objectives: To help students recognize and say the different holidays.
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 27)
- Arrange the flashcards (holidays) on the board.
- Ask the students to listen and pay attention.
- Use DCR on Eduhome to play the audio and point to - Listen and follow their teacher’s
each flashcard. instructions.
- Then play the audio again and have them point to the - Point to the pictures in their Student’s
pictures in their Student’s Books. Books.
- Play the audio and require them to listen and repeat. - Listen and repeat.
- Help them with their pronunciation if necessary.
- Have the class work in pairs. One student randomly - Work with their partner to complete
points to the pictures in their book, and the other one says the task.
the words. Then have them swap roles and continue this
activity.

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- Walk around the class and support them if needed.
2. Play Board race
- Have students look at the example.
- Divide the class into teams and have one student from - Play with their teammates.
each team stand a distance from the board. - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
- Stick two flashcards on the board and then say one of the - Look at the flashcard covered with a
new words aloud. piece of paper and quickly say the new
word when their teacher slowly moves
- Have the students race to the board, touch that flashcard, the paper.
and repeat the new word. - Do the task.
2. Presentation & Practice (10 minutes)
a. Objectives: To practice identifying school subjects correctly.
b. Contents: Listening and speaking.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students know how to identify school subjects correctly.
- Task completed: Students can identify school subjects correctly.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail or make a mistake to identify school subjects.
d. Organization:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
B. 1. Listen and practice. (CD1 Track 28)
- Use DCR to show the useful language and have students - Look and read the useful language
look and read the useful language silently. silently.
- Explain that we often use this to talk about our favorite - Listen to the teacher’s explanation.
holidays.
- Play audio. Have students listen to useful language. - Listen and look at the useful language
- Have students practice the useful language. again.
- Have students practice using vocabulary from Part A. - Work in pairs and practice useful
language.
- Go around the class and support them if necessary. - Use the new words from Part A when
practicing the useful language.
2. Look and write. Practice.
- Demonstrate the activity using the example. - Carefully look at the teacher
demonstrating the activity.
- Have the students look, read, and write. - Look, read and write.
- Divide the class into pairs and have them check each - Work in pairs and check their
other’s work. partner’s answers.
- Use DCR to check the answers as a whole class. - Check the answers with the teacher
and friends.
- Have pairs practice saying the sentences. - Practice saying the sentences with a
friend.
- Monitor the class and support if needed.
3. Production (5 minutes)
b. Objectives: To help them identify holidays confidently.
c. Content: Spelling holidays or using DHA.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify holidays confidently.
- Task completed: Students can identify holidays confidently.
- Task uncompleted: Students cannot identify holidays confidently.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Option 1: Holiday Charades - Follow and do as guided.

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 - Explain the rules of charades: A student will draw a card
and must act out the word or phrase without speaking. The - Join the game.
rest of the class tries to guess the word.
- Divide the class into two teams for a competitive
element.
- Students take turns drawing a card from the container
and acting out the holiday vocabulary for their team.
- The team has one minute to guess the word correctly. If
they succeed, they earn a point.
- Rotate turns between teams until all the cards are used or
time runs out.
- Congratulate the winning team and praise all students for
participating.
Option 2: Use DHA on Eduhome
Open DHA (Unit 2 – Lesson 1) on Eduhome to help
students review the vocabulary through games: Look and - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
find, Listen and find, and Grammar.
- Play the game with the whole class.
C. Consolidation and homework assignment (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To help students remember and pronounce the vocabulary items.
b. Contents: Playing the game “Letter Scramble” and assigning homework in the Workbook.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment.
- Task completed with excellence: Students can scramble the letters correctly.
- Task completed: Students are able to scramble the letters.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to scramble the letters.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Consolidation
- Have the students play the game “Holiday charades”.
- Take a list of words that your students have recently - Do as guided.
learned and write a scrambled version of each on the board.
- Allow students to unscramble the words on their paper. - Play the game.
- The first student to finish deciphering all the words wins.

Homework Assignment
- Require the students to do exercises on page 12 in the - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
Workbook. - Do homework, copy the new words,
- Have them copy letters and structure in their Tiếng Anh 5 and prepare for the new lesson.
i-Learn Smart Start Notebook.
- Ask them to prepare Parts C and D, Lesson 1 on page 21
in the Student’s Book.
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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