Giáo án môn Tiếng Anh - Unit 1: The letter a

Week: 01 Preparing date: September 09th 2017
Period: 01	 Teaching date: September 12 th 2017
UNIT 1 : THE LETTER A
Lesson 1
I- Objectives : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Recognize and pronounce the letter Aa and its sound correctly
Understand, recognize and say the three Aa words
Write the letter Aa
II – Plan: 
Topic & 
Key language
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 1
Letter Aa
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
ant, apple, alligator
Sight words
a, an
Warm-up (5 mins)
Greet students by saying: Hello, my name is ..
Have students take turns to say hello and introduce their names
Or
Have students sing and do actions with the Hello Song by Peter Weatherall 
Presentation & Practice
1. Listen, point and repeat. Colour (Track 02): Introduction of letter A, its sound and how to pronounce the words beginning with Aa (7 mins)
Use a card with letter Aa (or write on board the letter Aa) to introduce to the students the new lesson.
Instruct students how to pronounce the letter name and the letter sound by saying: “This is the letter A /eI/. The letter A says /{/.”
Repeat several times and check students’ pronunciation (letter A /eI/ and its sound /{/)
Use the phonics cards with ant, apple, and alligator, read the words out loud and have students repeat.
Use gestures (hand actions) to help students to 
understand the meanings of the three words.
Stick the cards on board and have students repeat the words chorally several times (in the correct order and then in any order).
Call some students to say the words out loud and correct their mistakes (if any)
Have students color the letter Aa
Activity: Sit and Stand Game (3 mins)
Show the 3 phonics cards one by one. For example, show the card with ant, but incorrectly say alligator or apple, the students will stand; if the words are correctly said, they will stay sitting. 
Do the same procedure for the other two cards.
Give feedback
2. Listen and point. Colour. (Track 03): Read the words with preceding “an” (5 mins)
Have students look at the screen and listen to the words: an ant, an apple, an alligator
Have students listen and repeat the words for several times
Give feedback
Activity: Touching Game (5 mins)
Put the 3 phonics cards on the board in this order: ant, apple, alligator.
Divide the class into 2 teams; call one student of each team to stand 1m from the board
Read one of the three words out loud (e.g. an ant), students must run to tap the card of that word.
Student who taps the correct card first will get 1 point for his/her team.
Call 4-6 students per team to the board if possible
Give feedback
3. Chant and show! (Track 04) (5 mins)
Use the phonics cards on the board and have students sing the chant with ant. Do the same with apple and alligator.
The whole class sings the whole chant. Do the chant again using gestures for each word. 
Give feedback
Production (5 mins)
Activity 1: Writing in the air
Show the letter Aa again, have students write the Aa in air with their fingers.
Activity 2: Write down the words into Students’ notebook
Ask students write down: Aa, ant, apple, alligator into their notebook
Period 2:
UNIT 1 : THE LETTER A
Lesson 2
I- Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Recognize and say the three Aa words correctly 
Do the corresponding actions
Read the story
Sing letter Aa song
II- Plan: 
Topic & 
Key language
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 2
Letter Aa
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
ant, apple, alligator
Sight words
an, for, and
Warm-up (4 mins)
Greet students
Show the phonics cards, ask students to do corresponding actions then say the sound of the letter and words. 
E.g. Teacher: (Show the ‘ant’ card). Say ’ant’
Class: (wriggling their fingers as if ants are crawling) /{/ ant
Or
Have students sing the chant in lesson 1, keep the rhythm by clapping their hands or snapping their fingers
Presentation & Practice
Lead-in Activity: Act It Out Game (5 mins)
Choose a student to come to the front of the class. Show him/her a phonics card or whisper a word, and have student act it out
The remaining students try to guess the correct answer.
The first student to raise his/ her hand and answer correctly will come to the front of the class and activity continues. 
4. Listen And Read Along (Track 05) (8 mins)
Encourage the students to point to the picture of the word that the teacher says.
Read. Have the students listen to the story once.
Read again. The students listen and point to the pictures of the key words when they hear them in the story
Read the story. The students follow their books.
Teacher reads the printed words then let the students look at the pictures and say the words.
Ask students work in pairs. One reads while the other checks, then they change roles. Or one reads the printed words while the other looks at the pictures and says the words.
Activity: Say the Sight Words (3 mins)
Point to and say the sight words: an, for, and
Have students repeat
Have some students read them aloud.
Activity: Chinese Whispers Game (5 mins)
Divide the class into 2 or 4 teams with the same numbers of students in each team.
The first student of each team runs to the teacher (at the same time); teacher whispers a word/words to them.
The first student whispers the word/words to the student sitting next to or behind him/her and so on.
The last students say the word/words aloud.
5. Song (Track 06) (5 mins) 
Put the ant, apple and alligator phonics cards up on the board.
Point to the ant and say: “A for ant”. The students repeat.
Follow the same procedure and present the rest of the song.
Read. The students listen and sing along.
Read again. The pupils sing and do corresponding actions.
Activity: Which One Is Missing? Game (5 mins)
Put the phonics cards face up on the table/stick them on the board.
Give the students a minute to look at the cards.
Have students close their eyes and then you take away one cards.
Tell the students to open their eyes and name the missing cards
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