Week: ………… Preparing date: ……………………………

Period: ……….. Teaching date: …………………………….

UNIT 3 - WEATHER
Lesson 1.3 (page 36)

1. Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to ask and answer about the weather.
1.1. Language knowledge and skills
Vocabulary: sunny, rainy, snowy, windy, cloudy, foggy.
Sentence pattern: What’s the weather like today?
It’s ………….
Skill: Speaking.
1.2. Competences
Self-control and independent learning: practice using the target sentence structures.
Communication and collaboration: work in pairs or groups to ask and answer about the weather.
Critical thinking and creativity: learn how to ask and answer about about the weather 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 4 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 4 i-Learn Smart Start Student’s Book, Workbook, Notebook.
3. Procedures
A. Warm up (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To review the vocabulary items about some main types of weather, generate students’
interests and, lead in the new lesson.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Vocabulary Race” or “Slap the board”.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can slap flashcards or write the words quickly and
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can slap flashcards or write the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students slap the wrong flashcards or write the words incorrectly.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Option 1: Playing the game “Vocabulary Race”
- Divide the class into four groups and ask them to stand - Make four lines to play this game.
in two lines facing the board.
- Draw four columns on the board for Teams A, B, C, - Follow teacher’s instructions before
and D. playing the game.
- Give a marker to the first student of each team.
- Say “1 2 3” and then the students run to the board - Run to the board quickly to write a
quickly to write a type of weather on it. Next, the school thing on it.
students pass the markers to the next friends and join - Pass the markers to the next friends
back of the line. and join back of the line.
- Have them one minute write the words on the board
and say “Stop”. The team with the most words wins.

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 Option 2: Playing the game “Slap the board”
- Divide the class into two teams and have them form - Make two lines to play this game.
two lines.
- Place the flashcards about family members on the - Look at the flashcards on the board.
board, showing the images. - Carefully listen and run to the board
- 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. Main Lesson
1. Practice 1 (10 minutes)
a. Objective: To help students recognize the sentence pattern and name the main types of weather
correctly.
b. Contents: Listening and repeating.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify the sentence structure and read out loud the
words correctly.
- Task completed: Students can identify the sentence structure and read out loud the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to use the sentence structure or point and read the correct
words.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Present the sentence pattern.
- Use DCR on Eduhome to show to the class the - Listen and follow teacher’s
sentence structure on Part E, page 36 in their Student’s instructions.
Book.
- Give students enough time to look at the target - Look at the target sentence structure
sentence structure and have them read it silently. on the screen and read it silently.
- Continue asking them what types of weather in each - Name the types of weather in each
picture are. picture.
- Point to the first picture and make an example by - Answer “It’s cloudy”
saying the question and asking the class to say aloud
It’s cloudy
- Control the class and give them help if needed.
- Lead in the new lesson.

2. Practice 2 (10 minutes)

a. Objectives: To practice asking and answering the question by using the vocabulary items in the
target sentence pattern.
b. Contents: Pointing, asking, and answering.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can point to the pictures, ask, and answer the questions
about weather smoothly and correctly.
- Task completed: Students can point to the pictures, ask, and answer the questions about weather.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to point to the pictures, ask, and answer the questions about weather.
d. Organization:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
E. Point, ask, and answer.
- Divide the class into two pairs. - Work with their partner to complete
the task.

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 - Demonstrate the activity using the speech bubbles. - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
- Have student A point and ask, have student B answer. - Ask and answer the other student’s
- Swap roles and repeat. question.
- Afterwards, have some pairs demonstrate the activity - Present their work in front of the
in front of the class. class.
Extra practice.
- Divide the class into two teams: boys and girls - Work with their teammates to
complete the task.
- Show a flashcard to the class. - Follow their teacher’s instructions.
- Have the boys make a question and the girls answer. - Make questions or answer the
- Swap roles and repeat. questions from the other team.
e.g.
(Teacher shows a flashcard “sunny”.)
The boys: “What’s the weather like today?”
The girls: “It’s sunny.”

3. Production (5 minutes)
a. Objectives: To help them produce the target sentence pattern.
b. Content: Playing the game: “Guess the picture” or using DHA.
c. Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can follow the simple instructions in class and do the
correct actions quickly.
- Task completed: Students are able to perform the task with some teacher’s and friends’ support.
- Task uncompleted: Students cannot identify the simple instructions in class.
d. Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
F. Option 1: Play Guess the picture.
- Use DCR on Eduhome to show the examples to the
- Work with their friends to play the
whole class.
game.
- Give students enough time to look at the examples and
- Carefully listen to and follow
read them silently.
teacher’s instructions.
- Divide the class into 3 teams.
- Have a student to stand facing away from the board
and stick a flashcard on the board behind him/her.
- Have some students from the same team ask the - Others make a question about
student a question about the flashcard. weather and the standing student
- Have the student try to guess the answer without tries to guess the type of weather.
looking at the flashcard.
- Give that team 1 point if it’s a correct guess.
- Have teams take turn.

Option 2: Use DHA on Eduhome

- Open DHA (Unit 3 – Lesson 1) on Eduhome to help
- Follow their teacher’s instructions.
students review the vocabulary through games: Look
- Play the game with the whole class.
and find, Listen and find.

C. Consolidation and homework assignment (5 minutes)

a. Objectives: To help students remember the target sentence structures.

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b.Contents: Playing the game “Whispers” and assigning homework in the Workbook.
c.Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can whisper the words to their friends correctly and smoothly.
- Task completed: Students are able to whisper the words to their friends.
- Task uncompleted: Students fail to listen the new words or whisper them to their friends.
d.Organization
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Consolidation
- Have students play the game “Whispers”. - Play the game “Whispers” with
- Divide the class into two teams. their teammates.
- Ask students to form two lines. - Follow teacher’s instructions before
playing the game.
- Whisper a word to the first student from each group. - Quickly whisper the word into the
Then they whisper the word into the ear of the student ear of the friend standing next to
standing next to them. They continue whispering the them.
word until the end of the line. The last student has to say
it out loud.
- The first student to say the correct word wins a point for
their team.
- The team having more correct answers will win the
game.
Homework Assignment
- Require students to practice the structures at home. - Practice the structures at home.
- Ask them to prepare Parts A and B, Lesson 2, Unit 3 on - Prepare the new lesson.
page 37 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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