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UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 1: Getting started + Listen and Read (PAGE 72, 73)
A/ Objectives: After the lesson, students can:
- talk about the different between the life in the city and the life in the country
- see the better changes in our life
B/ Language content:
1 Vocabulary: (n) entertainment, traffic jam, relatives, medical facilities, province
(a) Peaceful, remote, accessible
2 Grammar: * Present progressive tense: talk about the future show the change with “get” and
“become”
3 Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
C/ Techniques: Question-Answer, Play role, discussion, group work
D/ Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, tape, cassette player, chalk, board,
E/ Procedures:
1 Class organization: (1 min)
2 Check up: (no) :
3 New lesson:( 43 mins)
Warm-up (5 minutes) ( GETTING STARTED) P 46 ( Brainstorming )
- Divide Ss into 2 groups: one writes words in the box belong to the city
life, other writes words belong to the country life
- Check after 3 minutes
* Possible answers:
- tall buildings
- kinds of goods
- Noisy
- traffic jams
- entertainments
- beautiful views
- fresh food
- fresh air
- friendly
- Ask Ss to say more about the city life and country life
New lesson (1 minute)
- Introduce the new lesson
- Work in groups
- Give more words related to
- Listen
2 LISTEN AND READ ( Page 72, 73)
Presentation (8 minutes)
- Introduce the objectives of this lesson
- Introduce the dialogue between Hoa and Na
- Supply some new words
+ be away (v) : (Example) + relatives (n) (Example)
+ permanently (adv) = forever + remote area (n) (Example)
+ not only………but also (Trans) + medical facility (n) (Trans)
+ accessible (a) (Explanation) + province (n) DakLak Province
+ prefer s.o/ s.t to s.o/ s.t (v) e.g: I prefer country life to city life
- Help Ss read the words
- Present the present progressive tense with the future meaning/ the
changes
* Structures: + Things are changing in the countryside.
+ Many remote are getting electricity
- Let Ss listen to the dialogue between Nam and Na to get the main idea
-Listen to the teacher’s introduction
- Guess the meanings of the words
- Take notes
- Read as T's guide
- Pay attention and take notes
- Listen
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1 Practice the dialogue with a partner: P 72, 73
- Play the tape two times
- Play the tape one more
- Get Ss to practice the dialogue with a partner
- Go around the class to check Ss’work and offer help
- Ask Three pairs to read the dialogue aloud
- Correct mistake(s) in their pronunciation
2 Answer the questions (page 73)
- get Ss to read the questions (ae), then read the dialogue again and find
the answers
- Make sure Ss to understand the meaning the questions
- Go around the class to check Ss’ work and offer help
- Give necessary correction
* Key:
a/ Na has been to Kim Lien.
b/ She was there for one day (The weekend).
c/ The country is peaceful and quiet and there is nothing to do.
d/ (Possible answer) There are no libraries, no movies, no parks, no
zoos,… to go.
e/ Many remote areas are getting electricity People can now have
things like refrigerators and TV, and medical facilities are more
accessible.
- Look at the book and listen
- Repeat in chorus
- Practice the dialogue in pairs
- Practice the dialogue before the class (3 pairs)
- Read the dialogue and answer the questions
- Give answers
Production (7 minutes)
* Discussion:
-Divide the class into 4 groups Two groups include students who prefer
the city life and the others include students who prefer the country
life
- Ask students to work in groups to answer the questions.
Do you prefer the city or the country life? Why
- Check Ss' work
- Work in groups of four
- Show their work
Consolidation (2 minutes)
- Summarize the lesson:
+ Give some advice to Ss
+ Summarize the lesson (remind weak students)
- Listen and remember
4 Homework:
4 Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn new words and structures by heart
- Practice reading the dialogue and translate it into Vietnamese
- Prepare unit 8: Speak and listen
F/ Self- Evaluation:
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Period 45; Week 15 Date of preparation: November 30th, 2010
UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 2: Speak and Listen ( Page 73, 74)
A/ Objectives: After the lesson, students can:
- talk about the changes/ the differences
- talk a bout the changes of their life from the past to present
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- Know to love the past
B/ Language content:
1 Vocabulary: Adjectives of description things
2 Grammar: * Present progressive tense: talk about the future
3 Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
C/ Techniques: Play role, Pair work, gap- fill, Picture recognization
D/ Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, chalk, board, cassette player,
E/ Procedures:
1 Class organization: (1')
2 Check up: (5') – Call 2 pairs Ss to read the dialogue on page 72, 73 and translate it into Vietnamese
3 New lesson:( 38')
Warm-up (4 minutes) Picture cognization:
- Ask Ss to work in two groups, to pick out the words into two
pictures many as possible
- Lead in the new lesson
New lesson (1 minute)
- Introduce the aim of the new lesson
- Play the game
- Listen
- Listen
SPEAK ( Page 73, 74) Presentation (4 minutes)
- Get Ss to look at the two pictures in the textbook and identify the
town 5 years ago and the town now (use the question “Are there any
changes between the town 5 years ago and it now?”)
