Hanoi National University of Education

Faculty of English

ASSIGNMENT ON

TEACHING SCIENCE IN ENGLISH

TO PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

INSTRUCTOR: Ms. PHAN THI NGOC BICH, MA.

STUDENT:

CLASS:

ACADEMIC YEAR: …………….

Hanoi – …. /20…
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 LESSON PLAN:

Topic: BREATHING Class: Grade 4

Content objectives: Language objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to: By the end of this lesson, students will
 Recognize breathing: breathe in and breathe be able to:
out.  Define new vocabulary visually
 Understand breathing and lungs. and in writing.
 Apply to compare and evaluate how much  Listen and fill in the blank in
breath their is in their lungs. the context.
 Apply structures “I breathe
more when I……..”
Key vocabulary: Materials:
 Breathing  Worksheet
 Breathe in  CD, balloons, string, rulers.
 Breathe out
 Air
 Lungs
 Chest

Teacher’s activities Student’s activities

1. Motivations ( 5 minutes)
Objective:
- Ss know the lessons objectives.
- Introduce the topic of breathing
- Gain the interest of children in the topic.
- Post, read, and explain the content and
language objectives of this lesson to students. - Read the language objective
+ “Let’s look at our language objectives for above.
today.”
+ “Let’s look at our content objectives for today.”
- Explain the objectives.
 Warm up/ Building background:
- Teach breathing and focus students on their

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 breaths in and out. Tell them they are quite
slow. - Join in the activities.
- Tell Ss to stand up with space around them.
- T class her hands. Students start running on
the spot. After about one minute, clap for
them to stop.
- Ask them what they notice about their
breathing now. Is it faster?
- Lead Ss in the topic: “Breathing”.
2. Presentation ( 15 minutes)
Objectives:
- Define the phrases: breathing, breathe in, breathe out.
- Understand the new vocab about breathing (air, lungs, chest).
- Extend Ss’ understanding of breathing and lungs.

- Remind Ss the objective: check for

comprehension throughout and discuss
unknown words.
- Tell the students we are going to learn new
words for “breathing” today. Introduce
Breathe in and Breathe out.
- Introduce the new phrases and new words by
using photos: - Develop a vocabulary card for
breathe in, breathe out, chest,
air, and lungs. Write the new
words in a notebook.

breathe in breathe out

chest

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lungs
- Asks Ss to read the text and answer questions
below:
+ What happens when you do sport?
+ What happens when you breathe?
- Asks Ss to listen to the audio and fill in the
blanks. (Ss can see the words in the - Listen and fill in the blanks.
notebooks to fill in the blanks in case of not
remembering the new words.) (worksheet)

- Ss demonstrate breathe in and

out.
- Check the answers.
- Let Ss demonstrate breathe in and out.

3. Practice/ Applications ( 10 minutes)

* Objectives:
- Review the process of breathing.
- Apply to find out how much breathe there is in the lungs.
- Enable Ss to learn by doing.
- T lets Ss read through the steps of the
experience with the class:
1. Write down how tall you are.

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2. Take a balloon and take a deep breath.
3. Now blow all the air in your lungs into the
balloons.
4. Ask a friend to tie a string around the mouth of
the balloon.
5. Now measure around your balloon and write
your result. Look at your friends’ results. What do
you notice?
- T explain and make sure they know what to
do.
- Put Ss into group 4.
- Hand out the equipment to the Students. - Ss listen to the T and carry out
- They take turn to do the experiment and to the experiment.
record the results who has the smallest
amount of breath and who has the largest
amount of breath in the group.
- Discuss the results as a whole class.