Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 4: Learning a foreign language

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 UNIT 4: LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Lesson 1: Section - Listen and read page 32-33 Period 20: Aim Reading a dialogue for details about the questions in an exam.. Obje

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 UNIT 4: LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Lesson 1: Section - Listen and read (page 32-33) Period 20:

Aim

Reading a dialogue for details about the questions in an exam

Objective

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to produce the questions for

an oral examination

Teaching aids

Text books

PRUCEDURE

arrangement

Warm – up * Lucky numbers:

- Write 10 numbers on the board, from 1 to 10

- Tell students each number is for questions but 4 of them are lucky number, they do not need to answer any questions but they get 2 points, and they can choose another number

- Divide the class into teams The teams take turn to choose the numbers

- Tell students that they have to make questions about personal information when teacher gives them a word as a cue

Egg: Teacher: from

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Students: where are you from?

1 Name (What’s your name?)

2 Lucky number

3 Live

4 Live which (Whom do you like with?)

5 Lucky number

6 Old (How old are you?)

7 Lucky number

8 Learn English (When did you start learning English?)

9 Lucky number

10 Hobbies (What are your hobbies?)

I Pre-teach vocabulary:

- Aspect (n): Lĩnh vực, mặt, khía cạnh

(translation)

- Examiner (n): giám khảo (definition: a person who ask questions) (Spoken or written) o find out how much a person know.)

- coming (adj): sắp đến (translation)

- college (n): trường Cao đẳng hay Đại học

(exeample) Candidate (n): thí sinh (definition: one who takes part in an cam) -write examination / oral examination:

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Cuộc thi viết ≠ cuộc thi vấn đáp

Checking vocabulary: what and where

- Write the new words on the board, each word in each circle

- Ask students to repeat the words chorally

- Rub out word by word but leave the circles

- Go on until all the circles are empty

- Get students to go to the blackboard and write the words in

their correct circles

II Pre-questions:

- Set the scene: Lan is talking to Paola, a foreign student,

about the oral examination that she has just taken

- Give students 2 questions

1 Were the questions in oral exam difficult or easy?

2 How many questions did the ask Lan?

- Have students work in park to answer them

- Give feedback

I Reading and checking

- Ask student to read the dialogue between Lan and Paola on Individuale

While

reading

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

- Let the students do exercise individually then compare with their partners

* Answer keys:

Royal English College Examination in English as Foreign Language Stage one: Oral examination

4 Do you like with your parents? 

5 When did you begin studding English? 

6 Why are you learning English? 

7 Do you speak any other languages? 

8 How did you learn English in your country? 

9 How will you use English in your country? 

10 What aspect of learning English do you find most difficult?



11 What are you doing to learn? 

13 Look at this picture Describe it 

work

Individuate work

Pair work

Post –

- Ask students to compare the direct questions and the

reported speech

* Answer key:

1 What is your pet name?

 She asked me what my name was

2 Where do you come from?

 She asks me where I came from

3 Do you speak any other languages?

 She asks me if I spoke any other languages

4 Why are you learning English?

 She asked me why I was learning English

5 How did you learn English in your country?

 She asks me how I learned English in your country

6 How will you use English in the future?

 She asks me how I would use English in the future

7 What aspect of learning do you find most difficult?

 She asked me what aspect of learning English I found most difficult

8 Read this passage

* Speaking/role play:

- Ask students to word in pairs to practice asking and

answering One student plays the role of examiner and

another plays the role of Lan

- Call on some pair to demonstrate before the class

- Give feedback and correct

- Have students play the role of Paola and Lan

- Call on some pairs to play the roles of Paola and Lan before the class

- Correct their pronunciation / intonation

Homework

- Ask student to write the direct questions and their reported

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Lesson 2: Speak (45 min)

I Objectives:

- Developing speaking skill to persuade others to do something

- Students will be able to persuade their friends to attend the school they like

II Language content:

 Grammar: Expressions of opinion to persuade someone to do something

 Key words: dormitory (N); reputation (N)

III Teaching aids:

 Some advertisements of English language courses

Steps Teacher’s guiding activities

Warm-up Showing some advertisements of English language courses, giving some

eliciting questions:

