Unit 2-11C

13’ PRE-READING- Get Ss to work in pairs and try to guess what is happening in each of the pictures in the text book - Get Ss to put the pictures in the order that they think is most app

Date: 19/ 09/ 2007

Allotted period in course: 7 UNIT TWO

PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

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PERIOD: 1 (READING)

I Aim

- Improve reading skills and gain some new words and structures from reading text

II Objectives

By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:

+ develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas, guessing meaning in context and identifying the sequence of events;

+ understand the text and express their ideas about past experiences

III Materials

Textbook, pictures and handouts

IV Anticipated problems

Ss may not finish the discussion task because of limited time

V Procedure

Work arrangement

5’ Competition game – Hang man WARM – UP

- T introduces the game: T chooses a secret word

“Experience”: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (10 letters)

- Divide the class into two big teams: Team A & Team B

- Guide Ss to play the game according to the rule set before

- Suggest the letters of the word for Ss’ guessing

- Ask Ss to guess the letters in the word If Ss guess the letter

that is not the word, T makes a line according to the order in

the drawing

- The group with 8 times of wrong guessing will loose the

game; and then T gives the answer T leads to the lesson

Group work

13’ PRE-READING

- Get Ss to work in pairs and try to guess what is happening in

each of the pictures in the text book

- Get Ss to put the pictures in the order that they think is most

appropriate

- Call on some pairs to present their ideas but should not

correct them

- T may elicit their answers by asking questions and giving

prompts:

Eg: What can you see in picture A? What do you think might

be relationship between the girl and the man? What do you see

on the table? Whose money do you think it is? Why? Etc.

Whole class, individual work & pair work

20’

WHILE-READING

Pre-teaching vocabulary:

- make a fuss about St (exp): become angry or excited about St

and complain.

- sneaky (a, trans): How do you say ‘vung trom, len lut’ in

English?

- glance at St/So (v, mime): ‘what am I doing?’?

- idol (n, situation): He is so famous that he has become an

of teenagers.

* Checking: Rub out and Remember

Set the scene: You are going to read a story in which a girl’s

telling about her most embarrassing situation Then you do the

task that follow.

TASK 1:

- Run through the task to make sure Ss understand what they

are going to do

- Get Ss to read the passage silently and then do the task 1

- Call on Ss to read or write out the answers on board:

1 glanced 2 making a fuss 3 embarrassing

4 idols 5 sneaky

TASK 2:

- Get Ss to read the text silently a gain and then with peer work

out the sequence of the pictures given on page 22 a gain, this

time based on the information in the text

- Call on a student to give and explain his/ her answer

- Check with the class Expected answers: 1 picture d; 2.

picture b; 3 picture c; 4 picture f; 5 picture e; 6 picture a

TASK 3:

- Guide Ss to

+ Skim the five questions to understand them;

+ Find out and pay attention to key word (eg, wish in (1));

+ Then go back to the passage to find the key words which can

help answer the questions

Whole class

& individual work

Individual work, pair work and whole class

Individual work, pair work and

- Get Ss to check their answers with their peers.

- Call on some Ss to give the answers and explain them

Answers:

1, a floppy cotton hat

2, to buy a floppy cotton hat

4, a wad of dollar notes that look exactly like those her father

had given her

4, she thought that was her own money and the boy had stolen

it from her She wanted to take it back without making a fuss.

5, She bought the hat of her dream

whole class

- Ask Ss to work in groups of 3 or 4 and discuss the questions

- go around to help and check

- Give corrective feedback

* Suggested answers:

1, She might feel embarrassed and guilty/ ashamed because

that was not her money

2, Perhaps the girl could place a notice on a local newspaper to

apologize the boy and contact him to give him the money

back/ Perhaps the girl might want to tell her father the truth

and ask him for help/ Perhaps the girl could come to the police

station, tell the police the truth and ask them for help/ Maybe

the girl could get on the same bus the next day and look for the

boy to return him the money, etc

Group work

- Summarizes the main points of the lesson

- Assign homework: read and learn by heart vocabulary

and prepare the next period: Speaking

Whole class

• Self – remarks and assessment:

- Has the aim of the lesson been achieved?

- Have Ss grasped the focus of language?

- Has the teaching lesson been implemented according to the steps planned?

- Have the activities such as pair and group work and individual work been carried out?

- Has the time been allotted appropriately for each step?

- What are the strong points?

- What is the weakness that needs to be improved?