Unit 4: Our past

   * Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: + talk about things they used to do in the past.. * Teaching procedure: Warm-up - Asks students to work in 2 grou

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Date of preparation: 07/10/2009

Date of teaching: 08/10/2009

Period 21: Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 1: Getting started.

Listen and read.

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*) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

+ talk about things they used to do in the past

+ read the dialogue about the life of many years ago

*) Language focus: - Vocabulary: look after, modern equipment, great-grandmother,

folktale,light lamp

- Grammar / Structure: be used to

*) Language skills: listening, reading

*) Teaching aids: text book, pictures

*) Teaching procedure:

Warm-up - Asks students to work in 2 groups:

go to the board and write names of furnitures in the house

- Feedback and corrects the mistakes

*Net works:

- Work in 2 groups: go to the board and write names of furnitures in the house

*Possible answers:

Television, refrigerator, telephone, lamp, stereo, couch, chairs, clock…

Presentation

- Show Ss the picture and ask them

to identify the things that do not belong to the past

- “About 100 years ago we couldn’t

I Getting started:

Look at the picture Write the names of

the things that do not belong to the past.

- Discuss with the partner to say the things that do not belong to the

past (about 100 years ago)

Furniture in your house

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see TV,mobile phone,uniform,stereo, lighting fixture”

? Do you have a mobile phone?

? Do you have school uniform?

- Sets the scene: Sticks a picture and ask some questions to introduce the lesson

? Who is this?

? Is this her grand-mother?

“Now listen to the tape.There were

some activities we often did in the past but now we didn’t do them any more Today we are going to listen the conversation between Nga and her grandma Can you guess what they are talking about?”

-synonym

- example

- antonym

- example:washing machine, electric fan,computer

- explanation

- example: Tam cam

- Read new wrods and gets students

to follow

- Elicits from students

- Introduces grammar notes

*Keys: mobile phone, uniform, TV, stereo,

lightingfixture, modern clothing, school uniform

II Listen and read:

- Listen to the tape

1 Vocabulary:

+ look after (v) = take care of: chăm sóc

+ sound (v): nghe nh

+ modern (a) ≠ ancient(a): hiện đại

+ equipment (n): trang thiết bị

+ great-grandma(n): grandma’s mother + folktale(n): truyện dân gian

- Read after teacher

*) Checking vocab: “Slap the board”

2 Presentation the dialogue:

*) Model sentences:

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⇒ Form: S + used to + V + O

Note: when we want to talk about things

happened repeatedly in the past but don’t happen now or have changed

Practice

- Asks students to work in pairs:

read the dialogue with their partners

- Feedback and correct the mistakes

- Answer the questions about the dialogue

- Feedback and correct the mistakes

- Explains the meaning of fact and Opinion

Fact : This flower is red Opinion : I don’t like this flower

- Work in groups: read the statement and decide which is fact /opinion

3 Practice the dialogue with a partner:

- Work in pairs: read the dialogue with

their partners

4 Comprehension questions:

- Answer the questions about the dialogue

*) Answer keys:

a She used to live on the farm

b Because she had to stay at home and help her mom

c She used to cook the meal, clean the house and wash the clothes

d Her great-grandmother used to light the lamp and her great-grandfather used to tell them stories

e Nga asked her grandmother to tell her the tale:“The Lost Shoe”

5 Fact or opinion? Check the (√ ) the boxes.

- Listen

- Work in groups: read the statement and decide which is fact /opinion

*) Answer keys:

a) Fact b) Fact c) Fact d) Fact e) Opinion f) Opinion

Further - Asks students to use phrases to *Ask Ss to say what they used / didn’t

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practice say what they used/didn’t use to do

when they were younger children

use to do when they were younger children

Example: when I was a girl, I used to skip Now I can’t skip any more

+ cry at night + take a bath in the rain + eat too much candy

Homework - Asks students to:

+ Learn the new words by heart

+ Finish all exercises in the work book

- Write exercises

Lesson 2: Speak & Listen.

