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Unit 4: Our past 6 lessons Lesson 1: Getting started - Listen and read I.. Procudure: 1, Warm up: Getting started: Look at the picture and write name the things that don’t belong to the

Unit 4: Our past (6 lessons)

Lesson 1: Getting started - Listen and read

I Aims:

Talking about past habits using “used to”

II Teaching aids: - Tape

- Pictures

- Students themselves III Procudure:

1, Warm up:

Getting started: Look at the picture and write name the things that don’t belong to

the past

1- mobile phone 5-traditional dress (ao dai)

7-4 - lighting fixture

2, Presentation:

- Pre - teach: look after (v) = take care of (v)

without (pre) >< with (pre) folktale (n) chuyện cổ tích, dân gian

Great - grandma (n): Cụ bà

- Pre - questions:

+ where did Nga’s grandmother live when she was young?

+ What did she often do at that time?

- Ask ss to listen to the tape and then read the dialogue to find the answers to pre-questions

- Give new structure:

S + Used to + V

didn’t used to

* Note: new structure is used when acting was often in past, but now it isn’t.

3, Practice:

Repetition drill using word :

USED TO

clean the house do everything by hand wash the clothes listen to stories

live on a farm

Example: I used to clean the house

- Let Ss do exercise 1 (P.39) : Ask and answer the questions

a, Nga’s grandmother used to live on a farm

b,Beacause she had to stay home and help her mom and she used to look after her younger brother and sister

c, Nga’s great grandmother used to cook the meals, clean house and wash the clothes

d, She lit the lamp and he used to tell them stories

e, Nga asked her grand mother to tell Nga the folktale “the Lost Shoe” at the end of the conversation

- Exercise 3 (p.39) fact or opinion?

a, Fact d, Fact

b, Fact e, opinion

c, Fact j, Opinion

4, Production:

- Ask ss to talk about what they used to do when the were at primary school

Eg: When I was at primary chool, I used to cry a lot

drink milk get up late

5, Homework:

- Learn by heart newwords

- Do exercise 4,5,6 (p.28  P31) in workbooks

Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 2: Speak

I Aims:

Tacking about the difference between life in the past and that at present using “used to”

II Teaching aids: - Pictures

- Students themselves III Procedure:

1, Warm up:

- Give some questions about the weather, students themselves

a, What the weather like today?

b, what did you user to do when you were small?

c, what didn’t you use to do when you were small?

2, Pre - speaking:

Revision:

a, True or False repetition drill:

- Let ss prepare some statements about Nga’s grandmother (some are true - some are false) Ss repeat the True statements, for the False ones they have to stay silent + She used to live on a farm  T

+ She used to go to school  F

+ She used to work in an office  F

+ She used to stay home  T

b, Transformation:

T says sth about Nga’ life now * Ss transform them to Nga’s Grandmom

- Nga goes to school life in the past

 But her grandmother used to stayhome/

didn’t use to go to school

- Nga lives in the city  But her grandmothe used to live ofarm/ didn’t use to live in the city

3, While - speaking:

- Get ss to wok in groups, discuss and write down the differences between life now and in the past using the 2 pictures (P.40)

Eg: a, People used to live in small houses, but now they live in big houses and tall buildings

b, People used to walk, but now they go by bike, bicycle, cars,

c, Children didn’t used to go to school, but now they go to school everyday

- Find someone who:

- Get bad marks

- Go to school on foot

- Get up late

- Watch TV after dinner

Lan, Nam

Example: S1: Did you use to get bad marks last year

S2: Yes, I did

4, Post - speaking

- Give some pictures about the famous people such as Hong Ngoc singer, Beckam soccer star and get ss write about them using “used to”

Example: - Beckam used to live in London

play for Manchester United

be single

5, Homework:

- Write about what your classmate used to do last year ( using the table : “ Find someone who”

Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 3 - Listen

I Aims:

- Listening to a story to draw out a moral lesson

II Teaching aids: - Tape

- Students’ themselves III Procedure:

1, Warm up:

Guessing game:

Ss complete the sentences “I used to last year” and write on a strip of paper One comes to the front of the class The other guess what’s on that S’s strip of paper by asking “Did you use to last year?” The teacher is the last one that the class ask questions and the T’s sentences is “I used to read children’s stories” “And today I’m going to tell you one of them”

2, Pre - listening:

- Pre - teach:

to lay (eggs) - laid (v): đẻ trứng

excitedly (adv): hân hoan, phấn khởi

amazement (n): sự kinh ngạc

foolish (a): ngu ngốc

greedy (a): tham lam

- Ordering: a-kill chicken

b- live comfortably c- discover a gold egg d- no more eggs e- became poor and unhappy f- collects lots of eggs

3, While - listening:

- Have ss listen to the story and check their ordering

- Let ss listen again and choose the most suitable more lesson (P.41) “”Don’t be foolish and greedy”

- Give some questions and get ss to work in pairs:

a, How did the farmer’s family at first? Why?

b, What did he discover one day?

c, How did the farmer one day?

d, What did they decid to do? What for?

e, Could they collect any more eggs?

