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LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 1: VOCABULARY PLACES IN A TOWN OR CITY I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - get some more knowledge about places in a town or city - develop students’ speaking and listening skills II LANGUAGE CONTENT * Vocabulary: (n) bridge, monument, flat, office building, square, shopping centre, sports centre (adj) clean, dangerous, dirty, friendly, modern, noisy, pretty, quiet, safe, III TECHNIQUES - Questions & answers IV TEACHING AIDS: - Pictures, textbooks, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME WARM UP (5 mins) ACTIVITY Game “GREEN BAMBOO” - Teacher divides class into groups - There are 12 numbers about places on the screen There is a hidden picture behind these numbers Each group will choose a pair of number With one correct pair, you will get point - The group has the most correct answers will be the winner - After revealing the picture, teacher asks students a question: “What is the hidden picture about?” - PRESENTATION Students answer “LONDON CITY.” Set context: - Teacher calls out some Students to answer the question “What famous place are there in your town or city?” - Students answer in their own  New words: bridge (n) monument (n) flat (n) office building (n) (picture) square (n) shopping centre (n) sports centre (n) clean (adj) dangerous (adj) dirty (adj) (explanation) friendly (adj) modern (adj) noisy (adj) pretty (adj) quiet (adj) safe (adj) PRACTICE - Students listen to the teacher and repeat the words - Students copy down these words into their notebooks • Activity 1: Match the words in the box with places 1-14 on the map of London below There are extra words, listen and check - Teacher gives students time to complete the task (Students can discuss in groups, pairs or work individually) - Students listen and check their answers Suggested answers Library market Park cinema hotel 10 restaurant monument 11 station Square 12 theatre shop 13 Bridge bus station 14 Office building • Activity 2: Watch or listen Which places from exercise the people mention? - Teacher plays the video or audio for Students to watch or listen and note down the places that are mentioned - Students listen and note down the places - Teacher plays the video / audio again and checks students’ answers Suggested answers: café, cinema, restaurant, sports centre, park, library, bridge, monument, bus station, shop • Activity 3: Watch or listen again and complete the sentences - Teacher allows students time to read the gapped sentences - Teacher plays the video / audio again for students to complete the sentences - Teacher checks answers with the class Suggested answers theatre café parks shops bridge PRODUCTION • Activity 4: Work in pairs - Teacher asks students to work in pairs and talk about the places in their town / city - Teacher suggests some phrases to introduce about places and focus on the grammar points There is + a /an + singular Noun There are + plural Noun Ex: There is a cinema There are two cinemas There are + SOME + plural Noun There are + NOT + ANY + plural Noun (= there aren’t) Ex: There are some restaurants There aren’t any restaurants Suggested answers - There are some café and restaurants serving food all over the world - There are some cinemas or theatres for you to relax after a hardworking day - … • Consolidation: Discussion - Teacher asks Students to work in groups and discuss about the good and bad things in their town / city - Teacher gives students time to discuss in group and write down their opinions - Teacher calls out some Students to present their opinion in front of class Suggested answers Good things - a lot of entertainment facilities such as cinemas, theatres, … - trying new types of food - earning more money …… IV HOMEWORK - Learn by heart all the new words Bad t - Air pollution - Noise pollution - Traffic jam in rus …… - Prepare for next lesson – Reading: find out some information about a cruise ship LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 2: READING Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - know how to answer specific questions about the text - find out more about a cruise ship - use vocabulary items related to the issue of passage Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME I WARM UP ACTIVITY Game: What is it? minutes - Students have to answer all questions to find the key word o This is a place where people can eat and drink o People usually stay in this place when they are on vacation o Where you can borrow and read books o Place where you can play sport R Lead – in E S T A U R A H O T E L L I B R A R Y S P O R T S C N T E T R E - The key word is “SHIP” - T shows the picture and leads in the lesson “This is a very special ship; This is a cruise ship.” II PRE – READING Activity 1: Guessing game - minutes T has students work in groups and discuss some facts of the cruise ship After discussing, students have to write “TRUE” or “FALSE” a) There is a library and a school on the ship FALSE b) There are some swimming pools on the ship TRUE