Lesson plan 8 Period 21 Week 7, date: October 19 th , 2007 Lesson 1: Getting started , Listen and read I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to: - Know the life of Vietnamese people about 100 years ago. - Distinguish the fact and opinion. 1. Knowledge: - Vocabulary: great-grandma, folktale, traditional stories - Grammar: used to + bare Infinitive. 2. Skills : +Main skills : listening, reading +Sub-skills : speaking , writing 3. Educational aims: - Know the difference between the life in the past and the life in the present and appreciate the tradition of Vietnamese people. II. Methods and techniques: Integrated, mainly communicative, pair-work, group- work. III. Teaching aids: Pictures and cassettes IV. Procedure: What the Teacher and Students do Content 1.warm up (4’) Getting Started: Look at the picture and write the names of the things that do not belong to the past. ( pair-work) 2. Presentation (10’) T introduces the situation before they listen. Ss listen to the tape and note what Nga’s grandmother used to do in the past. Set the scene: We are going to listen to a Vocabulary • great-grandma: grandmother, grandfather • folktale (n): = traditional stories (+) S+ used to + bare infinitive (-) S + didn’t use to + bare infinitive. (?) Did + S + use to + bare infinitive? 1. Practice the dialogue with a partner. 2. Ask and answer the questions 51 Lesson plan 8 dialogue between Nga and her grandmother about the things that Nga’s grandmother used to do when she was a young girl. You listen to the tape and write the names of the things she had to do. Some Ss read what they have noted. T uses pictures to elicit and explain new words Practice pronunciation. Check vocabulary. 3. Practice (20’) 1. Ss work in pairs to practice the dialogue. Some pairs practice in front of the class. 2. They work in pairs to ask and answer the questions. They practice asking and answering before the class and write their answers on the board. T gives the correct answers. 3. T explains Fact or Opinion. T encourages Ss to give more examples. Ss find each statement F or O then compare with others. T gives the correct answers. 4. Production (8’) Group-work: list the games which children don’t play now. Use “ Used to”. Explanation: 1. The place where the farmers work. 2. The adjective of “ tradition” 3. The mother of your grandmother 4. It is a traditional story 5. Religious or other celebration. a. She used to live on the farm. b. Because she had to stay home and help her Mom. c. She used to cook the meals, clean the house and wash the clothes. d. Her great-grandma lit the lamp and her great-grandfather used to tell them stories e. She asked her grandmother to tell her the tale “The Lost Shoe” 3. Fact or Opinion. Ex: There is a flower Fact The flower is very beautiful. Opinion a.F b.F c.F d.F e.O f.O. Crossword puzzle F A R M T R A D I T I O N A L G R E A T G R A N D M A F O L K T A L E F E S T I V A L Keyword: VIET NAM V. Homework: (3’) 52 Lesson plan 8 Each sentence has a mistake. Find and correct it. 1. Nga used to living on a farm when she was young. 2. I didn’t went to school yesterday because of my illness. 3. Peter was born at June 15 th . 4. This piece of news made her sadly. 5. What you did last night? 6. We have to finished our work on time. Keys: 1. used to live 2. didn’t go 3. on 4. sad 5. did you do 6. finish V - Self- evaluation: + Good points: - Sts are active. - Ss practice the dialogue well + Bad point: Some Ss don’t have chances to practice the dialogue in front of the class. ____________________________________________________________________________ Period 22 Week 8, date: October 20 th , 200 Lesson 2: Speak, listen I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to: - Express the difference between the life in the past and the life in the present. - Understand the main idea of the story to choose the best moral lesson. 1. Knowledge: Vocabulary: lay, discover, excitedly, in amazement. Grammar: used to, present simple. 2. Skills : +Main skills : listening, speaking +Sub-skills : reading , writing 3. Educational aims: “ Don’t be foolish and greedy” 53 Lesson plan 8 II. Methods and techniques: Integrated, mainly communicative, pair-work, group- work. III. Teaching aids: Pictures and cassettes IV. Procedure: What the Teacher and Students do Content 1. Recap (4’) Make a short conversation then answer these questions. Questions: 1. Did Nga’s grandmother go to school? Why? 2. What did Nga’s great-grandmother use to do? Warm up: Play a game: Happy Memories • What is your favorite childhood memory? • What sports or games did you use to play when you were younger? • Did you use to have a nickname? • Did you use to cry a lot when you were a small child? Speak Pre-speaking Divide the class into 2 groups, each group lists what they