FEELINGS
(pp.10-9)
1. Learning English: Greeting when meeting new friends.
• Emotional words (happy, sad).
• Expressing feelings.
Purposes
2. Integrated education purposes: Fine motor skills
(holding a pen and colouring)
.
New vocabulary New patterns
Language focus sad, happy, quack I'm… (sad/ happy).
• Role play
• Let’s talk – Let’s chant
Games and other • Say and colour
activities • Game: New friends
• DIY: A lovely face
• Trace and colour
LESSON Role play
1. Preparation
Duck hat, mother duck hat, father duck hat; happy face and sad face flashcard.
2. Procedure
Warm up
Ask the children to stand up and make a circle. The teacher greets and asks the
children to introduce their names:
Teacher: Hello! My name’s Lan. What’s your name?
Children: Hi, my name’s An.
Do activities
Activity 1: Pretend to be a duck
– The teacher asks the children to stand up, imitating the steps and sound of a
duck: Let’s stand up and walk around, ducks!
– The children happily do as requested by the teacher, saying: Quack! Quack!
Activity 2: Introduce the happy/ sad duck
Ask the children to open pp.10-14, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), introduce
the little duck and his feelings (happy or sad) with them.
Activity 3: Role play
– Step 1: The teacher guides the children to copy the duck, expressing their
feelings: Oh, Mummy. I’m sad. Quack! Quack!/ Oh, Daddy. I’m happy. Quack!
Quack! Let them practice as much as they can.
– Step 2: Give a hat to each child, let them practice in pair like little duck - mother
duck, little duck - father duck:
+ Little duck runs to mother duck/ father duck with the sad face, hugs her/ him and
says: Oh, Mummy/ Daddy. I’m sad. Quack! Quack! Mother duck/ Father duck looks
the little duck gently, hugging him/ her and rubbing his/ her head.
+ The little duck happily runs to mother duck/ father duck and says: Oh, Mummy/
Daddy. I’m happy. Quack! Quack! Mother duck/ Father duck looks at the little duck
with a smile.
– Step 3: Ask the children to take turn to play as little duck, mother duck, father duck
and express their feelings.
3. Wrap up
The teacher holds the flashcard of a happy face and a sad face, let the children practice
saying: I’m happy./ I’m sad.
LESSON Let’s talk – Let’s chant
1. Preparation
Happy little duck hat, sad little duck hat.
2. Procedure
Warm up
Ask the children to stand up and pretend as a duck (hands under the armpits
and walk like a duck): Let’s walk around and make the sound: Quack! Quack!
Do activities
Activity 1: Let’s talk
– Step 1:
+ Ask the children to open pp.10-14, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), review
the words and patterns expressing the duck’s feelings.
+ Let the children to identify the feelings of the little duck hats.
– Step 2: Each child puts on a little duck hat.
– Step 3: Once hearing Start! (from the teacher), little ducks (children) make friends and
express their feelings according to their hats. The children move around the classroom,
change their partners and keep practicing. For example:
Child 1: I’m happy.
Child 2: I’m sad.
– Step 4: Ask the little ducks to say goodbye and go back to their seats.
Activity 2: Let’s chant
– Ask the children to open page 16, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), listen to the
teacher reading the chant.
One, two, three.
One, two, three.
I’m happy.
You’re happy.
– The teacher guides the children to read the chant:
+ Step 1: The teacher reads slowly, guiding the children to read each sentence (paying
attention to the sentence stress). Let the children repeat after the teacher 2 – 3 times.
+ Step 2: Ask the children to stand up and form groups of 3, clapping their hands
while reading the chant. Read as much as they can learn by heart.
+ Make sure all the children in the class have a chance to read the chant. The teacher
can guide the children to make movements accordingly to each sentence (such as
finger counting or finger pointing…).
3. Wrap up
Ask some groups of children to read the chant in front of the class.
LESSON Say and colour
1. Preparation
A picture of a sad duck, a picture of a happy duck.
2. Procedure
Warm up
Ask the children to stand up, clapping their hand while reading the chant they
learned in the previous lesson.
Do activities
Activity 1: A magic picture
– Step 1: The teacher show two pictures to help the children review the emotional
words: sad, happy. Put the two pictures face down and change the position of any
picture.
