Giáo án Tiếng Anh Lớp 2 i-Learn Smart Start - Period 2, Unit 5: Free time activities - Lesson 3

Tiếng Anh 2 i-Learn Smart Start 
Week: Date of teaching:	
Period: 2 
UNIT 5: FREE TIME ACTIVITIES
Lesson 3
Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to gain the following:
Knowledge
Structures:
Happy birthday. 
Thank you.
Happy New Year. 
Merry Christmas.
Language skills
To be able to say "Happy.../Merry..." on special occasions.
Ask and answer about free time activities
Core competencies & Personal qualities
Raising interests in learning English
Building up good habits and responsive and independent-working characteristics to be a life-long learner
Building up intercultural communication competence through learning about the wishes on special occasions
Practicing communicative skills through learning activities
Demonstrating team-working and problem-solving skills through learning activities
Teaching aids:
Teacher’s aids: student’s book and teacher’s book, class CDs, flashcards, IWB software, projector / interactive whiteboard / TV.
Students’ aids: Student’s book, notebook, workbook.
Procedures:
Time
Steps/Activities
Organization
5’
Warm-up
Option 1: 
"Whispering" game
Divide the class into four teams.
Have students from each team stand in a line.
Prepare some pictures/flashcards.
Show a picture/flashcard to the first students in each line.
Have the first students whisper what he/she saw to the second students.
Have teams continue whispering until it reaches the last students.
The last student in the line has to run to the board and write a sentence with the word. (E.g. I read book.)
Give the first team to make a sentence correctly one point.
The last students change into the first students who starts whispering what he/she saw. 
The team that gets the most points win.
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork
Option 2:
"Stepping stones" game
Divide the class into four teams.
Draw a river with some stones across it on the board.
Have a symbol to represent each team. E.g., "star", "heart"
Have teams play rock, paper, scissors to see which team goes first.
Place some flashcards or write words on the board.
The student will say a sentence using a given flashcard or word. (E.g. I listen to music.) 
For each correct sentence, draw or attach the symbol of the corresponding team to a stone in the direction of the opposite side of the river.
The first team to cross the river wins the game.
Teacher – Whole class/ groupwork
New lesson
25’
Songs : 
We Wish You a Merry Christmas.
(source: )
Happy Birthday
(source: 
Play the songs and have students listen to them.
Ask students if they know when do people sing these songs. 
D. 1. Listen and read. (CD1 – Track 80)
Introduce the situation: “The children are having different special occasions like birthday, Christmas and New Year.”
Have students call out the people and things they can see. 
Play audio and have students listen and read. 
Have some students repeat. Correct mistake if necessary.
2. Listen and repeat. (CD1 - Track 81)
Have students look at the useful language box.
Play audio. Have students listen to the useful language.
Have students practice the useful language.
Teacher – Whole class
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals 
E. Role-play.
Divide the class into pairs. 
Have students practice the dialogue. 
Swap roles and repeat. 
Afterwards, have some pairs demonstrate the activity in front of the class.
Teacher – Whole class/ pair work
Pass the ball
Ask the students to stand in a circle. 
Give one student a ball.
Play music and have that student passes the ball to the one next to him/her and continue to pass in the circle.
Stop music. 
Have the student with a ball say a sentence. E.g., Happy birthday.
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
Workbook - page 37
C. Listen and circle. 
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 as a whole class and give the correct answers to the students.
D. Look, read, and (√) the box.
Have students look at the pictures, read the words and tick the correct boxes.
Give the correct answers to the students. 
Teacher – Whole class/ individuals
5’
Wrap up
Option 1:
Running dictation
Stick some pictures on the walls in the class.
Have students work in pairs. One runs and find the pictures around him/ her, then turn back to his pair and tell what he/ she has just seen. E.g Happy birthday. His/ Her friend writes down the words he/ she has just heard. 
Teacher – Whole class/ pair work
Option 2:
“Musical chairs” game
Have students stay at their seats.
Play music and ask them to move around.
Take away two chairs and suddenly stop music. 
Have students sit on any chairs. 
The students who have no chairs to sit on will go to the board. 
One student says, “Happy new year!” or “Merry Christmas!” and the other student responds “Thank you!” or says the same with his/her friend. Swap roles.
Continue the game in the same way. 
Teacher – Whole class/ pair work