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Th¹ch Qu¶ng Lower Secondery School Teacher : TrÇn Thanh H¶i
Sunday, November 27, 2006
Unit 8: country life and city life
Lesson: 1 Period:46 Section: Getting started
I Objectives : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about city life
and country life
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
1 Warm up: * Chatting:
- Talk to students about life in the city and life in the country by asking some questions
a Where do you live?
b Do you want to live in the city? Why?
c Do you want to live in the country? Why?
2.Pre - Reading:
1 Pre – teach vocabulary :
- A relative (example)
- Peaceful (synonym)
- Permanently (explanation)
- Accessible (translation)
- Medical facilities (translation)
* Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember
2 Brainstorming (getting started)
- Get students to talk about city life and country life The words in the box of getting started may help them
Noisy Quiet
* Possible answers:
- plenty kinds of goods - fresh food
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3 While – Reading:
- Ask students to read the dilogue between Na and Hoa and compare their ideas
- Give feedback and get more information
1 Comprehension questions
- Get students to work in pairs to answer the questions in exerise 2
* questions and answers
a Where has Na been?
Na hs been to Kim Lien village
b How long was she there?
She was there for the weekend
c What is her opinion of the countryside?
To her, the countryside is peaceful and quiet and there is nothing to do
d Na says “ there is nothing to do”, what does she mean by this?
There is no libraries no movies, no supermarkets, no zoos……
e What are some of the changes that Hoa mentions?
Country life is becomng better Many remote area are getting electricity People can now have things like refrigerators and TV, medical facilitis are more accessible
- Ask students work in pairs to answer the questions
- Ask some pairs to practice the dialogue
4 Post – Reading:
2 Discussion
- Divide the class in to 4 groups Two groups include students who prefer the city life and the others include students who prefer the counry life
- Ask students to work in groups to answer the questions
Do you prefer the city or the country life? Why?
- Ask 4 pioneers from 4 groups to show their ideas before class
5 Homework:
- Ask students to write as short passage about why they prefer the city life or the country life
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Unit 8: country life and city life
Lesson: 2 Period:47 Section: Speak
I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice speaking
about the changes of a place
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book, pictures, poster
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
1 Warm up: * Word square:
Ask students to find 7 adjectived
- Divide the class in to 2 teams…
- Ask students to go to the board and circle the word they find
- The team which circles more words will win the game
* Answers:
Modern, dirty
Busy Noisy Tall Expensive beautiful
2 Presentation:
- Setting the scene: “ Hoa’s grandmother is 78”
- Five years ago, she was 73 and she was stronger than she is now
- Ask students to make a sentence about her helth
- Hoa’s grandmother is getting weaker
- Explain the form – use of the present progressive tense
* Form: am/ is/ are + V-ing
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* Use: used to describe changes with “get” and “become”
3 Practice: * Drill
- Prepare 6 cards of cues
a The boys/get/tall
b The old men/become/weak
c It/become/dark
d The weather/get/cold
e The students /get/better
f The school yard/become/cleaner
- Model first two cues, the whole class repeat chorally, then some students read out individually
- Give a new cue, a ask new students to repeat
- Go on until most of the students in class can remember the stucture
* Answers:
a The boys are getting tall
b The old men are becoming weak
c It is getting dark
d The weather is getting cold
e The students are getting better
f The school yard is becoming cleaner
4 Production:
1 Speaking 1:
- Ask students to look at the two pictures and talk to their partners about the changes
of the town The words in the box under the pictures may help students
- Write the word prompts on the bord so that students can speak easily
* Possible answers:
+ The traffic is getting busier
+ There are more tall buildings and houses
+ The houses are getting more modern
+ The town is becoming more beautiful
+ There are more green trees
+ The streets are becoming cleaner/larger/noisier
+ Goods are getting more expensive
2 Speaking 2:
- Ask students to work in groups and talk about changes in their home town/
neighborhood
- Call on volunteer from each group to show their ideas before the class Other
groups can add in their ideas
4 Homework:
- Ask students to writes some sentences,using present progressive tense to decibe changes in their school
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Lesson: 3 Period:48 Section: Listen
I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to complete the
dialogue by listening and further practice in present continuous to talk about the future
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book, cards
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
- Prepare eight cards with phrases on them
- Write eight verbs on the board ( play, do, watch, go, clean, have, phone, speak)
- Divide the class in to two teams
- Hand out each team 8 cards
- Ask students to stick the cards with phrases besides the suitable verbs:
Ex: play – table tennis
- The team which is faster is the winner
* Answers:
