Ms.

Ngô Thị Như Thanh

LESSON PLAN

Class: English 4

LANGUAGE FOCUS
Time: 30 minutes
I. General aims/focus
1. Education Aims:
- Introducing and practicing a new grammatical point.
- Students can identify and use of “subject and predicate”.
2. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Understand clearly about subject and predicate.
- Find and use subject and predicate effectively.
3. Skills: -main skills: listening and writing; subskills: reading and speaking.
II. Methods: inductive and deductive.
III. Teaching aids: Powerpoint, video, textbooks and handouts.

F. PROCEDURES:
Note: T= Teacher; Ss = Students; mns = minutes; Ex = Example

Stages &
Stage aims Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
Timing

Warm-up Get Ss’ - T greets Ss - Ss greet T

(5 mns) attention and
introduce the + Play game:
lesson “REARRANGE JUMBLED • Listen to the
grammar. SENTENCE” introduction.
• Give an introduction by
explaining the way to attend • Observe the word and
this game. rearrange these
• Show the words and let’s sentences.
rearrange sentences. • Raise hand to say the
answer as fast as Ss can.
teacher Mrs. Smith our is. Answers:
My sister bedroom. sleeps in Mrs. Smith is our teacher.
that My sister sleeps in that
buildings Those hig are. bedroom.
Those buildings are hig.
Ms. Ngô Thị Như Thanh

• Shows the correct answers in

2 columns.
• Ask Ss to look at both
columns and give the
differences between them.
• Introduces today’s lesson
grammar.

Presentation Understand Grammar point: Subject and

and the grammar predicate a makes Ss
practice point and do comprehend another piece of
(20 mns) exercises grammatical point, this technique
is used to make Ss discover the
use of subject and predicate by
themselves. • Look at the sentence and
• Show the sentence and answer the questions.
ask Ss three questions
about those sentences.
Questions:
- Read those sentences.
- What are the pink words?
- What is the difference
between them?
Answers:
- Ss read out loud.
- Ss may answer various.
- One is short and the other
is long.

• T introduces and gives a

definition of a simple and
complete subject.
• Ask Ss to take note of
their notebooks.

+ Practice 1: Identify a simple • Listen to the

or complete subject. introduction and follow
• Give an introduction by T’s introduction.
explaining the way to do
this activity.
Ms. Ngô Thị Như Thanh

• Ask Ss to say out loud the • Work individually and

subject and say that it is a do practice 1.
simple and complete • Work in teams and
subject. check the answers with
Sentences: others.
- The brown horse • Take turns giving the
appeared at the starting answer.
line.
- Anna arrived late to
class.
- The blue dolphin swam
freely in the ocean.
- Teresa is writing her
assignment.
Answers:
- Complete subject
- Simple subject
- Complete subject
- Simple subject
• Take note on notebook
• Ask Ss to take note of
their notebooks. • Listen to the
• Keep showing the introduction and follow
sentence and ask Ss three T’s introduction.
questions about the those
sentences.
Questions:
- Read those sentences
again.
- What are the blue words?
- What is the difference
between them?
Answers:
- Ss read out loud.
- Ss may answer various.
- One is short and the other
is long.

• Introduce and give a

definition of a simple and
complete predicate.
• Ask Ss to take note of
their notebooks.
Ms. Ngô Thị Như Thanh

+ Practice 2: Identify a simple • Work individually and

or complete predicate. do practice 2.
• Give an introduction by • Work in teams and
explaining the way to do check the answers with
this activity. others.
• Ask Ss to say out loud the • Take turns giving the
subject and say that it is a answer.
simple and complete
predicate.
Sentences:
- The brown horse
appeared at the starting
line.
- Anna arrived late to
class.
- The blue dolphin swam
freely in the ocean.
- Teresa is writing her
assignment.
Answers:
- Complete predicate
- Simple predicate
- Simple predicate
- Complete predicate

Exercise 1:
• Let Ss do exercise 1 on
their books – “Success
with Grammar”
individually (ask Ss to
look at the underlined
word or phrase to choose
the correct answer) and
then compare their
answers with their
partners.
• Ask Ss to give the
answers.
• Check and correct
mistakes.
Ms. Ngô Thị Như Thanh

Production Sum up the • Give Ss a table with 2

(5 mns) grammar pictures and a word or
point. phrase below and ask
some questions related to
those puctures..
• Let Ss look at those
pictures and talk about the
importance of subject and
predicate in the sentence.
• Check and conduct the
correction. • Listen to the instruction
+ Play game: -“Wordwall” and do the extra
• Give an introduction by exercise.
explaining the way to • Work in pairs and
attend this game. check the answers with
• Let Ss take turn to put the their partner.
correct phrases in each • Take turns giving the
column. answer.

• Asks Ss what they have

learnt today. • Listen and answer the
• Wraps up the lesson. question
• Says “Goodbye” to Ss. • Say “Goodbye” to T.

Homework/ further work

• Practice the grammar point.
• Prepare for the next lesson.