School year 2016 - 2017 LESSON PLAN – GRADE PERIOD 60 – Unit TRAFFIC Section Skills Teacher: Ha Thi Lan Anh Class: 7A1 Date of teaching: Saturday, January 14th, 2016 -I, Objectives: - Present and practice the vocabulary and pronunciation of the topic “Traffic problems in big cities” - Listen to get information about traffic problems in big city - Write a paragraph about traffic problems in a city/ an area II, Teaching aids: - Computer - The recording - Student’s books III, Anticipated problems: - Students may get difficulties in listening - Solution : Teacher provides some new words in the passage IV, Procedures: Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Board/ Content Warm up(3’) - Students look at the - Shows pictures of picture and find out traffic problems in big meaning of them cities 1 School year 2016 - 2017 Presetation(10’) I Vocabulary: - Presents new words throught the pictures, visuals and mimes Pay attention to Ss’ pronunciation - Checking vocabulary: Matching - Listen and read new words in chorus, individually - Write them in their notebooks I Vocabulary: congestion (n) / kənˈdʒestʃən/ : đông nghịt, tắc nghẽn => Picture (What is this called? Who know in E?) traffic congestion = traffic jam : kẹt xe, tắc nghẽn giao thông => Synonym: What is another word for “traffic jam”? Who know? obey (v) /əˈbeɪ/: lời, tuân theo => Explanation: When I ask you to somthing, you follow it What does it mean? population (n) /,pɒpju`leɪʃn/: dân số => Picture and explanation (All the people who live in a neighbourhood, a city, a country,…) queue (n) / kjuː/: hàng (người, xe ) =>Mimes respect (n) / rɪˈspekt /: tôn trọng => Mimes rush hour (n) /ˈrʌʃ aʊər/: cao điểm =>Explanation: In p.m, people come back home from work, students come back home from school What is it called? II.Checking: Match the English words with the correct Vietnamese meanings 1.congestion a cao 2.obey b hàng (n c kẹt x 3.rush hour d dân số 4.queue e tôn t School year 2016 - 2017 5.traffic congestion 6.population 7.respect Listening Ex.1: Work in groups Where you think this picture was taken? Why is it special?(3 mins) - Asks students to work in groups, study the picture and answer the questions - Students work in groups to study the picture and answer the questions Ex.2: Look at the following headline and check your answer(2 mins) - Asks students to look at the newspaper headline and check their answers - Work individually to look at the newspaper headline and check their answers f lờ g đông 1: Work in groups Where you think this picture was taken? Why is it special? Key: - In a big city - It is special because it was a long traffic jam 2: Look at the following headline and check your answer RECORD BRE Yesterday, Brazil’s largest city had the world’s longest ever traffic jam It was 295 kilometres long! Key: • In Brazil • Long traffic jam (very long line of vehicles) School year 2016 - 2017 Ex.3: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer(10 mins) - Asks students to read the sentences and guess the answers - Asks students to listen carefully and circle the correct answers - Teacher can play the recoding or times Pause the recoding at every word to that student can listen and choose the exact sound - Teacher checks students’ answers - Students the task independently - Students share their answers with the partner and then as a class 3: Listen to the passage and choose the correct answer The most common traffic problem in cities around the world is traffic jams São Paulo in Brazil has the world’s worst daily traffic jams According to reports, the historical congestion record was set on June 1, 2012, with 295 kilometres of vehicle queues around the city during the evening rush hour Some other big cities also suffer from serious congestion in the rush hour The main cause of this traffic problem is the increase of the population in big cities So the number of people using the roads has risen several times The second reason is that the roads are narrow and sometimes are not good enough Also, many road users have no respect for traffic rules As a result, this problem is getting worse and worse Key: 4 B The worst traffic jams C in the rush hour A increase in population C not obey traffic rules School year 2016 - 2017 Writing Ex.4: Tick the traffic problems in big cities in Viet Nam(5 mins) - Has students look at the pictures, read the phrases and tick the traffic problems - Asks students to write full sentences Calls on some students to write them on the board - Asks students to give comments - Gives the correct answers Ex.5: Write a paragraph about the traffic problems where you live, or in a town, or a city you know well Use the cues above, and the following outline (10 mins) - Tells students to study the sentences they have written in Ex.4 Then practice - Students read and translate into Vietnamese - Work in pair to discuss the traffic problems in big city in VietNam - Students work in group of 4: - Student makes sentence with introduction and conclusion - Student makes sentence with problem - Student makes sentence with problem - Student makes - What you think about traffic problems in big cities in Viet Nam are? 4: Tick the traffic problems in big cities in Viet Nam Picture: 1,2,3,4,6 Writing: • There are too many vehicles (on the road) • Many roads are narrow and bumpy • There are traffic accidents every day • Many young people ride their bikes dangerous Introduction: HaNoi city is facing many traffic problem because three main causes Problem 1: there are too many people using the road The most populous city in this country Problem 2: many roads are narrow and bumpy Problem 3: many road users have no respect for traffic rules They usually drive and ride dangerously Problem 4: in rush hours it often has traffic jams School year 2016 - 2017 writing the paragraph sentence with - Tells students to use problem proper connectors: first/ firstly, second/ secondly… and pay attention to spelling punctuation Problem 5: the main cause of this traffic problem is the increase of the population in big cities Conclusion: Consequently there are traffic accidents every day in this city (Reason or advice/ suggestion) -Suggested writing: There are many traffic problems in my city First, there are too many vehicles on the road The city has most private motorbikes and cars in this country Second, many roads are narrow and bumpy They are easily flooded when it rains so heavily The roads become wet and slippery after the rain Last but not least, many traffic users don’t obey the traffic rules They usually drive and ride very dangerously Therefore, there are many traffic accidents everyday In order to reduce these problems, we must strictly obey all the traffic rules 6 School year 2016 - 2017 Homework (2 mins) - Rewrite a paragraph about the traffic problems in a city, an area, - Learn the new words by heart - Prepare: Unit – Looking Back - Listen to the teacher to guide the homework and write down ... obey all the traffic rules 6 School year 20 16 - 20 17 Homework (2 mins) - Rewrite a paragraph about the traffic problems in a city, an area, - Learn the new words by heart - Prepare: Unit – Looking... for traffic rules As a result, this problem is getting worse and worse Key: 4 B The worst traffic jams C in the rush hour A increase in population C not obey traffic rules School year 20 16 - 20 17... correct Vietnamese meanings 1.congestion a cao 2. obey b hàng (n c kẹt x 3.rush hour d dân số 4.queue e tôn t School year 20 16 - 20 17 5 .traffic congestion 6. population 7.respect Listening Ex.1: Work