1 Do you know what there are?

2 What are they about?

3 What much you do if you want to attend the course?

4 Which school would you like to choose if you passed the exam? Why?

Pre-speaking 10’ * Pre-teaching:

- Setting the scene

- Explaining some new words

+ Asking students to scan the information of the 3 school ads and pick out the new words

+ Demonstrating the new words (Using pictures/ situasitions/ Vietnamese explanations)

* Pre-activity:

- Asking students to give some expressions to express opinions in order tp persuade others to do something

- Getting students to write them into the board

- Giving more expressions if necessary

While-speaking

20’

- Calling on one student to read the instruction aloud

- Asking sts to read the 3 ads As well as the sample conversation to get

2 ads left

- Having sts work in group of three to active Using information from the 2 ads left

- Calling on 2 groups to demonstrate their conversation in front of class

- Giving comments

Post-speaking 10’ - Introducing some English language centers operating in VN at present

such at ILA, SEAMEO, British, Council…

- Having sts work in groups to discuss which English language school in

VN they will attend this summer

- Calling on 2 groups to act out their conversation

- Giving comments

Homework - Asking sts to write a letter, persuading his/her friend to attend the

English language center you like to learn at

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Lesson 3: Listen (45 min)

I Objectives:

- At the end of lesson, students can realize the importance of learning a foreign

language, especially English

- Students are able to develop their listening skill

II Language content:

III Teaching aids:

Cassette recorder, tape, visual aids, colored chalk, students’ book

IV Time: 45 minutes

V Teaching procedure:

Warm-up (5’) - T shows sts brochures of studying abroad and asks them some questions:

1 – Are you interested in studying abroad?

2 – What should you prepare for your studying?

- T uses the sts’ answers to lead to the topic of the lesson

Pre-listening (7’) - T puts some questions based on the tape script (yes – No question, or

questions)

While-listening

(20’)

- Sts listen to the tape (1st time), the answer the teacher’s questions

- Sts listen to the tape (2nd time) and do the exercise (true/false) (pair word)

- T checks their answer

- Sts correct the false sentences (group work), then check their own ones

by listening to the tape (3rd time)

Post-listening

(11’)

- Sts summarize the dialogue (group work)

Homework (2’) - Write the summary of the dialogue in your exercise books

- What should you do to improve your English? Talk about it next time

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Lesson 4: Read (45 min)

I Objectives:

By the end of this unit, students will know how to scan for specific information

from an advertisement

II Language content:

- Grammar: Present and past simple tenses (review)

- Key words: language level: beginner; intermediate, advanced

III Techniques:

Question – answer, scanning

IV Teaching aids:

Textbook, worksheet

V Time: 45 minutes

VI Procedure:

Pre-reading (10’) -Warm up: T has Ss answer some questions:

1 What did you do last summer?

2 Did anyone attend a summer class?

3 If you want to attend an English school, what should you do to know that is a suitable language school for you?

- T has Ss have a look at the pieces of advertisement on p.36 then asks Ss:

1 What are they? ( piece of advertisement)

2 What are they about? ( foreign language school)

- T has Ss do TASK 1: exercise a/p.36

While-reading

20’

* TASK 1: Ss read advertisements to complete the table on page 36.

- Silent reading, group work: T shows Ss the sheet (copied from the table

on p.36) and has Ss complete the table in 5 minutes The fastest group will

go to the board to complete the sheet

(morning / afternoon / evening…)

Language level (beginner / intermediate / advanced)

Time to start

Academy of Language Foreign Language Council New English Institute

- T teacher some new words: language level; beginner, intermediate, advanced

Answer:

(morning / afternoon / evening…)

Language level (beginner / intermediate / advanced)

Time to start

Academy of Language

Morning, afternoon, evening

Advanced First week of

November

Foreign Language Council

Morning and evening

Beginner/

intermediate

3 rd November

New English Institute

Afternoon, evening, weekend

Beginner (today)

- Ss correct themselves

- T correct the Ss answer if necessary then has Ss do TASK 2

* TASK 2: Choose the suitable language school for Mr Lam

- Pair work: T has Ss read the notes Mr Lam made then have a look at the advertisements and choose suitable language school for him in 3 minutes