can see in each picture. They state what they can see before the class. Instructions: Now you work in pairs, looking at the picture and the words listened, talk about the differences between life in the past and now by using used to. While-speaking 1. Ss work in pairs and discuss the difference between the life in the past and the life in the present. Feedback Speak Picture 1: - small houses - people work on paddy field - children play at home - stack of traw Picture 2: - big houses and buildings - cars - shop - TV - traffic lights 1. Talk about the way things used to be and the way they are now. Suggested answers: People used to live in small houses. Now they live in big houses and buildings. People used to walk to travel. Now they can go by car, motorbike There didn’t use to be electricity. Now there is electricity everywhere. People used to work hard all the time. Now they have a lot of time for entertainment. Children used to play traditional games. Now they play computer games. People used to raise cattle themselves for meat. Now they buy it in the supermarket. 2. Now tell your partner about the things you used to do last year. (Ss’ answers). 54 Lesson plan 8 2. Ss work in pairs to talk about the things they used to do last year and compare to those at the present. Feedback. Post-speaking Ss list the things they used to in the past. T finds the student who had the most good habits in the past. Listen Pre-listening Questions: 1. Do you always read stories? 2. Which story impresses you most? Why? T gives new words, practice pronunciation, check vocabulary. Then T also explains 4 titles. Instructions: There are a lot of Vietnamese folktales which have precious moral lessons. We are going to listen to one of those stories. You listen to it and decide which of the following is the most suitable moral lesson. While-listening Ss listen to the tape twice then find the correct choice by taking notes. They compare with others and check. They listen the 3rd time. Ss tell the story in their own words. T gets feedback from the students. Post-listening - Ss work in a group of 4 to retell the story. - Story-telling competition: a group of 4 or 5 For example: Last year I used to go hiking with my friends. This year I go to the park to play with my friends. Last year I used to get bad marks. Now I get good marks. Listen New words - lay – laid - discover (v) = find out - excitedly (adv) - in amazement: trong sù söng sèt Listen to the story. Write the letter of the most suitable moral lesson. Answer: b. Don’t be foolish and greedy. TAPE TRANSCRIPT One a farmer lived a comfortable life with his family. His chickens laid many eggs which the farmer used to sell to buy food and clothing for his family. One day, he went to collect the eggs and discovered one of the chickens laid a gold egg. He shouted excitedly to his wife, “We are rich! We are rich!” His wife ran to him and they both look at the egg in amazement. The wife wanted more, so the husband decided to cut open all the chickens and find more gold eggs. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any eggs. When he finished all, the chickens were dead. There were no more eggs of any kind for the foolish farmer and his greedy wife. 55 Lesson plan 8 prepare a story then a representative tells it. 5. Homework (3 )’ Write the sentences with “Used to” to tell about the life of people two hundred years ago. 1. believe in / fairy tales. 2. think / the earth was flat. 3. have / big families. 4. go to work / by car. 5. travel / by plane. 6. have / a computer. 7. hunt / for food. 8. sing / foreign songs. Keys: 1. People used to believe in fairy tales. 2. People used to think the earth was flat. 3. People used to have big families. 4. People didn’t use to go to work by car. 5. People didn’t use to travel by plane. 6. People didn’t use to have a computer. 7. People used to hunt for food. 8. People didn’t sing foreign songs. V - Self- evaluation: + Good points: - The lesson is very interesting. Ss participate in the lesson excitedly. + Bad point: Time is limited ____________________________________________________________________________ Period 23 Week 8, date: October 25 th , 2007 Lesson 3: read I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: - Understand the folktale “The Lost Shoe”. 1. Knowledge: Vocabulary: be cruel to, fairy, change…into, prince, fall in love with. Grammar: Past simple tense. 2. Skills : +Main skills : reading +Sub-skills : listening, speaking , writing 3. Educational aims: Ss have a good lesson from the story: Good people have happiness and luck. 56 Lesson plan 8 II. Methods and techniques: group work, pair-work, asking – answering, guessing… III. Teaching aids: Pictures and cassettes IV. Procedure: What the Teacher and Students do Content 1. Recap (4’) Tell the differences between the life in the past and the life in the present. Use “ used to” Warm up Sing a song (Based on the song BINGO (From Favorite ABC Songs)) There was a farmer who had a daughter And LITTLE PEA was her name E L I T T L E P E A. L I T T L E P E A And LITTLE PEA was her name E T states the name of the story, asks Ss some questions. Questions: 1. Do you like folktales? 