UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS I. Aim Helping students: - to introduce people - to respond to introductions - to describe people - to write about themselves and about other people II. Language focus 1. Present Simple to talk about general truths. 2. (Not) Adjectives + enough + to infinitive 3. Attributive and predicative adjectives. III. Vocabulary Verbs Adjectives Nouns (to) annoy blond slim a character (to) rise curly sociable a joke (to) seem fair straight an orphanage generous reserved IV. Unit Allocation Lesson 1 Listen and read 1-2 Language focus 1 Reading for details a conversation and revision of simple present and simple past tense. Lesson 2 Read 1-2 Getting started Reading a text for details about Ba’s friends. Lesson 3 Speak 1-2 Listen a-b-c-d Listening for details to complete the dialogue and practice in describing someone. Lesson 4 Write 1-2 Language Focus 3 Writing about oneself and about other people Lesson 5 Language focus 2-4 Further practice in Simple Present and Not Adj + enough + to-infinitive UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS Lesson 1: Section: - Listen and read (page 10,11) Period 2 - Language focus 1 (page 16) Aim: Reading the dialogue and revision of simple present and simple past tenses. Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa – Lan – Nien and to review simple present and simple past tense. Teaching aids: Text book, cards PROCEDURE Stage Steps/Activities Work arrangement Warm up Pre- reading * Pelmanism: - Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other. - Make sure the verbs are mixed up. Stick the cards on the board so students can only see the numbers. - Divide students into two teams and ask them to choose two numbers. - Turn the cards over and see if they match . Eg: teach - taught, give them one mark. If not, turn the cards over again and ask the next team. - Continue until all the cards are finished. meet come live think send though receive met lived received came Sent I. Pre-teach vocabulary - to seem (translation) - a next door neighbor (explanation: a person who lives next to your house) - to look like: (translation) * Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember - Rub out the new words one a time. - Each time you rub out an English word, point to the Vietnamese translation and ask “what's this in English?" - When all the English words are rubbed out go, through the Vietnamese list and get students to call the English words. - If there's time, get students to come to the board and write the English words again. II. Pre- questions Group work Whole class Pair work While reading - Give students some questions and ask them to work in pairs to answer them. a. Is Nien Lan's friend or Hoa's friend? b. How old is Nien? c. Where does Nien live? d. Is she a beautiful girl? - Give feedback - Ask students to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan and Nien on page l0 and check if their answers are correct or not. * Answers: a. She is Hoa's friend b. She 's twelve years old. c She lives in Hue. d. Yes, she is. I. Comprehension questions - Ask students to read the dialogue again and answer the questions in exercise 2 on page 11 (work in pairs) a. Where does Nien live? b. Does Lan know Nien? c. Which sentence tells you that Hoa is older than Nien? T-Whole class Pair work Pair work d. When is Nien going to visit Hoa? * Answers: a. Nien lives in Hue. b. No, she doesn't. c. The sentence is “She wasn't old enough to be in my class”. d. At Christmas - Call on some students to ask and answer the questions. - Correct their mistakes or pronunciation. - Ask them to work in closed pairs. II. Gap-filling - Ask students to use the simple present and simple past tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16. - Provide some verbs so that students can use them to fill in the gaps. - live (2) – send - be(2) - come “ Hoa (1) in Hue last year, but now she (2) in Hanoi. Yesterday, Hoa's friend Nien (3) Hoa a letter. Nien (4) Hoa's neighbor when Hoa lived in Hue. She (5) younger than Hoa. She (6) to Hanoi in December. * Answers: Open pairs Closed pairs In dividual Work Post reading (1) lived (2) lives (3) sesen (4) was (5) is (6) comes - Ask students to work individually and then compare their answers with their partners. - Give feedback. * Writing: - Ask students to write a paragraph about Hoa and Lan. - Give students some cues and ask them to use the simple present or simple past tense to write individually. Pair work Whole class Individual work Homework * Cues: a. Lan / Hoa's best friend b. The same class / Quang Trung School. c. Last year / Hoa / to school first time. d. Lan / show / around / introduce / to new friends . - Let students discuss with their partners. - Choose some answers and correct them in front of the class. - Ask students to do exercise 1(a); 1(b) on their notebooks . Pair work T-whole class UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS Lesson 2: Section: - Speak (page 11) Period 3 - Listen (page 12,13) Aim: Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someone. Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe somoen and complete the dialogue by listening. Teaching aids: Text book, pictures PROCEDURE Stage Steps/Activities Work arrangement Warm up * Brainstorming: - Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe body build and hair. thin curly Whole class * Possible answers: body build hair Presentatio n - fat - straight - slim - long - tall - short - short black/dark - overweight - color blond/fair brown grey - overweight - slender - Show students a picture of Mary and ask them to describe her hair, her body build. Ex: She has long blond bair. She is short and thin. Form: S + have / has + adjectives + hair S + be + adjectives T-Whole class Practice I. Word cue drill - Prepare 6 cards so that students can drill easily. a. he / tall / thin He is tall and thin b. She/short / slim She is short and slim. c. He/ short / fat He is short and fat. d. long / black She has long black hair. e. curly / blond She has curly blond hair. f. straight/ brown She has straight brown hair. II. Practice Speaking - Show the posters of six people / or ask students to look at six people on page 11-12. - Call on a student to describe one person, the others have to guess who he/she is. Example: S1: This person is short and thin. She has long blond hair. Whole class Whole class Pre-listening While listening S2: Is this Mary? Yes - Go on until six people on the poster are described. - If there’s time, ask students to describe a famous person or one of their classmates and their friends have to guess. - Ask students to do exercise "Listen a, b, c, d." on page 12-13. - Give students some expressions and make sure they know their meanings. - Get students to guess and to complete four dialogues on page 12-13, using the given expressions. - Give feedback. Individual work - Let students listen to the tape twice. . - Get students to work in pairs to complete the dialogues and compare with their prediction. * Tape transcript: a. Hoa: Hello, Nam. Nam: Morning, Hoa. Hoa: Nam, I’d like you to meet my cousin, Thu. Nam: Nice to meet you, Thu. Thu: Nice to meet you too, Nam. b. Khai: Miss Lien, I’d like you to meet my mother. Miss Lien: It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Mrs. Vi: The pleasure is all mine, Miss Lien. Miss Lien: Oh, there is the principal. Please excuse me, Mrs. Vi, but I must talk to him. Mrs. Vi: Certainly. c. Ba: Bao, come and meet my grandmother. Pair work Post- listening Bao: Hello, ma'am. Grandmother: Hello young man. Ba: Bao is my classmate, grandmother. Grandmother: What was that? Ba: Classmate! Bao is my classmate. Grandmother: I see. d. Mr. Lam: Isn't that Lan's father, my dear? Mrs. Linh: I'm not sure. Go and ask him. Mr. Lam: Excuse me. Are you Mr. Thanh? Mr. Thanh: Yes, I am. Mr. Lam: I'm Lam, Nga's father. Mr. Thanh: How do you do? - Ask students to practice speaking the dialogues. - Call on some students to play the roles of Nam - Hoa Thu; Khai - Mrs. Lien - Mrs. Vi; Ba-Bao Grandmother; Mr. Lam - Mrs. Linh - Mr. Thanh and practice the dialogues. - Correct their pronunciation. - Let students work in pairs to practice the dialogues. (closed pairs). Open pairs Closed pairs UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS Lesson 3: Section: - Getting started (page 10) Period 4 - Read (page 13,14) Aim: Reading for specific information Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba’s friend. Teaching aids: PROCEDURE Stage Steps/Activities Work arrangement Warm up Pre- reading Chatting: - Ask students to look at four pictures on page 10 and talk about the activities they want to do after school or in their free time. - Give them some questions. • What are these students doing? (play soccer / play chess / read books / play volley ball) • What time of the day do you think it is? (in the morning / evening, after school) • Do you like soccer / reading books .? • Whom do you like playing with? I. Pre-teach vocabulary: - a character: (translation) - an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children without parents live) - reserved (adj) - sociable: (adj) (Translation) - (to) tell jokes: (explanation: tell a story which makes people laugh) - sense of humor (translation) * Checking vocabulary: what and where - Write the word on the board, put one word in each circle. - Have students repeat the words in chorus then rub out word by word but leave the circles. T-whole class Whole class - Go on until all the words are rubbed out. - Point to each circle and ask students to repeat chorally the English words. Ask students to go to the board and write the words Reserve d characte r sociable tell jokes orphanag e Sense of humor While reading again in the correct circles. II. T /F statements prediction - Stick the poster of T / F statements on the board. - Set the scene: These statements are about Ba and his friends, read them and gues which statements are true, which are false. - Get students to work in pairs. a. Ba only has three friends - Bao, Song, Khai b. Ba and his friends have the same characters c. Bao - Song - Khai are quite reserved in public. d. They all enoy school and study hard. - Give feedback. - Ask students to open their books and read the text on page 13. - Let students check their prediction. Guess Correct a. b. c. d. F F F T - Ask students to correct false statements. * Correction: a. Ba has a lot of friends but he spends most of his time with Bao, Song and Khai. b. They have different characters. c. Only Song and Khai are quite reserved. I. Multiple choice - Get students to do exercise 1 on page 14. Pair work Pair work Pair work - Ask them to work in pairs to choose the best answers. * Answers: a. Ba talks about three of his friends. b. Bao's volunteer work does not affect his school work. c. Khai and Song are rather shy. d. Ba's friends sometimes get tired of his jokes. - Explain the meanings of the phrases: • doesn't affect his school work (không ảnh hưởng tới việc học) • rather shy (hơi nhút nhát) • get tired of (nhàm chán) II. Comprehension questions - Ask students to work in pairs to do exercise 2 on page 14. - Let students read the text again and answer the questions. Pair work Pair work * Questions and answers: a. How does Ba feel having a lot of friends? (He feels lucky having a lot of friends.) b. Who is the most sociable? (Bao is the most sociable.) c. Who likes reading? (Khai likes reading.) d. What is the bad thing about Ba's jokes? (His jokes sometimes annoy his friends.) e. Where does Bao spend his free time? (Bao spends his free time doing volunteer work at a local orphanage. f. Do you and your close friends have the same or different characters? (students' answer) - Call on some pair of students to ask and answer the Pair work Post reading Home work questions. Teacher corrects their pronunciation. - Ask all students to work in closed pairs. - Ask students to work in groups and talk to one another about their friends, using the adjectives they have just learnt to describe. - Ask each student to write a paragraph (about 50 words) about one close friend. Group work UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS Lesson 4: Section: - Write (page 15) Period 5 - Language Focus 3 (page 17) Aim: Writing about oneself and about other people. Objective: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a paragraph about their close friends. Teaching aids: Text book, pictures PROCEDURE Stage Steps/Activities Work arrangement Warm up Kim's game: - Ask students to look at the picture on page 17 quickly (for 20 seconds). Then let them keep their books closed. - Divide the class into four groups. - Give students two questions, the group which Group work answers correctly the fastest wins the game. a. How many people are there in the picture? (Four) b. What is each person wearing? - The woman is wearing a red shirt and a green skirt. Pre- writing While writing - The man who is standing beside the car is wearing brown trousers and a yellow shirt. - The man who is standing on the pavement is wearing a pink shirt and blue trousers. - The boy is wearing blue shorts and a white shirt. * Reading: - Ask students to read the information about Tam then answer some questions. a. What is his name? (Le Van Tam) b. How old is he? (14) c. What does he look he? (He is tall and thin. He has short black hair.) d. What is he like? (He is sociable, humorous and helpful.) 1 e. Where does he live? (He lives at 26 Tran Phu Street, Hanoi) f. Whom does he live with? (He lives with his mother, father and an elder brother.) g. Who is his friend? (Ba and Bao) - Let students write a paragraph about Tam, using the information they have just got. They have to work individually. - Ask students to compare with the paragraph in their books on page 15. - Ask students to write some information about one of their friends, then wrrite a paragraph about him or her. - Get students to share with their partners and conrrect if possible. T-Whole class Individual work Pair work Post- writing * Sample: His / her name is and homework / she is . years old. He / she .lives at .in with his grandmother, his parents and his younger sister, Mai. He / she is tall and slender. He / she has short black hair. He / she rather shy but friendly and helpful. He / she has a lot of friend but his / her close friends are . and …………… - Ask each student to write a similar paragraph about Individual work [...]... information from the text * Suggestion: Alexander Graham Bell was born on March 3rd, 184 7 in Scotland He went to live in Canada and then to the U.S.A in 187 0s He worked with deaf mutes at Boston University and did experiments with ways of transmitting speech over a long distance In 187 6, he and his assistant - Thomas Watson introduced the telephone successfully and in 187 7 the first telephone was in commercial... making arrangements * Suggested dialogue: Individual Work Pair work Pair work Pair work Homework Lan: 85 4146 Mai: Can I speak to Lan please? Lan: Yes Lan speaking Mai: Hello Lan This is Mai Lan: Hello Mai Mai: I'm going to see a movie at 7.30 this evening Would you like to come? Lan: Of course But I have to ask my Mom Hold on OK She says I can go, where's it on? Mai: At Sao Mai Movie Theater Lan: Let's... then share with a partner * Answers: Thanh Cong Delivery Service Date: June 16 Time: After midday For: Mrs Van Message: Mr Nam called about his stationery order He wanted you to call him at 86 34 082 Taken by: Mr Toan Individual work Pair work - Ask students to write another message - Set the scene: "Tom phoned Nancy, but she was out Lisa, Nancy's sister took a message for Nancy Help Lisa to write a message"... It is used to express an action which is always true Practice - Give students five verbs: be-move-set-rise- go - Ask students to complete the dialogue between Ba and Tuan, his young cousin - Get students to work in pairs * Answers: Ba: What do you know about the sun, Tuan? Tuan: The sun rises in the East and sets in the West Ba: Can you tell me anything about the other planets? Tuan: I know something... infinitive" Teacher is to ask students to hang the picture on the board "How do I say and how do you answer? Complete the exchange." Can you (1) this (2) over there? No I (3) not (4) (5) to (6) the (7) over there - Answers: T: Can you hang this picture over there? S: No, I am not tall enough to hang the picture over there Form: "(not) + adjectives enough + to - infinitive" Meaning: (chưa / không đủ để làm gì.)... empty - do - tidy - sweep - clean – dust Further practice Homework Ask students to look at the pictures and complete the dialogue between Nga and Lan, using must or have to together with the verbs given * Answer: Nga: Can you come to the movies, Lan? Lan: No I have to do my chores? Nga: What do you have to do? Lan: I must tidy my bedroom Then I have to dust the living room and I must sweep the kitchen... the theater Lan: Is 7.00 OK? Mai: All right See you at 7.00 Bye Lan: Bye - Students can change the information which is underlined - Let students work in pairs Teacher moves around the class and helps the students - Ask students to write a similar dialogue on their notebooks Pair work UNIT 2: MAKING ARRANGEMENTS Lesson 2: Period 8 Section: - Speak - Language focus 1-2 (page 19) (page 18) Aim: Practicing... Countless Mobile Lesson 1 Listen and read 1 - 2 Lesson 2 Speak 1 - 2 Language Focus 1-2 Nouns an assistant a fishing rod deaf – mute a message a device a stationery a directory an exhibition an experiment Reading the conversation about making and confirming arrange-ments GOING TO talks about intentions Lesson 3 Read 1 - 2 Reading the text for specific information about Alexander Graham Bell Lesson 4 Write... - Ask students to read the statements and guess which is true, which is false, a It is safe to leave medicine around the house b Drugs can look like candy c A kitchen is a suitable place to play d Playing with one match cannot start a fire e Putting a knife into an electrical socket is dangerous f Young children do not understand that many household objects are dangerous - Give feedback 1 Reading the... - Ask Ss to work in open pairs and then closed pairs * Answers: a Because children often try to eat and drink them b Because the kitchen is a dangerous place c Because playing with one match can cause the fire Pair work Postreading Homework d Because children often try to put something into electrical sockets and electricity can kill e Because the dangerous objects can injure or kill children Discussion: . dialogue: Pair work Pair work Lan: 85 4146 Mai: Can I speak to Lan please? Lan: Yes. Lan speaking. Mai: Hello Lan. This is Mai. Lan: Hello Mai. Mai: I'm. him. Mr. Lam: Excuse me. Are you Mr. Thanh? Mr. Thanh: Yes, I am. Mr. Lam: I'm Lam, Nga's father. Mr. Thanh: How do you do? - Ask students to