2 Pre – Listening.
- Ask students to use the suitable verbs in the present progressive tense to complete the dialogue in the exercise 2
- Get students to work in pairs
- Call some pairs to practice the dialogues before class and teacher corrects
* Answers:
a am playing b Are going c am watching
d am going e are cleaning f am having
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* Concept checking:
+ What tense do we use in 6 dialogues? (Present Progressive Tense) + What is the form? (am/ is/are + V-ing)
+ Look at the adverbs of the time in the dialogue Are they at present or in the future? ( in the future)
+ Present Progressive tense is used to talk about the future
3 While – Listening:
- Set the scene: “ Aunt Hang is talking to Lan on the phone She is coming to visit Lan in Hanoi”
- Ask students to listen to the tape and complete the dialogue
- Let students listen twice and find out the missing words individually
- Ask students to share their answers with their partners
4 Post - Listening:
- Ask students to do exercise 1
- Call on some students to practice the dialogues
- Give them the shipping information and ask them to make similar dialogues S1: Is the boat to Quy Nhon leaving at 11.30?
S2: Is that good fortune?
S1: That’s right
S2: I’m very sorry It’s been delayed
S1: Oh no!
S2: Now, It’s leaving at 13.55
6 Homework:
- Ask students to write 5 sentences, using Present Progressive Tense about what they are doing next week
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Lesson: 4 Period:49 Section: Read.
I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the text
about one of the social problems
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book Poster
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
- Write the words with disordered letter on the board
+ Fulentipl plentiful + roestdy desrtoy
- Divide the class in to two teams
- Ask students from each team to go to the board and write the correct words
- The team which is faster with more correct words wins the game
2 Pe – Reading:
1 Pre –Teach vocabulary
+ rural (explanation) + drought (explanation) + urban (antonym) + struggle (translation) + stain (translation) + migrant ( explanation) + typoon (snonym) + increase (tanslation)
2 Brainstorming
- Ask students to think of the difficulties of farmers’ life
typoon
difficulties of farmers’life
* Possible answers:
+ the weather + lackf clean water/ electricity + hard work + insects destroy harvests
- Ask the students to guess how farmers deal with difficulties
- Get students to work in groups to guess
3 While – Reading:
- Let students read the text silently and answer the questions:
“What do many farmers do to solve their problem?”
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* Answers:
- They move to the city so that they can get well – paid jobs
3 Gap – Filling
- Ask students to work in pairs to complete summery 1, using the information from the passage
* Answers:
4 Finding the words
- Ask students to do exercise 2
- Let them read the text again and work with their partners
* Answers:
c become greater or larger increase
f of the city or city life urban
* Discussion
4 Post – Reading:
- Give a situation : If you were a Minister, what would you do for farmers?”
- Ask students to work in groups and discuss
* Possible answers:
+ Build streets, theaters,stadium nthe country
+ Build schools, hospitals + Provide clean water, eletricity, facilities + Build factory
+ ………
- Ask 4 volunteers from 4 goups to show their ideas before the class
5 Home work:
- Ask students to write 5 things that the government should do fohe rural areas
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Lesson: 5 Period:50 Section: Write
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I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write letters to their
friends about their neighborhood
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book, cards
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
- Ask students to put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order
- Prepare 6 cards with 6 outline on them
- Call 6 students to hold them and stand in a random order
- Ask some other students to rearrange them in the correct order
- Write the answer on the board so that students can remember the outline of a letter
1 Heading
+ Writer’s address
+ Date + Dear………
2 Opening
3 Body of letter
4 Closing
* Answer questions
2 Pre – Writing:
- Ask students work in pairs to answer the questions in exercise 2
- Give feedback
a Where do you live?
