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Trang 1UNIT 3: PEOPLE’S BACKGROUND
LESSON 2 SPEAKING
I.Objectives:
1 Education aims: How to interview a person and talk about a person's background.
2 Knowledge: a.General knowledge: - A person's background
b.Language: - The simple past tense - Wh- questions
3 Skills: Speaking: - Asking about another person's background
- Talking about a person's background basing on what they have interviewed
II Anticipated problems: Sts may not know what is included in the term
"background"
III Teaching aids: - board, chalk, textbook.
IV Procedures:
2.Before you speak (10 mins)
Aims: to guide sts how to do and to provide them with needed
vocabulary and grammar.
+ Task 1:
- Ask sts to think about people's background, and then read the
cues in this task
- Write the questions on the board and give remarks
3 While you speak: (20 mins)
Aims: Sts can practise making an interwiew and then talking
about the person they have interwiewed.
+ Task 2:
- Ask sts to imagine they are journalists and ask them to work
in pairs to interview their partners about his/her background or
that of a person he/ she knows well
- Ask one pair to report
- Give remarks so that other pairs can correct their mistakes
+ Task 3:
- Ask sts to work in small groups to talk about the person they
have learnt about from the interview
- Ask them to work in 7 minutes
- Move around to conduct the activity
4- After you speak: (9 mins)
Aims: Sts present what they have discussed in the previous
stage.
- Ask two sts to tell the whole class about the people they
interviewed about
- Listen to them attentively and correct the mistakes
- Give remarks on the whole activity
- Sample answer:
" Quan's cousin, Minh, was born on November 2 nd , 1985 in Hai
Duong City He is the only child in his family His father is an
engineer and his mother is a teacher As a brilliant student, he
always got good marks when he was a student at To Hieu
Primary School and then at Le Quy Don Secondary School.
When he was fifteen , he passed the exam to Nguyen Trai High
School He said he liked all subjects at school but among them
+ family + education + experience
Family:
- How many people are there in your family?
- What does your father/ mother do?
Education:
- Where did you study at primary school/ junior secondary school?
- What subject do you like best?
- What degree do you have?
Experience:
- How long have you been a member of our school's speaking club?
- Have you ever won any prizes?
- Work in pairs to ask and answer
- One pair stand up and report:
S1: Hello Can you tell me something about yorself?
S2: Oh, of course What do you want to know?
S1: When and where were you born?
S2: I was born on September 11 th ,
1991 in Hai Duong.
S1: How many people are there in your family?
S2: There are four: my parents,
my sister and I.
S1: What do your parents do? S2: my dad is a doctor and my mum is a nurse.
- Discuss in groups using the
Trang 2he liked English best He has attended the English Speaking
Contest twice and won the fisrt prize in 2003 At the moment
he is studying at a university in Australia and he is very
successful "
5- Homework: (1 min)
- Write about the people they have interviewed about
information they have got from the interview