c) There is one café and one restaurant on the ship TRUE - Students will put their answers on the boards - Teacher introduces some new words “Before reading, there are some new words in the text.” * New words: cruise ship (n) – Show picture fantastic (adj) – E.g.: This is a fantastic hotel comfortable (adj) – E.g.: This soft bed is very comfortable cabin (n) – Show picture passenger (n) – E.g.: There are many passengers on the ship chef (n) – a person who cooks swimming pool (n) – show picture climbing wall (n) – show picture III WHILE – READING 20 minutes - T has students open their books to page 16 - Students listen and read the text silently Activity 2: Skill Strategy - T introduces students how to answer specific questions about a text - T invites some students to read the strategy aloud - T explains * Practice: Listen and underline what numbers refer to - 6,360 – 20 – 50 – 12,000 *Key: a) 6,360: the number of passengers b) 20: the number of café and restaurants c) 50: the number of real trees on the ship d) 12,000: the number of plants on the ship - T invites some students to check their works Activity 3: Task – page 16 - T has some students say the questions loudly and underline all the key words What is the name of the ship? How many people work on the ship? How many chefs are there on the ship? Is it the only ship with a park? What’s in the sport area? *Key: Oasis of the Seas More than 2,000 people work on the ship There are 250 chefs Yes, it is There’s a climbing wall in the sports area - T has students reread the text and underline sentences that they find the correct answers - T invites some students to write their answers and check their work - T goes back to Activity and gives the correct answers IV POST – READING minutes Activity 4: Group discussion - T runs through Activity - Ss work in group of four - T gives the question “Is the Oasis of the Seas a good place for a holiday? Why/ Why not?” Suggested answers: …… V CONSOLIDATION minutes - T walks around to monitor the class and offers help - T invites two or three Ss to answer the questions - T listens and provides more information if it is necessary - T asks some questions about the text to check their comprehension What is the name of the ship? How many people work on the ship? How many chefs are there on the ship? Is it the only ship with a park? What’s in the sport area? LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 3: LANGUAGE FOCUS I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - ask and answer questions about places II TECHNIQUES - Questions & answers III TEACHING AIDS: - Pictures, Textbook, power point slides, STAGE/TIME WARM UP ACTIVITY Game : NOUGHTS AND CROSSES - Teacher divides class into groups One group is “noughts” (O) and the other is “crosses” (X) There are words and numbers about the Oasis of the Sea in the table and students have to use structure “there is/ are… ” to make sentences - groups take turns to select the boxes and make sentences with those words The group makes the correct sentence will get an (O) or (X) - The group that has O or X on a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row will be the winner library 2000 swimming 250 school climbing park 20 6360 Ex: There is a library on the ship There isn’t a school on the ship PRESENTATION • Activity 1: Complete the questions Then choose the correct answers - Teacher asks students to complete the sentences in minute - Teacher checks students’ answers Suggested answers Is – b Are – a Are – b - Teacher reminds students how to use “there is/ there are…” 10 LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 5: LANGUAGE FOCUS COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - compare things using comparative adjectives II Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME WARM UP ACTIVITY Game CHAIN GAME - Teacher divides class into groups - Teacher says a sentence and each group takes turns to give sentences that follow the teacher and the other groups’ sentence The group that has more questions will be the winner  PRESENTATION “Today I go to the bookstore…….” Grammar point: COMPARATIVE ADJECTIVES  Teacher explains the grammar to students - Short adjectives (1-syllable adjectives) 1) S1 + V + Adj-ER+ THAN+ S2 Ex: Bikes are slower than cars Long adjectives (2 or more syllable adjectives) 2) S1 + V + MORE + ADJ + THAN + S2 Ex: French is more difficult than English Some special cases good → better well (healthy) → better bad → worse far → farther/further Note: - With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use "-er" OR "more": o quiet → quieter / more quiet clever → cleverer / more clever narrow → narrower / more narrow simple → simpler / more simple 17 - If the adjective ends in -e, we add -r (safe  safer) - Final -y changes to -ier (pretty  prettier) - One – syllable adjective endings with vowel and one consonant, we double the consonant (big  bigger) • Students copy down to their notebooks Activity 1: Write the comparative form of the adjectives in the table - Teacher gives students time to complete the table Teacher checks the