Time

Stage

Teacher action & materials used

Student action/interaction

Stage aims

2

Leading in

Teacher introduces a new friend Sam who is Sarah’s brother to students. And tell them today is Sam’s birthday. He has a party. He receives lots of gifts from friends.

Students respond to teacher’s question. What’s the name of the boy? Who’s Sam? Today is Sam’s __________.

Setting context

5

Language input

Teacher elicits the vocabularies from six to ten using the story “balloons”. Then uses TPR and the chant from P62 to input new words.

Students say the chant with actions

Presenting the key words

10+

Speaking activity

Flash cards

There are two games in this stage. Teacher demonstrates activity and checks then monitors students

1. Play “Who is the leader” games in groups

2. Play Tic-tac-toe in A B groups

Practicing words

10+

Language input and task language preparation

Teacher shows a scene of the birthday party. To elicit and drills key sentence patterns “How old are you?” “I’m ____ years old.”

Then teacher introduces some new friends of Sam and asks students to answer how old are they.

Students respond to teacher’s question. (1) What does John buy for Sam? (2) How old is Sam?

Then make the dialogue in pairs

Presenting the key sentence

6+

Reading and Speaking Activity

Teacher distributes different colour of worksheet to students which are divided into A and B.

Mutual dictation

Firstly students finish a part of the table after reading the passage. Then they must find out the other answers by asking their partners.

Consolidate the task language

3

Round up

Teacher checks the answer of the worksheet in order to see whether students can understand the meaning.

Students correct the answer of the worksheet

2

Follow up activity

Teacher demonstrates a self-introduction to pupils.

Complete the self-introduction.

(Maybe homework for them)