Before you read: 8 minutes Aims: To provide students with words/phrases about historical places.. Ask 4-5 students to read all the word/phrases aloud in front of the class 1 student/ 1 t
Trang 1UNIT 16: HISTORICAL PLACES UNIT 16 - LESSON 1: A READING
Planning date:
Teaching date:
I Objectives:
1 Education aim: Sts know about Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam.
2 Knowledge: a General knowledge: Sts can talk about Van Mieu – Quoc Tu
Giam
b Language: Sts can recall more about:
- The simple past tense
- Vocabulary to talk about historical places
3 Skills: - Reading for general ideas and specific information
- Choosing the best suitable words and guessing in context
- Deciding on True or False statements
- Discussing in group
II Teaching aids: Textbook, blackboard, chalk, …
III Anticipated problems: Students may not have sufficient words to talk about the
topic
IV Procedure
1 Warm-up: Network (5minutes)
- Ask students to work in groups of 3-4 students
- Ask the students to name some historical places in Vietnam
- After 2 minutes, the group which has the longest list will be the
winner
2 Before you read: (8 minutes)
Aims: To provide students with words/phrases about historical
places.
Students are required to work in pairs to answer the questions in
the textbook
- Go around to offer help S
- Ask some S to answer the questions
- Listen and help S to give correct answers
Suggested answers:
1 Co Loa Citadel Hoa Lu Capital Con- Son- Kiep Bac Site
Den Hung Remains, Quang Tri Citadel, Hue Imperial City Hoi An
City, etc
2 Yes, it is It is the first university of Vietnam
3 Van Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam was founded in 1070 by the Ly
Dynastry It is one of the most visited places in Hanoi
- Give S some new words:
* The new words/phrases are:
+ Confucian ( a): o
+ engrave ( v):
+ stelae ( n):
+ banyan trees ( n):
- Work in groups
- Work in pairs
- Some S answer the questions
- Read after the T and
Trang 2+ tortoise ( n):
Read each word/phrase 3 times and ask the students to repeat it
Ask 4-5 students to read all the word/phrases aloud in front of the
class (1 student/ 1 time)
Listen and help the students to read the words/phrases correctly
3 While you read: (20 minutes)
Aims: Read for information to do the task, and do the tasks.
Task 1: Guesing in context
- Ask the students to read the passage indepently then find the
italicised words in task 1
- Write these words on board:
Originally, representative, memorialise, engrave, flourish.
- Ask S to go back to the text to locate and underline these words and
try to guess the meanings
- T might want to check that S understand all these words by
callingon some S to tell the meanings in Vietnamese
- S are required to compare their answers with their partner
- Call on students to read and explain their answers aloud in front of
the class
- Feedback and give correct answers:
* Key:
Task 2: Deciding on True or False statement
- Ask S read the text more carefully and decide whether the
statements are true (T) or false (F) Correct the false information
- Ask s to do the task individually and then check their answers with
their friend
- Ask some representatives to give their choice orally in front of the
class and explain their answers
- Listen and help S to give the right answer
Answer:
1 F (it was built in 1070) 2 T
3 F (from 11 th century to 18 th century)
4 F (it is an example of well- preseved traditional Vietnamese
architecture) 5 T 6 T
4 After you read: (10 minutes)
Aims: S can talk briefly about Van Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam.
- Ask S to work in groups of 3 or 4 and prepare a talk about Van
Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam, using the suggestions in the textbook
- Go round to help the students with their work
- Ask some S to talk in front of the class and give feedback
Suggested talk:
Van Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam is a historical and cultural relic of
Vietnam, which attracts a great number of visitors every year Van
Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam was built originally by the Ly dynasty in 1070
in Hanoi Quoc Tu Giam was considered the first university of
then read individually
- Listen and take notes
Work individually
- Some S do the task orally while others listen
- Read the text and do the task individually
- Check the answers with
a partner
- Some S present
- Listen to the T
- Work in groups
- S take turn to talk about Van Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam
Trang 3Vietnam, which was established on the grounds of Vietnam Royal exams used to take place here and the first comers were honoured by having their names carved on the stone stelae These talae were carried on the backs of giant tortoises, which can still be seen today.
5 Homework: (2 minutes)
- Write a passage about Van Mieu- Quoc Tu Giam