Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 2 i-Learn Smart Start - Period 2, Theme 9: Classroom Activities - Lesson 2

Tiếng Anh 2 i-Learn Smart Start 
Week: Date of teaching:	
Period: 2 
THEME 9: CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
Lesson 2
Objectives:
After completing this lesson, students will be able to:
Language competence
Identify the letter - “Z” and correctly pronounce the sound of its – “/z/” in the following vocabulary
Letters: Zz
Vocabulary:
Zebra, zoo
Core competence
- Build up interests and good habits in learning English
- Build up responsive and independent-working characteristics to be a long-life learner
- Be supportive and collaborative in team work
- Demonstrate problem-solving and communicative skills through learning activities
Personal qualities
- Build up respective attitudes to others in the community
- Build up spirits of the responsibility for family and the community
Teaching aids:
	Teacher’s aids: student book and teacher’s book, class CDs, flashcards, IWB software, projector/interactive whiteboard/TV.
	Students’ aids: Student books, notebooks, workbooks.
Procedures:
Time
Steps/Activities
Organization
5’
Warm-up
Alphabet Line-up
Give each students an alphabet flashcard. 
Play the Alphabet song and have the students skip around in a circle, singing along to the song. 
Stop music at random points and the students have to line up in the correct alphabetical order according to their cards.
Teacher – Whole class
Option 1:
"Read my lips" game
Divide the class into teams.
Teacher says a word silently.
Have the students try to guess what the teacher said.
Give the forst team one point if it’s a correct guess.
The team that gets the most points wins.
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork
Option 2:
"Touch" game 
Divide the class into four teams.
Have one student from each team stand a distance from the board.
Stick some flashcards on the board.
Then the teacher says a letter or a word. (E.g. Please touch letter “Z” three times!)
Have the students race to the board, touch that flashcard, and say the correct word.
The first student to touch the flashcard and say the word gets a point for their team.
Continue with other students.
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork
25’
New lesson
5. Listen and repeat. (CD2 - Track 50)	
Have students look at the pictures.
Point to the pictures and say the letters' sounds.
Play audio. Have students listen and repeat the letter sounds 
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
6. Listen and point. (CD2 - Track 51)
Have students look at the pictures.
Demonstrate pointing to the correct letter when you hear the sound or word.
Play audio. Have students point to the correct picture at the top of the page when they hear the appropriate sound or word.
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
7. Put a ( √ ) or a ( x ). 
Have students look at the pictures and call out the words.
Demonstrate the activity using the example.
Have students put a tick or a cross.
Check answers as a whole class.
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
8. Play "Stepping stones."
Divide the class into pairs.
Have Student A start at A and say the first letter sound or word.
Have Student B start at B and say the first letter sound or word.
Have students take turns saying the letter sounds or words as they go all the way around.
Teacher – Whole class/ pair work
Workbook page 59
Have students open their workbooks – page 59
C. Listen and circle (WB 34).
Have students look at exercise C, look at the pictures and guess the answers could be.
Play audio. Have students listen and circle the correct pictures.
Have students listen again and check the answers.
Check understanding and give the correct answers to the students.
D. Look and write.
Explain the activity. 
Set up time limit by 1minute timer bomb (source: 
Have students start writing the words. When the time ends by explosion students stop doing their exercises.
Have students change their workbooks together.
Check understanding as a whole class. 
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
Teacher – Whole class/ pair work 
5’
Wrap up
Option 1:
 “Alphabet Soup” game
Divide the class into small groups.
Have each group work in pairs.
Give each group a bowl that has a set of letters in it and a blank sheet of paper.
Divide flashcards by their beginning letters and put them next to the bowls. 
Have two students from one group go to the board to make an example. One student picks up a letter from a bowl and write it on the board, the other student finds the flashcards associated with that letter. 
Have students continue the game as the same way. 
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork/ pair work
Option 2:
“Jump” game
Divide the class into four teams.
Have one student from each team stand a distance from the board.
Draw three circles on the floor. Each circle has a letter. (E.g. Vv, Ww or Zz)
Call out one word (E.g. zebra). 
The students try to jump into the circle with the corresponding letter then say “/zed/ Z is for zebra.”.
The winner is the student who jumps into the correct letter circle first.
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork