UNIT 2: LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
Lesson 1: Getting started
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students can:
- listen and read a conversation between Nick and Nguyen about life in the countryside
- Use the lexical items related to the topic of life in the countryside
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar : comparative of adjectives : review comparative form of adverbs
b. Lexical items : - Vocab : Life in the countryside
c. Pronunciation: - Clusters: /bl/ and /cl/
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'): Brainstorming
- T asks ss: Do you live in the city or in the countryside?
- Elicit ss to say activities in the countryside
- Introduce the new lesson
.
Fly a kite Go swimming
I.The new lesson
Vocabulary(6’)
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary
* Checking vocab: R&R - harvest
- time (n)
mùa gặt
- buffalo - - drawn cart (n) xe trâu kéo
- herd (v) chăn, dắt
- envious (adj) ghen tị
- paddy field (n) đồng lúa
- Repeat in chorus and individually
- Copy all the words
1. Listen and read(14’) p16
* Set the scenes:
-Look at the picture on page 16
?Who are there in the conversation?
? What is the conversation about ?
Pre- question:
Who made Nguyen's kite?
- T collects ss' ideas
- Ask ss listen, read and check their prediction
- Play the recording twice.
- Check the prediction
- Ask ss to practice the conversation in pair
- Answer the questions individually.
- Answer the questions
- Answer by predicting
Key : His grandfather made it for him
a. Are these sentences true or false (p17)
- Ask ss to run through the statements then work individually to decide if they are true or false
-Ask ss to share answers with their partners .
- Ask ss to write the answers on the board and others remark
- T corrects
1b. Answer the following questions (p17)
- Ask ss to run through the questions -Ask them to work in pairs to ask and answer the question
-Correct the answer as a class.
c.Complete the sentences with the words in the box (p17)
- Ask ss to look at the words in the box and make sure they understand their meaning. If they do not, ask them to refer to the conversation and have a guess.
- Ask them to work individually to do the exercise. When they finish, ask them to check their answers with their partner.
- T gets feedback and correct
d. In group , discuss and find how Nguyen feels about his stay in the countrysidee. Tick the appropriate box (p17)
- Run through the sentences
-Have ss work in small groups to discuss and tick the correct box and lool for expression(s) to support their answer.
-Work individually to decide if sentences are true or false
1. Key:
1T, 2F, 3F, 4T , 5T
1b.Key:
1.He’s in the countryside.
2.Right on his first day there
3.It’s a big and colourful
4.His grandfather
5.He means that he wishes he were in the countryside too
-Work individually to do the exercise.
1c.Key:
1. colourful
2. move slowly
3. harvest time
4. paddy field
5. herding
6. buffalo-drawn cart
1d. Suggested answers:
He likes it.
‘…it’s more exciting than I expected.’
“It (the kite) looks great up there in the sky”.
‘It live more happily here, and there’s still a lot more to explore’.
2. Match the activities with the puictures (5’) p17
- Have Ss work independently to label the pictures.
-Have them compare their answers with a partner.
-T writes the correct answers on the board. 2.Key:
1.e
2.f
3.a
4.c
5.d
6.b
3. Can you think of somesss more things that children do in the countryside. Make a list (5’)
- Have Ss work in pairs to brainstorm some more countryside activities
-. Give them a time limit, for example, two minutes to make their lists.
-Call on each pair to share their list with the class.
- T writes the combined list of activities on the board and leaves it there to be used in the next activity.
- Before moving on, T makes sure everybody understands all the vocabulary on the board.
- Work in pairs
III. Consolidation (2')
4. Game: Coutryside charades(5’)
-T divides the class into two teams for this game. They can give themselves a relevant team name such as the ‘horses’ and the ‘buffaloes’.
- Play charades with the countryside activity vocabulary from Activity 2 and the Ss’s list on the board
- To increase the fun element, give the teams a time limit of 10 seconds to guess the activity before it moves to the other team. T keeps score on the board and announces the winning team at the end.
- Take part in the game
- Answer individually
IV. Homework (3')
- Learn by heart all the new words.- Guide ss how to do Exs (Workbook)
- Prepare: Closer Look 1
- Take note