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UNIT 1: MYFRIENDS

I Aim

Helping students:

- to introduce people

- to respond to introdutions

- to dicrible 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 infinitives

3 Attributive and predicative adjectives

III Vocabulary

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IV Unit Allocation

Lesson 1 Listen and read 1 – 2Language focus 1

Reading for details a conversation and revision of simple present and simple past tense

Lesson 2 Read 1-2Getting started Reading a text for details about Bafriends ’s Lesson 3 Speak 1 -2Listen a-b-c-d

Listening for details to complete the dialogue and practice in describing someone

Lesson 4 Write 1 -2Language focus 3 Writing about oneself and about other people Lesson 5 Language focus 2 - 4 Futher practice in Simple Present and Not Adj + enough + to - infinitive

Week:… The date of preparing:…/…./2009

Lesson 1

I Aim:

Reading the dialogue for details and revision of simple present and sim past tenses

II Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa – Lan –Nien and to review simple present and sim past tenses

III Teaching aids:

Text book, cards

PROCEDURE

A Warm up

* Pelmanism

- Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other ( Group

work)

- Make sure the verbs are mixed up Stick the card on the board so students can only see the numbers

- Divide students intro to teams and ask them to choose two number

- 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

B Pre-reading

* Pre- teach vocabulary

- to seem (translation)

- a next door neighbor (eplanation: a person who live next to your house)

- to look like: (translation)

* Checking vocabulary: rub out and remember

- Rub out the new words one at a time

- Each time you rub out an english word, point to the Vietnamese translation and ask “what’s this English?”

- When all the English words are rubbed out, go through the Vietnamese list and get students to call the English words again

* Pre – questions

- 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 beautiful girl?

- Give feedback

- Ask student to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan and Nien on page 10 and check if there answers are correct or not

* Answers:

While reading

Comprehension questions

- Ask student to read the dialogue again answers the questions in exercise 2 on page

11 (work in pairs )

a Where does Nien live?

b Does Lan know Nien?

c Which sentence tell you that Hoa is older than Nien?

d When is Nien going visit Hoa?

* Answers:

Gap – filling

- Ask student simple present and simple past tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16

- Provide some verbs so that students can you them to fill in the gaps

- live (2) – send – be (2) – come

than Hoa She (6) to hanoi in December.”

* Answers:

- Ask student to work individually and then compare their answers with their partners’

- Give feedback

Post reading

* Writing:

- Ask student to write a paragraph about hoa and Lan

- Give student some cues and ask them to use the simple present or siple past tense

to write individually

* Cues:

a Lan / Hoa best friend

b They / 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 answer and correct them infront of the class

III Homework

- Ask student to do exercise 1(a); 1(b) on their notebooks

IV Comments

Week:… The date of preparing:…/ /2009

Period:… The teaching:…/ /2009

Lesson 2

I Aim:

Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someon

II Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be aple to describe someon and complete the dialogue by listening

III Teaching aids:

Text book, pictures

PROCEDURE

A Warm up

* Brainstorming:

- Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe body build and hair

* poissible answers:

- short

black/dark

grey

B Presentation

Body build

hair

- Show students a picture of Mary and ask them to describe her hair, her body build

Ex: She has long blond hair

She is short and thin

Form:

S + have / has + adjectives + hair

S + be + adjectives

C Practice

* Word cue drill

- Prepare 6 cards so that students can drill easily

* Practice speaking

- Show the poster of six people / or ask student to look at six people on page 11-12

- Call on students to describe on person, the other have to guess who he/she is

Example:

S1: This person is short and thin She has long blond hair

S2: Is this Mary?

Yes

- Go on untill six people on the poster are described

- If there time, ask students to describe a famous person or on of their classmates and their friends have to guess

D Pre – listening

- 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

- Let students listen to the tape twice

- Get students to workin pairs to complete the dialogue and compaire with their prediction

While listening

Post listening

- Call 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)

Lesson 3

I Aim:

Reading for specific information

II Objective:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more Ba’s friend

III Teaching aids:

PROCEDURE Warm up

*Chatting:

- Ask student look at four pictures on page 10 and talk about the activitives they want to do after school or in their free time

( play soccer / play chess / rea books / play vollay ball )

( in the morning/ evening, after school )

Pre - reading

* Pre-teach vocabulary:

- a character: ( translation )

- an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children without parets live)

- reserved (adj) ( Translation )

- sociable (adj)

- (to) tell jokes: (explaation: tell a story which makes people laugh )

- sense of homor ( translation )

* checking vocabulary: what and where

- Write the word on the board, put one word in each circle

reserv

ed

sociabl e character

- Have students repeat the words in chorus then rub out word by word but leave the cicles

- Go on untill all the words are rubbed out

- point to each cicles and ask students to repeat chorally the Eglish words Ask students to go the board and write the words again in the correct cicles

* T/F statements prediction

- Stick the poster of T/F statement on the board

- Set the scene: These statement are about Ba and his friends, read them and guess which statements are true, which are false

- Get student to work in pairs

a Ba only has three friends – Bao, Song, Khai

b Ba abd his friends have the same

c Bao – Song – Khai are quite reserved in public

d They all enjoy school and study hard

- Give feedback

- Ask students to open their books and rea the tex on page 13

- Let students check their prediction

a

b

c

d

F F F T

- Ask students to correct fale 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

* Multiple choice

- Get students to do exercise 1 on page 14

- Ask them to Work in pairs to choose the best answers

* Answers:

* Comprehension questions

- Ask students to Work in pairs to do exercise 2 on page 14

- Let students read the text again and answer the question

* Question and answers:

Post reading

- Call on some pairs of students to ask and answer the questions Teacher corrects their pronunciation

- Ask on students to work in closed pairs

- Ask on students to work in groups and talk to one another about their friends, using the adjectives they have just learnt to describe

IV Homework

- Ask each students to write a paragraph ( about 50 words ) about one close friend

V Comments