Tiếng Anh 3 Family and Friends - National Edition Unit 1 lesson 4

Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)

Aim: To motivate students and help students to remember the previous phonics and words.

*Game: “Musical cards”

• Ask students if they can remember any of the words from their last phonics lesson (Gg, Hh, goat, gift, hat, hamster).
• Play the song Drink your milk! from p. 40 (Track 63).
• Hand out the flashcards to different students around the class. They pass the cards to the students next to them while the music is playing.
• Stop the music suddenly. Ask the students who are holding the flashcards, What’s this? Ask them to say the words aloud.
• Play the music again and repeat the activity.
• Ask students to check their friends’ pronunciation. Give feedback.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

• Task completed with excellence:  Students can say the phonics and the words correctly.
• Task completed:   Students can say the phonics and the words.
• Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the phonics and the words.

• Answer the teacher’s questions.

• Listen to music.

• Hold the flashcard. Pass the cards to the students next to them while the music is playing.

• Say the words aloud.

• Continue playing the game.

• Check their friends’ pronunciation.

PRESENTATION (10 minutes)

Aim: To help students pronounce the sounds /æ/ and /b/ at the beginnings of words.

*Lead-in: Use phonic cards 1-4 to introduce the letters and the words.

Flashcards (Aa, apple, Annie, Bb, bat, ball) 

• Write Aa and Bb on the board. Point to each and say the letter name and sound for students to repeat.
• Stand with back to students and draw the letters in the air as you say the sound for each.
• Say the sounds again as students draw the uppercase and then the lowercase letters in the air.
• Present the words on the phonics cards. Say the letter names, sounds, and then the words for students to repeat. 
• Remark students’ pronunciation.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

• Task completed with excellence:  Students can say the letters and the words correctly and fluently.
• Task completed:   Students can say the letters and the words.
• Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the letters and the words.

*Listen and point. Repeat (Track 18)

• Write the words apple, Annie, bat, ball next to the letters on the board. Circle the first letter of each word. Point to the word. Say only the beginning sound for students to repeat.
• Hold up Phonics cards, one at a time. Say the words for students to repeat. Hold up the cards in a different order.
• Ask students to look at the letters in their books.
• Play the first part of the recording for students to listen and point to the letters.
• Play the second part of the recording for students to repeat the letter names, sounds, and words in chorus. Play the recording as many times as necessary.
• Play the recording all the way through for students to point to the words and then repeat them. 
• Call some students to say the letters and the words.
• Check students’ pronunciation. Praise students if they have done well.

àExpected outcomes and assessment

• Task completed with excellence:  Students can say the letters and the words correctly and  fluently.
• Task completed:   Students can say the letters and the words.
• Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the letters and the words.

• Look at the letters Aa and Bb on the board. Say the letter name and sound.

• Listen to the sound and repeat.

• Draw the uppercase and then the lowercase letters in the air.

• Repeat the words on the phonics cards. Say the letter names, sounds, and the words

• Look at the words next to the letters on the board. Say the beginning sound.

• Say the words.

• Look at the letters in their books.

• Listen to the first part of the recording and point to the letters.

• Listen to the second part of the recording and say the letter names, sounds, and words in chorus.

• Point to the words and say the words.

• Say the letters and the words.