LESSON PLAN – Family and Friends 3

UNIT 5: Storytelling – The lion and the mouse

Name of teacher: Lê Minh Hiền (from benning to picture 1) No. in class: Group 8
Phạm Linh Đan ( the rest)
Trương Bảo Hân
Đỗ Diệu Thảo Hương
Trịnh Ngọc Kim Ánh
Nguyễn Hoàng Đăng Khôi
Grade: 3 Lesson time:
35 minutes
National Curriculum link: Target language:
Family and Friends 3 Class Book, Unit 5, page 40. Can you…? What …
doing? How… now?
lion, mouse, angry, wake
up, scared, kind.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the puplis will have:
- Understand and enjoy the story through the use of context cues, pictures and repetition.
- Remember the key vocabulary of the story.
- Re- tell the story with the help of visual aids actions and their teacher.
Assumed knowledge of pupils.
Concept: grade 3.
Recycled language: lion, mouse, angry, wake up, scared, kind.
Laguage support materials: flashcards. Preparations:
Prepare flashcards and
props for animals.

Stages and Teaching procedures Learner Interaction

timing and teacher’s language activities and
language
Starter/ 1. Teacher greets the Listening, Whole class.
warm up students by saying “ speaking and
(5 mins) Good morning class.” doing actions.
Pupils repond.
2. Teacher ask several
individual pupils “ Hello,
how are you today?” and
elicits the answer, “ I’m
fine thank you, and you?”
Teacher responds “ I’m
fine too.”
3. Teacher tells the
children to stand up.
Children stand up.
4. Teacher asks the
 class “ What can you do?
Can you run?” Teacher
does the running action
for a few seconds.
Students copy. “ Can you
sleep?” Teacher closes
his/ her eyes and put
head on hands. Students
repeat the word and
copy. “ Can you eat”
teacher do an eating
action. Students
copy.Teacher asks “ Can
you laugh?” and does the
laughing action. Students
copy.
5. Teacher simply gives
commands for students “
run, sleep, eat, laugh”.
6. Teacher divides class
into 4 groups, introduce
the rules of ‘ Simon
says’ “ If I say Simon
says run, you run, I say
Simon says laugh, you
laugh…” and gives
demonstration. Students
join the game.
7. Teacher says “ Very
good! Today I’m going to
tell you a story!”

Arouse 1. Teacher shows the Listening, Whole class.

attention/ picture of a lion and says speaking,learni
interest “ What’s this?” Students ng new words
(3 mins) respond “ It’s a lion.” and doing
Teacher shows the actions.
picture of a mouse and
asks “ What’s this?”
Students respond “ It’s a
mouse.”
Teacher do the sleeping
action “ What am I
doing? I’m sleeping.”
Teacher open eyes and
raise his/ her arm “…
then I wake up”. Teacher
 asks students to repeat “
wake up” and do
sleeping and waking up
actions. “ Sleep, Wake
up”
Teacher do eating action
“ What am I doing?”
Student respond “
Eating”. Teacher do
chewing action “ When
eating, I chew” and asks
student to repeat do
chewing action: “ Chew.”
Teacher makes angry
face “ How am I now? I
am angry.” Teacher asks
students to do angry face
and repeat the word.
Teacher makes scared
face “ How am I now? I
am scared.” Teacher
asks student to do
scared face and repeat
the word.
2. Teacher sets the
context by asking a few
more questions “ Where
is this? It’s a jungle.”
Teacher asks students “
What animal live in the
jungle?” students
respond “ Lion and
mouse”

Create a Teacher asks students “ Listening and Whole class.

general What animal live in the speaking
purpose for jungle?” students
listening to a respond “ Lion and
story mouse”
(2 mins) Teacher lead in the
story :” We will hear a
story about a lion and a
mouse.”

Presentation 1. Teacher put the lion Listening and Whole class.

activity on the background “ speaking
(8 mins) Where is the lion?”
Students respond “ It is
in the forest.”
Teacher starts to read
the story “ One day, a
lion is sleeping.”
Teachers asks students
to do sleeping action.
Teachers continues
reading the story “ A
mouse runs over the
lion’s nose”
2. Teacher asks students
to predict what’s next “
What the lion do next?”
and give them a clue “
It’s sleeping and then
it…” Students respond “
It wakes up.”
3. Teacher shows the
picture of an angry lion “
How is the lion now?”
Students respond “ It’s
angry.” Teacher asks “
How is the mouse now?”
Students respond “ It’s
scared.”
Teacher continues
reading the story “ The
lion wakes up. The lion is
angry and the mouse is
scared. I’m very sorry,
says the mouse. Don’t
eat me! I can help you
one day.”
4. Teacher asks student
to predict what’s next “
What the lion do? Can
you guess?”
5. Teacher asks student
to guess “Does the lion
think the mouse can help
him? No”. “Why do you
think so? The mouse is
small”. Teacher
encourages the students
to predict the next
scene:” What do you
think the lion will do to
the mouse? Eat it”
Teacher continues
reading the story “The
lion laughs:That’s funny!
You are little! How can
you help me?”
Teacher shows a picture
of a lion smiling: “Is he
angry now? No”.
The teacher ”Yes, the
lion is not angry now. So
the mouse runs away”.
6. Teacher continues the
story and asks the
students to act :“One
year later, the lion is
walking in the jungle. A
big net falls over the lion.
The lion opens its mouth
and roars. What sound
does the lion roar?”
Teacher shows a picture
of a lion being stuck :”
Can it jump?No”.” Can it
walk?” No”. “Who is
going help the lion now?
The mouse”.
Teacher encourages
students to interact with
the character in the story:
“Where is Mr. Lion? On
the tree”. “Why is he on
the tree? The net falls
over the lion”. “How can I
cut the net? Use your
teeth”. “ How can I help
him? You climb up the
tree”
Teacher continues the
story: ”The mouse climbs
up the tree, chews the
net and makes a big
hole. Mr. Lion is free.
Class, if someone help
you, what will you do?
Thanks them”. “ If
 someone say thank you,
what should you say?
You are welcome”.
Evaluate 1. T asks the students to Listening Whole class
students’ match the animals to the Speaking
understading actions they can do. Vocabulary
(5 min) 2. Teacher says “ What
is this” and holds up a
picture of a mouse.
Students ” a mouse”.
Teacher encourage
students to mimic
gesture and say: “ Can
you act like a mouse?
Squeaks squeaks”. “
What does the mouse
eat? Cheese!”
“ What is the mouse
scare of ? Cats, dogs”
“ Where does the mouse
live? In the house, in the
jungle”
3. Continue the same
with lion. “ What does the
lion eat? Meat!”
“ Where does the lion
live? In the jungle”

Retell the 1.Teacher says “ Let’s Speaking and Whole class

story with the play! Who wants to be storytelling Individuals
children’s the mouse?” Select a
help mouse through lucky dip
(8 min) or other method. Give
the mouse a headband
or encourage her to
make the mouse with her
hands. “ Who wants to
be the lion?”.” Who
wants to be the
storyteller?”
2.Begin the story again,
pausing frequently for the
students to tell. Let the
students do all the story.

Wrap-up 1.Quickly review the Whole class Whole class

(4 min) target language of the
 lesson:
“If you are kind to
someone, they will return
you a favour”
“ Never laugh at
somebody’s weakness”

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