uint7 L focus1,2(khoa)

Therefore, Mrs Mi gives Mrs Ha advice on how to save water, She advises Mrs Ha to get her husband or a plumber to check her water pipes and to reduce the amount of water.. PROCEDURE arra

Mrs Mi is talking with her neighbor, Mrs Ha She looks very

worried but Mrs Mi doesn' t know what is wrong with her neighbor.

Mrs Ha is worried about her water bill because it is enormous She

must pay 200.000 dongs for it Therefore, Mrs Mi gives Mrs Ha

advice on how to save water, She advises Mrs Ha to get her husband

or a plumber to check her water pipes and to reduce the amount of

water Bath use twice as much water as showers, so Mrs Mi suggests

taking showers She advises Mrs Ha to remember to turn off the

faucets A dripping faucet can waste 500 liters of water a month.

However, Mrs Ha never thinks about that before.

PROCEDURE

arrangement

Warm-up

(5')

* Matching:

- write some verbs in a list on the left hand side of the board

-write some prepositions in a list on the right hand side of the board

-Divide the class into 4 teams

-Get students from 4 teams to match the items on the left with those on the right to find out phrasal verbs

Team work

The team which write more verbs + prepositions win the game

* Suggested list of verbs + prepositions

look for turn on wait for depend on listen to

look after turn off belong to

go on talk to

Presentation

1

(15')

- Provide students 5 verbs + prepositions and then ask them to match the verbs with the pictures on page 64

T - Whole class

* Answer keys:

- Picture 1: look after the baby

- Picture 2: go on (wasting water)

- Picture 3: turn on TV

- Picture 4: look for

-Picture 5: turn off the faucet

Practice 1 Have students work in pairs to do LanguageFocus 2

exercise on page 63 They have to use suitable verbs to complete the sentences

*Answer keys:

1 Hanh can't go to the movies with us tonight She will have to look after her little sister

2 If we go on wasting water, there will be a shortage of fresh water in a few decades

3.Turn on the TV for me, will you? I want to watch weather forecast

4 I think I've lost my new pen I've looked for it everywhere and I can't find it anywhere

5.Mrs Yen forgot to turn off the faucet when she left for work

Pairwork

Presentation

2

(15')

a

turn on

b

turn off

c

look for

d

lookafter

e

go on

connectives

therefore however and

moreover but

but or

so

- Ask students to think of connectives that they've learnt

- Have students goto the board and write down the connectives

- Give feedback

- Ask students to give Vietnamese meanings

Practice 2 - Have students work individually to do the

exercise Language focus 1 on page 63 They have to completethe sentences by using correct connectives

* Answer keys:

a Mrs Quyen bought corn, potatoes and cabbages

at the market

b I'd love to play volleyball but I have to complete

an assignmet

c Nam got wet because he forgot his umbrella

d Hoa failed her math test Therefore, she has to do the test again

e Do you want Vietnamese tea or milk tea?

f It's raining, so I can't go to the beach

g Ba's hobbies are playing football and collecting stamps

h Na is very tired However, she has to finish her homework before she goes to bed

- Ask students to work in pairs to compare their answers

- Give feedback Have some students read aloud the completed sentences, check their pronunciation and the meanings

individual work

Production

(8')

Noughts and Crosses:

- Divide the class into two teams One team is Nought (O) and the other is Cross (X)

- Have two teams choose the words in the boxes in turns And make sentences with the connectives given If the sentence is correct, they will get one mark

- The team which has 3 Noughts or 3 Crosses in a line will win the game

pair work

-Draw this chart on the board and the game begins

4 but 5 therefore 6 however

7 so 8 because 9 an

* Possible answer:

1) Do you want to take a bath or take a shower? 2) I'll get a plumber to check the pipes and to repair the faucets

3) He got up late so he had to take a taxi to school 4) It's raining but he is still going swimming

5) Her English is not good Therefore, she decides

to practice more

6) It rained very hard However, he went out without a raincoat

7) Baths use twice as much water, so I suggest taking showers

8) The water bill is enormous this month because there is a crack in the pipes

9) I suggest taking showers and fixing the faucet

Homework

(2')

- Ask students to write 5 sentences with connectives: therefore, because, however, or, so