4, Post - listening:

- Let ss go to the board and write the answers on it

Because everyday they collected eggs and wnet to the market and sld them

b, The farmer discovered a gold egg oneday when he collected eggs

c, He and his wife felt excited and happy then

d, They decided to cut all chicken in their corp They wanted to find more gold eggs

e, No, they couldn’t collect any more eggs

- Ask some student retell the story using the answers on the board

5, Homework: - Learn by heart new words.

- Do exercise 7 (P.31) in workbook

Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 4: Read

I Aims: - Reading a folktale for specific information

II teaching aids: - Books

- Tape III.Procedure:

1 Warm up:

- Dictation list: died, married, started, appeared, changed, fitted, owned, stopped,

decided, wanted

Let ss listen and write the words in the right column

/t/ : stopped

/d/: died, appeared, married, changed, owned

/id/: started, fitted, wanted, decided

2, Pre - reading

Pre - teach:

cruel (a) >< kind (a)

unfortunately (adv) unluckily (adv)

upset (a) = sad (a)

broken heart (n): bệnh đau tim

a prince = a son of the King

a fairy (n): Tiên

rag (n) >< beautiful clothes (n)

magically (adv): một cách kỳ diệu

3, While - reading:

- Let ss listen to the tape and read the story in chorus then individual

- Ask ss to do exercises:

Exercise 1: complete the sentences with words from the story

Keys: a, farmer d, choose

c, had - again f, lost

Exercise 2 (P.42): Answer the questions

Answers: a, Little Pea was a poor farmer’s daughter

b, Stout Nut’s mother made Little Pea do chore all day

c, A fairy appeared and magically changed Little Pea’s rag into beautiful clothes

d, The prince decided to marry the girl who owned the lost shoe, of course it was Little Pea’s shoe

e, No, it is not Because there is a fairy in the story In fact, there is not a faity in our life

4, Post - reading:

- Get ss to do exercise: True or false

a, after Little Pea’s mother died, her father married again.-T

b, The new wife was kind for Little Pea ( F: cruel to)

c, Her father soon died of an accident (F: a broken head)

d, One year, the prince wanted to choose his wife from her village - T

e, Her step - mother didn’t make new clothes fot her - T

j, Little Pea had beautiful clothes from a faity T

g, As she ran to the festival, she dropped her hat (F: shoes)

h, the prince decided to marry the girl who owned the lost shoe – T

5, Homework: - Learn by heart new words/ Retell the story.

Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 5: Write

I.Aims:

- Writing a story using words cues

II Teaching aids: - Books

- Students themselves III Procedure:

1, Warm up:

Substitution boxes:

- Put a box full of words on the board then get ss to make one long sentence or lots

of short sentences

Answer key:

-When we were small children, we used to listen to our grandma’s old folktales after dinner

2, Pre - writing:

Pre - teach:

to escape (v): trốn thoát

to graze (v): gặm cỏ

to tie (v): buéc, trói

to light - lit (v): nhãm löa

a tripe (n): säc v»n

wisdom (n): trÝ kh«n

a servant (n) = osin (n)

a master (n) = a boss

old after grandma dinner’s folktales small to our

- Let ss read the story “How the Tiger got his stripe and do exercise 1 (P.42.43): Complete the story, use the verbs in the box.”

1- appeared 6- tied

5-went

- Comprehension questions: Nought and crosses

a, Where were the farmer and his buffalo when the tige appeared?

b, What did the teger want to know?

c What did the farmer tell the tiger?

d, Why did the famer go home?

e, What did he do before he wnet home?

f, What did he bring with?

g, What did he do then?

h, what happened to the tiger?

i, What was the farmer’s wisdom?

3, While-writing:

- Let ss do exercise 2 (P.43): Rewrite the stroy, transform from “the farmer” to “I”

- Get ss to work in groups of four, each student has to write 2 sentences, then they share ideas in their group

4, Post - writing

- Ask all ss to swap their stories, then they share, compare

- Ask some ss to retell the story before the class

5, Homework

- Learn by heart new works

- Do exercise 2 in workbooks (P.27)

Unit 4: Our past

Lesson 6: Language focus

I.Aims

Further practice in past simple tense and preposition of time

II Teaching aids: - Word square

- Pictures

III Procedure:

1, Practice and consolidation

I- Past simple tense:

Games: Word square: Irregular verbs

- Get ss to find 16 irregular verbs and write their past form

Answers:

 run, fly

 ride, lose, find

 take, leave, fall

 have, be, hold

 go, do eat, sit  come

1.run  ran 9- have - had

Let ss do exercise 2 (P.44): complete the dialogue

a, Did you eat some rice?

b, I got to shoocl by bike /on feet

c, Where were you last night>

d, I had English, Math, Art, History

II Prepositions of time

Networks before after

between Prepositions of time in

on

at

Mathching: Prepositions of time with time expressions

a, AT night

7.30

b, ON Monday

Monday,July 4

Sunday morning

the weekends

c, IN November

November 2005

the evening

d, BEFORE 6.30

e, AFTER

Let ss do exercise 3 (P.44)

III, Used to + V

Ask ss to do exercise 4 (p.45) Look at the picture.Complete the dialogue 1- used to have

2- used to be

3- Used to live

2, Homework:

- Do exercise 1 (p.24) in books

- Do exercise 1 (p.27) and 3(28) in workbooks