2. What are those stories usually about? Can you tell me the name of some stories that you remember? 3. Do you know this story? 2. Pre-reading (8’) Ordering pictures: Ss look at the pictures then arrange them into a logical story. Ss skim the story quickly and find out who Little Pea was, who Stout Nut was and whose shoes were lost. Look at the pictures. They are in the wrong order. Decide what the correct order is. Write the letter next to the number in the answer box A B C D 1.C 2. D 3. A 4. B New words: • Be cruel to: ®éc ¸c víi • Fairy (n): Nµng tiªn, Bµ tiªn • Change . . . into: thay ®æi. . . thµnh 57 Lesson plan 8 T gives new words by using pictures, examples, and definitions. Practice pronunciation. Check vocabulary by rubbing and remembering. 3. While-reading (20’) 1. Complete the sentences with words from the story. Ss read the story again and find the words to fill in the blanks. Ss compare their answers with others. Some Ss read and write the words. T gives the keys. 2. Answer the questions. Write the answers in your exercise book. Ss work in pairs to find the answers. They exchange their ideas to discuss the answers. They practice asking and answering in pairs. T gives the correct answers. Ss write the answers in their exercise book. 4. Post-reading (10’) Story – telling competition T divides the class into 4 groups. Each group prepares a folktale with the main details. A representative tells it before the class. T gives some remarks and hands them awards. • Prince (n) : Hoµng tö • Fall in love with: ph¶i lßng ai. 1. Complete the sentences. a. Little Pea’s father was a farmer. b. Little Pea’s mother died when she was young. c. Little Pea had to do the housework all day after her father got married again. d. The prince wanted to marry a girl from Little Pea’s village. e. Stout Nut’s mother did not make new clothes for Little Pea. f. The prince found Little Pea’s lost shoe. 2. Answer the questions. Write the answers in your exercise book. a. She was a poor farmer’s daughter. b. She made Little Pea do the chores all day. c. Before the festival started, a fairy appeared and magically changed her rags into beautiful clothes. d. The prince decided to marry the girl who owned the shoe. e. (Students’ answers) REMEMBER 1. Past tense 2. Vocabulary 3. The content of the story meaning: Good people have luck and happiness. 58 Lesson plan 8 5. Homework (3 )’ - Retell the story in your own words. Supply the correct verb form, positive or negative. 1. It stopped raining, so I__________ (take) off my raincoat. 2. The novel wasn’t very interesting. I __________(enjoy) it very much. 3. We went to Kate’s house but she__________ (be) home. 4. She was in a hurry, so she __________(have) time to phone you. 5. The story was very funny but nobody__________(laugh) 6. Tom was very hungry. He __________(eat) like a horse. Keys: 1. took 2. didn’t enjoy 3. wasn’t 4. didn’t have 5. laughed 6. ate V - Self- evaluation: + Good points: - Ss understand the story well and they like telling the folktale very much. + Bad point: None ____________________________________________________________________________ Period 24 Week 8, date: October 25 th , 2007 Lesson 4: write I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: - write a story with guided details. - know one more interesting folktale: How the Tiger Got His Stripe. 1. Knowledge: Vocabulary: wisdom, tie, straw, stripe Grammar: past simple tense. 2. Skills : +Main skills : writing +Sub-skills : reading ,listening, speaking 59 Lesson plan 8 3. Educational aims: Ss have a good lesson from the story: We need to do everything wisely. “People have wisdom, so we can do everything. We can conquer nature and the other things. You yourselves must study harder to get knowledge so that you can master the world in the future.” II. Methods and techniques: group work, pair-work, asking – answering, guessing… III. Teaching aids: Pictures and sub-boards IV. Procedure: What the Teacher and Students do Content 1. Recap (4’) Ss read the folktale “ The Lost Shoe” and answer the questions. Questions: 1. Who was Little Pea? 2. How did Little Pea get her new clothes? Warm up T asks some questions to lead in the story. Questions: 1. Do you know why tigers have black stripes? 2. Which story tells you about that? 3. Can you tell me the story? 