LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Book: Family and Friends 5

Date: Unit / Lesson / Theme Unit 2: Our vacation/ Lesson 6
School: Level:
Number of students: Age of students:
At the end of the lesson, Students are able to:
- Listening: understand a conversation about a boy’s vacation plans and listen for
specific information
Objectives:
- Speaking: ask and answer questions about your plans for next week
- Writing: recognize phrases to start and end emails or letters; write an email
(Workbook)

Procedure Teacher’s activities Co Teacher’s activities

Introduction Weather report: Ask the class about today’s weather.

Song: Play a warm-up song.
Warmer Sing with students.
 Play Simon says to energize the class at the start of the
lesson.
 Ask the children to stand by their desks.
 Explain that you are going to give instructions. If the
instruction begins with the words Simon says,
children must do as you ask. If not, they must stand
still and wait for the next instruction.
 Any child who gets this wrong is out of the game and
has to sit down.
Help the teacher to do the game.
 Give an instruction, e.g., Simon says brush your hair.
Simon says eat cereal.
 Intermittently insert an instruction which is not
preceded by “Simon says” to see which children are
really paying attention.
 Continue the game until there is one winner left
standing, or a group of winners if you prefer.
Lead-in
 With children’s books closed, hold up your copy of the
book to show them the postcard from Lesson 5. Make sure all books are closed.
 Ask Where is Lan on vacation? Elicit She’s in Nha
Trang. Ask What is she going to do on vacation?
Elicit as much information as children can remember,
e.g., She’s going to snorkel/eat seafood/visit a
museum/go shopping/buy some presents.
 Ask children to open their Student Books to p. 19 and
look at the pictures in Exercise 1.
  Ask What is the boy going to do? and encourage
children to make predictions. Don’t correct children’s
predictions.

Presentation Listen and circle. (Exercise 1)

 Tell children they are going to hear a recording of
Phong talking about his vacation plans, and they are Explain again if necessary.
going to circle the correct activities in the chart.
 Ask What’s Phong going to do on Monday? (visit the
zoo). Show students the circled example answer.
 Play the recording (Track 20) the whole way through
for children to find the correct activities in the chart.
 Play the recording again, pausing after each dialogue
for children to circle the correct activity.
 Play the recording the whole way through again for
children to check their answers.
 Go through the answers with the class.
Say the day.
 Divide the class into pairs.
 One child says an activity that Phong is going to do
next week, e.g., He’s going to watch TV. The other Go around and check.
child says the
day, e.g., Thursday.
 Children swap roles and repeat.
Development Ask and answer about you. (Exercise 2)
 Ask two children to read the speech bubbles for the
class.
 Tell children they are going to ask and answer
questions about their plans for next week.
 Tell children to choose activities from the box when Explain clearly for them.
they answer. If they aren’t going to do these things,
they can imagine that they are.
 Check that children understand, and then ask them to
work in pairs and do the exercise. Monitor and help
where necessary.
 Choose some pairs to ask and answer questions for the
class.
Write a short letter to your friend about what you’re
going to do after school. Use a start and an end
phrase. (Exercise 3)
 Read the information in the Writing box with children,
pausing after each phrase for children to repeat it. Make sure students repeat.
 Look at the letter for students to complete and ask what
goes after “Start” (Dear [friend’s name]).
 Check that children understand how to complete the
exercise.
 Children do the rest of the exercise individually.
Monitor and help where necessary.
 Ask a few children to read their letters to the class.
Consolidation Spot the phrase
Ask children to turn to p. 18 and look at Lan’s postcard.
 Tell children to circle phrases from the Writing box on Make sure students turn to page 18
p. 19 that appear at the start and end of the postcard.
What am I going to do?
 Divide the class into pairs.
 Tell children to think of one activity that they are going
to do on the weekend. Tell them that they must not
tell their
partner the activity yet.
 In pairs, children take turns asking and answering Go around and help.
questions with Are you going to ...?
 The first child to guess his/her partner’s activity
correctly is the winner.
Note: Now go to Workbook p. 19 for children to practice
starting and ending emails and letters, and write an
email.
Exercises: Workbook p. 19
Story time: A reader of your choice