Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Unit 4 Lesson 5: Skills Time - Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Family and Friends

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)

Aim: To energize the class and revise animal words.

*Game: “Mime the word”

- Set up the activity.

- Ask students to stand at their desk.

- Say an animal, e.g. monkey. Ask students to mime the action of the monkey.

- Continue with other words related to the animals.

- In pairs, have students mime the action of the animals and their partner shouts out the word they are miming.

- Praise students if they have done well.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can say animal wordscorrectly.

- Task completed: Students can say animal words.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say animal words.

- Listen to the teacher.

- Stand at their desk.

- Mime the action of the monkey.

- Continue playing the game.

- Work in pairs. Mime the action of the animals and their partner shouts out the word they are miming.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students talk about the animals.

*Lead-in: Use the picture on page 36

- Ask students to look at the picture on page 36 of their books and tell what they can see (an elephant).

- Ask students to try to predict what the text is about (It’s a poem about the elephant).

- Ask students to tell you about other poems about animals they know.

- Present the color gray using the picture of the elephant. Say the word and have students repeat it.

*Look at the picture. Talk about the animal. (Page 36)

- Ask students to look at the picture on page 36 again.

- Ask students to tell everything they can about the elephant in English, e.g. It’s an elephant. It’s big. It’s gray. It has four legs.

- Put students in pairs. Ask them to describe the animals they know.

- Call some pairs to perform in the front of the class.

- Give comments and praise them.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can talk about the animals correctly.

- Task completed: Students can talk about the animals.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to talk about the animals.

- Look at the picture on page 36 of their books and tell what they can see (an elephant).

- Try to predict what the text is about (It’s a poem about the elephant).

- Tell you about other poems about animals they know.

- Listen to the word gray and repeat it.

- Look at the picture on page 36 again.

- Tell everything they can about the elephant in English,

- Work in pairs. Describe the animals they know.

- Perform in the front of the class.

PRACTICE (8 minutes)

Aim: To help students read and understand the poem.

*Read and listen to the poem. (Track 56)

- Play the recording for students to listen to the poem.

- Play the recording a second time while students read the poem in their books silently. Answer any questions students have.

- Ask simple comprehension questions about the poem, e.g. What color is the elephant? Is it big?

- Have students read the poem in chorus.

- Call some volunteers to read the poem for the class.

- Praise students if they have done well.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can read the poem correctly and fluently.

- Task completed: Students read the poem.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to read the poem.

- Listen to the poem.

- Listen to the recording a second time and follow silently in their books.

- Answer the questions about the poem.

- Read the poem in chorus.

- Read the poem for the class.

PRODUCTION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students identify the animals.

*Game: “Clap or stamp”

- Explain how the game is played.

- Ask the students to stand at their desks.

- Say a sentence about an animal. If the sentence is true, students clap their hands. If it is false, students stamp their feet.

- Model the activity first.

- Ask students to start the game.

- Praise students if they have done well.

Sentences

1. I’m a bird. I’m little. I can fly and sing. (Clap)
2. I’m a dog. I’m brown with pink stripes. I can run very fast. (Stamp)
3. I’m a giraffe. I’m tall. I have a long neck and small ears. (Clap)
4. I’m a monkey. I’m brown or black. I have a long tail. (Clap)

àExpected outcomes and assessment

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

- Task completed: Students can identify the animals.

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

- Listen to the teacher’s instruction.

- Stand at their desks.

- Listen to a sentence. If the sentence is true, students clap their hands. If it is false, students stamp their feet.

- Follow the teacher.

- Start the game.