- Ss compare their answer with some others pairs to correct themselves

- T asks some Ss to give their answer and the reason they have that answer

- T corrects Ss’ answer if necessary

Post-reading 12’ - T has Ss work in groups of three to discuss which school in the

advertisements is suitable to each one and their reason

- T has some Ss present their choices in front of the class

- T corrects Ss’ answer if necessary

Homework (3’) - You want to attend one of the three schools from the advertisements to

improve your English Note down the ideas you need to put in the letter for more information about it

Lesson 4: Section: - Write (page 37)

Period 23:

Aim

Writing a letter of inquiry

* Objectives:

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a letter of inquiry to the

instruction requesting for more information about the courses and fees

* Teaching aids:

Text books

PROCEDURE

arrangement

• Versetimadnet  advertisement

• Swine  news

• Resetting  interest

• Atmorfioinn  information

• Eel  fee

• Sasecenry  necessary

• Pulpy  supply

- Divide the class into two teams

- Ask students from 2 teams to go to the board and write the correct words

- The team which is faster with more corrects words will win

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the game.

Pre-writing I Pre-teach vocabulary

- Request (n/v): đòi hỏi (synonym: ask for)

- Detail (n): chi tiết (definition: a small part of whole, particular fact)

- Look forward to (v): trông mong, trông chờ (synonym: expect)

- Express (v): bày tỏ, biểu lộ (definition: show or make known a meaning, idea or fleeing)

- Exactly (adv): một cách chính xác

(translation)

- Edison (n): ấn bản (translation)

* Checking vocabulary: Step the board

- Put the Vietnamese translation all over the board

- Call on two students from both sides of the class

- Ask them to stand at an equal distance from the board

- Call out the English word, the students run forward and slap the Vietnamese word on the blackboard

- The students slapping the right word first is the winner and gets a point for his / her team

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Thỉnh cầu

While-reading

- Continue until students have slapped all the words

II Reading comprehension:

- Have students read the letter written by John Robinson on page 37

- Ask them work in pairs to answer some questions about the letter

* Questions:

a Where did Robinson see the school’s advertisement?

b What language does he want to learn?

c What aspect of Vietnamese does he want to improve?

d What does Robinson want to know?

- Give feedback and correction

* Answers:

a He saw the school’s advertisement in today’s edition

of Vietnamese news

b He wants to learn Vietnamese

c He wants to learn to read and write Vietnamese

d He wants to know some details of the courses and fees

III Marching:

- Give students four parts of a letter of inquiry

a Introduction

b Request

c Further information

d Conclusion

- Ask students to divide the letter (written by Robinson) into

4 parts and match each paragraph with a suitable headline

- Let students word in pairs compare their the answer

* Answer keys:

Pair word

Pair word

a I saw your school’s advertisement in Introduction:

today’s edition of the Vietnamese News

b Request: I saw your school’s advertisement in today’s

edition of the Vietnamese News

c Request: I am interested in learning Vietnamese end’s I

like some information about your school

d Father information: I speak little Vietnamese, but I

want to learn read and write it Could you please send

details of courses and feed? I can complete a spoke

Vietnamese test if necessary

e Conclusion: I look forward to hearing from you

* Writing a letter:

- Have student read again the three advertisements on

page 36 and choose one of the schools they want to attend

to improve their English

- Get students to write a letter of inquiry to the intuition

requesting for more information about the courses and

fees The exercise Matching above will help students

write their letters easily

- After finishing the letter, students have to compare with

their partners and make some correction

- Give feedback Call on some students to read their letter

before class

- Make some corrections

* Suggested letter:

Dear Sir,

I saw your Instates advertisement on today’s TV program I

am very interested in learning English and I would like some

more in formation about your Institute

- Individuate work

Pair word

Post writing

I can speak a little English, but I read it very slowly and my writing is bad So want to improve my reading and writing

Could you please provide more information about the length

of the courses and fees for beginners? I can supply my record

of English study necessary

I look forward to hearing from you soon

Your faithfully, Lan

- Choose three letters which were written to 3 schools

- Ask students to read aloud the letters

- Give feedback and correct

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Individuate work

Home work - Ask student to write the letters in their

notebooks