7 | Talking about a party Whole class — T asks the class if they like parties and why to lead Ss to the topic.. TASK 2 7 |-T puts Ss in pairs and gets them to tell each other about | Pa
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12 Go ona Go somewhere with your boyfriend or girlfriend
13 What cupid shoots
14 Present
15 Something a poet writes
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1 A day for love
2 in love Start to love someone
3 The flower of love
7 Valentine's Day color
9 The symbol of love
10 People often exchange these on
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I Objectives
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
— Use appropriate language to talk about parties and negotiate how to plan
Ss may have little experience negotiating in English, so T should be ready
to provide them with appropriate language to do so
7 | Talking about a party Whole class
— T asks the class if they like parties and why to lead Ss
to the topic Then T asks if they have ever been to a party
If Ss say yes, T asks follow-up questions like "Whose
party was it?", "On what occasion?", "Where was it?"
"Was it fun?” etc T helps Ss to answer the questions by
providing them appropriate vocabulary and expressions
(if no Ss have ever been to a party, T might want to get Ss
to ask him / her about a part he / she has been to)
— Then T sets the scene: "Supposed you have been to a
party and now you want to tell your friends about it What
do you want to tell them?"
— T elicits Ss' ideas and writes on the board:
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Who? Who gave the party?
What? What exactly was it about? A_ family
gathering? A social party? etc
Where? Where did it take place? Was it a nice
place?
When? When did it take place? What time did it
start and end?
Why? On what occasion was the party held? Why
was it held? For whom? etc
How? How was it organized? How did it go? What
activities did you do there? Did you have a good time? How were the people like? What about music? What about foods and drinks?
a birthday / housewarming party
a family / social gathering
a potluck dinner (dinner to which people bring foods to
be shared)
to party
to throw / give a party
to celebrate one's birthday / wedding anniversary /
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to bring your own (B.Y.O) (to bring your own drinks)
to bring a plate (to bring food to share with others)
— T gets Ss to make sentences with these words / phrases
—T introduces the topic: talking about parties
TASK 1
7 | — T introduces the task and goes over the questions with | Individual the class T explains new words if necessary work
— T gets Ss to do the task individually Ss need to choose
the details they want to talk about and plan their stories T
encourages Ss to take notes while doing so
— T goes around the class to check and offer help
TASK 2
7 |-T puts Ss in pairs and gets them to tell each other about | Pair work the parties they have been to, based on the outlines they & Tế
class
have made for Task 1
— In the meantime, T goes around to check and offer help
— T calls on some pairs to perform their conversations in
front of the class
—T elicits feedback from the class and gives final
comments
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Work
Task 3 for the answers and while pooling their ideas, T
write them on the board:
Where? Entertainment?
(date & time) restaurant?) music?
games?)
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codes (how much to
(ormar’ | Planning spend? how
informal’ a part much to
costumes?) pany contribute?)
invite? Decorations drinks? (cook
(family? (colored light our own or
relatives? bulbs? order?
friends? flowers? vegetarian
classmates? foods?)
teachers)
—T elicits or teaches necessary vocabulary items like
those in the above boxes
— T elicits or teachers useful expressions for negotiating,
1.e asking for and giving opinions, expressing agreements
and disagreements, suggesting and stating preferences
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Asking for opinions Giving opinions
What do you think about ?
What's your opinion about ?
How do you feel about ?
Do you have any opinions
about ?
I'm thinking about
(ordering some pizzas)
I agree Well, maybe, but
I think so, too That might be true, but
Well, my feeling is that
Would it be a good idea if ?
That's right, and Well, I don't think so I think
Suggesting Stating preferences
Maybe we could Perhaps I would prefer
Perhaps we can I'd rather
Maybe (pizzas) could be
a better choice
I would go for (ordering
What about ? food)
— T gives examples and gets Ss to do some practice with
these expressions
— Now T divides the class into small groups of 3 or 4 and
gets them to do Task 3, which is planning a party in the
best way they can for a party competition In groups, Ss
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will negotiate in order to come up with a plan for their
parties
— T goes around to check and offer help While doing so,
T listens and takes note of their errors T provides
corrective feedback when necessary
— After checking that all the groups have finished Task 3,
T introduces Task 4: Ss informing of their coming parties
and inviting people to come
— T elicits the verb tenses and structures Ss might want to
use when informing the class about their coming parties
(i.e future with "going to", "plan to do something",
"intend to do something", "expect to do something") T
gives examples and gets Ss do some practice with the
structures E.g.:
We're planning to have a famous students' music band
play in our party
We're expecting 200 people to come and have fun with us
Etc
—T elicits or teaches expressions for inviting and
persuading E.g
Would you like to come ?