2. Pre-writing (8’) Ss read the verbs in past simple. T helps them to understand the story by explaining new words. Practice pronunciation. Instructions: In this lesson, we will learn more about this story. Firstly, you read the story and complete it by filling the verbs in the correct blank. 3. While-writing (20’) 1. Ss fill the blanks with suitable verbs. They compare their answers with others. New words: - buffalo: tr©u - servant (n) # master (n) - wisdom (n): trÝ kh«n - straw: r¬m, r¹ - black stripes: nh÷ng vÕt v»n ®en - graze: gÆm cá Past simple tense: - burn – burned - appear – appeared - light – lit 1. Complete the story 1. appeard 5. went 2. was 6. tied 3. said 7. lit 4. left 8. burned 60 [...]... Ba said Khanh should change the way he to learnt English A B C D 3 Ba asked Khanh to lending him his history book A B C D 4 Ba asked Khanh to lend him his physics paper because he wants to check the answers A B C D V Self-evaluation + Good points: Sts practice speaking and listening well + Bad point: - The lesson is so long, however Week 10, date: November 8th, 2007... often did when you were a younger child Keys: I/ Choose the best one for each sentences (4ms) :8x0.5=4ms 1.C 2.A 3.C 4.C 5.B 6.B 7.D 8. B II/Rewrite the following sentences that unchange the meaning(2ms)4x0.5=2ms 1.He used to smoke two years ago 2.She is a good singer 3.Lan asked Mai to stop singing 78 Lesson plan 8 4.Minh ‘ teacher said he should do his homework before going to bed III/Write 4 sentences... at school (pair-work) Encouragement (n) Listen - Participate (v) Pre-listening Participation (n) T explains some new words Practice - Cooperate with 68 Lesson plan 8 pronunciation Cooperation (n) While-listening Keys: Listen to the tape twice 1 87 days present Fill in the gaps (pair-work) 2 5 days absent 3 Participation: S Feedback and correction Post-listening 4 Listening: C Ask and answer ( pair-work)... She also told me how to use an English-English (7) to improve my English grammar Now I think you know what you (8) do,” said she I did know that only one(9) later I would win the first prize in the English Speaking Contest(10) for secondary school students in my hometown 71 Lesson plan 8 V Self-evaluation + Good points: The lesson is very interesting and useful for the students The words are easy... writer’s address and the date purpose of the lesson B: Opening – Dear - Have you written a letter? C: Body of the letter - How do you write? D: Closing – Your friends / Regards / 72 Lesson plan 8 2 Pre-writing: (8 ) 1 Identify the sections: B D A C -Divide class into groups of 4 *Questions: -Provided each group with a letter which is Who wrote the letter? cut into 4 parts Who received it? -Ask the students... plan 8 dictionary to find out how to pronounce Spanish words 5 Homework (3’) 1/ What should these people do? a/ Quang had bad marks in Math last semester Quang should b/Nga is putting on weight Nga should c/Binh often come to school late because she goes to bed very late Binh should d/Ann enjoys taking pictures but she hasn’t got a camera 2/Read the sentences Ba said to Khanh... 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Self-evaluation + Good points: Sts practice speaking and listening well + Bad point: - The lesson is so long, however Week 10, date: November 8th, 2007 Period 28 Lesson 3: read 69 Lesson plan 8 I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to: - Learn various ways of learning new words and then choose the best way for themselves 1 Knowledge: + Language : Phrase... corrects their pronunciation mistakes 2 Ss read silently then do comprehension exercises – True or False e False (He needs to improve Spanish pronunciation) f True 3 Answer these questions 65 Lesson plan 8 They practice asking and answering in pairs a Miss Jackson is Tim’s mother T gives the correct answers b Miss Jackson gave Tim’s mother his report card 3 Ss work in pairs to ask and answer the questions... fluently, answering the questions correctly The lesson is very interesting + Bad point: However T hasn’t enough time to explain reported speech here 66 Lesson plan 8 Period 27 Week 9, date: November 3rd, 2007 Lesson 2: Speak, listen I Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to: - Practice talking about students’ further studying after school - Practice . her eyes. A B C D 2. Ba said Khanh should change the way he to learnt English. A B C D 3. Ba asked Khanh to lending him his history book. A B C D 4. Ba asked Khanh to lend him his physics paper. ______________________________________________________________________ Period 28 Week 10, date: November 8 th , 2007 Lesson 3: read 69 Lesson plan 8 I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Students will be. Encourage (v) Encouragement (n). - Participate (v) Participation (n). - Cooperate with 68 Lesson plan 8 pronunciation. While-listening Listen to the tape twice. Fill in the gaps (pair-work). Feedback