UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL I. General objectives: 1. Competencies: - Make & respond to introduction - How to compare with the likeness and the difference. - Scan for specific information. 2. Language focus: - Past simple tense - Present unreal wish II. Techniques: Brainstorming; Questions – answers III. Etching aids: Cassette; Cassette recorder; illustrating pictures; OPH; Pictures; Visual aids; Laptop; Flash cards, colored chalk. IV. Total period distribution: Period distribution Items of Teaching 1 Getting started, Listen and read 2 Speak and Listen 3 Read 4 Write 5 Language focus Lesson 1: Getting started – Listen and read (45 min) I. Objectives: - Introduce, leading to the topic of a unit - Talking about places to visit II. Grammar: Wish sentence & Past habit Used to + Verb III. Vocabulary: Words relating to famous place to visit & activities done during the visit Steps Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Warm – Up (15’) * Getting started. - Showing 6 pictures of places of interest of Vietnam - Eliciting the places of interest of Ho Chi Minh City - Asking them some questions 1. Do you have any pen pals? - Looking at the 6 pictures and guessing what places they are. - Answering the questions. 1 Lead-in (30’) 2. Do you like to have pen pals? 3. Where will you take him if he visits Vietnam for the 1 st time? 4. Can you tell me the names of the places in 6 pictures? - Teaching new words: Hung Temple; Temple of Literature; Dong Xuan Market; the City hall; Ho Chi Minh history museum; Ben Thanh market. * Listen and read - Introducing the situation of the passage: Rizal Mary is, Lan’s pen pal visited her for the fist time and Lan took her to some places of interest in Hanoi. - Playing cassette once the 1 st paragraph. - Asking them questions: What do you know about Mary am? - Having them a silent reading then identifying the places of interest. - Playing cassette again. - Explaining the new difficult words: Mosque; peaceful; keep in touch; atmosphere - Reminding them of new and old structures. * Old Structure: Past habit Used to + V * Ex: Lan used to walk past the mosque on her way to primary school. * New structure: Wish sentence: Present unreal wish * Ex: I wish I had more time. - Asking them to have silent reading for information to answer the questions. - Calling some students to say their choices. - Briefly explaining the use of Wish Ex: I wish I had more time. I wish + clause (Past simple) Practice: 1. I don’t have enough money. - Listening to the teacher’s explanations then write the vocabulary down. - Listening to the teacher - Listening to cassette. - Answering the question. - Having a silent reading. - Listening to the cassette. - Writing down the new words. - Finding out structures. - Identifying new structures. - Having silent reading and get more information. - Saying the choices. - Doing the practice. 2 I wish ………………………… 2. I can’t sing that song I wish ………………………… 3. It’s raining. I wish ………………………… 4. I am too fat. I wish ………………………… 5. The weather is bad to day. I wish ………………………… 1. I wish I had enough money. 2. I wish I could sing that song. 3. I wish it wasn’t raining. 4. I wish I weren’t too fat. 5. I wish the weather were fine today. Consolidation 1. Where did Lan take Mary am to visit? 2. What place did they visit on Friday? 3. What new structure is there in the passage? Homework - Do exercise 1 workbook (p.5-6). - Explain the way how to do these exercises. 3 UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL Lesson 2: Speak – Listen (45 min) I. Objectives: - Developing speaking and listening skills. - Introducing oneself II. Language contents: 1. Grammar: Yes – No questions. 2. Vocabulary: Some words relating to capitals and big cities in the word, especially in Asia. III. Techniques: Asking and answering – Pair work – Role play – Matching. IV. Teaching aids: Pictures, cassette player and tape. V. Time: 45 minutes VI. Procedures: SPEAK (28 minutes) Steps Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Warm – up (3’) - Making questions: 1. Where does Mary is come from? 2. Does she like Vietnamese people? 3. Does she like Ha Noi? - Answering the questions: 1. Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur 2. Friendly 3. Interesting Presentatio n (7’) - Introducing situation. - Asking Sts to work in pairs. - Matching and putting the dialogues in the correct order.  Finishing part (a) Practice (13’) - Correcting part (a) - Sticking the answer key on the board. - Asking Sts to read the information in three boxes at the end of the page 8. - Replacing - Making similar dialogues. - Practicing new dialogues (Pair work) Free practice (5’) - Asking Sts to match countries and their capitals (ASIA). - Matching - Playing roles with their old names 4 - Asking Sts to play roles. and their own words. LISTEN (17 minutes) Steps Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Pre-listening (3’) - Introducing the lesson - Looking at the picture and taking about them. While- listening (10’) - Taking about the situation of the lesson. - Playing the tape. - Listening and finding out where Tim and Carol are and that they are doing. - Listening and choosing the correct answers. - Comparing their answers with the partner’s. Post- listening (4’) - Checking the answers with the whole class. - Saying the answers. 