Unit 5: Study Habits

Unit 5 STUDY HABITS Unit 5 STUDY HABITS I OBJECTIVES By the end of the lesson, students will 1 Educational aim Distinguish various ways of learning vocabulary Find the most suitable way for them to le[.]

Unit 5: STUDY HABITS I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will Educational aim: - Distinguish various ways of learning vocabulary - Find the most suitable way for them to learn words effectively Knowledge a General knowledge -Explain some terms of learning language: mother tongue, learn by heart, underline, highlight, revision,……… b Language -Enlarge vocabulary -Use some structures in the text Skills -Skimming (gist information), guessing the words in context -Scanning (detail information) -Doing True /False exercise and answer the questions II METHOD: -Communicative method -Practising method -Pair work / Group work III.TEACHING AIDS -Textbooks -Pictures / cards -Handouts / Additional practise handouts -Chalk -Blackboard IV.PROCEDURES TIME TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES CONTENT mins Check attendance and revise - T calls Ss to go to the board to check the previous lesson - T asks the 1st student some - Some words in the text vocabulary and the meanings book (p 46,47) STUDENTS’ACTIVITIES - The 1st student writes the word and meanings, then they have learnt before and give sentences to fill in the blanks ( mk or each and mk for clear notebook) - T asks the 2nd to some command reported speech - T checks, corrects and gives mark mins Warm up and lead-in - T asks Ss about what they learnt in “ Listen & read” - Is Tim’s school report card good? - What does he need to improve - T asks Ss to discuss in groups answering the report card proud of semester improve Spanish Sarah was never good at English His parents are very proud of his intelligence Can I use your dictionary? I don’t know how to pronouce this word There are two semesters in a school year - Mr.Brown told Ann, “Please give me some more paper” Mr.Brown asked Ann to give him some more paper - He told his wife “Don’t cut open all the chickens!”  He told his wife not to cut open all the chickens - Nam told Lan “Can you put the vase on the table?”  Nam told Lan to put the vase on the table or Nam told Lan if she could put the vase on the table the given exercises - 2nd student changes the sentences - The rest of the class observe, check and see if their friends if they are right or wrong - The whole class Expected answers: Yes, but he needs to improve his Spanish pronunciation Expected answers - We write word many questions and their way of learning vocabulary - Do you find English vocabulary is difficult? - How you learn new words? How many words you learn everyday? How you learn some words that we can’t translate into Vietnamese? ex: pizza, pastry … Enclosed handouts - some ways are: highlight, underline, write many times, learn by family words, learn by examples… times, spell it - we learn about 10 words a day… - Group work - Discuss - T leads in the lesson by delivering some notes for them to match about ways of learning words 10 mins Today’s lesson 3.1 Pre- reading (Ss have to close the books) - Teacher teaches the - mother tongue (n) vocabulary using pictures, ['mʌđətʌη]: tiếng mẹ examples, explanation đẻ Ex: Vietnamese is our mother tongue - learn by heart (v): học thuộc lòng - come across(v)[kʌm ə'krɔs]: gặp phải Ex: Come across to my office tomorrow if you - Students repeat in chorus - T pronounces the words, explains and calls some students repeat 15 mins have free time - underline (v)[ 'ʌndəlain] - Some students stand up : gạch chân - highlight (v)[ 'hailait] and pronounce the words : làm bật - revise (v) [ri'vaiz]  revision (n) [ri'viʒn] : ôn tập - instead (of ): thay Ex: Instead of going out, he stays at home - However : Tuy nhiên Ex: He will never succeed however hard he tries 3.2 While- reading ( students open their books) - T asks Ss to read the text individually - We are going to read about the way to learn English vocabulary Now scan the text the first - T asks Ss to work in pairs time Asks Ss to discuss and predict - Now read again in pairs which of the sentences are and the T/ F True (T) or False (F) Calls statements in the text some of the pairs go to the book p.50 board and write down their answer * True or False? a) All language learners - T corrects the answers and write the meaning of the explain the False ones new words in their mother tongue b) Some learners write examples of words they want to learn c) Every learner tries to - T gathers pairs into a learn all new words they group then asks the groups to come across _ read again and answer the d) Many learners only questions in the text book learn new words that are Calls some groups give their important _ - Individually scan the text -Pair work Expected answers a) F b) T c) F d) T - Group work - Answer the questions Expected answers a No Learners learn answer on the board - T gives correction words in different ways b Such sentences help a) False ( NOT all them remember the use of language learners, only new words SOME) c To remember words c) False ( many learners better, learners write DO NOT try to learn) examples, put the words and their meanings on * Questions: stickers, underline or a Do learners learn highlight them words in the same way? d They may think they b Why some learners can’t so Instead, they write example sentences learn only important with new words? words c What some learners e Revision is necessary in in order to remember learning words words better? f Learners should try d Why don’t some different ways of learning learners learn all the new words to find out what is words they come across? the best.( students can e What is necessary in choose one of the most learning words? suitable way for them and f How should you learn give out the answer) words? - Teacher gives Ss some more questions to practice ( main idea and details of the text) What is the passage about? How many ways of learning new words the author mention in the text? What are they? Why some people learn words by sticking the word in a note and put it everywhere in their house? Do many learners have to learn all the word they come across? If somebody wants to learn ten words in two days, how you advise his/her? Answers: It is about various ways of learning new words There are ways mentioned in the text: learn by heart, write examples, stick in the house, underline or highlight Because they can learn words at any time No, they don’t He/ She can learn in two ways First, learn 10 words in a day, revise the next day Second, learn words each day Because this helps you practice the words more time 5 mins 3.3 Post- reading - T divides Ss into groups Then gives them passage with ways of learning Tells Ss to match Which group finishes and have the most right answers is the winner mins Consolidation - T elicits what has been learn - T ask Ss if they can find the best way for them to learn words mins Homework - T Sets Exercise 8(p.36) English workbook as homework - T gives Ss some new words and let Ss choose the best way, try to learn these words, T will check later Why we have to revise new words? How we find a suitable way of learning word for ourselves? We should try many ways and find which way is the most suitable for ourselves - See the handouts enclosed - Group work - Match Expected answers a.5 b.6 c.1 d.2 e.3 f.4 g.7 - Give their opinions - Do the given exercise in your workbook, fill in the gaps with a suitable words in a box - They are: permanently, pomegranate, sufficient, equipment… - Take note Environmentalist Environmentalist Environmentalist Environmentalist Environmentalist environmentalist  environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist environmentalist write many times Select (v)  selection (n) Invent (v)  invention (n)  inventor (n) Fame (n)  famous (adj)  Learn by family words Humorous (adj) Ex: My father is humorous, he is always telling funny stories to us I like people who is humorous  learn by examples Angkor Wat should really be known as a wonder because it is the largest temple in the world  underline Yesterday, while Dad was visiting the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building  Highlight