Unit 1: Hello

Steps

Aims

Learning activities

Language focus

Modes

1. Warm-up

(4 minutes)

To make a friendly atmosphere and help students get ready to study.

-       Greet the class by saying Hello.

-       Encourage students to answer with Hello.

-       Introduce teacher’s name to the class by saying: I’m Miss Ha.

-       Call on some students to stand up and introduce their names.

-       Introduce the lesson that they are going to learn.

-  Whole class

-  Individuals.

2. Look, listen and repeat

(9 minutes)

To give students a chance to practise introducing themselves and responding to the introduction.

-       Have students open their book and look at part 1: Look, listen and repeat on page 6.

-       Ask students some questions:

+ Who is he/she?

+ Who are they?

+ Where are they? Are they at school or park?

+ Can you guess what they are doing?

-       Stick characters of each picture on the board.

-       Explain what happens in each picture.

-       Write the dialogs of each picture on the board.

-       Play the CD 1st for students to listen and point.

-       Play the CD 2nd for students to listen and repeat.

-       Have the whole class say aloud one more time.

-       Devide the class into 2 teams: team Moon and team Sun.

-       Picture a, have team Moon be Mai and team Sun be Nam. Then, change the roles.

-       Picture b, do the same as picture a.

-       Have students work in pairs to practise the 2 dialogs.

-       Call on some pairs to role play.

-       Correct the pronunciation if necessary.

-       Give 2 stars for good performance.

- Whole class

- Groups

- Pairs

3. Point and say

(15 minutes)

To give students a chance to practise saying Hello/ Hi. I’m + (name) and responding to the greeting.

• Teaching new model sentence:

-       Set the scene:

+ Look at the picture a again.

+ What does Mai say to Nam?

+ Then, what does Nam say to Mai?

-       Explain new model sentence: to greet others and introduce yourself, you say: Hello/ Hi. I’m + name or Hello/ Hi. I am + name.

-       Write the new model sentence on the board and explain the full form and short form.

-       Ask the whole class say the new model sentence aloud.

-       Ask each team say the new model sentence aloud.

-       Call some students to say the new model sentence aloud.

-       Correct the pronounciation and intonation if necessary.

-       Give 1 star for good performances.

• Practice new model sentence:

-       Stick the characters in part 2 on the board and elicit his/ her name.

-       Point to each character and have students say aloud, using:

+ Hello. I’m _____.

+ Hello, ______.

   I’m ______.

-       Play the game: “Throw the ball”

+ Draw a bull’s eye on the board.

+ Call 1 student from each team to go to the board.

+ Have the students say the  dialog.

+ Correct the pronunciation if necessary.

+ Let each student throw the ball on the bull’s eye to know how many stars he/she has got.

- Hello/ Hi. I’m + name.

- Hello/ Hi. I am + name.

-  Whole class

-  Teams

-  Pairs

4. Let’s talk

(5 minutes)

To give students a chance to practise more with their friends.

• Play the game: “The train”

-       Teacher greets and introduces herself to the class.

-       Then, teacher throws the ball to 1 student and he/she has to respond to the greeting by using the new model sentence.

-       After that, the student throws the ball to the next student and so on.

-       Correct the pronunciation if necessary.

-  Individuals

5. Home-link

(2 minutes)

To give students a chance to practise more at home.

-       Practise more at home with parents