This document contains a lesson plan about teaching the story "The Boy and the Apple Tree" to students. It includes details about the class such as the teacher's name, number of students, their ages, and length of the lesson. The lesson plan outlines warming up activities, pre-reading exercises on vocabulary, a guided reading of the story, comprehension questions, and a discussion of the central theme that parents sacrifice everything for their children.

1. Vietnam National University
University of Social Sciences and Humanities

2. 1
•Lâm Đức Chí
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•Lê Thị Khánh Vy
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•Nguyễn Thị Kim Thùy
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3.  Teacher: Nguyễn Thị Kim Thùy
LêThị Khánh Vy
Lâm Đức Chí
 Class: CK17.01, TQ17.02, CT17
 Number of students: 30 Students
 Age: 22-40
 Time: 45 minutes
I Lesson topic: The boy and the apple tree
II Lesson objective: At the end of the lesson, students will learn a life lesson about the
greatest love and sacrifice of our parents for us. Through the lesson, students will be able
to practice about listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
III Lesson materials & supplies
 Text book
 Picture
 Real objects
 Chart
 Songs: PPAP
 Computer, black board with marker/chalk
IV Procedure
1. Warm-up
Teacher (T): (Teacher puts 12 pictures on the board and lays out the pictures face down in rows
forming a large rectangle on the board). Good evening classes. Today we are going to study a
new lesson “Unit 10”. Before learning a new lesson, we will play a game and its name is “Find
the pair”.

4. T: Now I‟ll explain how to play this game. First of all, I will invite 2 students to stand in front of
these pictures. The first student chooses 2 pictures and carefully turns their face up. If the two
pictures are a matching pair (for example two apple picture), that student will win the pair and
plays again. If the pictures are not a match, they are turned back over and it is now the next
student turns. The game ends when the last pair has been picked up. The winner is the person
with the most pairs. Do you follow me?
S: Yes, we do.
T: Now, let‟s begin, who volunteers? (Teacher chooses Duy and Ha playing the game)
(After 10 minutes).
T: Now, we stop here. Looking at the score, Duy has three points and Ha two points. Duy has
more 1 mark, so Duy is the winner. Well done! Two good mark for Duy and one good mark for
Ha.
2. Pre – reading
a. Lead-in
Teacher puts the picture of the apple on the board and shows an apple to introduce a new lesson
APPLE
T : Now class , what is this ?
S : It‟s an apple.
T : That‟s right, today we will study about a story related to the apple.
(Writing the name of new lesson “The boy and the apple tree” on the board and putting the
apple picture on the right of the unit‟s name).

5. b. Guiding question
T : Do you like eatting apple ?
S : Yes, I do.
T : Where can you buy apple ?
S : I can buy apple in the super market.
T : What color is it ?
S : It‟s red.
c. Vocabulary
 Direct translation
Teach the word: Boy
Teacher (T): Says “Hello, everybody, today we will study the new word”. Writes the word
“Boy” on the board. Points to the word and say “Boy”. The meaning in Vietnamese is “con trai”.
Now class, listen and repeat after me: “Boy”.
S : Boy (chorally, individually).
T: What does it mean in Vietnamese? Who knows?
S: Teacher, It means “con trai”.
T: Good. One good mark for you.
 By real object
Teach the word : Money
Teacher (T): Writes the word “Money” on the board.
Shows money in front of students and asks “What is
it ?”.
S: It‟s money.
T: What does it mean in Vietnamese ? Duy, please ?
Duy: Teacher, It means “Tiền”.
T: That’s right. One good mark for you.
 By picture
Teach the word : Tree
Teacher (T) : Write the word “Tree” on the board. Show the picture
of tree in front of students and ask “What is it ?”.
S: It‟s tree.
T: What does it mean in Vietnamese ? Who can ?
S: Teacher, It means “cái cây”.
T: That‟s right. One good mark for you.