– Step 2: Ask a child to pick up the picture showing the emotion suitable to the word the
teacher says. For example, the teacher says: Happy!, the child finds the picture of a
happy duck and picks it up. Then the child says the word.
Activity 2: Say and colour
– Step 1: Ask the children to open page 17, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), talk to
the children about the feelings of the ducks on the page.
– Step 2: Guide the children to colour the ducks. The teacher observes and supports the
children if needed, stay by their side and talk to them about the feeling of the duck
they are colouring.
Activity 3: Expressing feelings
Ask the children to express their feelings. The teacher asks and the children answer,
using the emotional words.
3. Wrap up
Sing a song about the feelings, say goodbye to the teacher and friends.
LESSON Game: New friends
1. Preparation
Flashcard of a happy duck, a sad duck; plush toys.
2. Procedure
Warm up
– Ask the children to stand up and pick up a flashcard, then express the feeling
accordingly. For example: If a child picks up a flashcard happy, ask him/ her to
express happy feeling by saying: I’m happy while smiling. If a child picks up a
flashcard sad, ask him/ her to express sad feeling by saying: I’m sad while
(pretending) crying.
– Divide the children into small groups and let them practice.
Do activities
– Step 1:
+ The teacher informs the children about a visitor, then suddenly shows up a plush toy,
for example a pig plush toy, and says: Hi!/ Hello! My name’s Pig.
+ Ask the whole class to greet the pig plush toy: Hi!/ Hello!
+ Bring the pig plush toy around the classroom, let it shake the children’s hand and
ask them about their feelings. Encourage the children to talk about their feelings.
For example:
Pig plush toy (Teacher): I’m happy. How are you?
Children: I’m happy./ I’m sad.
– Step 2: Let the children choose the plush toys they like, pretend to be a visitor visiting
the class, greet and ask the children about their feelings.
3. Wrap up
Ask the children to wave goodbye and sing the “Goodbye song” to the plush toys.
LESSON A Lovely Face
1. Preparation
Red wool, brown wool (pre-cut) used to make hair, glue, crayons, scissors, paper
plates; happy face plate, sad face plate.
2. Procedure
Warm up
The teacher shows the children the happy and sad face plate to review the emotional
words: happy, sad.
Do activities
– Ask the children to open page 18, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), seeing how
to make an emotional face plate.
– Give each child a plain plate.
– Guide the children to make the emotional face plate:
+ Step 1: Guide the children to glue the wool to the plate (to make hair).
+ Step 2: Guide the children to draw the mouth (upward curve as happy, downward
curve as sad).
+ Step 3: Guide the children to draw eyes, eyebrows, nose…
+ Step 4: Let the children do by their own. The teacher observes and supports if
needed; stay by their side and ask them what is the emotion of the face they are
drawing.
+ Step 5: Ask the children to talk about the emotional face they’ve made. For example:
Hello! My name’s Mai. I’m happy.
3. Wrap up
Ask the children to show their emotional face plate and talk loudly about its emotion
then say goodbye to the whole class.
LESSON Trace and colour
1. Preparation
Two houses, one has a happy face and another has a sad face; crayons.
2. Procedure
Warm up
Greetings in different ways (say Hi!/ Hello! loudly or quietly or together with hand
waving or hand clapping, jumping up…)
Do activities
Activity 1: Game: Finding house
– Step 1: Put the house with a happy face in a corner and the one with a sad face in
another corner of the classroom.
– Step 2: The teacher says an emotional word and expresses his/ her feelings, asks the
children to run to the right house. For example, when the teacher says the word
“happy” and expresses his/ her happy face, the children will run to the house with a
happy face. Then they say the word (happy) and express their happy face.
Activity 2: Trace and colour
– Step 1: Ask the children to open page 19, Eduplay Friends 1A (Pupil’s Book), to see
the sad and happy face.
– Step 2: Ask the children to trace and colour the faces one by one. The teacher observes
the children do, asks and encourages the children to talk about the emotion of the face
they are tracing and colouring.
3. Wrap up
Ask the children to show their finished face to the whole class and tell them about the
emotion of the face.