LESSON PLAN
Week: ……
Period: ……
Date of teaching: …………………
TEXTBOOK: MAJOR SCIENCE 1
Unit 5: LIVING AND NON-LIVING THINGS
Lesson 2 (pages 35, 36, 37)
A. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Core competences
- Review vocabulary about what living and non-living things can do.
- Recognize and distinguish living and non-living in daily life.
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in pairs/groups to talk about living and non-living
things
- Problem-solving and creativity: find out more information about living and non-living things
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners to complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.
B. LANGUAGE FOCUS AND SKILLS
1. Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: living things, non-living things, breathe, grow
- Recycled vocabulary: duck, cat, ball, pencil, elephant, chicken
2. Skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Student book – pages 35, 36, 37
- Audio: Audio 21
- Flashcards/Pictures (Living and non-living things)
- Teacher’s Guide
- Computer, projector, …
D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES
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Teacher’s activities Students’ activities PowerPoint
WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)
Objective: To attract Ss’ attention to the lesson and lead in the new lesson.
*Greeting
- Greet the students: - Greet the teachers.
“Hello, how are you?”
“I’m fine, thank you. Please sit down.”
*Game: I Spy
- Explain the rule for students. - Follow the rules of the Slides 2 - 7
- Involve students in the game. game.
- During the game, check their answers and - Get engaged in the game.
pronunciation. - Check the answers.
Rules:
● Divide the class into two teams: A and B.
● Each team will find living things or non-
living things.
● Each team takes turns saying the correct
words and gets points.
● The team with the most points wins.
→Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember the words correctly.
- Task completed: Students can remember the words.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember the words.
PRESENTATION (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students review living and non-living things
*Lead-in: Ask and answer.
- Help students recall vocabulary and sentence - Try to review
structure about the topic “living and non- vocabulary and
living things.” sentence structure
about living and non-
- Ask some relevant questions: living things.
“Can you tell me some living things/non- - Listen to the questions
living things?” of the teacher and
“What can living things/non-living things answer in full
do?” sentences.
- Try to use body
- Listen to their answers and check their language to express
pronunciation. Give students the correct the words.
answer as well.
Lead in the lesson: “So today we are going to
review living and non-living things.”
*Presentation – Exercise 1: Stick the stickers. Slide 8
- Instruct the activity “Stick the stickers” for
students, ask them to take the sticker at the
end of the book. - Focus on the
- Ask them some questions about the stickers to instructions of the
make sure that they understand how to do the teacher and take
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activity. stickers.
“This is a duck, right? (show the sticker of - Listen to the questions
the “duck” in front of the class.) and answer.
“Can the duck breathe/grow?” (wait for
students to answer.)
“So it is a living thing. We will stick it in the
living thing column.” (demonstrate the
activity in front of the class).
- Listen to their answers, check their
pronunciation and give them feedback.
- Then let students do the activity on their own,
and give them the necessary support when
they ask. - Do the activity, ask
- Encourage students to make sentences using the teacher for help if
the sentence structure “The … can/can’t needed.
breathe/grow”:
“The duck can breathe/The ball can’t - Try to recall the
breathe.” sentence structure and
Invite some students to stand up and point at a make the sentences.
random sticker, and ask them to make
sentences. Slide 9
- Check their pronunciation if necessary.
Exercise 2: Read and tick ().
- Ask students to have a look at the sentences
for a while. - Focus on the
sentences carefully.
- Read the sentence aloud for the first time for - Listen and pay more
students to listen. attention to the
teacher’s
- Read the sentence aloud for the second time, pronunciation.
this time the teacher pauses at each sentence,
asking students to repeat again loudly. - Repeat loudly after the
- Invite some Ss to stand up and read aloud the teacher.
sentence.
- Check their pronunciation. - Stand up and read
- Instruct the activity for students by asking aloud the sentences.
some questions:
“Can living things breathe?” (Wait for - Try to grasp the
students to answer.) instructions of the
“So we put a tick in Yes or No?” teacher and follows
(Demonstrate the action for students to the teacher’s actions.
follow.)
- Then let students do the activity, and walk
around the class to give them the necessary - Do the activity and
help. ask for help if Slide 10
- Give students the correct answers when they necessary.
have finished the activity, and praise anyone
who has got all the correct answers.
Exercise 3: Circle the non-living things.
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- Ask students what they can see in the picture
with some questions: - Focus on the pictures
“Where are they now?” and try to answer the
“Are they happy?” questions.
“What is this?”
“What is that?”
