Anticipated difficulties

Solutions

1. Students may find the lesson boring due to a large number of language exercises.

- Encourage students to work in pairs, in groups so that they can help each other.

- Design as many exercises as games as possible.

- Provide feedback and help if necessary.

2. Some students will excessively talk in the class.

- Define expectation in explicit detail.

- Have excessive talking students practise.

- Continue to define expectations in small chunks (before every activity).

Date of teaching

Review 1

Lesson 1: Language

* Warm-up

Memory game: Complete the chart.

I. Practice

* Pronunciation

Task 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

Task 2: Write the names of school things and furniture in the house which begin with /b/ and /p/.

* Vocabulary

Task 3: Complete the words.

Task 4: Solve the crossword puzzle.

* Grammar

Task 5: Lo

Task 6: Complete the sentences with the present simple or the present continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

* Homework

Stage

Stage aim

Procedure

Interaction

Time

Warm-up

To revise the language that students have learnt in Units 1+2+3.

* Memory game

- Teacher draws/sticks an unfinished chart which summarizes the language that students have learnt in Units 1, 2, 3 on the board.

- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams and asks students to run in a relay to complete the chart:

- The team with the most correct answers will be the winner.

Suggested answer:

Team work

5 mins

Practice

To help students review the pronunciation of the sounds learnt in Units 1-2-3: /ɑ:/ and /ʌ/; /s/ and /z/ correctly.

To help students review the pronunciation of the sounds /b/ and /p/ in words.

To help students review the word groups used with “play, have, do” and “study”.

To help students review the personality adjectives, the words related to body parts, rooms and types of house.

To help students review grammar elements taught in Units 1-2-3: prepositions of place, possessive

case and present continuous.

* PRONUNCIATION

Task 1: Choose the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently.

- Teacher elicits the rules of pronouncing final -s if needed.

- Students do this exercise individually then share their answers with their partners.

- Teacher gives feedback and confirms the answers.

Answer key:

1. C

2. A

3. B

4. A

5. B

Task 2: Write the names of school things and furniture in the house which begin with /b/ and /p/.

- Teacher organizes this task as a game.

- Students do this task in pairs. The pair that finds the most words will go to the board and write their answers.

- Other pairs may want to add more words. Write other words on the board.

- Teacher gives feedback and confirms the answers.

Suggested answers:

* VOCABULARY

Task 3: Complete the words.

- Teacher has students do this task individually and then share their answers with their partners.

- Teacher calls one or two students to write their answers on the board.

- Teacher checks and confirms the correct ones.

Answer key:

1. English

2. homework

3. lunch

4. sports

5. badminton

à play: sports, badminton à have: lunch

à do: homework

à study: English

Task 4: Solve the crossword puzzle.

- Teacher sticks the crossword puzzle on the board.

- Teacher divides the class into 2 teams and asks students to run in a relay to complete the crossword puzzle.

- The team with the most correct answers will be the winner.

Answer key:

* GRAMMAR

Task 5: Lo

- Teacher has students lo

- Students compare their answers with a classmate.

- Teacher checks and confirms the correct answers.

Answer key:

1. B

2. A

3. A

4. B

5. C

Task 6: Complete the sentences with the present simple or the present continuous form of the verbs in brackets.

- Teacher elicits form and usage of the present simple and the present continuous.

- Teacher asks students to do the exercise individually before calling one or two students to write their answers on the board.

- Teacher checks students’ answers and asks them for explanation if necessary

Answer key:

1. is / ’s raining

2. do you have

3. Is she studying

4. likes

5. is not / isn’t co

T-Ss

S

Ss-Ss

T-Ss

Pair work

T-Ss

S

T-Ss

Team work

T-Ss

Ss-Ss

T-Ss

T-Ss

S

T-Ss

35 mins

Consolidation

To consolidate what students have learnt in the lesson.

Teacher asks students to talk about what they have learnt in the lesson.

T-Ss

4 mins

Homework

To prepare for the next lesson.

Prepare for Review 1 – Skills.

T-Ss

1 min