Skills: Speaking:- Ask for and give information about language study /language courses - Express opinions / preferences - Talk about methods of study Listening: Listen to monologues / di[r]
Trang 1UNIT 4 : LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE I.Objectives:
1 Topic: Learning a foreign language
2 Competencies: Expressing opinions Seeking information for learning a foreign
language Giving advice to someone Scan for specific information Write a letter of inquiry
3 Skills:
Speaking:- Ask for and give information about language study /language courses
- Express opinions / preferences
- Talk about methods of study
Listening: Listen to monologues / dialogues within 100-120 words for general or
detailed information
Reading: Read passages within 150-180 words for general or specific information Writing: Write a letter of enquiry within 80-100 words following a model and an
outline given
4.Language focus:
- “if ” with modal verbs: must, have to, should, might, ought to
(to talk about conditions and results)
- direct and reported speech: statements and questions
5 Vocabulary:
- Words to describe school settings, study, courses, school life
- Words to talk about language study: time-tables,
courses, subjects, ways of learning, learning activities
II Unit plan: (6 periods) Period 20 - 25
Period 1 : Getting started- Listen and read
Period 2: Speak
Period 3: Listen
Period 4: Read
Period 5: Write
Period 6: Language focus
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UNIT 4 : LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LESSON 1 : Getting started, Listen and read
A The aims of the lesson
1 Knowledge
+ The aims: By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to produce the questions for an oral examination.
- Grammar: Direct and reported speech: statements and questions
-Vocabulary: aspect, examiner, college, cadidate, written/ oral examination
2 Skills : - Practice listening, speaking, reading, writing.
3 Attitude: - Help ss to have good consciousness in order to practice reading for
details about the questions in an exam
B Preparations
1.Teacher : posters, computer, Lesson plan, textbooks, pictures, speaker, projector
2 Students: Unit 4 C1-3
C Methods:
- Model-Talk-Practice, individual work, pair work
- Some techniques can be used: Lucky numbers, Pre- questions, True - False statements, Role play
D Procedure :
I.Organization: ( 1 minute)
- Greeting: Good morning!
- Who’s absent today?
II WARM UP (5 minutes)
Lucky numbers:
- Write 10 numbers on the board, from 1 to 10
- Tell students each number is for a question but 4 of
them are lucky numbers If students
choose a lucky number, they do not need to answer
any questions but they get 2 points and they can
choose another number
- Divide the class into teams The temas take turn to
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
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- Tell students that they have to make questions about
personal information when teacher gives them a word
as a cue
E.g: Teacher : from
Students: Where are you from?
1 Name
( What’s your name? )
2 Lucky number
3 live
( where do you live? )
4 live with
(whom do you live
with?)
5 Lucky number
6 old ( How old are you? )
7 Lucky number
8 learn English ( When did you start learning English? )
9 Lucky number
10 hobbies (what are your hobbies?)
III NEW LESSON (36minutes)
Step 1 : Pre Reading : 10’
1 Vocabulary :
1 ( translation )
2 (definition ): a person who ask questions
(spoken or written) to find out how much a
person know
3 ( translation )
4 ( example )
5 ( definition) : one who takes part in an exam
6 ( translation )
- aspect ( n ):
lĩnh vực, mặt, khía cạnh
- examiner ( n ): giám khảo
- coming ( adj ): sắp đến
- college ( n ):
trường Cao đẳng hay Đại học
- candidate (n) : thí sinh
- written examination: cuộc thi viết
- oral examination:
cuộc thi vấn đáp
Checking vocabulary: What and Where
- Write the new words on the board, each word in each
circle
1 Vocabulary :
- aspect ( n ):
lĩnh vực, mặt, khía cạnh
- examiner ( n ): giám khảo
- coming ( adj ): sắp đến
- college ( n ):
trường Cao đẳng hay Đại học
- candidate (n) : thí sinh
- written examination:
cuộc thi viết
- oral examination:
cuộc thi vấn đáp
Sts : - listen
- listen and repeat (chorally then
individually)
- copy
written
exam
examiner
oral exam
coming
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- Ask students to repeat the words chorally
- Rub out word by word but leave the circles
- Go on until all the circles are empty
- Get students to go to the blackboard and write the
words in their correct circles
2 Pre- questions
- Set the scene: Lan is talking to Paola, a foreign
student, about the oral examination that se has just
taken.
- Give students 2 questions
- Have students work in pairs to answer them
- Give feedback
Step 2 While Reading :8’
1 Reading and checking
- Ask students to read the dialogue between Lan and
Paola on page 32- 33 and check if their answers are
correct or not
2 Check (v) the boxes:
- Get students to read the list of questions for the oral
examination of Royal English College on page 33
- Get them to read the dialogue again and decide what
questions that the examiner asked Lan
- Let the students do the exercise individually then
compare with their partners
- Ask students to find and compare the direct
questions and the report speech in the dialogue
*Answer keys:
1 What is your name?
→ She asked me what my name was.
2 Where do you come from?
→ She asked me where I came from.
3 Do you speak any other languages?
→She asked me if I spoke any other languages.
4 Why are you learning English?
→ She asked me why I was learning English.
5 How did you learn English in your country?
→ She asked me how I learned English in my country.
6 How will you use English in the future?
→ She asked me how I would use English in the
2 Read :
* Questions :
1 Were the questions in oral exam difficult or easy?
2 How many questions did the examiner ask Lan? Answers:
1 They are difficult ( according to Lan )
2 About over 7 questions Beside, she was asked to read a passage
* Check (v) the boxes:
Answer keys:
Questions : 1,2,6,7,8,9,10,14
aspect
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difficult?
→ She asked me what aspect of learning English I
found most difficult.
