UNIT 1: LEISURE ACTIVITIES
Lesson 4: Communication
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students can:
- Read some articles on the 4T website for general and specific information about .
- Understand some abbreviations and talk how they spend their free time.
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar : Verbs of liking + gerunds / + to-infinitives.
b. Lexical items : - Vocab: leisure activity items
2. Skills:
- Listening, Speaking, Reading,Writing and interactive skills
3. Attitude:
- Cooperation, respect, having right and friendly attitudes with friends, teachers in the new school
4. Quality and competence:
- Be confident and friendly with the new school environment
- Develope listening, speaking skills and cooperative interaction
II/ TEACHING AIDS (MATERIALS)
1.Teacher’s preparation:
- Lesson plan, Pictures, posters ,textbook,CD-MP3(Computer-Multi projector/cassette/ “sách mềm”) and other materials
2. Students’ preparation:
- Textbook, notebook, school things.
III/ WORKING ARRANGEMENTS( WAYS OF WORKING )
- Pair work , individual work, group work, T-WC
IV/ TEACHING PROCEDURE:
1-Greeting`and checking students’ adtendence: Total: In: ......... Out: .......... .
2-Checking the old lesson
3-New lesson:
Teacher’s activities Student’s activities
Warmer (5'): Introduction
- Have a student talk about a leisure activity (from you, your friends or someone you know) a bit unusual.
? Listen and give your opinions about this activity: boring, interesting, strange, challenging, etc.
Work individually
Answer individually
Listen
I. Reading (15')
1. Teaching vocabulary
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary
* Checking vocabulary: What and where
2. Open prediction
1. Read the following article on the magazine... (P11)
* Set the scene: You are going to read about some activities teenagers do in their spare time.
- Cover the text and just look at the
photos ( with name and country ).
- Encourage Ss to guess what these
students in the photos like doing as
leisure activities.
- Then set a reading time limit
- Close books and play a memory
game in competing groups.
- Tell how much information you can
remember from the text.
- Motivate Ss by counting every detail they remember without any checking comprehension
- window shopping (n): đi chơi ngắm đồ bày ở cửa hàng
- hook (v): yêu thích cái gì
- weird (adj): kì cục
- addicted (adj): nghiện (thích) cái gì
- hang out (v): đi chơi với bạn bè
- imagination (n): sự tưởng tượng
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- Copy all the words
- Guess
- Read and play a memory game in competing groups
II. Practice (15'')
2. Can you understand the...(p11)
- Ask Ss if they notice any other particular features of the text.
- drawing their attention to the form of the text (e.g. its layout and the abbreviation). Explain that this is from a webpage and that these abbreviations are informal language that is used online and in texting messages.
- Introduce the first abbreviation.
? Work in pairs to complete the task.
? Add to the dictionary with any other abbreviations you know that are used online.
? Work in pairs to create your own mini dictionary, then ask other pair to guess the meaning.
- Work in groups
- Listen
- Pair work
3. Key:
3. Find information in the text to complete... (P11)
- Have Ss work in pairs or small groups to complete the table.
- Allow Ss to read the text more closely to fill in the table.
III. Production ( 6')
4. Work with your partner and put the activites... (11)
- Work in pairs to put the leisure activities in the text in order from the most interesting to the most boring.
- Once they have their list, form a bigger group of four and each pair shares their list with the other.
? Discuss, give opinions, and negotiate with each other in order to agree on a mutual list.
IV. Consolidation (2')
- Sum up the main content of the lesson
V. Homework (2')
- Learn by heart all the new words and structures
- Do C1, 2, D1 P 6-7 (SBT)
- Prepare: Skill 1 Who? What activity is mentioned? What does he/she thick of it?
Emily -hanging out with friend ( window shopping)
-working as a volunteer She loves it.
Hang Cloud watching She adores it. It’s easy
Linn Going to community centre, painting, dancing, doing drama She loves it
Minh -playing football
-helping his aunt in running cooking class
He likes it.
He’s fun.
Manuel -Playing computer games
-doing judo He’s addicted to it.
It’s Ok.
-Pair work
- Work in group
- Answer teacher's questions.
- Take note