FAMILY and FRIENDS NATIONAL EDITION – GRADE 2

School: Vinh Loc B Primary School Subject : ENGLISH

Week: 8 UNIT 1: IS THIS YOUR MOM?

Periods: 1 CULTURE 1 : PETS IN THAILAND
Teacher: Hoang Minh Tuyen Lesson duration : 35 minutes

I. AIMS: Students know about Pets in Thailand.

II. OBJECTIVES:
- By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- To say the names of animals we keep as pets.
- To describe a pet.
III. LANGUAGE:
Language focus: listening, speaking, reading
Vocabulary: fish, pet, cat, dog, hamster
Review: colors
Extra language: My pet is (brown). My pet has (two black eyes). What a
good (hamster)! My favorite animal is …
IV. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
Flash cards 56-59, audio track 89
V. TEACHING PROCEDURES:
STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES NOTES

Warm up - Greet students whole

class
5 mins Hello song
Ask students sing along the song

Review Board race whole

class
5 mins - Put the class into teams.

- Give them a minute to write a list of as many animals as

they can in English.

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 Groupwork:

- Students work in groups.

- Ask them to group the animals they wrote into 2

groups: at home/ in the jungle

- Tell students the animals live at our home are called

PETS.
Present Lead in: whole
information class
- show them a picture
5 mins
- Ask students: What country is it?
- Tell them: Pets in Thailand is not different from those
in Vietnam.
- Use Flashcards 56–59 to elicit the vocabulary for this
lesson. Hold up the animal flashcards one at a time and
ask
What’s this? Model any words that children do not know.
- Put the flashcards on the board and point to each one,
one at a time, for children to say the words again.
Guided practice 1. Listen, point, and repeat. Track 98 Whole
- Play the first part of the track class
8 mins - Students listen and point.
- Play the second part of the track
- Students point and repeat.
- Play several times if necessary.
2. Song: https://youtu.be/pWepfJ-8XU0
Pets song

3. Read, look and say.

- Put the flashcard of the pets on the board. Point to
the pet’s eyes, nose, and ears and check if students
know these words.
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 - Now point to the pet’s fur or ears or eyes and ask:
What color are they?
- Elicit some different colors from the class.
- For each pet elicit or say the following My pet is
brown/ black/ orange/ white, etc. My pet has a
black nose. My pet has green /brown eyes. My
pet has white/brown ears. Encourage the children
to repeat with you.
- Finish by saying What a good
dog/cat/hamster/fish!
- Encourage the children to repeat with you.
- Hold up your book and point to the pictures.
- Point to each pet one at a time and elicit some
information about them.
- Now read sentences 1 to 4.
- Tell the children to complete the sentences with
the correct pet.
Pair/ group Pair work pairs
practice
Encourage the children to point to the pictures and say
10 mins the sentences with a partner.
4. Point and say
- Encourage the children to point to the pictures and say groups
the words with a partner.
- Model a few sentences together with the class and then
put children in pairs to practice saying It’s a (cat).

4. Guessing game
- read poem: Dear zoo
Dear zoo So they sent me (a snake)
By Rod Campbell He was too scary!
I wrote to the zoo I sent him back
To send me a pet
So they sent me (a monkey)
He was too naughty!
They sent me (an I sent him back
elephant)
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 He was too big! So they sent me (a frog)
I sent him back. He was too jumpy!
Oh I sent him back
So they sent me (a
giraffe) So they thought very hard
He was too tall And sent me a puppy
I sent him back. He was perfect
I kept him.
So they sent me (a lion)
He was so fierce!
I sent him back https://youtu.be/FbgMWFIrwOY

So they sent me (a
camel)
He was too grumpy!
I sent him back

- change the animals and adjectives, make the poem

familiar to the children. EX: a fish/wet, a cat/lazy, a
hamster/small, …

- make the sound or do the actions

- ask students to guess

- students listen and guess

- Continue the game until you have practiced all of the

words from the vocabulary set.

Conclusion Free practice individuals

5 mins • Below level: Ask children to invent a pet. They should

invent a name for it and decide what it looks like. They

can draw a picture of their pet.

• At level: Ask children to invent a pet. They should

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 invent a name for it and decide what it looks like. They

can draw a picture of their pet. Ask them to write a

simple text about the pet. Give them sentence stems to

help them, e.g. My pet is a …, What a good …! They can

display their pictures in the classroom.

• Above level: Ask children to invent a pet. They should

invent a name for it and decide what it looks like. They

can draw a picture of their pet. Ask them to write a

description with as many details as possible, including

the pets’ color and how many eyes/ears it has got, etc.

Help students to incorporate any new or requested

vocabulary. Remember to make a note of anything new

so that it can be reviewed

VI. REFLECTION:
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 FAMILY and FRIENDS NATIONAL EDITION – GRADE 2
School: Vinh Loc B Primary School Subject : ENGLISH

Week: 8 UNIT 1: IS THIS YOUR MOM?

Periods: 2 CONSOLIDATION AND TEST UNIT 1
Teacher: Hoang Minh Tuyen Lesson duration : 35 minutes

I. AIMS: Students do test 1

II. OBJECTIVES: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
- Review unit 1
- Check their understanding about colors, counting 3-4
- Get feedback for students’ learning as well as teacher’s teaching
III. LANGUAGE:
Language focus: listening, speaking
Vocabulary: review unit 1
IV. RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:
Flash cards, audio tracks, worksheet P. 15, 16
V. TEACHING PROCEDURES:
STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES NOTES

Warm up - Greet students whole

class
5 mins Hello song
- Ask students sing along the song
- Ask students to say aloud 4 class rules
- Stick Class rules on the board

Review Telephone game (family names) whole

class
5 mins - Whisper a word into the ears of the first students in
each row.
- They whisper the word into the next student’s ear in
their row until the whisper gets to the last student in
the row.
- The last student in the row has to say out the word
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 and hold up the correct r flashcard.
The team or teams that get the pronunciation right scores a
point.
Test - Show them how to do step by step whole
- Give an example class
20 mins
- Students do the test

Conclusion - Students hand in their paper individuals

5 mins Goodbye song

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 - Students sing along

VI. REFLECTION:
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