LESSON PLAN

Week: ……
Period: ……
Date of teaching: …………………
TEXTBOOK: MAJOR STARS 3
Unit 4: GORILLAS ARE BIG
Lesson 2 (page 31)

A. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Core competences
- Learn the grammar of how to describe characteristics.
- Ask and answer questions about characteristics.
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in pairs/groups to talk about animals and using the
grammar about describing an animal’s characteristic.
- Problem-solving and creativity: Use grammar using grammar about describing an animal’s
characteristic to make describe animal’s characteristics.
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: Parrots are clever/Rhinos are dangerous.
- Recycled vocabulary: parrot, rhino, lizard, gorilla, dangerous, clever.
2. Skills: Listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
C. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Student book – page 31
- Audio: Track 13
- Flashcards/Pictures (Gorillas are big)
- 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 teacher. -Slides 1
“Hello, how are you?”
“I’m fine, thank you. Please sit down.”
Game: Guess The Picture
- Provide a game to check the student’s memory of
the vocabulary.
- Explain the rules to the students: - Pay attention to the rules. - Slides 2
o Invite a student to come to the front of the - Come to the front of the
class. class.
o Show him/her the flashcard of the unit’s - Draw that animal on the
word and the student draws that animal on board after seeing the
the board. flashcard.
o The other students must guess what the - Guess what the animal is
animal is. If the answer is correct, the - Try to read the sentences
student gets 1 point. carefully.
o Whoever has the highest point at the end
wins.
- Make sure the students know how to play the - Play the game.
game.
- Set up the game in the class.
- Encourage students to give the answers with full - Try to pronounce the
sentences. sentences correctly.
- Control the class while playing.
- Praise the winner. - Praise the winner.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can remember and say all the words correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can remember and say all the words correctly.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to remember and say all the words.
PRESENTATION (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students describe animal’s characteristics by using the grammar
*Lead-in:
- Put Flashcards 42-46 (kitchen, living room, - Look at the board.
dining room, bedroom, bathroom) on the board.
- Point to each one, one at a time and say the word. - Listen to the teacher.
- Remove them one at a time, pointing to where - Try to answer with the full
they were and asking students to say the word. sentences.
- Continue until all the flashcards are gone and - Try to remember words
they are saying all five from memory. about types of rooms.
1. Say. - Slide 4
- Show the pictures of some animals, and Ss look - Look at the pictures in
at the pictures in their book. book.
- Read the 2 sentences first. Then T read each - Listen to the teacher.
sentence the second time, and Ss repeat the - Repeat the sentence after
sentence after each time. each time.
- Hold some flashcards of the vocabulary of the - Look at the flashcards.
animals and their characteristics. T shows the

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 flashcard of the parrot and says “Parrots are - Do the activities by
clever”. Then T shows the flashcard of the rhino following the teacher's
and says “Rhinos are dangerous”. instructions.
- Give flashcards to some students.
- Ss who are holding the flashcards of an animal - Students who are holding
show their flashcards to their friends and T and the flashcards of an animal
tell the characteristic of that animal as T said. show flashcards and tell the
- Ss who are holding the flashcards of a characteristic of that animal
characteristic show their flashcards to their - Students who are holding
friends and T and tell what animal that the flashcards of a
characteristic as T has said. characteristic, show
- Ss give flashcards to those who don’t have any flashcards and tell what
flashcards. Ss continue to tell the animal and animal that characteristic.
their characteristic using the grammar. - Give flashcards to those
- Ask students to choose a different animal that who don’t have any
isn’t in the flashcards and tell its characteristics. flashcards.
- Explain the grammar in an easy way for students: - Choose a different animal
Say “the animal are...” to describe an animal’s that isn’t in the flashcards
characteristics. and tell its characteristics.
- Check the student’s pronunciation and intonation - Try to memorize the
if necessary. grammar.
- Try to speak English
correctly.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can say what animal’s characteristics are and using grammar
about describing an animal’s characteristic correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can say what animal’s characteristics are and using grammar about
describing an animal’s characteristics.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say what animal’s characteristics are and using grammar
about describing an animal’s characteristics.
PRACTICE (10 minutes)
Objective: To help students listen and read a story, memorize the grammar
2. Listen and read. - Slide 5
- Focus the student’s attention on the story. - Look at the board.
- Talk about each frame with the class and asks - Listen to the teacher.
questions “What are the children doing? Which - Answer the questions of
animals is the girl talking about? Which animals teacher.
is the boy talking about?”.
- Ask the students to find the words from the - Recall and find the word
previous lesson that appear in the story. from the previous lesson.
- Point at each speech bubble and reads the - Pay attention to listen to
sentences in the speech bubbles. teacher.
- Play the audio for the first time. - Listen to the audio.
- Play the audio for the second time. This time, - Listen and repeat.
teacher pauses the audio after each sentence for
the students to repeat.
- Point at the speech bubbles on the board and the - Read out loud the
students read out loud the sentences. sentences.
- Pick up some students, asks them to act as 2 kids - Make conservations by
in the story, points at the speech bubbles and the following the children in
students take turns reading the sentences. the story. Work in pair.

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- Check the students’ pronunciation and intonation - Try to speak English
if necessary. correctly.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can listen, read the story fluently and memorize the grammar
correctly.
- Task completed: Students can listen, read the story, and memorize the grammar.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to listen, read the story and memorize the grammar.
PRODUCTION (5 minutes)
Objective: Put the words in the correct place to make meaningful sentences and choose the best
picture that the sentences describe.
Further practice
- Show 8 sentences, and the words in each - Look at the board. - Slides 6-13
sentence are not in the right place.
- Explain the exercise to the students. The exercise - Read and understand the
is to put the words in the correct order to make a rules.
meaningful sentence.
- Ask the students to remember the grammar about - Remember the grammar
describing an animal’s characteristics to do this about describing an
exercise. animal’s characteristics.
- Give an example to the students if necessary.
- Allow time for the students to do the exercise.
- Some students stand up an tell their answers. If - Do the exercise.
the answer is incorrect, another student answers. - Look at the correct
- Show the correct sentences to the students. sentences.
- Point at each sentence and the students repeat it - Repeat the correct
again. sentences.
*Extra practice – Game: Mystery Box - Slides 14-46
- Say what students are going to do with the activity. - Listen to the teacher.
- Explain the rules of the game. - Pay attention to the rules.
o Divide the class into 2 teams. - Join team.
o Pick a letter and answer the question. - Pick a letter to answer the
o If students answer correctly, they must question.
choose: KEEP THE BOX or GIVE THE BOX
to another team.
o The team with the highest score will win. - Praise the winner.
- Make sure the students know how to play the - Play the game.
game.
- Set up the game in the class.
- Encourage students to give the answers with full - Try to answer with the full
sentences. sentences.
- Control the class while playing.
- After the game, praise the winner. - Praise the winner.
Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can make sentences by using grammar about describing an
animal’s characteristic correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can make sentences by using grammar about describing an animal’s
characteristic
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to make sentences by using grammar about describing an
animal’s characteristic.
WRAP UP AND HOMEWORK (5 minutes)
Objectives: Relax and remind students what they need to do at home.

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 1. Activity 1: Play A Song.
- Play a song about animals. - Listen to the song. - Slides 47-49
- Let students sing this song. - Sing out loud the song.
- Sing along with students.
*Homework:
- Go through what students have learned from
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.
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