UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Lesson 3: A Closer Look 2
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students can:
- Review comparative forms of adjectives and know how to use comparative forms of adverbs of manner
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar : Comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs of manner.
b. Lexical items : - Vocab: Life in the countryside lexical items
c. Pronunciation:
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 Students’ activities
I. Warm up (5'): Recall
- T calls 2 ss to the board( one is tall, one is short)
- Ask ss to look at them and make sentence to compare their height
Eg: Mai is taller then Thuy
Or Thuy is shorter than Mai
- Ask ss to use real things in class to make sentences of comparative
Eg: The white ruler is longer than the blue ruler
- Introduce the new lesson
- Make sentences
II. The new lesson
A. Review Comparative forms of adjectives ( 8')
1. Complete the passage below with a suitable comparative form of the adjectives provides( P 19)
- Ask ss to work in pairs to do the exercise
- Check as a class and write the answers on the board with the full forms of comparisons.
- Keep them for later reference when the comparative of adverbs is taught.
B. Presentation (7')
- T first revises the different use of an adjective and an adverbs. For example, T write “Life in the city is slow/slowly’ and the comparative form of adverbs by changing the second sentence to “ He is moving more slowly than before”.
- Elicit the form of comparative from Ss before letting them read number 1 in the table.
-T then introduces comparatives of irregular adverbs like fast, hard, late, early and badly.
-Let Ss read number 2 and 3 in the table.
-Work in pair to do the exercise
1.Key:
1.higher
2.easier
3.better
4.more exciting
5.more convenient
6.happier
7.more friendly
8.fast
9.safer
10.best
Comparative forms of adverbs
* Model sentences
-He is moving more slowly than before
1. More / less + adv + (than) is form of comparative for almost all adverds of manner ending in LY
- He runs faster than I do
2. Adv + er ( than) is the form of comparatives for adverbs of manner with the same form as adjectives
C. Practice ( 15')
2.Complete the sentences with suitable comparatives forms of the adjectives in the box ( p20)
- Run through the adjectives in the box
- Ask ss to work individually to do the exercise then share their answers with their partner.
- Ask 2 ss to write the answers on the board then others give
comments
- T corrects
3. Finish the sentences below with a suitable comparative form of : hard, early, llate, fast, well and badly. (p20)
- Ask ss to work in pairs to do the exercise .
- Ask 2 ss to write the answers on the board then others give
comments
- T corrects
4. Underline the correct comparative forms to complete the sentences (p20)
- Have Ss do this exercise independently.
- T then checks the answers as a class
5. Write the answers to the questions below (p20)
- Have Ss do this exercise independently.
-Walk around and help Ss who have difficulty wrting the answer.
- Get Ss to check their answers with a partner.
-Check as a class and write the correct sentences on the board, underlining the comparatives
-Work individually to do the exercise then share their answers with their partner.
2.Key :
1.more slowly
2.more soundly
3.less traditionally
4.more generously
5.more healthily
-Work in pairs to do the exercise .
Key :
1.better
2.faster
3.later
4.harder
5.worse
6.earlier
4.Key :
1.more optimistically
2.more popularly
3.less densely populated
4.more quickly
5.more easily
6.better
5.Key:
1. The countryside is more peaceful(than the city)
2. A computer works faster at calculus(than a human being)
3. Life in a remote area is harder(than that in a modern town)
4. Ho Chi Minh City is more expensive(than Hue).
5. Animals can smell better than human beings
C. Production ( 5')
- Ask ss to make their own sentences with comparative form of adverbs
- Make sentences
III. Consolidation (3')
What is the form of comparative of adverbs?
IV. Homework (2')
- Learn by heart all the new words and structures
- Guide ss to do exs : (Work book)
- Prepare: Unit 2: Communication
- Answer teacher's questions.
- Take note