Unit 8. Country life and city life

city life country life.. Students work in pairs to answer the questions in Exercise on page 73V. T asks Ss the questions.[r]

UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE & CITY LIFE

Division of lessons:

1 Getting started + Listen and read

2 Speak + Language focus 3

3 Listen + Languagefocus 1,2

4 Read , Languagefocus 4

5 Write , Languagefocus 5 Date

Period

UNIT 8: LESSON 1:

GETTING STARTED + LISTEN AND READ

I Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about the city life and the

country life

II Language contents:

1 Vocabulary: relative, peaceful, permanently, remote

accessible, medical facilities, mention

2 Grammar: present progressive

III Techniques: What and Where, brainstorming, chatting

IV.Teaching aids: pictures, cassette

V Procedures:

Teacher and students’ activities Contents

T talks to Ss about life in the city life and

life in the country by asking some questions

Ss answer

T can give marks

Teacher presents new words

Ss repeat and say the meaning

Ss copy

Ss copy

Ss play the game “What and Where”

Get Ss talk about city life and country life

The words in the box of getting started may

help them

Ss listen to the dialogue between Na and

Hoa (twice)

Then Ss practice in pairs

Give feedback ang get more information

Compare their ideas

1) Warm up / Marks (5’) Chatting

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) Presentation (10’)

Pre-teach Relative (n) ( uncles, aunts, cousins )

relative (a) peaceful (a) ( quiet and calm) peace (n)

permanently (adv)= forever: vónh vieãn remote: far away land

accessible (a) medical facilities (n) mention (v)

What and Where 3) Practice (15’)

Brainstorming

noisy quiet

Dialogue

* Possible answers Tall buildings Plenty kinds of good Polluted air

Traffic jam Entertainment busy

Beautiful views Fresh food Fresh air Friendly peaceful

city life country life

Students work in pairs to answer the

questions in Exercise on page 73

T asks Ss the questions

T asks 4 pioneers from the groups to show

their ideas before class

* Answer a/ Na has been to Kim Lien village b/ She was there for the weekend c/ To her, the countryside is peaceful and quiet and there is nothing to do

d/ There is no libraries, no movies, no

supermarkets, no zoos

e/ Country life is becoming better Many remote areas are getting electricity People can now have things like refrigerators and TV, medical facilities are more accessible 4) Production (12’) Do you prefer the city or the country ? Like ? Why ? 5/ Homework (3’) - Write a short passage about why they prefer the citylife or countrylife - Prepare: Speak + focus 3 Comments :

Period

UNIT 8: LESSON 2 SPEAK ,LANGUAGE FOCUS 3

I Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to practice speaking about the

changes of a place

II Language contents:

1.Vocabulary: none

2 Grammar: progressive tense

III Techniques: wordsquare

IV Teaching aids: Textbooks, pictures , cards

V Procedures:

Teacher and Ss’ activities Contents

Divide the class into 2 teams

Ask Ss to go to the board and circle the

word they find

The team which circles more words will

win the game

Setting the scene

T explains

Ask Ss to make a sentence about her health

T explains the form-use of the present

progressive tense

T prepares six cards of cues

Model first two cues the whole class repeat

chorally, then some Ss read out

individually

Give a new cue, a new student repeat, go

on until most of the Ss in class can

remember the structure

1 Warm up / Marks (5’)

Answers:

 Modern, dirty  tall

 Busy  expensive

 Noisy  beautiful

2 Pre-speaking (15’)

“ Hoa’s grandmother is 78”

“Five years ago, she was 73 and she was stronger than she is now”

“Hoa’s grandmother is getting weaker” Form: am/ is/ are + V-ing

Use: used to describe changes with “get” and

“become”