8 Read this passage.→ She asked me to read that
passage.
Step 3 Post Reading :8’
Speaking/ role play:
1 - Ask students to work in pairs to practice asking
and answering One students plays the role of
examiner and another plays the role of Lan
- Call on some pairs to demonstrate before the class
- Give feedback and correct
2 - Have students play the roles of Paola and Lan
- Call on some pairs to play the roles of Paola and Lan
before the class
- Correct their pronunciation/ intonation
- Ask students to work in pairs to practice the dialogue
IV SUMMARY (1 minutes)
Reading a dialogue about the questions in an exam
V HOMEWORK (2 minutes)
- Ask students to write the direct questions and their
reported speech in their notebooks
- Make 2 direct questions and change into reported
speech
- Prepare the next lesson : Unit 4: Speak
3 Speak :
1 examiner
Lan 2 Paola
Lan 4 Homework : * Evaluation :
Date of preparing: 11/11/2020 Period 22
UNIT 4 : LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
LESSON 2 : Speak
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1 Knowledge
+ The aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to persuade friends to attend
the school they like
* Expressions: (use to persuade someone to do something)
- I think
- What do you think ?
- I agree/ disagree because
- I don’t understand - Why don’t we/ you
- I need , we can
- We should
- Let’s
-Vocabulary: scholarship, advertisement, details, request, available, useful, well-qualified, beginner/intermediate/advanced, attend, improve, award, persuade, experience, offer, supply,
2 Skills : - Practice listening, speaking, reading, writing.
3 Attitude: - Help ss to have good consciousness in order to practice reading for
details about the questions in an exam
B Preparations
1.Teacher : posters, computer, Lesson plan, textbooks, pictures, speaker, projector
2 Students: Unit 4 Speak
C Methods: - Help ss to have good consciousness in order to practice speaking
D Procedure :
I.Organization: ( 1 minute)
- Greeting: Good morning!
- Who’s absent today?
9B
II WARM UP (5 minutes)
Pelmanism
- Prepare ten cards with number ( from 1 to 10 )
on one side and the name of coutries and their
capitals on the other
- Stick ten cards on the board so that the students
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are mixed up
- Divide the class into two teams and ask students
to choose two numbers, turn the cards over If they
match (e.g: US - Washington DC ), that team gets
one mark If not, turn the cards over again and ask
the next tem to continue
- Go on until all the cards are turned over The
team which has more marks wins the game
III NEW LESSON (35minutes)
Step 1 Presentation : (8’)
1 Vocabulary :
- scholarship ( n ): học bổng
(definition) : a payment of money to a clever
students
- abroad ( adv ): ở nước ngoài
- persuade ( v ): thuyết phục
- dormitory:
ký túc xá, nhà ở tập thể
to enable him to continue his studies.
- campus ( n ): khu trường học (example )
definition):the grounds of a school,college or
university
- reputation ( n ): danh tiếng
( translation ) ( synonym: fame, honor )
( translation )
- native speaker ( n ):
người bản xứ (nói tiếng bản địa) ( definition) :
a person who speaks his mother tongue.
* Checking vocabulary: Slap the board
- Put the new words all over the blackboard
- Call two students or two teams of students to the
front of the class Make sure they stand at an equal
distance from the board
- Call out one of the new words ( in Vietnamese )
in a loud voice, the two students must run forward
and slap the word on the blackboard The one who
first slaps the correct word is the winner If the
students play in team, the winning teams gets one
mark Then ask two more students to come
DC New
Zealand
Wellington
1 Vocabulary :
Sts : - listen
- listen and repeat (chorally then individually)
- copy
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2 Setting the scene: “ Tomorrow is Sunday Lan
and her friends want to go somewhere Lan enjoys
going to the seaside What does she say to
persuade her friends to go with her to the
seaside?”
“ I think we should go to the seaside.”.
“ Why don’t we go to the seaside?”.
“ If we go to the seaside we can swim and
sunbathe”.
- Remind students of the expressions that they can
use to persuade someone to do something
Step 2 Practice : 17’ - Divide the class into groups of three - Ask students in groups to play the roles of Thu, Tam and Kim They are awarded a scholarship of US$ 2000 to attend an English language summer course abroad Each person tries to persuade his/her friends to attend the school s/he likes to go to - Have students read the three advertisements to get information Eg: * Thu - the Brighton Language Center UK I think we should go to the Brighton Language Center in the UK Because the school there has excellent reputation and we can live in the dormitory on campus * Tam - Seattle School of English - USA Why don’t we go to the Seattle School of English in the USA? You can stay with Vietnamese friends They will help us a lot. 2 Speak : * Expressions: (use to persuade someone to do something) - I think
- What do you think ?
- I agree/ disagree because
- I don’t understand - Why don’t we/ you
- I need , we can
- We should
- Let’s
* Situations on page 34
Students in groups to play the roles of Thu, Tam and Kim
reputation
campus
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What do you think about the Brisbane Institute of
English in the Australia? It is quite close to
Vietnamese and the course is the cheapest.
- Call on some groups to demonstrate before the
class
- Let the students work in groups, practice
persuading their partner using the expressions in
the box on page 34 and the information in the three
advertisements
Step 3 Production :(10’)
- Students to discuss about this topic “ What will
you do on Tet holiday? Some one of your friends
want to go to the Spring Fair Others want to
spend their holiday with their grandparents in the
countryside, etc.
- Get students to work in groups of 3, persuading
others to do that he/ she prefers
IV SUMMARY (2 minutes)
- Speaking to persuade someone to do something
V HOMEWORK (2 minutes)
- Ask students to write a short paragraph about the
reasons why they learn English
What will you do on Tet holiday?
E Evaluation :