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*) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

+ use“used to”to talk about the life in the past and what they used to do

+ talk the differences between the life in the past and now

+ understand the main idea of the story by listening

*) Language focus: - Vocabulary: foolish, amazement, gold, lay eggs

- Grammar / Structure: + simple present tense

+ prepositions of place

+ modal verbs

*) Language skills: speaking, listening

Stages Teacher's activities Student's activities

Warm-up - Prepares 10 cards with numbers on

one side and the verbs on the other side

- Sticks the cards on the board so that the students can only see the numbers, make sure the verbs are mixed up

- Turns the cards over if they match

If not, turn the cards over again

Continue until all the cards are finished

*) Pelmanism:

run ran fly flew ride rode eat ate sit sat

*Keys:

run eat fly sit ride ran ate flew sat rode

Pre-speaking

- example: a cock can not lay eggs but Hoa thinks that it can lay eggs She isfoolish

- translation

- Example: A hen is laying egg

- translation

- Read the new words and gets the students to follow

1 New words:

+ foolish (adj):ngí ngÈn

+ amazement(n):kinh ng¹c

+ gold (n): vµng

+ lay eggs (v):

+ moral lesson (n):

- Reads after teacher

*) Checking vocabulary: “Rub out and remember”

While-speaking

2.Look at the pictures.Talk about the way things used to be and the way they

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- Stick 2 pictures on board and guides students to do the task

- Feedback and answer keys

? Where did people live in the past?

And now?

? How did they travel?

? What’s about electricity?

? What’s about their life / work?

? Did children use to go to scholl?

? What’s about entertainment?

“Along with development of science and technology Do our life get more and more comfortable comparing with life in the past?”

are now

- Work in groups:look at 2 pictures Using ”used to” to talk about the actions in the past

- Work in pairs Ask the partner the questions

*Keys:

- People used to live in a small house, but now they live in big house or tall building

- Long ago, people travel on foot, but now they travel by car, by motorbike

- There didn’t use to be electricity in the home,but now there is enough electricity every wher

- People used to work hard, but now they have a lot of time for entertainment

- In the past, children stayed at home, but now they go to school

- People used to watch black and white

TV, but now they can watch colored TV

- There didn’t use to be facilitites such as: school, hospitals, hotels, markets …but now there are enough facilitites for us to live on

- There didn’t use to be telephones, telegraph lines, internet services but now there are telephones,telegraph lines, internet services available for

us to use

Post-speaking - Sets a scence: There are a lot of

Vietnamese folktales which have

3 Listening:

- Listen to the tape and decide the statement is the most suitable moral

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precious moral lessons We are going

to listen to one of those stories You listen to it and decide the statement

is the most suitable moral lesson

- Explains 4 moral lessons in the book then ask them to listen to the tape and tick which one about the story

- Asks stuidents to work in groups:

listen to the tape and write the the verbs in the story:

lesson

*) Answer key:

b Don’t be foolish and greedy

*) Find out the verbs in the story:

- Work in groups:listen to the tape and write the the verbs in the story: + went + were

+ discovered + ran + laid + looked + shouted + wanted + finished +decided + couldn’t

Homework - Asks students to:

+ Prepare: ”Read”

- Write exercises

*) Tape transcript:

Once a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family His chicken laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing for his family One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg His wife ran to him and they both looked at the eggs in amazement The wife wanted more, so her husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more gold eggs Unfortunately,he couldn’t finf any eggswhen he finished all,the chicken were dead There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish

farmer and his greedy wanted wife

Lesson 3: Read.

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*) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read for details to

understand the story “The Lost Shoe” and to answer the questions about the

story

*) Language focus: - Vocabulary: cruel, upset, magical, fairy, rag, marry, own

- Grammar / Structure: The simple past tense

*) Language skills: reading

Warm-up - Prepare 10 cards with numbers on

one side and the verbs on the other side

- Sticks the cards on the board so that the students can only see the numbers, make sure the verbs are mixed up

- Turns the cards over if they match

If not, turn the cards over again

Continue until all the cards are finished

- Asks students to work in groups: say the names of the foltales they know

- “Today you’ll read this foltale It’s

“The lost shoe” Can you guess: How many characters there are in the story?

How does the story end?”

