Lesson plan English Discovery 2 Hoa Khuong 2 Primary

School
WEEK 19: Date of teaching: January 13 th, 2025.
UNIT 5: ANIMALS
Lesson 1 - 35 minutes
I. Learning objectives: By the end of this lesson, pupils will be
able to
● identify farm animals.
II. Target language

● Cow, duck, goat, hen, horse, sheep, turkey

III. Recycled language

● Colours
● It’s a (duck). It’s big/small

IV. Receptive language

● Farm, farmer
● Look at the (hen).

V. Resources and Materials

● Pupil’s Book page 36
● Activity Book page 32
● Audio CD2 track 17, 18
● Flashcards 34-40
● Active Teach Software
STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

INTRODUCTI
ON

Warm-up Song “Head Shoulders Knees And Toes

(2019) | Noodle & Pals | Super Simple
5 min
Songs”
● Play the song, stop some positions to
explain new words including in the song
such as shoulders, knees,…
● Ask individual pupils, How many (heads)
have you got? (I've got one head). Repeat
for other parts of the body.

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 ● Turn on the music again, ask the class to
stand up and let them sing, dance together.
Learning ● Have pupils look at the lesson 1 and ask,
adventure What are we learning today? Ask pupils to
look at the image and guess what they will
2 min
be learning in the lesson.
● Look at the lesson objective: We're learning
animal words.
● Ask pupils what words they know in English
for animals, e.g. cat, dog. Write them on the
board.
● Refer to the learning adventure poster and
say, Great! You are already moving along
your learning adventure.
PRESENTATIO
N

VOCABULARY ● Present the new vocabulary with Flashcards

34-40. Show the cards in turn, say the words
5 min
and pupils repeat. Stick the flashcards on the
board as you say each word.
● Now say the words again and pupils find the
animals in the main illustration.
● Indicate the flashcards on the board and say,
Animals.
● Have a short conversation (in L1) about
animals.
PRACTICE

● Ask the children to stand up at their desks.

Game Mime the ● Say a word, e.g. “horse”. The children
words repeat and perform a simple action, e.g.
5 min
children say “horse” and do action (jump)
like a frog.
● Children who do action slowly have to come
to the board and get punishment (sing a
song, dance, ….).
Listen and say.
● Ask pupils to look at Activity 3 in their
PB page 36, Act.
Pupil's Books.
3
● Play the audio. Pupils listen, point to the

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5 min animals and repeat the words.
● Focus on the labels next to each animal.
Read them to the class one by one. Pupils
find the words as they hear them and repeat
them.
● Play the audio again. Pupils listen, point to
the animals and repeat the words. Pupils
then continue in pairs.
AUDIO SCRIPT – CD2: 18
horse, duck, hen, goat, turkey, sheep, cow
Look and write. Then say.
● Ask pupils to look at Activity 1 in their
AB page 32
Activity Books.
5 min ● Point to each of the animals in turn and ask,
What is it? Pupils answer.
● Pupils create labels by writing the names of
the animals in the appropriate boxes.
Activity answer key:
1 goat 2 sheep 3 cow 4 horse 5 hen 6 turkey 7
duck
POP QUIZ

5 min ● Ask pupils, How many animal words do you

know now? Give pupils a minute to tell their
partner the new words they know.
● Ask pupils, Where are you on your learning
adventure? Ask pupils which words they
find easiest or most difficult to remember.
● Tell pupils, Well done! to reinforce the
progress they are making.
What's this?
● Show the activity on the board and look at
the first picture. Nominate a pupil to answer
the question, What's this? (A horse!).
● As a class, go through the screens,
nominating a different pupil each time to
answer the question (What's this?). Review
the animal words at the same time.

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WEEK 19: Date of teaching: January 15 th, 2025.
UNIT 5: ANIMALS
Lesson 2
I. Learning objectives: By the end of this lesson, pupils will be
able to
● answer questions about farm animals.
II. Target language

● Black, grey, white

● Is it a (sheep)? Is it (big)?

III. Recycled language

● Animals, Colours
● It’s a (duck).

IV. Resources and Materials

● Pupil’s Book page 37
● Activity Book page 33
● Audio CD 2 track 19, 20, 21
● Flashcards 34-40
● Active Teach Software
STAGES TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

INTRODUCTI
ON

Warm-up Game “Slow reveal”.

