Unit 5 Getting started Listen and read

- Explaning: The media are the various forms of communication considered as a whole, including television, radio, magazines, newspapers and the Internet?. The media /’mi:di∂/ can be fo[r]

Bureau of Education and Training, District 6, Ho Chi Minh City

LAM SON SCHOOL

LESSON PLAN

Date of preparation: October 24th – November 4th 2009

Date of teaching: Tuesday, November 10th , 2009

Week – Period

Class: 9A2 - PHAM DINH HO SCHOOL

Teacher: Lam Quoc Phat – From: LAM SON SCHOOL

PART 1 & 2: GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ

I OBJECTIVES:

+ Introducing the new lesson topic: The media

+ Talking about the development of the media in different stages.

II LANGUAGE CONTENT:

+ Grammar: * Would = used to (They both refer to actions or habits in the

past)

* (Be) able to = can

* Gerunds after some verbs (spend, like, enjoy) + Vocabulary: Words relating to the media: The media , latest, Benefits,

viewer, town criers, a variety of, local and international, channels

III TECHNIQUES:

+ Listening & filling spaces

+ Skimming – Scanning

+ Completing sentences

+ Questions- Answers

IV TEACHING AIDS:

+ Pictures (TV, radio, newspaper and magazines, town criers)

+ Recording

+ PC, projector

V TIME: 45 minutes

VI PROCEDURES :

Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

Warm up /

Lead in

(3’) - Showing a media quiz:Question: When were the forms of media created?

Match the forms of media with the time when they were created

- Asking the question: What is the media?

- Explaning: The media are the various forms of communication

considered as a whole, including television, radio, magazines, newspapers and the Internet

The media /’mi:di∂/ can be followed by a singular or plural verb.

E.g - What is the media?

- The media are various means of communication, such as

television, radio, magazines, newspapers and the Internet

1 GETTING STARTED:

- Content: Your favorite types of media

- Showing two video clips so that students can do the same:

Q: What’s your favorite type of media?

A: - Watching TV

- Reading newspapers

- Listening to the radio

- Reading magazines

- Using the Internet

- Working in groups

- Answer: 1.c; 2 b;

3 a; 4 d

- Discusing in groups and giving the answer

- Taking notes

- Watching to do the same then

- Working in pairs

Pre-

reading &

listening

(2’)

- Introducing the content:

2 LISTEN AND READ : The Media (pages 40 & 41)

A Town criers

B Newspapers and magazines

C Television

D Interactive TV

- Listening and responding

While-reading &

listening

(28’)

A Town criers

- Showing Pre-listening question:

How did town criers work?

 Playing the recording

- Showing each uncomplete sentence:

- Listening and discussing to answer

Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

1 Town criers would go through (city streets)

2 ringing (the bell)

3 They _ the latest news as they were walking (shouted)

- Introducing: latest /’leɪtɪst/ adj the newest

 The latest news

 The latest information

- Introducing further information:

The town crier would walk around yelling, “Oyez, oyez” which

translates to “listen” in French but it meant

"hear ye" in English

"Hear ye" is a call for silence and attention

- Showing a filling task:

Listen again and complete the passage

Before ………(1)……… were invented, town criers ……… (2)

… through city streets ……(3) a bell They shouted ……(4)

…… news as they were ……(5)……

*Answers: (1): newspapers

(2): would go

(3): ringing

(4): latest

(5): walking

- Introducing: Would = used to

(They both refer to actions or habits in the past)

- Leading: B Newspapers and magazines

- Showing Pre-listening question:

Which magazine is widely read by both teenagers and

adults?

- Playing the recording

- Asking:

Is it one of the most popular magazines in Viet Nam?

( Yes, it is It is widely read by both teenagers and adults)

- Reminding:

+ teenager /’ti:neɪdʒə/ (n) someone who is between 13 and 19

years old

+ adult /’ædʌlt, ə’dʌlt/ (n) a fully grown person

- Leading: C Television

- Asking pre-listening questions:

1 Do you like watching TV?

2 What benefits does TV bring about to people’s life?

 Introducing: Benefits (good things)

- Taking notes

- Working in pairs

- Taking notes

- Listening to answer the question

- Noting

-Answering individually

- Playing the recording and asking students to make complete

sentences from words given:

1 Thanks / television / people / get / latest information

 Thanks to television people can get the latest information

2 and / interesting programs / an inexpensive / convenient way

 and enjoy interesting programs in an inexpensive and

convenient way

 Introducing: viewer /’vju:ə/ a person who watches a television

program

 Asking students to fill one word in the space:

“Nowadays, _can watch a variety of local and

international programs”

 Introducing: “a variety of”

 Introducing: “local and international programs”

 Asking students to fill one word in the space:

“viewers can watch a variety of local and international programs

on different .”

 Introducing: “channels”

- Leading: D Interactive TV

- Introducing:  interactive /,ɪntər’æktɪv/ adj involving

communication between a television and the person using it

 to interact (with): to talk and do things with each

other

- Showing Pre-listening question:

Can viewers really interact with TV? (according to the

passage)

- Playing the recording

Answer: Yes, they can.

- Showing a task:

Listen again and complete the sentence

Viewers are able to _ about the show by

Answers: - ask questions

- using their remote controls

- Introducing: (be) able to = can

- Explaining Exercise a, (page 41):

a) Complete the table with the passage letters

- Showing Exercise b) Answer the questions (page 42)

- Setting the first 3 questions as homework for having been

answered already:

1 What was a town crier?

- Working in pairs

- Taking notes

- Working in pairs

- Taking notes

- Taking notes

- Taking notes

- Listening and responding

- Listening and working in pairs to do the task

- Taking notes

Steps Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

2 How popular is the Kien Thuc Ngay Nay?

3 What benefits does TV bring about to people’s life?

- Noting

Post-reading &

listening

(10’)

- Setting the last 2 questions of Exercise b) (page 42) as a speaking

task:

+ Showing some pictures of magazines and newspapers before

students work in pairs asking and answering question number 4:

4 What kinds of magazines and newspapers do you read?

+ Introducing a “Media game” called “Let’s interview stars” to

show students how to answer question number 5:

5 What’s your favorite type of media? Why?

Game content:

- Students ask each star: “What’s your favorite type of media,

(Kasim)” ?

- The star answers:

I enjoy because I like solving puzzles and

answering questions like Le Quy Đon’s in Khănquangdo

I enjoy because it’s the most modern type

of media

I enjoy because I like reading articles with

colorful pictures

I enjoy _ because I have a small,

portable radio which I can carry around with me

I enjoy _ because it’s a very fast and

convenient way to get information

- Students try to guess their favorite type of media to put it in the

gap, for example:

I enjoy watching TV because it’s cheap and I can watch

programs in a convenient way

I enjoy reading newspapers because my mother buys them

every day

(*Note: Students may play the game before answering question

number 4)

- Working in pairs

- Working in groups

HOMEWORK

1 Write the answers to the questions of Exercise b) on page 42

2 Prepare part 3: SPEAK (page 42)

- Read the dialogue between Lien and Trung

- Talk about the TV programs you like and dislike.

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