Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Unit 4 Lesson 6: Skills time - Tiếng Anh lớp 3 Family and Friends

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)

Aim: To motivate students and help students to review animal words.

*Game:“What’s the picture?”

Flashcards (cat, giraffe, bird, fish, monkey, lion, dog)

- Start to draw a picture on the board of one of the animal words, e.g. giraffe.

- Ask the students to guess what it is and call out the name.

- Put the students into small groups of four or five and ask them to take turns drawing objects from the classroom for the other students to guess. Students can extend the activity with new objects from the classroom if they know their names in English.

- The first student in each group to guess the object takes a turn at drawing the next one.

- Finish the activity when the students have had time to practice most of the words.

- Praise students if they have done well.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

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

- Task completed: Students can remember animal words.

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

- Look at a picture on the board.

- Guess what it is and call out the name.

- Work in groups of four or five. Take turns drawing objects from the classroom for the other students to guess. Students can extend the activity with new objects from the classroom if they know their names in English.

- The first student in each group to guess the object takes a turn at drawing the next one.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students listen for specific details.

*Lead-in: Use the flashcards 45-54 on page 37

- Put the flashcards on the board, with the animals on one side and the adjectives on the other side.

*Listen and draw J or L (Track 57)

- Look at the picture at the top left of the page. Confirm that students understand which number corresponds to each animal.

- Tell the class they are going to hear students talking about the animals in the pictures. They should draw in pencil a smiley face if the child on the recording likes the animal, and a sad face if he/she doesn’t like it.

- Play the recording the whole way through. Ask students point to the pictures on the page as they hear the words.

- Play the recording again, pausing after item 1 to show the example answer. Continue playing, pausing at appropriate intervals for students to draw the faces.

- Go over the answers with the class using the flashcards on the board.

- Ask students to give their answers.

- Confirm the correct answers. Praise students if they have done well.

Answers:

1. J 2. J 3. L

4. J 5. L 6. J

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can listen and draw the faces correctly.

- Task completed: Students can listen and draw the faces.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to listen and draw the faces.

- Look at the flashcards on the board

- Say which number corresponds to each animal.

- Follow the teacher.

- Listen to the recording the whole way through. point to the pictures on the page as they hear the words.

- Listen to the recording again. Draw the faces.

- Give the answers.

PRACTICE (8 minutes)

Aim: To help students ask and answer to describe animals; talk about favorite animals.

*Look at the picture again. Ask and answer. (page 37)

- Read the words in the word box. students repeat in chorus.

- Ask students to look at the question and answer in the speech bubbles. Read them out loud for students to repeat.

- Put students in pairs to take turns describing the animals in the box for their partner to guess.

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

- Remark on students’ pronunciation. Praise them.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can ask and answer to describe animals correctly.

- Task completed: Students can ask and answer to describe animals.

- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to ask and answer to describe animals.

*Talk about your favorite animals. (page 37)

- Elicit their favorite animals from the students.

- Ask students to talk about their favorite animals by using “I like........”.

E.g. I like monkeys and dogs.

- Call some students to say the sentences in front of the class. Have students check their friends’ pronunciation.

- Give feedback.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

- Task completed with excellence: Students can talk about their favorite animals correctly and fluently.

- Task completed: Students can talk about their favorite animals.

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

- Repeat the words in chorus.

- Look at the question and answer in the speech bubbles. Repeat.

- Work in pairs. Take turns describing the animals in the box for their partner to guess.

- Perform in front of the class.

- Say the names of the animals.

- Talk about their favorite animals by using “I like........”.

- Say the sentences in front of the class. Check their friends’ pronunciation.