5 UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL Lesson 3: Read (45 min) I. Objectives: 1. Developing speaking and listening skills. 2. Help students to know more about Malaysia. II. Language contents: Vocabulary: divided, separated, comprise tropical climate, official, language of instruction. III. Techniques: Communicative approach. IV. Procedures: Steps Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Warm-up - T shows the map of Vietnam and asks students: 1. Which country is on the map? 2. Which city is the capital of Vietnam? 3. How many regions are there in Vietnam? - Answering the questions. Pre-reading - T introduce a the passage by showing the map and the picture about Malaysia. - T asks “What do you know about Malaysia. - T asks sts to read the passage silently and underline the new words. - T explains new word (translation method) - Sts answer (in Vietnamese) - Reading the passage in silently an underline the new word - Listening to the explanation. While- reading - T reads the passage and students listen and find the right information about Malaysia to fill in the table. (pair word) - Sts read their answer sentences. Post-reading - T hangs a cardboard and gets sts to do T/F exercises in pairs. - T asks some pairs to write their answers on the board. - T gives answer keys and corrects them. - Doing the exercise in pairs. - Answering the questions. - Correcting the mistakes. 6 Feed-back - T asks. For the false statements T asks sts to give the correct ones. - Giving the correct statements. Consolidatio n - T gives some questions about Malaysia: 1. Is Malaysia one of the countries of the ASEAN? 2. How many regions are there? 3. Is Kuala Lumpur the largest city in the country? 4. Which language is taught on secondary school? 5. What’s the weather like in Malaysia? - Answering the questions. Homework - Learning the new words by heart. - Rereading the passage. 7 UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL Lesson 4: Write (45 min) I. Aims: Sts can practice the skill of writing a letter (a normal letter and a friendly letter) II. Teaching aids: Pictures of some places of interest ( Hoan Kiem Lake, West Lake, London Bridge, etc), Overhead, projector. III. Teaching steps: Steps Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Warm-up - T introduces the topic of the lesson by telling the sts his/her trip. Then T ask sts some questions: a. When did you go last summer? b. Do you have any relatives? c. Have you ever visited them? d. Could you tell us about your trip? - Answering the questions. Presentation - T reads a sample letter. - T guides sts how to write a letter (address, heading, body, closing, signature…) - Listening to the teacher. Practice - T has some sts read their letters in front of the class. - T corrects the mistakes. - Sts read the outline, pay attention to he content of each part. - Sts base on the outline and teacher’s instructions and write a letter. - Sts discuss in groups and write letters by themselves. Consolidation - How to write a friendly letter Homework - Sts write letters to invite their friends to their places where they are living, tell them what they’ll do, what food they’ll eat … 8 UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL Lesson 5: Language focus (45 min) I. Objectives: Students can retell their preparations before a special occasion and express their wish. II. Language content: Grammar: Revision: - Past simple. - Wish sentence. III. Technique: Question – Answer. IV. Teaching aid: Pictures, colored chalk. V. Procedure: Teacher’s activities Student’s activities Past simple (page 11) Exercise 1 page 11 Exercise 2 page 12 - Creating the situation by asking some questions: 1. Where was Mary am last week? 2. What did she do in her first day in HN ? - Asking the students to pick out the tenses in 2 answers. - Having some students give the formation of past simple tense. - Asking the students to do pair word (exercise 1) - Having some pairs present in front of the class. - Having the students do group work and the quickest group present their key on the board. - Answering the T/s questions. 1. She was in HN 2. Lan took her to HOAN KIEM lake. 1. What did Lan do on the Weekend? - She went to the concert. 