- Show the exercise (a) on page 26 on the board and having Ss listen to the teacher explain the instruction: What do these words mean?.. A B?[r]
(1)Tuần 9
Tiết 17 Ngày soạn: 25 / 09 / 2010Ngày dạy : 11 / 10 / 2010 UNIT 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
LESSON3: read I Objectives: After the lesson students will be able to:
Understand the text in details about the work of a family in the countryside in the USA
II Language content
Vocabulary: an exchange student , maize , grocery , hot dog
Grammar: present perfect continuous III Method:
Ask – answer
Individually
Teamwork
Communicative approach IV Teaching aids:
Posters
Students’ books
Tape and cassette
Flashcards V.Procedures: 1 Warm up (7 minutes)
Teacher Students
- Give the game of “Network” to write the work of farmers
2 Pre – reading (10 minutes) - Ask some questions:
+ Have you ever helped someone work on a farm?
+ What did you do?
- Today you will learn about the life on a farm in the USA by reading comprehension the text about Van He is an exchange student in the USA from Ho Chi Minh City.
- Answer T’s questions
- Listen to the teacher’s introductions
- Introducing the new words and explaining more about the meaning of “exchange student” in Vietnamese so that Ss can understand easily
- Guide Ss to read the new words - Give some guiding questions:
+ How many people are there in the Parker family? Who are they?
+ What does Mr Parker grow on his farm? + What does Van after completing his
I New words:
+ exchange student (n) : + maize (n) :
+ part-time (n) + hot dog (n) : - Repeat in chorus - Repeat individually - Take note
(2)homework?
+ How does he feel?
3 While – reading (18 minutes)
- Ask Ss to listen to the tape then answer T’s questions:
- Show the exercise (a) on page 26 on the board and having Ss listen to the teacher explain the instruction: What these words mean?
A B
maize feed
grocery store part – time collect
bring things together where people buy food and small things
give food to eat corn
shorter or less than standard time
- Ask Ss to the exercise individually - Call some Ss read their answers loudly - Give the feedback
- Listen to the tape then answer the questions:
+ There are four people in the Parker family They are Mr and Mrs Baker, their two children Sam and Peter
+ He feeds the chicken and collects their eggs
+ He feels like a member of their family II Reading
Exercise a) Match the words in column A with the words or groups of words in column B having the same meaning
- Do exercise a) individually - Swap with their partners - Some Ss read their answers + maize = corn
+ feed = give food to eat
+ grocery store = where people buy food and small things
- Call some Ss read the text loudly in front of the class
- Ask Ss to read the exercise b) in page 26 - Divide the class into groups to this exercise
- Give the feedback
A Vietnamese boy named Van is living with the Parker family in the American state of (1) …… Mr Parker is a (2) …… and Mrs Parker (3) …… In a nearby town They have two children, (4) …… and (5)
Van often does chores (6)
…… ……
Sometimes, he also helps on the (7) …… The family relaxes on Saturday afternoons and (8) … Peter play (9) …… Van likes the Parkers, and he enjoys being a (10)
of their family ……
+ part – time = shorter or less than standard time
+ collect = bring things together
- Some Ss read the text (Others listen to their partners and correct the mistakes) Exercise b) Complete the summary Use the information from the passage
- Do exercise in groups: 1, 3: from to 2, 4: from to 10 - Hang the extra boards and compare the answers
1) Ohio 2) farmer
3) works part – time at a grocery store 4) Peter
5) Sam 6) after 7) farm
(3)- Call some Ss to translate the text into Vietnamese
- Give “mapped dialogue” - Hi! I / going/
USA/ exchange student
- Next month/ can / help me / know / what / I / / when / being? -I / going / stay / Brown / They / live / suburb / 100kms / from Texas
- what else?
- when? - Where/stay - consider /our family
- help / housework on the farm
- Some Ss translate the text into Vietnamese
- Close pairs - Open pair
5 Homework (3 minutes)
Learn by hear all the new words
Read the text fluently and translate into Vietnamese
Do exercise (p 22) in workbook
Prepare for UNIT – Lesson 4: Write TuÇn 9
TiÕt 18 Ngày soạn: 25 / 09 / 2010Ngày dạy : 13 / 10 / 2010 UNIT 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
LESSON4: Write I Objectives: After the lesson students will be able to:
Write a short paragraph describing a story happened in the past, a picnic in the countryside
II Language content
Vocabulary: site, a blanket (to) lie out, (to) gather
Grammar: the past simple tens.
III Method:
Ask – answer
Individually
Communicative approach IV Teaching aids:
Posters
Students’ books
Picture
V.Procedures: 1 Warm up (5 minutes)
Teacher Students
- Chatting about the picnic
1 Have you ever gone on a picnic? Where you often go on a picnic? How you get there?
4 Do you enjoy your picnic?
5 Do you want to tell about your picnic? - Today you will write a short passage about your picnic you and your friends went on in the country.
- Speak about the recently picnic
(4)2 Pre – writing (12 minutes)
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures and the information given
- Ask some questions:
1 How did you and your friends go on a picnic?
- Look at the pictures and the words and phrases given below each below
- Answer T’s questions: Where did you have a picnic?
3 What did you take on a trip?
- Pre – teach new words: explanation
mine mine synonym
- Set the scene: As we know, narrative writing is familiar in English Today we’ll practice this kind of writing Have you ever gone a picnic? When? Where? How did you get there? What did you do? When did you come back home? Did you enjoy it? - Have Ss read the cues carefully and guide Ss to write the passage
- Have Ss write the first sentence with the beginning “It was a beautiful day …”
- Correcting some mistakes as they say
I New words:
+ blanket (n) : bạt, chăn + lay out (v) :trải ra, dọn + gather (v) :thu gom + site = a place :địa điểm - Listen to the teacher
- Read the cues
- Listen to the teacher’s guiding - Write the first sentence
3 While – writing (18 minutes)
- Have Ss work in pair to complete sentences to make the passage (Going around to help weak students)
- Have Ss exchange their passages to help each other correct mistakes
- Call Ss to read each sentence and give the feedback
- Work in pairs
- Swap and peer correction - Some Ss read each sentences
(5)decided to go on a picnic We took a bus to the countryside and then walked about twenty minutes to the picnic site next to a river We put down the blankets and laid out the food After meal, we played the games What song is it? and blind man s“ ” ’ buff Late in the afternoon, we went fishing. We enjoyed our picnic When we looked at the time it was nearly 6.30 p.m we hurriedly gathered our things and ran to the bus stop We were lucky to catch the last bus and we arrived home very late in the evening
4 Post – writing (7 minutes)
- Get students to stick their writings on the board and correct, give marks
- Give Ss a questionnaire to ask answer to retell their own picnic
- Stick the writing on the board - Answer T’s questions
5 Homework (3 minutes)
Write down the writing in the notebooks