- Introduce the present progressive tense with “get” and “become” to
talk about the changes
S + am/ is/ are + getting/ becoming + adj
e.g: Our life is getting/ becoming more comfortable
- Get Ss to talk about the changes of the town with the help of the
words in the box
- Listen and answer
- Take notes
- Pay attention
Practice (7 minutes)
- Ask Ss to look at the 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 you
- Write the word prompts on the board so that Ss can speak easily
- traffic - > busy - sky -> cloudy
- houses -> high - city -> beautiful
- trees - > green
- Get Ss to work in pairs
- Monitor and help Ss speak
* Possible answers :
- The traffic is getting busier
- There are more tall buildings and houses.
- The houses are getting more modern
- The town is becoming more beautiful.
- The streets are becoming cleaner / larger / noisier
- Practice in pairs
- Show the dialogues aloud
- Pay attention and take notes
Production (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss to work in groups and talk about changes in their - Work in groups
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- Call on volunteer from each group to show their ideas before the
class Other groups can add in their ideas - Show their work.
LISTEN (PAGE 74) Pre- Listening ( 5 mins)
- Introduce the situation (the dialogue between Aunt Hang and Lan)
and ask Ss some questions
a/ Who is calling?
b/ Where is she calling from?
c/ When is she going to visit Lan’s family?
- Ask Ss to predict information in the dialogue
- Call on some Ss to report their predictions
-Listen to the T’s introduction
- Answer
- Guess the information in the gaps
- Read their prediction aloud
While- Listening (5 mins)
- Get Ss to listen to the tape and check their prediction
- Call on Ss to read their results and give feedback
- Give necessary correction by letting Ss listen to the tape again and
pausing at what is necessary
* Key: (1) that; (2) this; (3) It’s; (4) Where
(5) from; (6) coming; (7) week; (8) arriving;
(9) Thursday; (10) late; (11) afternoon;
(12) speak; (13) my; (14) get
- Listen and check their prediction
- Give answers
- Listen again and check the answers
Post- Listening ( 6 mins)
- Ask Ss to play the roles of Lan and Aunt Hang to practice the
dialogue
- Play the roles
Consolidation (2 minutes)
- Summarize the lesson:
+ Educate Ss good lesson
+ the change of something
- Listen and remember
4 Homework:
4 Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn new words and structures by heart
- Prepare unit 8: Read
F/ Self- Evaluation:
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Period 46; Week 16 Date of preparation: December 4th, 2010
UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 4: Read ( Page 75)
A/ Objectives: After the lesson, students can:
- talk about the differences between country life and city life
- know the social problems when the population in the country and population in the city are unequal
- develop their reading skills
B/ Language content:
1 Vocabulary: (n) rural area, urban area, well-paying job, struggle, typhoon, flood, drought, strain,
tragedy, government, migrant, opportunity
(v) Increase, overcrowd, live apart, face
(a) Plentiful
2 Grammar: * Present progressive tense: talk about the future
* Comparative
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C/ Techniques: Gessing game, Pair work, Group work, Gap- fill
D/ Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, tape, cassette player, chalk, board,
E/ Procedures:
1 Class organization: (1')
2 Check up: (5') – Call on two Ss to say the changes of the country life
3 New lesson:( 38')
Warm-up (5 minutes) Brainstorming
- Ask students to think of the difficulties of farmers' life
Typhoons
* Possible answers:
+ Droughts + the weather + hard work + no vacations
+ lack of dean water/ electricity + insects destroy harvests
- Lead in the new lesson
New lesson (1 minute)
- Introduce the new lesson
- Work in groups
- Listen
READ ( Page 75) Pre- Reading ( 10 mins)
- Ask Ss some questions
a/ Do you think many people move to live in the city now?
b/ Why do many people want to go to the city?
c/ What problems may arise when so many people move to the city?
- Introduce the situation (the text)
- Supply the new words
+ rural area (n) = countryside area + urban area (n) = city area
+ well-paying job (n) = job paid much money
+ plentiful (a) = a lot, lots + struggle (n) (Expl + Exam)
+ nature (n) (Example) + typhoon (n) (Explanation)
+ flood (n) (Explanation) + drought (n) (Explanation)
+ increase (v) + (n) (Mime) + population (n) (Example)
+ overcrowding (n) (Trans.) + strain (n) (Trans.)