answers (Suggested answers) cleaner – slower – nicer – safer – friendlier – prettier – bigger – hotter PRACTICE • Activity 2: write sentences using the correct comparative form of the adjectives in brackets How you say “than” in your language? - - - Teacher reads out the example and elicit another example from the class Teacher elicits how students say than in their own language Students write the sentences using the comparative form and compare the answer with their partners Teacher checks Students’ answers (Suggested answers) It’s more expensive here than in my country The weather today is worse than it was yesterday Why is this class quieter than the other class? Are the buildings in New York more modern than the buildings in Oxford? This house is prettier than that house • Activity 3: Pronunciation - Teacher plays the audio once for students to listen Teacher plays the audio again, pausing for students to repeat individually and chorally (Suggested answers) 1d – 2d – 3c – 4d • Activity 4: Read City of the Sea again You may discover some letters pronounced differently in different words Now indicate the word whose bold part differs from the other three in pronunciation - Teacher gives students time to read the introduction 18 - Teacher models pronunciation of star and cinemas, where their bold parts are different (Suggested answers) PRODUCTION d (cinemas) d (cinema) a (trees) d (answer) • Activity 5: Work in pairs - Teacher gives students time to practice in pairs about some of the things in the box by using comparative adjectives and the Key Phrases - Teacher calls some pairs to practice in front of the class and gives feedback Consolidation: WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES? HOMEWORK - Teacher shows some pairs of pictures on the screen - Each student will choose the number and make sentences about objects or places using comparative adjectives - Learn by heart the structures - Make sentences about your family using comparative adjectives - Prepare for next lesson – Speaking 19 LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 6: SPEAKING I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - ask and say where places are - develop students’ speaking skill II Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME WARM UP ACTIVITY Game “GUESSING GAME!” - Teacher invites student to come to in front of the class He/She has to use phrases or give examples to explain the words that given by teacher - Teacher invites some students to answer * Given words: Bus station, Police station, School, Hospital, Store PRE-SPEAKING Set context: - Think: You are a tourist in a new town Where you look for information and direction? Ss answer in their own • Activity 1: Audio 1.18 - Allow students time to read through the gapped dialogue - Play the video or audio for students to watch or listen and complete the dialogue - Play the video again for students to check their answers - Check their answer with the class, then ask the questions to the class and elicit the answers Suggested answers Are we near the bus station any shops five minutes WHILE-TEACHING • Activity 2: Watch or listen again Then practice the dialogue in pairs - Play the audio or video again - Tell students to listen carefully for the pronunciation and 20 intonation You could pause after some of the sentences and questions for students to repeat Students work in pairs to practise the dialogue - (Suggested answers) Students’ own answers • Activity 3: Read the study strategy and follow the instructions - Read the study strategy with the class then read through the key phrases - Ask students to find the key phrases in the dialogue and check their understanding - Students practice the key phrases in pairs With weaker classes, when they close their books, write some key words on the board to help them remember the phrases, e.g Excuse, near, far - See who managed to remember all the phrases • Activity 4: Work in pairs Practice the dialogue with How far ? and place from to - - Ask two confident students to read out the example mini dialogue Students work in pairs to practice more mini dialogues With weaker classes, allow students time to prepare the dialogues before they practise With stronger classes, students can go straight into the spoken practice Ask some pairs to perform one of their dialogues for the class E.g Student 1: Excuse me, how far is the bus station from here? (What is the distance between here and the bus station?) 