Unit 3

Week : Period: Date of preparing: Date of teaching: UNIT 3: ADVENTURE Lesson 1: Vocabulary: Natural feature I can express my preferences about places and activities I./ OBJECTIVES Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - ask and answer questions about the adventure all around the world - learn more about natural places ‘vocabularies - collect a lot of information about the famous scenic spots of the world Skills: Speaking, listening, reading, writing Attitude: Students know how to learn English in the right way Competence: Communication, self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use language…… II./ PREPARATION: Teacher: pictures, textbooks, PowerPoint slides, … Students: textbook, notebook III./ TEACHING METHODS: Communicative approach, group Ss and T’s activities, play as a character, teaching methods with game, teaching methods by visual, teaching methods by practising, discussion group, technical present… IV./.PROCEDURE: Check–up: during the lesson New lesson Teacher’s and students’ activities ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UP ❖ Aims: Students can discuss in pairs the natural features of Vietnam ❖ Contents: Students apply their knowledge to the situations, then work in individual and groups to answer the questions ❖ Products: Students answers ❖ Organization: - Students work in pairs to ask and answer questions - Teacher gives students time to work in pairs - Teacher invites students to speak in front of the class - Teacher gives feedback Contents THINK! Can you name two natural features that Việt Nam is famous for? Which ones have you visited? (Students’ own answers.) 🕮 New words - adventure (n): phiêu lưu scuba-diving (n): lặn biển enormous (adj): rông lớn, bao la cave (n): động sea (n): biển valley (n): thung lũng ACTIVITY 2: KNOWLEDGE FORMATION ❖ Aims: Teacher presents new words related to natural features ❖ Contents: Students listen and repeat new words individual/pairs/groups ❖ Products: Students can understand the meaning of new words ❖ Organization: - Teacher shows new words and uses some techniques of teaching vocabulary to teach them, then asks students to listen and repeat - Students listen to the teacher and repeat the words - Students copy down these words into their notebooks ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ❖ Aims: Students can apply the knowledge they have learnt to the given tasks ❖ Contents: Students work in individual/pairs/groups to complete the tasks ❖ Products: Students’ answers ❖ Organization Exercise 1: - Teacher gives students time to complete the task - Students read the quiz and complete the table - Students check answers with partners - Teacher invites some students to answer the exercise - Teacher checks students’ answers Exercise 2: - Teacher gives students time to the exercise - Students read the quiz and complete it - Teacher plays the audio and checks students’ answers - river (n): sông spectacular (n): hùng vĩ falls (n): thác wildlife (n): hoang dã rainforest (n): rừng nhiệt đới waves (n): sóng biển ocean (n): đại dương beach (n): bãi biển Complete the table with the words in blue in the quiz Then compare your answers with a partner's Exercise 3: - Teacher plays the audio and gives students time to complete the task - Teacher invites some students to show their answers -Teacher plays the audio again and checks students’ answers ACTIVITY PRODUCTION ❖ Aims: Students can express their favourite natural places ❖ Contents: Students work in pairs ❖ Products: Students’ opinions ❖ Organization: Exercise 4: - Teacher divides students into pairs and gives them time to the exercise Suggested answers - Students work in pairs, then ask and answer based on the note in the book Land - Teacher invites some pairs of students to speak in front of the class valley - Teacher gives students feedback cave rainforest dunes ACTIVITY HOMEWORK desert -Learn by heart all the new words -Prepare for the next lesson – Reading Water sea river falls waves ocean beaches Do the quiz with a partner Then listen and check your answers Suggested answers: c b b c b a Watch or listen to Max, Alicia and Elizabeth talking about places and activities What place would each person like to visit? Suggested answers Max: sea/beach Alicia: Sahara Desert Elizabeth: a forest USE IT! Work in pairs Ask and answer questions 1–4 using the key phrases (Students’ own answers.) FINISH: Think about two places of interest in Việt Nam Use the key phrases to talk about which one you'd prefer to see and why *Feedback: Week : Period: Date of preparing: Date of teaching: UNIT 3: ADVENTURE Lesson 2: Reading: An epic adventure I can identify an author’s audience and intention I./ OBJECTIVES Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - identify the main idea in the text - learn more vocabulary about the activities in adventure - understand the content of the blog of Rachel Ridley - come up with the advantages and disadvantages of going on an adventure Skills: Speaking, listening, reading, writing Attitude: Students know how to learn English in the right way Competence: Communication, self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use language…… II./ PREPARATION: Teacher: book, planning, TV Students: books, notebooks III./ TEACHING METHODS: Communicative approach, group Ss and T’s activities, play as a character, teaching methods with game, teaching methods by visual, teaching methods by practising, discussion group, technical present… IV./.PROCEDURE: Check–up: during the lesson New lesson: Teacher’s and Students’ activities ACTIVITY 1: WARM-UP ❖ Aims: Students can talk about their favourite places in Vietnam ❖ Contents: Students work individually/work in pairs ❖ Products: Students’ performances ❖ Organization: - Teacher divides the class into pairs - Teacher gives the student time to talk with their partner - Teacher invites some pairs of students to speak in front of the class - Teacher gives feedback ACTIVITY 2: KNOWLEDGE Contents THINK! Think about two places of interest in Việt Nam Use the key phrases to talk about which one you'd prefer to see and why (Students’ own answers.) 🕮 New words - journey (n): hành trình - surf (v): lướt sóng - inspire (v): truyền cảm hứng - inspirational (adj): gây cảm hứng - kayaking (n): chèo thuyền kayak Read the blog post and answer the FORMATION ❖ Aims: Teacher presents new words related to adventure ❖ Contents: Students listen and repeat new words individually/in pairs/groups ❖ Products: Students can understand the meaning of new words ❖ Organization: -Teacher introduces some new words “Before reading, there are some new words in the text.” - Teacher uses some techniques of teaching vocabulary to teach them, then asks students to listen and repeat - Students listen to the teacher and repeat the words - Students copy down these words into their notebooks questions to identify the purpose of the text Who is writing? Why? Who is the author writing for? What question does she want her readers to answer? ACTIVITY 3: PRACTICE ❖ Aims: Students can apply the knowledge which they have learnt to the tasks given Suggested answers as well as develop reading skills Rachel Ridley is writing the blog Because ❖ Contents: Students work in individual/ she is recommending a blog pairs/ groups The author is writing for her blog ❖ Products: Students’ answers audience ❖ Organization The questions the author wants her readers Exercise 1: to answer are: “ Does anyone else want Pre-reading some adventure?” - Teacher explains some vocabulary that students haven’t known yet While reading Read and listen to the text again and - Teacher gives students time to read the blog answer questions and answer the questions How long has Liz Clark been travelling? - Teacher invites some students to answer the How did she get her yacht? questions What does Liz when she stops - Teacher explains the answers and gives somewhere? feedback How does Liz pay for her trip? Why does Rachel offer to join Liz on her Exercise 2: journey? - Teacher plays audio and keeps the class quiet Suggested answers - Teacher gives students time to read the blog, questions and the exercise - Teacher invites students to answer the questions in front of the class, - Teacher checks answers with the class Exercise 3: - Teacher has students close their books and not use any electronic devices to look up the dictionary - Then, teacher divides the class into some groups - Students work in groups, read the text again and discuss the meaning of blue words in the blog - Teacher invites some groups to express their meaning - Teacher compares the meaning of the blue word and gives students time to look up the blue vocabulary in the dictionary The group with the highest score will get good points ACTIVITY PRODUCTION ❖ Aims: Teacher helps students consolidate the lesson ❖ Contents: Students work in pairs ❖ Products: Students’ answers ❖ Organization: Exercise 4: - Teacher gives students time to prepare their answers - Students work in pairs and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of going on a trip on their own - Teacher invites some students to