Steps/Activities

Organization

Warm-up

• Say “Hello” to the whole class.
• Ask students to give their names to get to know each other.
• Set the classroom rules. (E.g. Sit nicely. / Be nice. / Listen to the teacher. / Hands up. ….)

• Teacher – whole class

Option 1:   

"Simon says" game

• *Tell students they must only follow commands that start with "Simon says..."
• Demonstrate the game by giving the students different
• commands. If the command starts with "Simon says," students must do the action. If it doesn’t start with "Simon says," students who do the action must sit down.
• Have one student come to the front of the class to be "Simon."
• Swap roles and repeat with a new "Simon."

• Teacher – whole class

Option 2:

"Read my lips" game

• Divide the class into teams.
• Teacher says a sentence silently.
• Have the students try to guess what the sentence is.
• Give that team one point if it’s a correct guess.
• The team that gets the most points win.

• Students in groups

New lesson

Sing the “Numbers Song Let's Count 1-10” (Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85M1yxIcHpw&t=27s)

A. Listen and point. Repeat. (CD1 - track 02) 

• Use some real things and pictures to introduce the numbers from 1 to 10.
• Have students listen to each new word.
• Have students listen to each new word and repeat all together and individually. Correct student’s pronunciation if necessary.
• Arrange the flashcards on the board, play audio, and point to each flashcard. 
• Play audio again and have students point to the numbers in their books. 
• Play audio again and have students listen and repeat several times. 
• Change the order of the flashcards, point to them individually and have students say the words, correct pronunciation when needed.
• Have students work in pairs, one of them points to the picture in the book and the other says the word.

Option 1:   

Game: “Heads up. What's missing?”

• Divide the class into two teams.
• Arrange the flashcards on the board and remove one card when students are not looking.
• One student from each team calls out the missing flashcard.

Option 2:

Game: “Slap”

• Split the class into four teams. Have them stand in four lines. 
• Place some cards on the board.
• Have four students come to the board to face off. 
• Call out a word, e.g. seven, and have students run to the board then slap the picture and repeat the word. The winner is the student who slaps the picture at first.

• Teacher – whole class

• Students in groups

• Students in groups

B. Listen and point. (CD1 – Track 03)

• Introduce the situation: “The teacher and the students are asking and answering about age.”
• Play audio and have students look at the picture.
• Demonstrate the activity by pointing to the new vocabulary items.
• Play audio. Have students listen and point.
• Have students work in pairs, ask and answer about their age.

• Teacher – whole class

C. Sing. (CD1 – Track 04)

• Have students turn to page 70.
• Play audio and have students listen.
• Read the lyrics and do actions following them.
• Play audio and have students listen, sing along, and do
• the actions.

• Teacher – whole class

D. Point, say and do.

Practice (optional).

• Divide the class into two teams.
• Show a flashcard to the class.
• Have Team A ask the question and Team B answer.
• Swap roles and repeat.

(Teacher shows a flashcard "six.")

• Team A: "How old are you?"

• Team B: "I'm six."

Point, ask, and answer.

• Divide the class into pairs.
• Have Student A point to a picture and ask, have Student B answer.
• Swap roles and repeat.
• Afterwards, have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of the class.

Answer key

1. How old are you? I'm seven.

2. How old are you? I'm four.

3. How old are you? I'm ten.

4. How old are you? I'm six.

5. How old are you? I'm three.

6. How old are you? I'm five.

7. How old are you? I'm eight.

8. How old are you? I'm nine.

• Teacher/ Whole class/ groupwork

E. Play “Magic finger”.

• Have students look at the example.
• Divide the class into pairs.
• Have Student A write a number with their finger on Student B's back and ask "How old are you?"
• Have Student B try to guess which number it is and answer, e.g. "I'm six."
• Have students swap roles and repeat.

• Teacher – whole class/ pairs

Wrap up

Option 1:

Workbook-page 2 and 3

• Divide the class into groups of five. 
• Have students open their workbooks – page 2 and 3

A. What’s next? Look, read, and write the numbers.

• Teacher makes an example first, then have students do the remains.

B. Look and write.

• Have students write the missing letters.

C. Listen and (√) the box. (WB 02)

• Have students listen and put the tick the correct box.

D. Look, read, and (√) the box.

• Have students look, read and tick the correct box.
• Teacher and students correct all the exercises and give stamps or stickers to the whole class.

• Teacher/ Whole class/ groupwork

Option 2:

"Memory chain" game

• Divide the class into groups.
• Have Student A ask Student B a question.
• Have Student B answer the question.
• Next, have Student B turn to Student C and ask the question, then have Student C answer using Student B’s answer with one extra activity.
• Have Student C repeat the question to the next student, and so on.
• If a student forgets a sentence, the group must start from Student A again.
• The winning group is the first one to have all members finish speaking.

• Teacher/ Whole class/ groupwork