- Ss can organize the words into four different categories as follows: FACE: square, oval, round HAIR: curly, wavy, dyed, sleek, shoulder-length, long, short, fair, straight, grey NOSE: [r]
Trang 1Period: 3rd Date of preparation: August 23rd, 2011
UNIT1: Friendship Lesson: Speaking
I OBJECTIVES:
1 Aim: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Describe the physical characteristics and personalities of their friends, using appropriate adjectives.
- Make a dialogue talking about a famous friend.
2 Knowledge:
- Vocabulary:
Words to describe physical characteristics, personalities and friendship.
- Grammar/ Structures:
- (Pronunciation):
3 Skills: speaking
II PREPARATION:
1 Teacher: textbook, workbook, tests, chalks.
2 Students:textbooks, workbooks, notebooks, pens.
III PROCEDURE:
1 Warm-up:
Game: “Take Them Home”
- T divides the class into 4 groups
- T gives each group a poster and 20 cards then gives the rule of the game
Poster:
Card:
tall square shoulder-length
HEIGH T NOSE
Trang 2- Ss work in groups, take turns to choose the cards then stick them in the right categories.
- Ss can organize the words into four different categories as follows:
FACE: square, oval, round
HAIR: curly, wavy, dyed, sleek, shoulder-length, long, short, fair, straight, grey
NOSE: straight, flat, turned-up, pointed
HEIGHT: tall, short, medium
- T asks:
+ Which other words are used for describing physical characteristics?
2 New lesson:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
A Pre - speaking
- Help Ss to read those words
- Help them use those words in their own
sentences to describe one of their friends in
their class
Elicit them by asking:
+ What does he / she look like?
+ What is / she like?
+ Is he / she tall?
- Describe one of their friends
- Take part in the teacher’s work
Model dialogue:
T: Could you tell me something about your friend? What’s he like?
S: Oh, he is friendly
T: What does he look like?
S: Tall and good-looking
B While - speaking
Task 1: Describe the four persons:
Give them some useful expressions:
- He is of medium height
- He has got a square face with blue eyes
- She wears her hair in a bony tail.( đuôi
ngựa)
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, then call some Ss
to present their answers
Expected answers:
1 The boy is about 16 He may be short-
sighted because he is wearing glasses He has short black hair, a round face with a broad forehead, a small nose, thin lips and
a small chin He’s quite good – looking
2 The girl is about 14 She’s also wearing
a pair of glasses She has shoulder – length black hair, and she’s wearing a ribbon She’s has an oval face with a straight nose, full lips and a pointed chin She’s quite pretty
3 The man is in his late forty He’s tall and
well- built He has short brown hair and a square face with a broad forehead, small eyes, a crooked nose and thin lips He’s quite good – looking
4.The woman is in her late twenty She’s quite tall and slim She has long curly brown hair and an oval face with a broad forehead, big eyes, a straight nose, heart – shaped lips and a small chin She’s very beautiful
Trang 3Task 2 : Rearrange the adjectives
- Elicit or explain some adjectives quickly:
* Caring: kind, helpful, showing that you
care about other people
* Hospitable : pleased to welcome guests,
generous and friendly to visitors
* Modest: not talking much about your
own abilities or personalities
* Sincere: saying only what you really
think or feel
* Understanding: showing sympathy for
other people’s problems and being willing
to forgive them when they do something
wrong
-Ask Ss to work in groups, discuss and take
notes of the ideas
-Call some Ss to present their answers
Expected answer:
My group thinks that being caring is the most important in friendship because when friends care about each other, they will know when to share happiness or difficulty with their friends
C Post - speaking
Task 3: Make an interview
-Ask Ss to work in groups to make
questions or facts about a famous friend
based on the suggestions in the textbook
before doing the task
- Elicit some questions they may ask:
* his/her physical characteristics :
* his/her hobbies
*His/her personalities:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to perform the
interview
-Call some Ss to present their answers
- Elicit feedback from the class and give
final comment
- Ss make questions, using the suggestions
(textbook, page 17).
Expected answer:
* What’s your friend’s/ his/ her name?
* When was he/ she born?
* What does he/ she look like?
* What are his/ her hobbies?
* What’s he/ she like?
* What makes him/ her a good friend?
* What made him/ her successful?
* How much time does he spend on Math every day?
* What does he do in his free time?
- Ss work in pairs: Journalist & Interviewee
IV HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:
- Practise the dialogue talking about a famous friend.
- Prepare the next period – unit1: Listening.
V TEXTBOOK ADAPTATION: No