Giáo án VNEN unit 4 Life in the past: Getting started

Teacher’s activities

Student’s activities

1. Warm up

- Prepare some photos or magazine cut-outs about some common activities in the past ( maybe twenty or thirty years ago) and at the present. Show them to Ss and let them group the pictures into the past or the present. Ask for an  explanation of the groupings.

2.Getting started:

New words

- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocabulary (situation, realia)

- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocabulary

* Checking vocab: Ordering

I. New words

1.Listen and read

- Open the book on the GETTING STARTED  page but with the text covered.

- What do you think the people in the conversation are talking about?

- How do you understand the title‘Preserving the past’?

- Ss answer the question as a class. Play the recording and have Ss follow along.

II. Listen and read

1.a. Answer the questions (P41)

- Ss work independently. Encourage them to answer the questions without looking back at the conversation.

- Then allow Ss to share answers.

- Check their answers as a class.

1a.Key:

1. Fathers make kites for sons.

2. Once every two months.

3. They used to come early, trying to find a place near the screen.

4. Only wealthy households.

5. Yes, he does. He said:’Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time.”

1b. Match the expressions.. (P41)

- Find the expression in the conversation and read the context where they appear to make sure that they understand the meanings of the expressions correctly.

- Do the matching.

- Correct the answers as a class.

- Think of some more expressions with the same meaning.

1b.Key;

1.C    

2. A 

3. D         

4. B

1.c. Complete the conversations (P41)

- Work independent to find the most suitable response to each items.

-  Exchange your answers.

- T checks as a class and explains the answers where necessary.

1c.Key:

1. sure.                            

2. I can’t imagine that .

3. How cool!

4. I wish I could go back to that time.    

5. Ho cool!                  

6. I can’t imagine that.

2. Use the words/phrases in the box to complete the sentences ( P41)

- Make sure Ss understand the meaning of the words in the box.

- Give some examples to show that you understand the phrases ‘technological changes’.

- Work independently to complete the sentences. Share your answers in pairs.

- Then elicit the answers from the whole class.

III. Practice

2.Key:

1. A     

 2. D   

 3. C        

 4. B      

 5. E       

 6. F

3. Brainstorming... (P41)

- Work in small groups to come up with as many past events and practices as possible which were part of daily life in their area.

- Give the groups a time limit, for example, five minutes.

- Present the list they have made to the class.

- As a whole class, decide if these practices were specific to their region or neighborhood or were also practiced elsewhere

3.Example: Women in Hue used to go swimming at the beach fully clothed, to wear palm leaf conical hats, to wear the traditional long dress whenever they went out, to stay at home as housewives, to smoke…

4.Further practice:

- Sum up the main content of the lesson.

5.Production:

- Learn by heart new words

- Do exercises B1, 2, 3 P31-32 (workbook)

- Prepare: Unit 4: A closer look 1

- Listen

- Take note