- Then instruct students about the activity with
this procedure: - Listen to and follow
“This is a toy dinosaur, right?” the instructions of the
“So can the tree breathe/grow?” teacher.
“No, so we will circle the “dinosaur”
together, okay”.
(demonstrate the action “circle” to make sure
students understand the activity well)
- Then let students choose non-living things - Choose and circle the
and circle, walking around to check and give non-living things in
them support when necessary. the book, and ask the
teacher for help if
- Encourage some students to go to the board necessary.
and show their answers in front of the class, - Go to the board and
encourage them to talk about their choice introduce what they
using the sentence structure: have chosen.
“The pool can’t breathe/grow.”
- Listen to their sentences. If they give the Slide 11
wrong sentence, give them the correct
sentence if necessary. Check their - Listen to the teacher.
pronunciation if needed.
Exercise 4: Pictionary.
- Divide the class into two groups, 2 teams play
at a time. One student from each group will - Listen and follow the
be the drawer. instructions of the
- At the same time let 2 drawers see a flashcard teacher.
of anything then ask them to draw the thing - Look at the flashcards
on the board in 30 seconds. and try to draw
- In 30 seconds while the drawers are still correctly on the board.
drawing, their teammates will try to guess if - Try to guess the things
the thing is living or non-living. Can get and give the answer
bonus points if they can name the thing whether it is a non-
correctly. living thing or a living
thing.
→Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember the words and say sentences about living
and non-living things correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can remember the words and say sentences about living and non-living
things.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember the words and say sentences about living and
non-living things.
PRACTICE (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students be able to apply the knowledge in real-life situations.
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Exercise 5: Listen to the story. Slide 12
- Point at the pictures and ask students what - Look at the pictures and
they can see in the pictures. answer the questions of
the teacher.
- Ask students some relevant questions such as: - Pay attention to the
“What is this?” questions and answer
the questions of the
- Focus on the answer of students, check their teacher.
pronunciation and give them feedback.
- Play the audio for the first time, and ask
students to listen to the story.
- Play the video for the second time for - Listen to the story for
students to listen. At this time, pause at each the first time.
picture and ask students to repeat again. - Listen to the audio for
- Pick some random students to stand up at the second time, look at
their place and ask them about the story in the the picture and repeat
picture. again.
- Listen to their answers, check their - Stand up and answer
pronunciation and give feedback. the questions of the
teacher.
*Exercise 6: Listen and act.
- Ask students if they remember any details or Slide 12
any words about the story that relates to the
topic “A living fish”.
- Listen to their answers, check their - Listen and answer the
pronunciation and give feedback. questions of the
teacher.
- Play the audio for students to listen to.
- Invite some students to go on the board, ask
them to act following the story.
- Praise students who have the correct act
following the story. - Listen to the audio.
- Give the value of the story: “Know living and - Go to the board and
non-living things” and explain the value to perform the act.
students.
- Ask for clarification if
you have something
unclear.
→Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can listen to the story and act it out correctly and
fluently.
- Task completed: Students can listen to the story and act it out.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to listen to the story and act it out.
PRODUCTION (5 minutes)
Objective: To help students have more practice to remember what they have learned.
*Extra activity – Game: Overcome the Slides 13 - 24
obstacles. - Focus on the pictures
- Show the pictures and ask students to and say it is a living
choose whether it is a living thing or a non- thing or a non-living
living thing. thing.
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- Listen to the teacher
- Correct students’ answers and and check the answers.
pronunciation.
- Praise students who have got the correct
answers, saying that they have helped the
boys overcome the obstacles.
→Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember the words and sentences from the lesson
and answer all the questions in the game.
- Task completed: Students can remember the words and sentences from the lesson.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember the words and sentences from the lesson.
WRAP UP AND HOMEWORK (5 minutes)
Objectives: Relax, have more practice, and remind students what they need to do at home.
*Wrap Up: Game: Tic-tac-toe Slides 25, 26
- Explain the rules for students to follow. - Listen to the rules and
- Play the game. ask the teacher if there
- Check their answers and pronunciation. are any questions.
Rules:
● Divide into two teams: A and B
● Each team will answer the question by
looking at the flashcards: Non-living things
or Living things.
● Teacher will help the team to write
X- O if they have the right answers.
*Homework:
- Go through what students have learned from - Listen to the teacher.
the lesson.
- Ask students to learn the words and phrases
from the unit by heart.
- Require students to practice listening,
speaking, reading, and writing at home.
- Ask students to prepare for the next lesson.
REFLECTION
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