* Drill (focus 3) a/ The boys/ get/ tall b/ The old man/ become/ weak c/ It/ become/ dark

d/ The weather/ get/ cold e/ Students/ get/ better f/ The school yard/ become/ cleaner Answers

a/ The boys are getting tall b/ The old man are becoming weak c/ It is getting dark

d/ The weather is getting cold

Ss look at two pictures on page 73 and talk

to their partners about the changes of the

town The words in the box under the

pictures may help Ss write the word

prompts on the board so that Ss can speak

easily pairwork or groupwork

Ask Ss to work in groups and talk about

changes in their hometown/ neighborhood

Call on volunteers from each group to show

their ideas before the class

Other groups can add in their ideas

e/ The students are getting better f/ The school yard is becoming cleaner

3 While-speaking (10’)

* Speaking 1

eg: traffic busy

sky cloudy houses high city beautiful trees green (trees)

* Possible answers 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 Goods are getting more expensive

4 Post-speaking (10’)

* Speak 2

5 Homework (5’)

- Describe changes in their school

- prepare: Listen + focus 1,2

Remarks:

Period

UNIT 8: LESSON 3 LISTEN , LANGUAGE FOCUS 1,2

I Aims:

After finishing the lesson, students will be able to complete the dialogue by listening and further practice in Present Continuous to talk about the future

II Language contents:

1.Vocabulary: none

2.Grammar: Present Progressive

III Techniques: Matching

IV Teaching aids: cassette, tape

V Procedures:

Teacher and Ss’ activities Contents

Students play matching game

After checking, teacher can give marks

Ask Ss to use the suitable verbs in the

present progressive tense to complete the

dialogue in exercise 2 page 72

Get Ss to work in pairs

Call some pairs to practise the dialogues

before class and teacher corrects

1.Warm up / Marks (5’)

Matching

Expensive transportation

Key: busy traffic Modern house / transportation

2 Pre-listening (10’) ( Focus 2 on page 72 ) Answers

a/ am playing d/ am going b/ are doing e/ are cleaning c/ am watching f/ am having

* 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 time in the dialogue

 Are they at present or in the future ?

In the future

Set the scene

Ask Ss to listen to the tape and complete the

dialogue on page 74

Ss listen twice and find out the missing

words individually

Ss share their answers with their partners

Ask Ss to do exercise 1 on page 77

Call on some Ss to practice the dialogue on

page 77

Give them the shipping information and ask

them to make similar dialogues

 Pre progressive Tense is used to talk about the future

3 While-listening (15’)

“Aunt Hang is talking to Lan on the phone

She is coming to visit Lan in Hanoi”

* Tape transcript:

Aunt Hang 1 that 8 arriving

3 It’s 10 late

4 where 11

afternoon

5 from 12 speak

6 coming 13 my

7 week 14 get her

4 Post-listening (10’) Focus 1 / page 77 Eg1:

S1:Is the boat to Qui 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

5 Homework (5’)

- Write 5 sentences, using pre progressive tense about what they/ you are doing next week

- prepare: Read Comments

Period

UNIT 8: LESSON 4 READ , LANGUAGE FOCUS 4

I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand the text about one of the social problems

II Language contents

1 Vocabulary: rural (a) urban (a) strain (n)

typhoon (n) drought (n) struggle (n) migrant (n) increase (n)

2 Grammar: Present progressive tense

III Techniques: jumbled words, brainstorming, rub out and remember

IV Teaching aids: sub-board, cards

V Procedures:

Teacher writes the words with disordered

letters on the board or use the poster

Divide the class into 2 teams

Ask Ss from each term to go to the board

and write the correct words

The team which is faster with more correct

words win the game

T presents new words

Ss repeat and say meaning

Ss copy

Checking vocabulary

1 Warm up / Marks (5’)

- Fulentipl  plentiful

- roestdy  destroy

- laputipoon  population

2 Pre-reading (10’)

* Pre-teach

- rural (a): something deals with the countryside

- urban (a)

- strain (a) sức ép

- typhoon (n)

- drought (n)

- struggle (n)

- migrant (n)

- increase (v)

* What and Where

* Brainstorming

floods typhoons

difficulties of farmers’ life

Ask Ss to think of the difficulties of farmers’

life

Whole class

Get Ss work in group to guess

Let Ss read the text silently and answer the

questions

Ask Ss to work in pairs to complete

summary 1 on page 75, using the

information from the passage

Ss can read the complete passage twice

(individually)

Ss do exercise 2 on page 75, let them read

the text again and work with their partners

T gives a situation, Ss work in groups and

discuss

Teacher reminds Ss the forms of

comparative and superlative adjectives

Students repeat

Teacher corrects

Ss work in pairs to make comparisons

between the city and the country about :

food, traffic, transport, air, entertainment,

medical facilities, schools electricity with

the adjectives

get little money Possible answers

- drought

- the weather

- hard work

- no vacations

3 While- reading (20’)

“ What do many farmers do to solve their problem ?”