*) Pelmanism:

have had come came go went lose lost find found

*Keys:

have lose come go find had lost came went found

- Work in groups: say the names of the foltales they know

*Name some foltales:

+Tam Cam

+ One-hundred-section bamboo + Chicken lay gold eggs + Snow White and seven dwarfs + Seven-mile shoes

+ The frog prince + The lost shoe

Pre-reading - explanation

- explanation

- antonym

- translation

1 New words:

+ die (v):to stop living

+ marry (v): to take someone as a husband /a wife

+ cruel (adj): extremely unkind (a) + upset (adj) ≠ sad (a)

+ a broken heart:

+ fairy (adj):

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- antonym

- translation

- Reads and gets studentst o follow

- Share Ss handouts and guide them to

do the task

- Asks students to work in groups: read the statements and decide which is true/false

+ prince (n) ≠ princess (n):

+ fall in love with someone:

*) Checking vocabulary: “Slap the board”

2 True / false statement prediction:

- Work in groups:read the statements and decide which is true / false

a Little Pea’father is a rich farmer

b Her father got married again after his wife died

c Her new mother was very kind to her

d She worked hard all day

e She didn’t have new clothes to take part in thefestival

f The story has an unhappy ending

While-reading - Asks students to read the story and

check their predictions

- Feedback and corrects mistakes

- Share srudents handouts and guides them to do the task

- Asks stuents to work in groups: read the passage and complete the sentences suitable with information in the text

2 Checking prediction:

a F Little Pea’father is a poor farmer

b T

c F Her new mother was very cruel to her

d T

e F The story has an happy ending

3 Complete the sentences with words from the story:

- Work in groups: read the passage and complete the sentences suitable with information in the text

*) Answer keys:

a a poor farmer / a farmer

b died

c used/again

d choose/marry

e new clothes

f lost

Post-reading - Explain the questions then give

4 Answer the questions and write the answer in your exercise book.

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students the multiple choice exercise

- Feed back - correct and give the right answers

a Little Pea was a…

A poor farmer‘s daughter

B fairy

C Stout Nut’s mother

b Stout Nut’s mother made Little Pea

A play with Stout Nut

B go to the festival

C do the chores all day c…… magically changed her rags beautiful clothes

A Her father

B Stout Nut

C A fairy

d The Prince decided to marry

A the girl who owned the shoe

B the fairy

C Stout Nut’s mother

Homework - Asks students to:

+ Prepare:”Write”

-Write exercises

Lesson 4: Write

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*) Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a short imaginary story

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“How the tiger got his strips”

*) Language focus: - Vocabulary: wisdom, strip, straw, servant, to escape, to graze, to light

- Grammar / Structure: The simple past tense

*) Language skills: writing

*) Teaching aids: text book, pictures, extra board

Stages Teacher's activities Student's activities

Warm-up

- Asks students some questions:

? Do you like to read imaginary stories?

? Name some of them?

? Which story do you like best?

? Have you read the story “How the tige got his strips”

*Chatting:

- Listen and answer the questions one

by one

Pre-writing - Sticks a picture of tiger and ask

students some questions:

? Which animal is it ?

? Do you know which folktale is about the tiger?

? Do you know why the tigers have black stripes ?

- explanation

- antonym -explanation

- explanation

- picture (real things)

- Reads and gets students to follow

- “We are going to read a folktale about the tiger Firstly you use the verbs in the box to complete the story

- Look at the picture of the tiger and answer the questions

1 New words:

+ graze (v): to feed on grass + servant (n)≠master (n) + wisdom (n):good knowledge

+ escape (v):to get free from something

+ tie (n):to fasten + straw (n):

*) Checking vocabulary: “Slap the board”

2 Complete the story Use the verbs

in the box.

- Work in groups then share the answers with the other groups to check

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- Asks Ss some questions about the text:

a Where was the man?

b What did the buffalo do when the tiger appeared?

c What did the tiger want to know?

d What did the man do before going home?Why?

e What did he do when he returned?

*) Answer keys:

1 appeared 6 tied

2 was 7 lit

3 said 8 burned

4 left 9 escaped

5 went

3 Comprehension questions:

- Listen and answer the questions

While-writing

- “You have to imagine to be a man in order to write the story”

2 Imagine you are the man Use the words to write the story Start like this:

- Exchange person

Once day as I was in the field and ……

*Notes: The man I His my

- Work in 4 groups: write the story Using the word cues

Post-writing

*) Possible answers : Once day as I was in the field and my buffalo was grazing nearby.A tiger appeared.The tiger wanted to know why the strong buffalo was a servant and I was its master.I told the tiger that I have some things called wisdom The tiger wanted to see it, but I told it I left it at home.Then I tied the tiger to

a tree with a rope because I didn’t want it to eat my buffalo.I went to get some straw that I said was my wisdom

I lit the straw and the fire burned

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