LESSON PLAN
UNIT 13: HOBBIES
PERIOD 1
Lesson: Reading
I. Aims:
- Talking about hobbies
- By the end of the lesson students will be able to:
+ Understand the passage by answering the questions
+ Know some new words
+ Develop micro-skill in reading such as, skimming for main ideas
- Read and answer the questions about content of the reading
II. Teaching aids: pictures, the blackboard, chart, textbook, posters
III. Procedures:
1. Greeting and checking attendance
2. checking up
3. New lesson
Time Contents Teacher’s activities Student’s
activities
1. Warm up
Chatting
1. If you have free time, what do you do ?
- Listening to music,
- Watching TV,
- Reading books,
- Playing game,
- Going out with your friends
2.What do we do in our free time, we call
Hobbies.
UNIT 13: HOBBIES
Lesson: Reading
1. pre-reading:
Matching: Hobbies and pictures
- Swimming
- Keeping fish
- Playing chess 5 pictures
- Fishing
- Playing guitar
- Collecting stamps
• Vocabulary:
1 .Envelopes / ’enviloup/ (n): phong bì
( realize)
2. Stamp /stæmp/ (n): tem thư(realize)
- Ask sts a question
- Lead to new lesson
- Show some pictures and
then ask students to match
the pictures with these
words
- Show the pictures and ask
students to work in groups
to guess the meaning
- Read these words and
- Answer
- Listen
- Match the
pictures with
these words
- Give the
answers orally
- Repeat
3. To discard /dis’ka:d/ (v): loại bỏ
4. To collect / kә’lekt/ (v): sưu tầm
(explanation)
5. Wonder /’w ٨ndәr/ (n): kỳ
quan( realize and explanation)
6. Fascinating /’fæsineitiŋ/ (adj): hấp dẫn
(realize and explanation)
7. Tune /tju:n/ (n): giai điệu
+ Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember
2.While reading :
* Task 1: matching between column A and
column B:
A B
1. Accomplished
2. Accompanying
3. Modest
4. Avid
5. Discarded
6. Indulge in
7. Keep me occupied
a. Thrown away
b. Skilled
c. Eager
d. Going with a
singer, using a
musical instrument.
e. Not very large
f. Keep me busy
g. Allow oneself to
do something for
pleasure
*Answer keys
1.b ; 2.d ; 3.e ; 4.c ; 5.a; 6. g; 7. f
* Task 2: Answer the questions:
1. What is the writer’s first hobby?
2. Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?
3. Why does the writer admire his uncle?
4. What is the writer’s second hobby?
5. How did he collect his fish?
6. What kind of stamp collector is the writer?
7. where does he collect the stamps?
8. Which does the writer get more of, local
stamps or foreign stamps?
9. What does the writer do with the less
common stamps and with the common ones
* Answer keys
1. The writer’s first hobby is playing guitar
Ask SS to listen and repeat
- Call some SS read these
words
- Show two columns on the
board, explain and ask
students to work in groups
of 4 to match
- Ask student to work in
groups of 4, read the
passage and find out the
answers
- Give 10 minutes , and
Ask some Groups write the
answers on the board
- Give the correct answers
- Explain and ask students
to work in pairs to answer
these questions
- Correct students’
- Read these
words
- Listen and look
at the board
- Work in groups
to match column
A with coumn B
- Write the
answers on the
board
- take notes
- Work in pairs ,
to find out the
answers
- Listen and take
2. No, he isn’t
3. Because he’s an accomplished guitarist and
he is good at accompanying people singing
with his guitar.
4.His second hobby is keeping fish.
5. He bought some from the shop and collected
some from the rice field near his house.
He isn’t an avid stamp collector.
7. He collects them from discarded envelopes
his relatives and friends give him.
8. Local stamps
9. He keeps the less common ones inside a
small album. The common ones he usually
gives away to others or if not one wants them
he simply throws them away.
4. Post-reading: talking about your hobbies:
1. Listening to music
2. Reading books
3. Watching TV
* Example:
A: What’s your hobbies?( listening to music,
reading books…)
B: My hobbies is listening to music
A: why do you like?
B: Because it helps me relax
A When do you enjoy?
B:I usually enjoy it in my free time
mistakes
- Give three topics to talk
about your hobbies
- Give an example and ask
sts to work in pairs to
practice. After that replace
the highlight words by
their owns
- Call some sts to present
in front of class
notes
- Look at the
board
- Listen
- Work in pairs
and practice
- Present in front
of calss