+ tragedy (n) (Example) + live apart (v) (Example)
+ government (n) (Explanation) + migrant (n) (Example)
- Help Ss read new words
- Play the tape
- Listen and answer the questions
- Look at the advertisement
- Listen
- Guess its meanings
- Copy down
- Read as T' sguide
- Read statrements and guess
- Listen
While- Reading ( 14 mins)
1 Gap- filling :
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to complete summary, using the information
from the passage
- Call on some volunteers to report their results
- Give feedback
Key: 1 leaving 2 home 3 city 4 rural 5 city 6 problems
- Read the text, and complete the gaps
- Give answers and explain
Difficulties of farmers’ life
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- Call on some Ss to read the complete passage aloud
2 Finding the words
- Ask Ss to read the text again and work with their partners
- Call them to report their results
- Give feedback
Key: a rural b plentiful c increase d strain e tragedy f urban
- Read the completed passage aloud
- Work in pairs and answer the questions
- Read the correct answers
Post- Reading ( 5 mins)
- Ask Ss to work in groups to talk get Ss to talk about the advantages
and disadvantages of overcrowding population in many cities
- Go around the class to check Ss’ work and offer help
- Give necessary correction (encourage Ss to speak)
- Work in groups
- Show their work
Consolidation (2 minutes)
- Summarize the lesson:
+ Give some advice to Ss
+ Summarize the lesson about the lesson
- Listen and remember
4 Homework:
4 Homework: (1 minute)
- Learn new words and structures by heart
- Try to learn English words in some ways in the lesson
- Translate the text into Vietnamese
- Prepare unit 7: Write
F/ Self- Evaluation:
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Period 47; Week 16 Date of preparation: December 5th, 2010
UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 4: Write (Page 76)
A/ Objectives: After the lesson, students can:
- review the outline of an informal letter
- write a letter to tell about their neighborhood
- develop their writing skills
B/ Language content:
1 Vocabulary: ( Review)
2 Grammar: informal letter
3 Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
C/ Techniques: Questions and answers, Pair work, Group work,
D/ Teaching aids: Textbook, chalk, board,
E/ Procedures:
1 Class organization: (1')
2 Check up: (5') – Call 2 Ss to give the disadvanges in the country and why people move to city
3 New lesson :( 38')
Warm-up (3 minutes) Revision
- Ask Ss to put the outline for an informal letter in the correct order
- Prepare 6 cards with 6 outlines on them
- Do as T's guide
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- Ask some other Ss to rearrange them in the correct order
- Write the answer on the board and ask Ss to copy
1 Heading (- Writer ' s address / Date/ Dear ……… ,)
2 opening
3 Body
4 closing
New lesson (1 minute)
WRITE( Page 76) Pre- writing( 10 mins)
* Answer questions:
- Ask students to work in pairs to answer the questions in exercise 2
on page 76
- Call on some pairs to practice asking and answering the questions
- Give feedback
a Where do you live? (I live in a small town / big city / village)
b What does your house look like? (My house looks very nice
/small with 4/5 rooms and a nice/ small garden)
c What can you see front your bedroom window?
(From my bedroom window, I can see a small park with many green
trees and colorful flowers.)
d How far is it from your home to school? (It's far from my home
so I have to ride my bike / It's very near so I can walk.)
e What kinds of facilities are there in your neighborhood?
(There is a park / a swimming pool/ some restaurants, a post
office / a library.)
f What things in your neighborhood do you like best? Why?
(I like the park best because I can walk with my sisters after
dinner/ every morning / I like the library best because I can
read many interesting books, or study or learn how to use the
computer there.)
- Work in pairs to answer the questions on page 76
- Ask and answer loudly
While- Writing ( 15 mins)
- Ask Ss to write letters to friends about their neighborhood
- Let them write individually
- Have them compare with their partners and correct if they can
* Suggested letter :
( Writer ' s address)
( Date )
Dear ,
I live in … , a small town My family has a large house with four
rooms and a small garden My sister and I share one bedroom From
the bedroom window, I can see a beautiful park with green tress,
flowers and a pond We do not live far form my school so I usually
walk there
In my neighborhood, there is a swimming pool and a beautiful park.
