Giáo án English 2 - Unit 1

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Unit 1 Nn
Lesson 1
I. Objectives: 
By the end of the lesson, students can be able to:
Recognize and pronounce the letter Nn and its sound correctly
Understand, recognize and say the three Nn words
Write the letter Nn
II. Procedure: 
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 1
Letter Nn
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
nut, net, nest
Sight words
look
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.2 & 3
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up 
Greet students
Write the letters A to M on the board leaving out a couple of them.
Ask the students to copy and complete the letters in their notebooks.
Presentation & Practice
Listen, point and repeat. Colour (Track 02): Introduction of letter N, its sound and how to pronounce the words beginning with Nn
Use a card with letter Nn to introduce to the students the new lesson.
Instruct students how to pronounce the letter name and sound: “This is the letter N. The letter N says ...”
Repeat several times and check students’ pronunciation (letter and its sound)
Use the phonics cards with nut, net, and nest, read the words out loud and have students repeat.
Use gestures to help students to understand the meanings of the three words.
Stick the cards on board and have students repeat the words chorally several times.
Call some students to say the words out loud and correct their mistakes (if any).
Ask the students to open their books and colour in the letters.
Activity: Sit and Stand Game 
Show the 3 phonics cards one by one, the students will stand or will stay sitting. 
Do the same procedure for the other two cards.
Give feedback
Listen and point. Colour. (Track 03): Read the words with “Look!” 
Have students look at the book and listen to the words: a nut, a net, a nest.
Have students listen and repeat the words for several times.
Give feedback
Ask the students to colour the nut, net and nest using any colour they like.
Go around the classroom asking the students to name the item they are colouring.
E.g: Teacher: (pointing to the nut) What’s this?
 Student: A nut.
Activity: Touching Game 
Put the 3 phonics cards on the board in this order: nut, net, nest.
Divide the class into 2 teams; call one student of each team to stand 1m from the board
Read one of the three words out loud (e.g. a nut), students must run to tap the card of that word.
Student who taps the correct card first will get 1 point for his/her team.
Call 4-6 students per team to the board if possible
Give feedback
Activity: Optional Game 
Step 1
Give instructions of how to play the game. Give each student one card with a word/words/letter (N/NN/Nn/nnn/a nut/a net). Students take turn to show their cards and say the word(s)/letter. (Note: N says /n/, NnN says /nnn/)
Step 2
Have a group of students to go in front of the class and show up their cards. Read any word(s)/letter out loud. Students holding the card with the read word(s)/letter must jump high.
Ask students to read the word(s)/letter instead of the teacher.
Give feedback
 Chant and show! (Track 04) 
Use the phonics cards on the board and have students sing the chant with nut, net, nest
The whole class sings the whole chant.
Do the chant again without the CD this time.
Keep the rhythm by clapping their hands. 
Give feedback.
Production
Activity 1: Writing in the air
Show the letter Nn again, have students write the Nn in air with their fingers.
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Week:	 Teaching date:
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Unit 1 Nn
Lesson 2
I. Objectives: 
 By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Recognize and say the three Nn words correctly 
Do the corresponding actions
Read the story
Sing letter Nn song 
II. Procedure: 
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 2
Letter Nn
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
nut, net, nest
Sight words
look, a, in, and
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.4
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up 
Greet students
Show the phonics cards, ask students to do corresponding actions then say the sound of the letter and words. 
E.g. Teacher: (Show the ‘nut’ card). Say ’nut’
 Class: (mime eating nuts) /n/ nut
Or
Have students sing the chant in lesson 1 ( Track 04), keep the rhythm by clapping their hands or snapping their fingers.
Presentation & Practice
Lead-in Activity: Act It Out Game 
Choose a student to come to the front of the class.
Show him/her a phonics card or whisper a word, and have student act it out.
The remaining students try to guess the correct answer.
The first student to raise his/ her hand and answer correctly will come to the front of the class and activity continues. 
4. Listen. Read Along (Track 05) 
Encourage the students to point to the picture of the word that the teacher says.
Play the CD. Have the students listen to the story once.
Play the CD again. The students listen and point to the pictures of the key words when they hear them in the story
Read the story. The students follow their books.
Teacher reads the printed words then let the students look at the pictures and say the words.
Ask students work in pairs. One reads while the other checks, then they change roles. Or one reads the printed words while the other looks at the pictures and says the words.
Activity: Say the Sight Words 
Point to and say the sight words: look, a, in, and
Have students repeat
Have some students read them aloud.
Activity: Chinese Whispers Game 
Divide the class into 2 or 4 teams with the same numbers of students in each team.
The first student of each team runs to the teacher (at the same time); teacher whispers a word/words to them.
The first student whispers the word/words to the student sitting next to or behind him/her and so on.
The last students say the word/words aloud.
5. Song (Track 06) 
Put the nut, net and nest phonics cards up on the board.
Point to the nut and say: “A nut is in a n, n, net!” The students repeat.
Follow the same procedure and present the rest of the song.
Play the CD. The students listen and sing along.
Play the CD again. The pupils sing and do corresponding actions.
Activity: Which One Is Missing?
Put the phonics cards face up on the table/stick them on the board.
Give the students a minute to look at the cards.
Have students close their eyes and then you take away one cards.
Tell the students to open their eyes and name the missing cards.
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Week:	 Teaching date:
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Unit 1 Nn
Lesson 3
I. Objectives: 
 By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Read and say the three Nn words correctly 
Recognize and say a new Nn word correctly
II. Procedure: 
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 3
Letter Nn
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary
nut, net, nest, nose
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Pupil’s book – p.5
Materials
CD
Phonics cards
Warm-up 
Greet students
Play the song from Lesson 2 (Track 06), ask students to sing along and do corresponding actions.