21 Student 2: It’s about ten minutes on foot Student 1: Thanks for your help Student 2: You’re welcome POST-SPEAKING • Activity 5: Use it – Work in pairs Look at the situation and prepare a new dialogue Use the dialogue in exercise to help you - Students work in pairs to prepare a new dialogue With stronger classes, you could teach some more phrases for giving directions, e.g Turn left / right, Go straight on - Students swap roles and practice again Consolidation: MINGLE - Teacher divides students into two groups, A and B - Students in group A will give the questions - Students in group B will give the answers - Teacher should prepare a variety of questions Students in group A have to find the right students in group B (who has the correct answers) For example: A: How far is it from here to the park? B1: Sorry I don’t know B2 (must prepare the answer before): It’s about 10 minutes on foot HOMEWORK - Learn by heart all the new words - Prepare for next lesson 22 LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 7: WRITING WRITING A DESCRIPTION OF A TOWN OR CITY I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - write a description of a town or city that they like - develop students’ writing skill II Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME WARM UP PRE-WRITING ACTIVITY - Teacher divides class into groups - Teacher shows series of pictures of places in Ho Chi Minh city (or a video clip) Students watch it and write down as many places as they can - Teacher invites some group to show their works - Teacher leads in the lesson “Today, we’re studying about how to write a description of a town or a city.” Set context: - Think: Students use their dictionaries to check the meanings of the words in the box - Ask the question to the class and elicit answers from individual students - Ask more questions about the student’s own town or city, Examples: What’s your favourite place? Which parts you never visit? Why? - Students answer in their own • Activity 1: - Students read the description of Hồ Chí Minh City and answer the questions, then compare their answers in pairs - Check answers with the class Suggested answers building amusement park shopping mall 23 WHILE-TEACHING • Activity 2: Students complete the key phrases Check answers and check that students understand all the phrases (Suggested answers) south/ Việt Nam 9,000,000 (Nine million) modern/ really friendly many good amusement parks, shopping malls/ buildings sometimes visit Vũng Tàu, Phan Thiết and Đà Lạt, …/ Hồ Chí Minh City is more interesting • Activity 3: Language point: Position of adjectives Exercise 3: Look at the phrases in blue in the text Then underline the correct words - Focus on the phrases in blue in the text and elicit which are adjectives - Students read the sentences and choose the correct words - Check answers with the class and check that students understand really, very and quite • Activity 4: Compound sentences Look at the underlined sentences in the text Then circle the correct words - Give your students two examples of compound sentences, one of which is the combination with “and” and the other with “but” Make students pay attention to “similar clauses” and “opposite clauses” - Students work individually to combine the two sentences and volunteer to show them on the board - Correct the mistakes if your students fail to any sentences E.g similar opposite Hội An Town is an old town, and it’s got a population of about 152,160 Mr Nam sometimes stays in Hà Nội, but he lives in Hồ Chí Minh City 24 POST-WRITING • Activity 5: Use it – Work in pairs Look at the situation and prepare a new dialogue Use the dialogue in exercise to help you - Read the task with the class - Students answer the questions and plan their description - Read through the paragraph structures with the class - Students write their descriptions - This can be set for homework - Remind students to check their grammar and spelling carefully Consolidation: HOMEWORK - T asks Ss to work in groups and give some descriptions about a town or a city they like - Students of each group come to the board and read out these descriptions loudly, other students will guess the name of that town or city - Learn by heart all the new words - Prepare for next lesson 25 LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 8: CLIL_GEOGRAPHY READING A MAP I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - ask and answer questions about maps - develop students’ skills II Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME WARM UP ACTIVITY Game “DRAWING GAME” - Teacher invites one student to be a player Teacher gives him/her a word and he/she has to draw to explain that word - Teacher invites some students to answer Suggestion: trees, river, mountain, street, train station, map,… - Teacher leads in the lesson 26 PRE-TEACHING Set context: Think: Warm-up - With books closed, write the word map on the board and elicit the meaning - Ask students what information we can find on maps, and elicit some ideas - Ask students when they use maps, and what kinds of maps they use (paper, online, etc.) - Tell students they are going to practice-reading maps in English • Activity 1: - Students work in pairs to check the-meanings of the words and match them with the symbols - Students read the text and check their answers - Check answers with the class and make sure that students understand all the words - Model and drill pronunciation if necessary Suggested answers river road hill railway forest path WHILE-TEACHING • Activity 2: Students read and listen to the text again Elicit what other symbols are mentioned in the text (Suggested answers) A black circle on a railway is a train station A red area is a city or town • Activity 3: Students work in pairs to look at map-A and choose the correct words Check answers with the class 1:50,000 paths hill 156 road 27 train station • Activity 4: Students look at map B individually and answer the questions, then compare their answers in pairs Check answers with the class There are cable car stations Yes, we can The cable car from Debay station to Morin station POST • Activity 5: Exercise USE IT! - Put students into pairs to draw their maps - Monitor and help while they are working and encourage them to add a range of features and symbols - Put pairs together into groups of four to ask and answer about their maps - Ask some groups to show one of their maps to the class and describe the features on it Consolidation: PROJECT – DRAW A MAP HOMEWORK - Teacher asks students to work in groups and draw a map - Teacher gives students some places that they can draw, for example: school, favorite park, favorite shopping mall, our town, village, … - Teacher gives students deadline - Learn by heart all the new words - Prepare for next lesson LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 9: PUZZLES and GAMES I OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to: - revise all lessons in Unit - develop students’ skills II Teaching Aids: - Textbook, tape, power point slides, … STAGE/TIME ACTIVITY 28 WARM UP Game “GUESSING GAME!” - Teacher invites student to come to in front of the class He/She has to use phrases or give examples to explain the words that given by teacher - Teacher invites some students to answer * Given words: London, cruise, map, station, … PRE-TEACHING • Exercise - Students complete the puzzles and find the mystery word - Students could work in pairs for this, and you could it as a race to make it fun - Check answers with the class Answers market square café library cinema theatre Mystery word: restaurant WHILE-TEACHING • Exercise 2: Read out the instructions and check that students understand the game - Invite a confident student to come to the board and write the first letter of each word in their sentence - Other students guess the sentence - Students could also play this game in small groups Answers: Students’ own answers • Exercise - Put students into pairs and ask them to decide which of them is Student A and which is Student B - Refer them to their map and ask them to use a piece of paper to cover their partner’s map If possible, students should sit back-toback for this activity so that they can’t see their partner’s map - Students ask and answer questions to find six differences between their maps Ask them to make a note of the differences - Check answers with the class Answers There’s a cinema on map A, but a theatre on map B There’s a train station on map A, but a bus stop on map B There’s a shopping centre on map A, but a sports centre on map B 29 There are two restaurants on map A, but only one on map B There are two cafés on map A, but three on map B There isn’t a monument in the park on map A, but there is on map B • Exercise - Students unscramble the letters and find the adjectives for describing a place - Students could work in pairs for this, and you could it as a race - Check answers with the class - As an extension, ask students to write the opposites of the adjectives Answers friendly clean dangerous modern ugly expensive (Opposites: unfriendly dirty safe old pretty cheap) POST-TEACHING • Activity 5: Exercise USE IT! - Read out the instructions and check that students understand the game - Students write their comparative forms in the bingo table - Choose a confident student to be the game leader or take on this role yourself The game leader calls out the comparative forms in a random order The first student to hear and tick off all their words is the winner - Students could also play this game in small groups - You could repeat the game by brainstorming twelve other adjectives that students know, e.g good, bad, boring, intelligent, tall, short, new, happy, interesting, nice, fast, slow - Write the adjectives on the board - Students choose six adjectives and write the comparative forms, then play the game again Answers: Students’ own answers Consolidation: SHARING HOMEWORK - T asks Ss to work in groups and discuss what they learned in Unit - T gives Ss time to discuss in group and write down their opinions - T calls out some Ss to present their opinion in front of class - Learn by heart all the new words Prepare for next lesson – Language focus: comparative adjectives 30 31 ... answers Suggested answers Library market Park cinema hotel 10 restaurant monument 11 station Square 12 theatre shop 13 Bridge bus station 14 Office building • Activity 2: Watch or listen Which places... a description of your amusement park Use the preposition in the Starter Unit 13 LESSON PLAN TIẾNG ANH FRIENDS PLUS UNIT 1: TOWNS and CITIES - LESSON 4: VOCABULARY and LISTENING I OBJECTIVES: By... students - Short adjectives (1- syllable adjectives) 1) S1 + V + Adj-ER+ THAN+ S2 Ex: Bikes are slower than cars Long adjectives (2 or more syllable adjectives) 2) S1 + V + MORE + ADJ + THAN +