Can you tell us the story in Vietnamese?
- Ask students to tell the story in Vietnamese.
- Leading to the new lesson: " To day we are going to study a short story similar to Tam Cam - The lost shoe"
- Write the title on board: Unit 4- Reading.
I. Pre-reading:
1. Pre-teach vocabulary:
- cruel (adj) (How are Cam and her mother?)
- upset ( adj) (Visual)
- magical (adj) (Translation) magically(adv)
- prince (n)(Who found Tam's shoe?)
- fairy (n) (Who gave Tam new clothes?)
- (to) fall in love (synonym: What is another word for 'love'?)
II. While reading:
1. Skimming the reading:
- Have students read the text in two minutes and find out the persons in the story.
- Write students’ ideas on board in a column.
- Give students one more minute reading if they can't list all.
- Check and correct.
2. Matching:
- hang the poster with the person's activities on the right of the above column.
- Ask students to think and match the persons with their activities.
- Have students read the text again and check the matching.
Answer Keys:
Persons in the story Activities
a. was very upset and soon died.
1.Little Pea b. had to do chores all day.
2.Little Pea's father c. was very cruel to Little Pea.
3. Stout Nut d. found the shoe.
4. Stout Nut's mother e. made new clothes only for Stout Nut.
5. The fairy f. magically changed Little Pea's rags into beautiful Clothes.
6. The prince g. dropped and lost one of her shoes.
h. fell in love with Little Pea.
Answer keys:
1. b, g 2. a 3. (no information)
4. c,e 5. f 6. d, h.
3. Gap-filling:
- Hang the poster on board, students read the text again to fill in gaps
a. Little Pea's father was very _________and soon died
b. Little Pea's mother_______ when she was young.
c. Little Pea_______ to do chores all day after her father got married_________.
d. The harvest festival came but Stout Nut's mother did not make _________ for Little Pea.
e. The prince found Little Pea's ______ shoe.
f. A fairy changed Little Pea's ________ into beautiful clothes.
g. The_______ decided to marry the girl who fitted the shoe.
h. Little Pea _______ and lost one of her shoes
- Call on some students to the board to fill in the gaps.
- Check and correct.
Answer key;
a. upset b. died c. had d. new clothes.
e. lost f. rags g. price h. dropped
III. Post reading:
1. Ordering :
- Ask students to order the sentences in the exercise matching.
- Check and correct.
Answer key: 1. b 2. c 3. a 4. d
5. f 6.h 7.e 8. g
2. Retelling:
- Ask students to use the information from Matching and Ordering to retell the story.
IV. Homework: - Answer the question on p.42. Rewrite the story in brief.
- Get ready for writing.