talk about their answers and gives feedback ACTIVITY HOMEWORK - Learn by heart all the new words - Do exercises (in the workbook) - Prepare new lesson She has travelled to many fascinating places for over fifteen years Liz learned to sail as one of her old professors offered to lend her his yacht for as long as she wanted it When she stops somewhere, she surfs, does yoga and writes her blog Adverts on Liz's blog have been paying for her trip Because Liz wants some adventure VOCABULARY PLUS  Use a dictionary to check the meaning of the phrases in blue in the text Suggested answers Students look up new words by using a dictionary 🕮 New words - set off (v): lên đường, khởi hành - leave behind (v): bỏ lại - stop off (v): tạm dừng - stay with (v): lại với - carry on (v): tiếp tục USE IT! Work in pairs Think of three advantages and three disadvantages of going on a trip on your own (Students’ own answers.) Suggest answer: Advantages: - Discover new lands - Learn a lot of new things - Relax, away from the pressure Disadvantages: - May encounter dangers by nature, and climate - May meet bad people - Feeling lonely *Feedback: Week : Period: Date of preparing: Date of teaching: UNIT 3: ADVENTURE Lesson 3: Language Focus: Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous I can talk about actions which have been in progress I./ OBJECTIVES Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - understand how to use present perfect simple and present perfect continuous - can talk about actions which have been in progress - can distinguish how to pronounce /æ/ and /ə/ Skills: Speaking, listening, reading, writing Attitude: Students know how to learn English in the right way Competence: Communication, self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use language…… II./ PREPARATION: Teacher: book, planning, TV Students: books, notebooks III./ TEACHING METHODS: Communicative approach, group Ss and T’s activities, play as a character, teaching methods with game, teaching methods by visual, teaching methods by practising, discussion group, technical present… IV./.PROCEDURE: Check–up: during the lesson New lesson: Teacher’s and Students’ activities ACTIVITY 1: KNOWLEDGE FORMATION ❖ Aims: Help students learn the structures: PRESENT PERFECT and PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS ❖ Contents: Students work individually ❖ Products: Students’ answers ❖ Organization: Exercise 1: - Teacher teaches students about present perfect and present perfect continuous, and gives them structure, form, and examples about this tense - Teacher invites students to read aloud the Contents Present perfect simple and present perfect continuous 🕮 GRAMMAR Present perfect ( Thì hồn thành) diễn tả hành động, việc xảy khứ kéo dài tới (+) S + HAS/HAVE + V-ED/V3 (-) S+ HAS/HAVE + NOT + V-ED/V3 (?) HAS/HAVE + S + V-ED/V3? Week : Period: Date of preparing: Date of teaching: UNIT 3: ADVENTURE Lesson 5: Language focus • Present perfect simple + just, still, yet and already I can talk about what I have and haven’t done I./ OBJECTIVES Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - understand how to use present perfect simple just, still, yet and already to their task - apply what they learned in this lesson to talk about what they have and haven’t done Skills: Speaking, listening, reading, writing Attitude: Students know how to learn English in the right way Competence: Communication, self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use language…… II./ PREPARATION: Teacher: book, planning, TV Students: books, notebooks III./ TEACHING METHODS Communicative approach, group Ss and T’s activities, play as a character, teaching methods with game, teaching methods by visual, teaching methods by practising, discussion group, technical present… IV./.PROCEDURE Check–up: during lesson 2.New lesson: Teacher’s and Students’ activities ACTIVITY 1: KNOWLEDGE FORMATION ❖ Aims: Help students review how to use PRESENT PERFECT and learn how to use this tense with just, still, yet and already ❖ Contents: Students pay attention to the different usage between these words and work individually ❖ Products: Students understand the grammar ❖ Organization: - Teacher explains the grammar to Contents Present perfect simple + just 🕮 GRAMMAR: - We often use just with the present perfect simple - We use it to reinforce the idea that an action has only been completed very recently - We use it in affirmative sentences and it goes between the auxiliary has/have and the past participle Ex: We have just gone to school (chúng vừa đến trường)