We would love to have you
We welcome your presence
Please do come
It’s our pleasure to invite you
You don't know what you'll miss out on if you don't come
etc
— T gets Ss do some practice with these structures
Group work
& whole class
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— Then T calls on the representative of each group to
report about the parties that they have planned T gets
other groups to take notes while listening to their peers
and after all groups have finished, T gets the class to
decide which parties would be most attractive and they
would most love to come to
— While Ss are speaking, T listens and takes note of their
errors T provides corrective feedback after that
— T summarises the main points of the lesson
— For homework, Ss write a paragraph about a party they
have been to
Period 3: LISTENING
I Objectives
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
Develop such listening micro-skills as intensive listening for specific information
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— T divides the board into as many sections as the number
of groups is When time is up, T calls on the
representative of each group to come to the board and
write their list Then T gets the whole class to count Each
correct word gets one point Which group has more points
wins the game
Suggested words:
age, balloon, birthday, blow out, cake, candle, cards,
candy, cookies, chocolate, confetti, decorations, gift /
present, icing, flowers, fun, party, song, etc
— T gets Ss to cover their books and shows them the| & whole pictures in the book, then asks them to guess what they are class
going to listen about T gives feedback and gets them to
open their books
— T gets Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions on
— T helps Ss to pronounce the words on page 36 correctly
T may want to play the tape or model first and then ask Ss
to repeat after the tape or after him / her in chorus and
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— T presents or elicits the meanings of these words from
the class
WHILE YOU LISTEN TASK 1
10' | Instruction: You are going to listen to a girl telling about | Individual
a birthday party that she has been to Listen and answer | work, pair True or False questions Put a tick (“) in the appropriate work &
— Before Ss listen and do the task, T gets them to read
through the statements to understand them and underline
key words For example, the key words in the first
statement are "at home" and "evening"
— T checks with the whole class and asks them to guess
what the party might have been like (there was a birthday
cake, the party lasted some hours, etc.)
— T plays the tape (or reads the tapescript) once for Ss to
listen and do the task
— Then T gets Ss to find a partner to check their answers
with
— T checks the answers with the whole class If many Ss
cannot answer the questions, T plays the tape one or two
more times and pauses at the answers for them to catch
Answers:
1 F (the party began at about 3 in the afternoon)
2 F (over 20)
3 F (at 4:30 they cut the cake)
4 T (the party ended at about 6)
5 F (other kids left, only one stayed to help)
TASK 2
10' | Instruction: You are going to listen to the story again and | Individual
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— T checks if Ss can answer the questions in Task 2
without listening again If they cannot, T plays the tape for
them to listen again but before doing this, T should
encourage Ss to read through all the questions, identify the
information they need to look for in each question (by
finding the key words and the question word, e.g "what',
"why', "when", "how", etc.) and if possible, predict the
answers
— Then T plays the tape again for Ss to listen and answer
the questions While Ss are listening, T should encourage
them to note down the answers T should remind Ss to
write down only the main points in note forms but not full
sentences
— T gets Ss to check their answers with a partner Then T
checks with the whole class T should play the tape again
and pause at difficult points if many Ss cannot complete
the task
Answer:
1 16
2 Because it's noisy and expensive
3 Soft drink and biscuits
4 At about 4:30
5 It was beautifully decorated with white and pink icing
and 16 colorful candles in the middle
6 They clapped their hands eagerly and sang "Happy
birthday"
7 At about 6
Tapescript:
Mai is my neighbour She turned 16 recently and her
parents held a birthday party for her I was one of those
work & whole class
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The party began at about 3 in the afternoon There were
about 20 of us gathering in Mai’s house She didn't like
having the party at a restaurant because it is noisy and
expensive
We gave presents to Mai and she happily opened them It
must really be exciting to receive all those presents After
that Mai’s mother served us soft drinks and biscuits We
then listened to music and played cards The winners were
given prizes At about four thirty Mai's mother brought
out the birthday cake It was beautifully decorated with
pink and white icing Sixteen colourful candles sat in the
middle of the cake We all clapped our hands eagerly and
sang "Happy birthday" as she blew out the candles and
cut the cake We helped ourselves to slices of the delicious
cake and sang all the songs that we knew
Finally, at about six in the evening the party came to an
end We were all tired but happy The parents of other
children came to collect them by motor bikes I helped
Mai and her mother clean up the mess we had made After
that I walked home, which was only 3 doors away
— T puts Ss in pairs and introduces the task: "Supposed
that Mai is your common friend Yesterday was her
birthday but one of you couldn't come Now you ask the
other person about Mai's party"
— T distributes the following handouts for Ss to do the role
play T reminds them to use the correct verb tense In the
mean time, T goes around to check and offer help
— After checking that all Ss have finished, T calls on some
pairs to perform the role play in front of the class T elicits
feedback from the class and gives final comments Pair work
& whole class
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birthday Ask about: Mai's birthday party Use
the following information:
— Place where the party was —It was held at Mai's
held place
— When it began and ended — It lasted about 3 hours
— What you did there — About 20 guests came
Add more questions as you ~ Mai opened gifts, you
cake
Add more information as you like
WRAPPING UP 3’ | — T summarises the main points of the lesson Whole class
— For homework, Ss write a paragraph about their own
birthday parties
EXTRA ACTIVITY
Read the text and answer the questions that follow:
How did the tradition of birthday parties start?
Birthday parties are always among the highlights of a child's year, but did you ever wonder how the tradition of birthday parties started?
The tradition of birthday parties started in Europe a long time ago It was feared that evil spirits were particularly attracted to people on their birthdays To protect them from harm, friends and family would come to be with the birthday person and bring good thoughts and wishes Giving gifts brought even more good cheer to ward off the evil spirits This 1s how birthday parties began
At first it was only kings who were recognized as important enough to have
a birthday celebration (maybe this is how the tradition of birthday crowns
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