2. When did she go there? - She went there on Saturday at 8pm. Exercise 2: - Lan made a cake 9 Exercise 3 page 12 The past simple with wish: S1 V1 S2 V2 I wish you had a longer vacation. S1 V1 S2 V2 I wish I had more time. S1 + WISH S2 + verb _be (were) _/v(past) Consolidation Homework - Creating the situation by asking questions: “What did Lan say to Mary am at the end of the week?” - Asking the students to analyze the sentence. - Having the students withdraw conclusion. - Asking the sts to do exercise 3 page 12 (group work) - Having some of the sts write their sentences on the blackboard. - Giving comments or corrects the mistakes if necessary. - Asking the sts to give the formation of wish sentence. - Asking the sts to write five wish sentences. - Tan hang colorful lamps. - They bought flowers. - Huy paint a picture of HN - They went shopping. Exercise 3: - “ I wish you had a longer vacation” - Wish sentence => a complex sentence. - Verb is used in the past subjunctive. Exercise 3: a. I wish I were taller b. I wish it were not so hot c. I wish I had a computer d. I wish I didn’t do it’s. 10 [...]... page 23 and decide which is true and which is false (pair work) - Giving feedback: 1 F ( Ba and his family had a day trip to there home village) 2T 3 F (There is a big old banyan tree at the entrance to the village) 4 F ( People had a snack under the banyan tree) 5T 6 F ( People had a picnic on the river bank) 7T 8 F (Liz had a lot of photos to show her parent) 9T - Having Ss work in pairs to answer... Reading the text aloud - Doing taks B in pairs - Calling some students to answer the - Listening to the keys questions before class - Correcting their answers - Correcting their answers by giving them key Do you like wearing Jeans? Where do jeans come from? Who are now often wearing Jeans? Why? - Doing exercise 8, 9 workbook (page 18, 19) 19 UNIT 2: CLOTHING Lesson 5: Write (45 min) I Objectives: 1 Competencies:... the new reading by asking some questions: 1 Do you know jeans? 2 Do you like wearing jeans? 3 Who loves wearing jeans? 4 When did jeans appear for the first time? - Encouraging the students make some questions about jeans: “What do you want about jeans?” question for elicit - Having scanning: (task 1) - Reading quickly to find down the new words and the information (page 17) - Introduction some vocabularies... able to - Understand the text in details - Develop reading skill II Language contents: 1 Grammar: 2 Vocabulary: - Exchange students – grow maize – grocery store - baseball III Technique: Question – Answer IV Teaching aids: Pictures, cards V Time: 45 minutes Steps Warm-up Pre-reading While-reading Activities - Asking Ss “exchange students” means - Introducing the text: Van is an exchange student He is... new words: home village, bamboo forest, banyan tree, shrine, river - Asking Ss read the text and answer the questions: a What did Ba, Liz and his family do on their journey to his home village? b What did Liz think of the trip? * Answers: a They visited Ba’s uncle, walked up the mountain to visit a shrine, went boarding in the river and had a picnic on the riverbank b Liz enjoyed the trip very much, she... 10 member - Correcting their mistakes Post-reading - Asking Ss to work in pair One is Van who has just come back from the USA The other is a student who is going to the USA as an exchange student A: Hi, Van I’m going to the USA next month as an exchange student I want to know what o should do when I’m in the USA Can you help me? B: Sure Where are you going to stay? A: I’m going to stay with The Browns... “A country picnic” - Ask Ss to use the picture and cues to write the passage: It was a beautiful day, my friends and I decided to go on a picnic We took 30 a bus to the countryside and then walked about 20 minutes to the picnic site next to the river We put down the blanket and laid out the food After meal we played the games “What song is it?” and blind man’s buff Late in the afternoon we went fishing... things and ran to the bus stop We were lucky to catch the last bus and we arrived home very late in the evening Post writing - Ask Ss to compare with their partner and correct if they can - Choose some writings to correct in front of the class Homework: - Write their passage in the notebook - Prepare next lesson: Unit 3/Lesson 6: Language Focus 31 UNIT 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 6: LANGUAGE... between Lan and Paola on Page 32-33 ad check if their answer are correct or not * Answers: 1 They are difficult (according to Lan) 2 About over 7 questions Besides, she was asked to read a passage II True- False statements: - Get students to read to list of questions for the oral examination of Royal English College - Get them to read to dialogue again and decide what questions that the examiner asked Lan... pairs - Identifying the appropriate argumentative language - Reading the topic and outline a and the model passage, the highlight the sequence words - Answering the questions - Listening to the explanations, 20 equal in, be proud of, bear one’s name, freedom of choice, selfconfident) Whilereading - Letting them read the outline B - Giving them the meaning of some words: feel comfortable, freedom of . Ben Thanh market. * Listen and read - Introducing the situation of the passage: Rizal Mary is, Lan’s pen pal visited her for the fist time and Lan took. like wearing Jeans? Where do jeans come from? Who are now often wearing Jeans? Why? Homework - Doing exercise 8, 9 workbook (page 18, 19) 19 UNIT 2: CLOTHING