LESSON PLAN

FAMILY and FRIENDS 2 (2nd edition)

School : Subject : ENGLISH

Class : grade 4 UNIT 1: THEY’RE HAPPY NOW!
Period : 4 LESSON : 5+6
Teacher : Ms. Anh Week : 3
Lesson duration : 90 minutes
LESON 5: PAGE 18
I. AIMS:
Reading: read and understand a poem; match actions to feelings
Listening: identify people from descriptions of how they feel
Speaking: ask and answer questions about how people feel
Writing: identify and write long and short forms; write about your feelings (Workbook)
II. LANGUAGE:
Recycled: vocabulary and structures seen previously
Extra: carry on, nerves, smile, laugh, cry
Recycled: vocabulary and structures seen previously
Extra: broken, poor, nearly, wake up
III. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
CD $ 26; Feelings flashcards 12–22; a piece of plain paper for each child; colored pencils (optional); poster board
CD $ 27; Feelings flashcards 12–22
VI. TEACHING PROCEDURES:

STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES NOTES

Warm up - Say “Hello” to the class whole class

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 - If you’re happy and you know
10 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4WNrvVjiTw
Act and sing.

Lead in:
Present
information Test the vocabulary in lesson 1,3 about feeling. whole class
10 mins

1 Look at the pictures. How does the girl feel?

• Ask children to look at the pictures and say how the girl feels in each picture. Ask
children how we know (e.g. her actions, her facial expressions).
2. Read and listen to the poem (track 26)
• Tell children they are going to read and listen to the poem. Remind them that they
don’t have to understand all the words.
Guided practice • Play the recording. Children listen and follow the poem. Play it again and answer individuals
10 mins children’s questions.
• Ask What does she do when she’s (happy)? Ask similar questions about the other
feelings.
• Play the recording again, pausing for children to repeat. Drill their rhythm and
intonation where necessary.
• Ask children to close their books. Read the poem aloud, pausing at key feelings
and action words. Encourage children to call out the ‘missing’ words.

Pair/ group 3. Read again. Match.

practice • Ask children to say the feelings words from the poem. Write these words on one
10 mins side of the board. Ask the children to call out the action words from the poem. groups
Write these words on the opposite side of the board.
• Ask children to use a word from each side of the board to make a sentence about

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 the girl in the poem, e.g. When she’s happy, she laughs.
• Ask children to look at the words in their books. Explain that they need to draw
lines, matching actions to feelings.
• Let children complete the activity, then compare answers with a partner.

Activities:
Conclusion Give each child paper and colored pencils to draw a picture of them showing a
feeling and an action, e.g. laughing and looking happy / crying and looking sad / individuals
10 mins
hiding and looking scared. They then write a sentence about themselves under their
picture, e.g. When I’m happy, I (smile).

LESON 6: PAGE 19
STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES NOTES

• Call out an emotion from the unit for children to mime. whole class
Review
• Repeat with several different emotions. Ask different children to take turns
5 mins
calling out the emotions.

Lead in: whole class

• Ask children what they remember about the poem from the previous lesson. Ask
How does the girl feel? What does she do when she’s happy / nervous / sad?
Present
information • Encourage them to recite any part of the poem they remember and let them
check on page 20.
10 mins
• Ask children to look at the pictures in Exercise 1 and tell you how the children
feel in each one. Ask them to predict what they might hear in the listening
exercise.

Guided practice Listen and number: track 27

15mins • Tell children that they are going to hear a recording of a girl talking about how
her friends are feeling. They have to decide which person she is talking about individuals
each time.
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 • Play the recording. Children listen and point to the people as they hear them
mentioned.
• Play the recording again, stopping after the first description for children to find
the correct picture.
• Play the recording. Children number the pictures. Then check answers with the
class.

2 Point, ask, and answer.

• Ask children to look the pictures again. Ask questions,
e.g. Is he / she happy / hungry / nervous? pairs
• Ask a child to read the words in the box. Then ask a pair of children to read the
example.
• Children work in pairs. They take turns to point to the children in the pictures
and ask and answer questions using the words in the word box.
3 Look and write the long form.
Pair/ group
practice • Copy the six examples of contractions onto the board.
pairs
10 mins • Write the first example sentence and ask children to tell you the long form (She
is). Write the complete sentence on the board, and point out the example. groups
• Write more sentences on the board, e.g. We’re sad. You’re happy. I’m hot.
Invite individual children to underline the contracted words. Ask the class to tell
you the long form and write the sentences on the board.
• Let children complete the activity. Then check answers.
5. Workbook page 18, 19
individuals
- Ask student to do exercise in workbook p.18, 19.
- Go around helping and encouraging the students.

Conclusion The teacher creates a game for the kids.

15 mins Whole class

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