Unit 9 : Cities of the world
A closer look 1
I/ OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students can: pronouce correctly the sounds /əu/ and /ai/ in isolation and in context; Use the lexical items related to the topic “Cities of the world”.
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar Superlatives of long adjectives.
b. Lexical items : - Vocab: Continents, countries, cities and landmarks.
c. Pronunciation: - Pronunciation: / əu, ai /.
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)
Teacher’s preparation: 2.Students’ preparation:
- Lesson plan, Pictures, posters ,textbook,CD-MP3(Computer-Multi projector/cassette/ “sách mềm”) and other materials
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 Content
Warmer
- Greeting.
- Checking attendance.
- Asking for the teaching date.
Revision
* Check old leson
- T gets one student to go to the board to write new words
- T gets the other student to read the dialogue and answer the questions.
New lesson
Vocabulary
- Teacher uses different techniques to teach vocab (situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vocab.
1.Match the words... (P28)
- Let Ss work individually then compare in pairs.
- T checks then gives feedback.
2.Create word webs (P28)
- Ss work in groups. Encourage Ss to give other adjectives.
- T checks then gives feedback.
* Notes: Some adjective can’t go with particular nouns. We can’t say “long/short city” or “rainy people”.
Pronunciation
/əu/ and /ai/
3.Listen and write the words... (P28)
- Teacher models the two sounds.
- Practise sounding out the sounds /əu/ and /ai/ together
- Play the recording.
- Ss work individually then compare in pairs.
-T checks then gives feedback.
- Get Ss to read in chorus
4.Listen and repeat (P28)
- Have Ss practise the words in bold identifying the sound /əu/ or /ai/.
- T plays the recording as many times as necessary. Ss listen and repeat sentence by sentence.
5. Complete the fact sheet... (P29)
- Ss have a quick look at all the pictures. Ss work individually to complete the fact sheet using one of the picture provided.
- Have Ss work in pairs compare the answers, ask Ss to siscuss whether they agree with each other’s answers. Give the reason.
6. Read this article about... (P29)
- Ask Ss to read the text to check their ideas above.
-Get them to find the superlative of long adj in the text.
- Make comment
student to go to the board to write new words
- other student to read the dialogue and answer the questions.
- Repeat in chorus
- Copy the new words
- Individual work
- Pair work
- Group work
- Whole class
- Individual work
- Listen and repeat
- Individual work
- Pair work
- Pair work
*New words
- common (adj) ['kɔmən]: Chung
- landmark (n) ['lændmɑ:k]: Cột mốc, giới hạn
- popular (adj) ['pɔpjulə]: phổ biến
- playwright (n) ['pleirait]: nhà soạn kịch
- chips (n) : khoai tây chiên
- spaghetti (n) [spə'geti]: món mì ống
1.Key:
1. old – new
2. dangerous – safe
3. quiet – noisy
4. dry – wet
5. boring – exciting
6. clean – dirty
7. historic – modern
8. cheap – expensive
9. cold – hot
2. Key:
- City: beautiful, peaceful, exciting, modern, big, polluted, safe,...
- Food: delicious, awful, good, tasty,...
- People: nice, friendly, unfriendly, open, noise, interesting
- Building: old, modern, tall, new, ...
- Weather: bad, rainy, hot, cold, wet,
3.Key:
/əu/: Cold, Snow, Old Clothes , Hold
/ai/: Sky, Exciting, High
Fine, Flight
5.Key:
2. Oxford University
3. Shakespeare
4. fish and chips
5. tea
6. watching TV
Consolidation
- Teacher gets students to retell the aims of the lesson.
Homework
- Prepare for the next lesson: Unit 9: Closer look 2.
- Do exercise A1, 2, 3 (p.16), B 2, 3, 4 (P.16, 17) workbook.