1. The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen LESSON PLAN
Topic: Reading: The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen Class: 3 Date:………. Time: …………….. I. AIMS
After the lesson, students will be able to: * Knowledge:
- Remember the author's full name, date of birth, date of death, and writing style.
- Understand the birth circumstances, content, and meaning of the story. * Skills:
- Read the paragraph loudly, clearly, exactly, and fluently.
- Distinguish the accents of the characters.
- Answer the questions below the story. * Attitude: - Love the subject.
- Love, respect mom, and take care of mom. II. TEACHING AIDS
- Teacher: E-lecture, pictures to summarize the story's content. - Students: Learning tools.
III. METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
- Methods: Ask and answer, group work.
- Techniques: Mindmap, brainstorming. IV. VOCABULARY - downcast (a) / da ˈ n.k ʊ
ɑːst/: low in spirit; directed downward
- thorn (n) /θɔːn/: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf - afflict (v) /ə fl ˈ
kt/: cause pain or suffering, af ɪ fect or trouble
- wither (v) /ˈwɪð.ər/: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
- mould (n) /mə ld/: soft loose earth ʊ V. PROCEDURE TIME CONTENT TEACHER’S STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITES 3 1. Activity 1 - Play the song: Mother’s - Sing and clap the hands minutes - Aims: Students are hand. following the song. ready for class. - Ask: What is this song - Answer: This song is - Methods and about? about the hard work techniques: Ask and hands of mom. answer. - Comment and lead: The - Write the name of the song is about a mother's lesson in the note. hands, thereby helping us see the mother's sacrifice for her children. In today's lesson, let's discover together about the mother's sacrifice through the reading: The Story of a Mother by Hans Christian Andersen. 15 2. Activity 2: - Read to make the - Follow. minutes - Aims: Read corectly, sample.
fluently; understand the - Ask students to divide - Read and divide meaning of words. paragraphs. paragraphs. - Methods and - Guide students to read, - Practice reading. tecniques: Group work. and explain the meaning of words. + Ask the difficult words, + Find the difficult long sentences. words, long sentences. + Guide to explain + Practice reading difficult words, read long words, sentences. sentences, and paragraphs. + Explain the meaning of difficult words: downcast, afflict, wither, mould,… - Ask students to read the - 4 students practice passage consecutively. reading the paragraph consecutively. - Ask students to practice - Practice in the group 4 reading in the group. members. - Organize reading competitions between groups. - Comment. 8 3. Activity 3: - Ask students to read - Read silently. minutes - Aims: Students paragraph 1 silently. understand the content - Ask: Briefly retell what - 2 – 3 students of the story. happened in paragraph 1. summarize paragraph 1. - Methods and - Comment. tecniques: Ask and - What did the mother do - The mother accepted answer, brainstorming. to make the thorn bush the request of the thorn show her the way? bush. She hugged the thorn bush to her heart to warm it. Thorns pierced her skin, blood dripped drop by drop, and thorn bushes sprouted, sprouted, and bloomed right in the middle of the cold winter. - What did the mother do - The mother accepted to make the lake show her the lake's request. She the way? cried, tears falling until the tears fell and turned into two pearls. - How does the Angel of - Death was surprised Death react when he sees and asked the mother: the mother? "How did you come all the way here?" - How did the mother - The mother replied: answer the angel of death? "Because I am a mother" and asked Death to "give me back my child!" - In your opinion, what - "Because I am a does the mother's answer mother" means that a "because I am a mother" mother can do mean? everything for her children. - Conclusion: The story praises a mother's boundless love for her child. For her child, a mother can do everything. 8 4. Activity 4: - The teacher divides - Each student in the minutes - Aims: Read the story students into small groups, group takes on one of fluently and initially each group has 6 students the following roles: know how to change and asks them to reread narrator, mother, Night the reading voice to the article according to Spirit, thorn bush, lake, suit the story's their group's roles. Death. development. - Organize 2 to 3 groups to - The whole class - Methods and read in front of the class. watches the reading tecniques: Group work. competition groups to find the best reading group. - Praise the group for reading well and give students points. 6 5. Activity 5: - Show the mind map minutes - Aims: Help students frame. systematize the main - Ask students to state the - State the main content content of the lesson main contents to complete of the lesson. - Methods and the map. tecniques: mindmap. - Review class.