● Put a flashcard on the board and cover it
5 min
with a piece of paper or a card.
● Very slowly move the paper to reveal the
picture, bit by bit.
● Ask “What animal is it?”. The first children
to guess correctly comes to the front to
choose the next card.
● Continue the game until you have practised
all of the words from the vocabulary set.
Learning ● Have pupils look at the lesson 2 and ask,
adventure What are we learning today? Ask pupils to
look at the image and guess what they will
2 min
be learning in the lesson.
● Look at the lesson objective: We're talking

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 about farm animals. Ask pupils what farm
animals they know in English, e.g. cow,
turkey. Write them on the board.
PRESENTATIO
N

Listen and chant.

● Ask pupils to look at Activity 4 in their
CHANT
Pupil's Books.
PB page 37, Act. ● Tell pupils that they are going to listen to a
4 chant about animals. Play the audio. Pupils
point to the animals in their books as they
5 min hear them in the chant.
● Play the audio again. Ask pupils to repeat
the animal words in the order they heard
them in the chant.
● Play the chant again and ask pupils to chant
along.
AUDIO SCRIPT – CD 2: 19
What's this?
Is it a sheep?
No, it's a horse.
Is it white?
No, it's grey.
Is it small?
No, it's big!
What's this?
Is it a duck?
No, it's a hen!
Is it big?
No, it's small.
Is it black?
No, it's brown.
Neigh, cluck, neigh, cluck!
Neigh, cluck, neigh, cluck!
Neigh, cluck, neigh, cluck!
Neigh, cluck, neigh, cluck!
PRACTICE

Listen and number.

● Ask pupils to look at Activity 5 in their
PB page 37,
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Act.5 Pupil's Books.
● Point to the animals at the bottom of the
5 min
page. Elicit what they are. Point to the goat
and ask, What's this? (A goat.) What colour
is it? (black) Is it small? (No, it's big.)
Continue with other pictures.
● Play the audio. Pupils listen and number the
animals.
Activity answer key:
a4 b1 c2 d3
AUDIO SCRIPT – CD2: 20
1 Is it black?
No, it's grey.
Is it big?
No, it's small.
Is it a turkey?
Yes! It's a turkey.
2 Is it white?
No, it's black and white.
Is it big?
Yes!
Is it a cow?
Yes, it's a cow.
3 Is it grey?
No, it's white.
Is it big?
Yes.
Is it a sheep?
Yes! It's a sheep!
4 Is it black?
Yes.
Is it big?
Yes.
Is it a goat?
Yes! It's a goat!
● Invite a child to come to the front of the
Game What class and give him/her a flashcard about
animal is it? animals.
3 min
● The child describes the picture by saying
“It’s (big). It’s (black and white)” for the

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 rest of the class to guess what animal it is.
● The first child to guess correctly “It's a
(cow)” comes to the in front of the class to
describe the next picture.
● Repeat until all of the target vocabulary
have been used.
Listen and sing.
● Ask pupils to look carefully at the scene on
QUEST SONG
pages 36–37. Remind them that Rose and
PB page 37 Charlie want to win the Amazing Helper
Award but to do so, they need to help people
5 min around the island.
● Play the Quest song. Ask pupils to listen and
sing along.
AUDIO SCRIPT – CD 2:21
Stand up, jump up, come on a quest,
Come on a quest today.
Turn around, sit down, come on a quest.
How can we help today? Help the farmer!
At the castle, with dinner, at the cave, the doctor
and the farmer!
Help the farmer today!
Colour. Then say.
● Ask pupils to look at Activity 2 in their
AB page 33
Activity Books.
5 min ● Pupils colour the animals any colour they
wish.
● They then play a game in pairs. One pupil
chooses an animal and describes its colour,
e.g. It's yellow. His/her partner tries to guess
the animal, Is it big? Is it a duck?
Look at Activity 2. Then read and write Yes or
No.
● Ask pupils to look at Activity 3 in their
Activity Books.
● Pupils look at the partial pictures of the
animals and find the animals in Activity 2
that correspond with the partial pictures.
Pupils read the questions and write, Yes or
No.

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 Activity answer key:
1 Yes 2 No 3 No 4 Yes 5 No
POP QUIZ

5 min Draw. Guess.

● Tell the pupil you are going to 'draw' a
picture of the animal on their back and they
should guess what the animal is. Elicit the
answer (duck).
● Put pupils into pairs. Pupils draw (one of the
four animals on the flashcards) on a partner's
back. Partners try to guess which animal it
is, e.g. Is it a duck? Yes!

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