(I live in a small town/big city/ village)
b What does your house look life?
(My house looks very nice/ small with 4/5 rooms and a nice/ small garden)
c What can you see from your bedroom window?
(From my bedroom window, I can see a small park with many green trees and
colourful flowers.)
d How far is it from your home to school?
(It’s far from my home so I have to ride my bike/ It’s very near so I can walk.)
e What kinds of facilities are there in your neighborhood?
(There is a park/ a swimming pool/ some restaurants, a post office/ a library.)
f What things in your neighborhood do you like best? Why?
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(I like the park best because I can walk with my sisters after dinner…)
3 While – Writing:
- Ask students to write letters to friends about their neighborhood
- Let them write individually
- Ask them to compare with their partners and correct if they can
- Suggested letter
* Correction:
4 Post – Writing:
- Choose some letters to correct before class
5 Homework:
- Ask students to write their letter (after correction) on the notebooks
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Lesson: 6 Period:51 Section: Language focus
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I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use comparative and
superlative adjectives
II Contents: - Vocabulary
- Structure:
III Teaching Aids: Text book, red and yellow chalk
IV Anticipated problems:
V Proceduces:
- Ask students to find out short adjectives and long adjectives they have learnt
- Divide the class in to 2 teams, one using yellow chalk and the other red chalk
- Get students to go to blackboard and write the adjectives
Long adjectives short adjectives
expensive big
* Answers:
+ accessible + busy + beautiful + easy + convenien + cheap + difficult + good irregular adjectives
+ intelligent + bad + comfortable + poor + delicious + fresh + interesting+ small
2 Presentation:
- Remind students of the forms of comparative and superlative adjectives
* Comparative:
Short adjective – ER + than + object More long adjective + than + object
* Superlatives
The + short adjective – EST
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The Most + long adjective
* Irrigular adjectives:
3 Practice
- Ask students to do exercise 4 They have to work in pairs to make comparisons between the city and country about Food, traffic, transport, air,
entertainment, medical facilities, schools, electricity with the adjectives; easy, expensive, cheap,
- Give some examples
a The air in the country is fresher than in the city
b The medical facilities in the city are more accessible than in the country
- Move around the class and help the students write comparison sentences
- Let each students read aloud one of the sentences have they made
* Possible answers:
a The food in the city is more expensive than in the country
b The school in the city is bigger than in the country
c Electricity in the city is better than in the country
d The entertainment in the country is poorer than in the city
e The traffic in the city is busier than in the country
f The transpost in the country is worse than in the city
g………
- Let students make any sentence they want, only focus on the structures, not on the meaning
4 Production:
- Ask students to do exercise 5
- Ask them read the advertisement then ask them some question to check their understanding
+ What are advertised?
(An arpartment, a villa and a house)
+ How old are they?
(The arpartment is two years old, the villa is 5 years old and the house is is new)
+ How much do we pay per month?
( 900,000 dongs for the arpartment; 6,6 million dongs for the house and 7,8 million dongs for the villa)
- Divide the class in to two teams and ask them to play the game Noughts and Crosses One team is Noughts (O) and the other is Crosses (X)
- Two teams choose the words in the boxes in turns Then use the comparative or superlative If the sentences is correct, they will get one mark
- The team which has 3 noughtts or 3 crooses on a line will win the game
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Expensive Small Hot
* Possible answers:
a The villa is older than the apartment
b The house is more expensive than the apartment
c The villa is bigger than the apartment
d The apertment is smaller than the villa
e The apartment is hotter than the house
f The house is the biggest
g The villa is the most beautiful
h The apartment is older than the house
- Students can make more sentences
5 Homework:
- Ask students to write 5 sentences comparing theirhouse with their neighbors’