On the weekend, I often go swimming with my friends Early in the
morning, I always jog with my sister around the park However, the
thing I like best in my neighborhood is the public library near my
- Write the letter in individuals
- Work in pairs
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video and learn how to use the computer
Do you have a library like that in your neighborhood? Is there
anything interesting in the place where you live? Write to me
I would like to say goodbye now I am looking forwards to hearing
from you soon
Love ,
( Signature )
Post- Writing ( 7 mins)
- Choose some letters to correct before class (using projector if
possible)
- Correct
- Correct
Consolidation (2 minutes)
- Summarize the lesson:
+ give Ss a lesson
+ Summarize the lesson how to write an informal letter
- Listen and remember
4 Homework:
4 Homework: (1 minute)
- Write the completed letter in writing
- Prepare unit 8: Language focus
F/ Self- Evaluation:
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Period 48; Week 16 Date of preparation: December 6th, 2010
UNIT 8: COUNTRY LIFE AND CITY LIFE
Lesson 5: Language focus ( Page 77, 78, 79)
A/ Objectives: After the lesson, students can:
- use Present progressive and comparative and superlative adjectives
- Have better attitude in learning English
B/ Language content:
1 Vocabulary: (n) destination, rainforest, medical facilities,
(v): delay, arrive, leave, rent
2 Grammar: - Present progressive and comparative and superlative adjectives
3 Language skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
C/ Techniques: Picture drill, Pair work, Group work, Grid drill
D/ Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures, chalk, board,
E/ Procedures:
1 Class organization: (1')
2 Check up: (5') – call on 2 Ss to say the parts in an informal letter
3 New lesson:( 38')
Warm-up (5 minutes)
* Brainstorming:
- Ask students to find out short adjectives and long adjectives they
have learnt
- Divide the class into 2 teams, one using yellow chalk and the other
red chalk
- Get students to go to the blackboard and write the adjectives
- Play as T's guide
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Activity 1 (7 minutes) ( Language focus 1/ Page 77)
- Have Ss read the dialogues a) and b).
- Explain the exercise and ask students to make similar dialogues in
pairs based on the time for arriving and leaving
- Call on some pairs to practice in front of the class
- Read the dialogues a), b)
- Do as T's guide
- Show their work in pairs
Activity 2 (7 minutes ) Language focus 2:(Page 78)
- Ask Ss to read the modal dialogues
- Ask Ss to use the present progressive tense to complete the dialogues
- Have Ss cross-check in pairs
- Call on some Ss to give the answers in front of
* Answers:
a) I’m playing b) are doing c) am watching
d) am going e) are leaning f) am having
- Read the modal dialogues
- complete the dialogues in pairs
- Ask and answer in pairs
Activity 3 (16 minutes) Language focus 3: (Page 78)
- Explain the exercise
- Have Ss read the sentences in the book
- Ask Ss to complete the sentences Use the verbs and adjectives in the
boxes
- Call on some students to give the answers in front of the class
- Have Ss read all the sentences
* Answers:
b) The old men are getting weak
c) We should go home It is getting dark.
d) The weather is becoming cold.
e) The students are getting better.
f) The schoolyard is becoming cleaner
- Listen
- Read and complete the sentences
- Work in pairs
- Read the completed sentences
Activity 4 (8 minutes) Languue focus 4 (page 70)
- Remind students of the forms of comparative andsuperlative
adjectives
- Ask students to do exercise 4 on page 79 They have to work in pairs
to make comparisons between the city and the country about: food,
facilities, schools, electricity with the adjectives; easy, expensive,
cheap, good, bad, poor, big, accessible, fresh traffic, transport, air,
entertainment, medical
- Give some examples.
a The air in the country is fresher than in the city
b.The medical facilities in the city are more accessible; than in the
country
- Move around the class and help the students write comparison
sentences
- Let each student read aloud one of the sentences they have made
* Possible answers:
a The food in the city is more expensive than in the country
b The school in the city is bigger than in the country
- Do as T's guide in pairs
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d The entertainment in the country is poorer than in the city
e The traffic in the city is busier than in the country
f The transport in the country is worse than in the city
Activity 5 (10 minutes) Languue focus 5 (page 79)
- Ask Ss to read three the advertisements and then to make
comparisons with adjectives
- Call on Ss to give answers
* Possible answers:
a The villa is older than the apartment.
b The house is more expensive than the apartment.
c The villa is bigger than the apartment
d The apartment is smaller than the villa.
e The apartment is hotter than the house.
f The house is the biggest.
g The villa is the most beautiful.
h The-apartment is older than the house.
- Read the advertisements and write
- Read answers
Consolidation (2 minutes)
- Summarize the lesson:
+ Give some advice to Ss
+ Summarize the lesson
- Listen and remember
4 Homework:
4 Homework: (1 min)
- Learn main grammar points by heart
- Summarize the main vocabulary and grammar points
F/ Self- Evaluation:
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