Or
Ask the students to open their notebooks. In two minutes, the students write as many Nn's as they can. The winner is the student who has written the most.
Presentation & Practice
6. Circle the things that begin with n. Say the n sound 
Show the picture to the whole class.
Point to the nut and say: a nut.
Point to the fish and say: a fish.
Ask the students which one begins with letter Nn. 
Have the students circle the nut that has Nn in it and say: nut
Give the students 2 minutes to circle the pictures that have Nn in them. 
Go around the classroom asking the students to say the n sound they circle.
Activity: Which One is Missing 
Put the phonics cards face up on the table/stick them on the board.
Give the students a minute to look at the cards.
Have students close their eyes and then you take away one cards.
Tell the students to open their eyes and name the missing.
7. Listen, point and repeat. Colour the pictures of the words that start with the n sound. Say the n words. (Track 07) 
Show the students the nose phonics card. Point to it and say: nose. Ask them to repeat.
Point to your nose and say: nose. Encourage the students to do the same.
Point to the pictures, the students do corresponding actions and say the words.
Give the students 2 minutes to colour in the pictures of the words that begin with the sound.
Go around the classroom asking the students to say the n words they are colouring.
Activity: Craftwork 
Ask the students to take out their notebooks.
Ask them to choose one word the draw the letter and the picture in their notebooks.
Tell them to colour the letter and the picture.
The three first students who finish will show their picture to the class.
OR
Activity: Guess Game 
Divide the class into two teams A and B. 
Ask a student to come to the board.
Whisper one word (e.g: nose) to him/her.
Without speaking, the student draws a picture of the word on the board.
The first team to guess the word wins a point.
Repeat the activity with as many students as you think is necessary.
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Unit 1 Nn
Lesson 4
I. Objectives: 
 By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Review the sound of the letter Nn, four Nn words and recognize the corresponding pictures 
Write the letter Nn 
II. Procedure: 
Topic & 
Key language
Resources 
& Materials
Key Activities
Unit 1 - Lesson 4
Letter Nn
Integrated skills
Reading, Listening, Speaking, Writing
Vocabulary Revision
nut, net, nest, nose
Resources
i-Learn My Phonics Grade 2, Activity book – p.2 & 3
Materials
Phonics cards
Teaching Aids
Colored chalks/ markers 
Warm-up
Have the students listen to the chant in lesson 1 Unit 1 (Track 04)
Have the students sing and act to the chant 
Revision & Practice
Trace and say (Page 2 – Activity Book) 
Activity: Revision of letter N, its sound 
Speaking
Write on the board the big N and small n
Point to the letter N and say out loud “This is the letter N. The letter N says..”
Point to the letter n and say out loud “This is the letter n . The letter n says ...”
Have the class repeat its sound chorally, then individually
Have the students say the sound individually, correct the pronunciation if necessary 
Activity: How to write letter N 
Writing & Speaking
Demonstrate how to write the big N by stroke
Draw an example of letter N using dashed lines
Use a different colored chalk to model tracing the letter N 
Have some students practice tracing letter N on the board
Have students trace letter N in the books 
Students say /n/ after each finished letter
Go around to give help if necessary 
Repeat the same procedure with the lower letter n
Write the letter Nn. Then tick (P) (Page 2 – Activity Book) 
Writing & Reading 
Copy the box from the book to the board
Tell the students that you are going to write the letter Nn into the box
Demonstrate the writing.
Put phonics cards of a nut and a mouse on the board.
Draw 2 small square boxes next to them on the board
Ask the students which one goes with letter Nn and then tick the correct box 
Ask the students to write the letter Nn in the boxes in their book and tick the correct picture that corresponds to the letter. 
Answer keys: 1_nut, 2_nest
Trace and write n (Page 3 – Activity Book) 
Activity 1: Revision of words starting with letter Nn – Thumbs Up or Down 
Speaking & Listening
Ask the students to close their books.
Hold up the phonics cards one at a time.
Ask the students to verify the word the teacher says by putting their thumbs up or down.
E.g. Teacher: (holding up the net phonics card)
 Nose. Up or Down?
 Class: (putting their thumbs down)
 Teacher: Good! What it is?
 Class: Nose! 
Activity 2: 
Writing
Put the phonics card (net) on the board. 
Copy the dashed line from question 1 in the book to the board
Demonstrate tracing the line to connect the net and the word __et
Ask the students for the missing letter and write it in the gap
Have the students do the same procedure in their book
Go around and give help as needed
Answer keys: 1_net, 2_nose, 3_nut
Circle the pictures of the words that begin with the n sound. (Page 3 – Activity Book) 
 Activity 1: 
Put the phonics cards (mouse, nose, net, monkey, nut, nest) up on the board.
Point to the mouse and say: /m/ mouse.
Point to the nose and say: /n/ nose.
Ask the students which one begins with the n sound. 
Have the students circle the nose that has Nn in it and say: /n/ nose
Give the students 2 minutes to circle the pictures that have Nn in them. 
Go around the classroom asking the students to say the n sound they circle.
Activity 2: Sound and Word Game 
Divide the class into two teams, team A and team B.
Put one of the phonics cards (e.g: nest) on the board.
Ask a student from Team A to identify the sound (one point), the picture (one point) or both (two points).
Continue with a student from Team B.
Write the points for each team on the board.
Give feedback
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