6. 3. While - Reading
Teacher (T): Today, we‟re going to learn a new lesson, unit 10. We„re going to read a story, its
name is called “The boy and the apple tree”. The story tells us the relationship between a boy
and a apple tree.
a) Reading aloud
Teacher: Now, listen to me, I‟ll read first (reading aloud). Then teacher asks some students to
stand up and read again (reading aloud).
The boy and the apple tree
A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it every
day. He climbed to the treetop, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow… he loved the tree
and the tree loved to play with him. Time went by… the little boy had grown up and he no
longer played around the tree every day.
One day, the boy came back to the tree and he looked sad. “Come and play with me” the tree
asked the boy. "I am no longer a kid, I do not play around trees anymore” the boy replied. “I
want toys. I need money to buy them.” “Sorry, but I do not have money… but you can pick all
my apples and sell them. So, you will have money.” The boy was so excited. He grabbed all the
apples on the tree and left happily. The boy never came back after he picked the apples. The tree
was sad.
One day, the boy who now turned into a man returned and the tree was excited “Come and play
with me” the tree said. “I do not have time to play. I have to work for my family. We need a
house for shelter. Can you help me?” “Sorry, but I do not have any house. But you can chop off

7. my branches to build your house.” So the man cut all the branches of the tree and left happily.
The tree was glad to see him happy but the man never came back since then. The tree was again
lonely and sad.
One hot summer day, the man returned and the tree was delighted. “Come and play with me!”
the tree said. “I am getting old. I want to go sailing to relax myself. Can you give me a boat?”
said the man. “Use my trunk to build your boat. You can sail far away and be happy.” So the
man cut the tree trunk to make a boat. He went sailing and never showed up for a long time.
Finally, the man returned after many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I do not have anything for you
anymore. No more apples for you” the tree said. “No problem, I do not have any teeth to bite”
the man replied. “No more trunk for you to climb on” the tree said. “I am too old for that now”
the man said. “I really cannot give you anything... the only thing left is my dying roots” the tree
said with tears. “I do not need much now, just a place to rest. I am tired after all these years” the
man replied. “Good! Old tree roots are the best place to lean on and rest, come, come sit down
with me and rest.” The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears…
b) Question & Answer
1. What kind of tree can you see in this story? (What tree is it?)
- It‟s apple tree.
2. Does the boy love to play with the apple tree when he was a kid?
- Yes, he does.
3. How many times does the boy come back to see the apple tree?
- The boy come back to see the apple tree 4 times.
4. Post – reading
a) Fill in the blanks
1. A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around
it every day.
2. Time went by, the little boy had grown up and he no longer played around the tree every
day.
3. The man sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears.
b) Story summary (by pictures & Video)
 By picture

8. A long time ago, there were a huge apple tree and a little boy
living happily together. Time went by… the little boy had grown
up and he no longer played around the tree every day.
Later on, the boy came back to see
the tree 4 times

9. The first time
The boy came
back and asked for
money to buy toys
The apple tree told the boy
that you could pick all my
apples and sold them. So,
you would have money.

10. The second time
The boy who now
turned into a man
returned and asked
for a house.
The apple tree told
the boy to chop off
its branches to
build a house.

11. The Third time
The man
returned and
asked for a boat.
The apple tree
gave the man its
trunk to build a
boat.

12. The Last time
The man returned and asked
for a place to rest because he
was old and tired.
The apple tree said:
“come, sit down with me
and rest”.

13. The man sat down and the tree was glad
and smiled with tears…
At The End of the story

14.  By video
Teacher: Now class, look at the screen on the board, in order to understand the main theme of
“the boy and the apple tree” story, we‟ll watch a short clip about this story. (Playing a short clip)
 Theme of the story
The tree in the story represents our parents. When we are young, we love
to play with them. When we grow up, we leave them and only come back
when we need help. No matter what, parents will always be there and
give everything they could just to make you happy. You may think the boy
is cruel to the tree, but that is how all of us treat our parents. We take
them for granted we don’t appreciate all they do for us until it’s too late.