 They move to the city so that they can get well-paying jobs

Answers

(5) city (6) problems

Answers

a rural e tragedy

b plentiful f urban

c increase

d strain

4 Post-reading (5’)

“ If you were a Minister, what would you do for farmers ?”

 build streets, theaters, stadium in the country

 build schools, hospitals

Language focus 4

2 Pre-teach (18’)

* Forms: Comparative short adj + er + than + Object more + long adj + than + Object

*Superlative The + short adj + est The most + long adj Irregular adjectives

Good/ well  better  the best

Many/ much  more  the most

3 While (10’) Language focus 1

Answer key:

a The food in the city is more expensive than

Ask Ss to do exercise 5 on page 79

in the country

b The school in the city is bigger than in the country

c

5 Homework (5’) - Ask Ss to write 5 things that the goverment should do for the rural areas - Prepare for Consolidation 1 Remarks:

Date

Period

CONSOLIDATION 1

I Aims :

This lesson helps Ss to review the structures they have learnt from the units 1,2,3,4 and

they will have a good chance to do some exercises more and more

II Language contents

1/ Grammar :

1 (not) adjective + enough + to –Infinitive

2.Reflexive pronouns

3.Modal : must , have to , ought to

4.Used to

5.Prepositions of time

6.Present simple to talk about general truth

2/Vocabulary : from unit 1 to unit 4

III Techniques: Matching

IV Teaching aids : sub- boards , cards

V Procedures :

Teacher’s and SS’ activities Contents

T asks Ss to match infinitive form with past

form

Ss work in pairs

T corrects and gives marks

I Warm up (3’) Marks

Matching

Use Fit Make Appear Hold lose

Made Lost Used Appeared Held fitted

II Language focus

T asks Ss to repeat the structure

Then T asks them to complete the sentences

T asks Ss to fill in each blank with a correct

reflexive pronoun

Ss practice

T corrects

T asks SS to repeat the differences of

useage: must, have to, ought to

In order to check Ss’ knowledge , T gives

them an exercise

If Ss finish correctly , T can give marks

Then T asks Ss to rewrite the sentences, be

sure to keep the meaning unchanged

Ss write the sentences on the board

T corrects

Fill in the blanks with a correct preposition

SS practice and T gives the key

1 S+ be + Adi + enough + To- Infinitive

EX : The worker is clever enough to make fine things from wood

a/ Peter is too young to see the horror film -> Peter is not

b/ He’s too weak to carry this box -> He isn’t

c/I don’t think he is strong He can’t lift such a heavy box (enough )

2 Reflexive pronouns : myself , yourself,

himself,

EX: My sister often looks at herself in the mirror

1/ Hoa and I saw that accident yesterday 2/Please help me I can’t do it

3/ Susan , you did these exercises, didn’t you ?

4/ The boy killed

3 Modal : must, have to, ought to ,

.Ought to : talk about advice must : the speaker is giving his own feelings ,

saying what he thinks is necessary

have to : the speaker is just giving situation

1/ She work on Saturday mornings 2/ Vietnamese children wear uniform when they go to school

3/ Sorry We go or we’ll miss the last train 4/ You put knives out of children’s reach

4 S + used to + V ( Inf) -> To talk about the habit in the past

EX: My father used to take us to the zoo when

he was alive 1/ When I was a child we lived in Bristol (used)

-> We when I was a child 2/When I was younger , this book was one of

my favorites ( favorite ) -> This book used of mine when I was young

3/ I live in London once, but I don’t remember anyone

-> I used

4/ Tam doesn’t type as fast as she used to -> Tam used

5 Prepositions of time

on ,at, in, after, before,between,

a/It often rains May b/ Do you give each other presents

Christmas Day ? c/They often go out for dinner Saturday evenings

d/We’ll arrive 5 o’clock 12 February 5.I’ll be home seven because I want to see the seven o’clock news

