LESSON PLAN
Week: ……
Period: ……
Date of teaching: …………………
TEXTBOOK: MAJOR SCIENCE 4
Unit 1: WATER
Lesson 2 (pages 7 & 8)
A. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Core competences
- Complete a text using words from the previous lesson.
- Stick four stages of the water cycle on a picture.
- Listen to a story about the water cycle.
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in groups to recognize three states of water and four stages of the water cycle.
- Problem-solving and creativity: listening to what the teacher is saying and finding out three states of water and four stages of the water cycle.
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners to complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth about feelings and emotions or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.
B. LANGUAGE FOCUS AND SKILLS
1. Vocabulary
- Vocabulary: water, liquid, water vapor, gas, ice, solid, evaporate, condense, fall, collect.
2. Skills: Listening, Reading and Speaking.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
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- Student book – pages 7 & 8
- Audio Tracks 4, 5
- Flashcards/Pictures (states of water, water cycle)
- Teacher’s Guide
- Computer, projector, ….
D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Powerpoint
WARM-UP/REVIEW (5 minutes)
Objective: To help students review the vocabulary about three states of water and four stages of the water cycle.
*Game: “Pick the Fruit” Slides 2-15
- Divide the class into groups. - Play in groups.
- Ask students to look at the PP slide. - Look at the PP slide.
- Explain the rules. - Listen to the teacher.
- Have students choose a fruit and answer the - Play the game.
question.
- Praise the winner
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can say the words about water correctly.
- Task completed: Students can say the words about water.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the words about water.
PRESENTATION (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students remember four stages of the water cycle
7. Listen and complete the text. (Track 4) Slide 17
- Show the text on the PP slide and ask students to - Follow the teacher.
look at the text.
- Help students guess the word needed for each space. - Ask the teacher if there are any questions.
- Play the recording and ask students to complete the
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text with what they hear. - Listen to the recording and fill in the blanks.
- Ask some students to give their answers. - Give the answers.
- Show the answers on the PP slide. - Check the answers.
WE DO
8. Stick the stickers. Then present it.
- Explain how to do the exercise. - Complete the exercise by sticking the stickers Slide 18
- Give students some time to complete the exercise in the correct place.
- Go around the class to check the students’ answers. - Ask for help if necessary.
- Show the correct answers in the PP slide - Look at the PP slide and check the answers.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember four stages of the water cycle correctly.
- Task completed: Students can remember four stages of the water cycle.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember four stages of the water cycle.
PRACTICE (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students be able to apply the knowledge in real-life situations.
9. Listen and read the story. Then act it out. (track 5) Slides 19-22
*Introduction: - Listen to the teacher.
- Introduce two characters in the story: Mia and Tim. - Listen to the story.
*Story: Listen to the story then listen and act. - Listen and read along.
- Turn on the audio and have students listen to it first. - Repeat after the teacher.
- Play the audio again and read along. - Practice telling the story.
- Read again and ask students to repeat after.
- Let students practice acting the story with their
partner. - Some pairs practice the story in front of the
- Call some pairs to stand up and act the story out. class.
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*Understanding:
10. Read the story again. Circle and correct the
mistake in each sentence.
- Ask students to do the task to check their understanding - Do the task individually.
of the story.
- Go around to check students’ answers. - Show their answers and ask if needed.
- Call some students to give their answers in front of the - Give answers to the teacher.
class.
- Give feedback and show the answers on the PP slide. - Correct the answers.
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 remember the words they have learned
*Missing letters Slides 23-26
- Divide the class into 2 teams. - Work in teams.
- Explain the rules to students. - Listen carefully to the teacher to know the rules.
- Ask students to take turns and do the task. - Take turns to do the task.
- Give points if one team gives a correct answer. - If one team gives a correct answer, they will get
- Give the other team a chance to answer if this team points.
gives an incorrect answer. - The other team has a chance if the answer is
wrong.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember the words they have learned correctly.
- Task completed: Students can remember the words they have learned.
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- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember the words they have learned.
WRAP UP AND HOMEWORK (5 minutes)
Objective: To help students relax after the lesson and remind them what they have to do at home
* Wrap Up: Guess the words
- Divide the class into 2 teams. - Play in teams. Slides 27-34
- Have each team choose some members to play. - Look at the pictures and guess the words.
- Ask students to look at the pictures and guess the
words.
- Praise the winner.
* Homework:
- Go through what students have learned from the - Listen to the teacher.
lesson.
- Ask students to learn the new words by heart.
- Require students to practice pointing and speaking
with the pictures from the unit.
- Ask students to prepare for the next lesson.
REFLECTION
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