Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Starter Lesson 4: The alphabet - Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Family and Friends

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)

Aim: To help students remember the numbers 1-10.

*Game: “Forwards and backwards”

- Review the number vocabulary from the last lesson and write the numbers 1-10 on the board.

- Make sure the students are sitting in rows so they can count around the room.

- Ask the students to start counting, with each student in turn saying the next number.

- Before they get to 10, say Change! The students have to then start counting backwards from whatever number they have reached.

- Say Change! again and the students start counting forwards again.

- Evaluate students. Give feedback.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can say the numbers correctly.

- Task completed: Students can say the numbers.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable tosay the numbers.

- Say the numbers 1-10.

- Sit in rows so they can count around the room.

- Start counting, with each student in turn saying the next number.

- Start counting backwards from whatever number they have reached.

- Start counting forwards again.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students identify the English alphabet and letters.

*Listen and point. Repeat. (Track 06)

- Say Open your books and model the action for students to open their Student Books. Point to the alphabet.

- Play the first part of the recording. Hold your book up and demonstrate that you are pointing to the pictures along with the audio. Ask students to listen and point to the appropriate letter.

- Play the second part of the recording for students to point to the letters and repeat.

- Play the recording several times for students to listen and repeat (if necessary).

- Call some volunteers to point and say the letters.

- Check students’ listening and speaking skills. Praise them.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can point and say the letters correctly.

- Task completed: Students can point and say the letters.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to point and say the letters.

- Open their Student Books. Point to the alphabet.

- Listen to the first part of the recording and point to the appropriate letter.

- Listen to the second part of the recording and point to the letters and repeat.

- Listen to the recording.

- Point and say the letters.

PRACTICE (8 minutes)

Aim: To help students sing a song with the English alphabet and letters.

*Listen and sing. (Track 07)

- Ask students to look at the song.

- Elicit random letters from individual students.

- Play the song for the students to listen and follow.

- Play the recording a second time. students listen and sing along.

- Divide the class into groups, and assign each a line of letters to sing. Everyone can join in with the other lines.

- Play the song several times if necessary.

- Call some students/groups of four to perform the song in front of the class.

- Praise students if they have done well.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can sing the song nicely.

- Task completed: Students can sing the song.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to sing the song.

- Look at the song.

- Say the letters.

- Listen to the song and follow.

- Listen to the song again and sing along.

- Work in groups. Sing each a line of letters.

- Listen to the song.

- Perform the song in front of the class.

- Read the speech bubble.

PRODUCTION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students remember the names of the characters.

*Game: “Slap the board”

Flashcards (Tt, Xx, Hh, Bb, Kk, Yy, Dd, Nn)

- Stick 8 flashcards with the letters on the board. Tell students to look at the board.

- Tell students how the game is played.

- Give an example to show how to play the game.

- Ask students to listen to the letters and slap the flashcards as correctly and quickly as possible. You may start saying from any of the words on the board and note the score.

- Repeat the procedure if there is time.

- The student who gets the highest score will be the winner. Praise the winner.

- Ask students to read all the letters on the board.

- Remark on students’ pronunciation and praise.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can identify the letters correctly.

- Task completed: Students can identify the letters.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to identify the letters.

- Look at the board.

- Listen to the teacher’s instruction.

- Play the game as an example.

- Listen to the letters and slap the flashcards as correctly and quickly as possible.

- Continue playing the game.

- The student who gets the highest score will be the winner. Praise the winner.

- Read all the letters on the board.