T asks Ss to give some examples

SS do exercises using the instructions in

parentheses

6.Present simple EX: The sun rises in the east

Most rivers flow into the sea Bees make honey

*** Consolidation

Do as directed in parentheses

1/ The moon goes around the sun ( Correct the mistake)

2/ He wasn’t very experienced He couldn’t do the job ( enough )

3 Where did your grandparents use to live ? ( Answer the question )

4 Bob didn’t have a city map so he got lost ( Make a question with “Why” )

5.They were very ( luck ) to survive a shipwreck( Supply the correct word form) III Homework (2’)

- Practice the exercises again -Learn by heart structures -Prepare the structures from unit 5

to unit 7

Comments :

Date

Period

CONSOLIDATION 2

I Aims :

This lesson helps Ss have a chance to review the structures and vocabulary from unit 5 to

unit 7

II Language contents

1/ Grammar :

1 Reported speech

2 Adverbs of manner

3 Gerunds

4.Modals : may, can, could

5.Present perfect

6.as as , like, the same as , different from

2/Vocabulary : from unit 5 to unit 7

III Techniques: Gap-fill

IV Teaching aids : sub- boards , cards

V Procedures :

Teacher’s and SS’ activities Contents

T asks Ss to put the following sentences

into a dialogue

Ss work in pairs and read aloud before class

T corrects and gives marks

I Warm up (3’) Marks

1 With pleasure

2 What can I do for you ?

3 Sure I’ll do it

4 Can you carry this suitcase for me ?

T asks Ss to repeat the structure

Then T asks them to complete the sentences

so that it has the same meaning as the first

Ss complete the sentences

T can give an exercise

SS observe and practice

SS choose the right word

T helps them remember how to use adverbs

of manner

T asks SS to tell some verbs which are

followed by gerunds

T gives Ss an exercise using To-inf or

Gerunds

Ss practice and compare with their partners

T helps Ss to remember how to use the

modals

Ss do exercise

Ss remond the structure of present perfect

tense

Ss complete the sentences, using the simple

past or present perfect tense

5 Could you do me a favour ? 6.Thanks It’s very kind of you!

(5-2-4-3-6-1 )

II Language focus (30’)

1 Reported speech

a/ “ Please turn off the radio “ -> Phuong told Tuan

b/ “Can you help my son with his English ?”

-> Mai asked her friend

c/Mrs Jackson said , “ You should improve your Spanish pronunciation,

Tim “ -> Mrs Jackson said

2 Adverbs of manner

*Choose the right words

1 Our team won the game because we played very good, well )

2 I always feel ( happy, happily ) when the sun

is shining

3 Tom drove ( careful, carefully) along the narrow road

3 Gerunds : V-ing

enjoy, stop, hate , love, like, dislike

Choose the right word

1 She likes ( planting, to plant ) roses in the garden

2.You don’t need ( to come, coming ) to the meeting

3 My sister hates ( to do , doing ) the ironing

4 She hopes ( to have, having ) a suitable job

4 Modals : May , Can ,Could Can, could : Asking for favors May: offering assistance

1 ( Can, Should, May ) you help me ?

2 ( Should, May ,Need ) I help you, madam ?

3 Could you ( do, make, take ) me a favour ?

4 ( Give, Let, Ask) me help you

5 Present Perfect Ex: I have lived here for ten years

I haven’t seen Tam since he left school a/ I ( work ) with himsince 1970 b/ They ( live ) there for the whole life c/ He (leave) for London a year ago d/ I ( go )to Ha Long Bay last week

6.Comparison : as as, like, the same as, different from

a/ My bicycle is nice but yours is nicer (as as) -> My bicycle isn’t

b/ Your hair is black , mine is black too ( the

S+ told, asked + O+ To-inf S1 + said + S2 + should + Verb

S+ have/ has + V ( past participle )