Unit seven: The world of work.
A/ Students’ work. ( A2+ A3 )
I/ Objectives.
By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to read for
comprehension throught a letter and practice listening.
II/ Language contents.
1, Vocabulary: Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, celebrate.
2, Structures: Present simple tense and comparative of adjectives.
III/ Teaching aids.
- Make a plan.
- Prepare a letter in Viet Nam and some pictures of public holiday.
IV/ Teaching procedures.
Stages Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1, Warm up
@Make questions for students:
-What do usually do during
vacation?
-If you don’t visit your uncle, what
you will do?
-Will you write a letter?
Use the letter to introduce the lesson.
Listen to and answer the teacher’s
questions.
Look at books and tell about a letter.
2, Presentation
Ask students to look at it, this is a
letter from American and it is a letter
from Viet Nam.
@Ask students to answer the
questions: -Who wrote this letter?
-Who did he write this
letter? -In your opinion, what is
the letter about?
Now you read this letter and answer
this question.
Have students read the letter, and go
around the class to help the students.
Give the meaning of these words:
-hear, find, celebrate, Easter,
Thanksgiving, Christmas, like doing.
Call some students to read the letter.
Teacher listen and corrects their
mistakes if they have.
@Have the students work in pairs by
asking and answering these
questions.
Look at this letter and answer the
questions:
-Tim wrote this letter.
-He wrote this letter to Hoa.
( Students can guess )
Read this letter.
Read these new words and write
them.
Practice in front of the class.
Work in pairs.
3, Practice.
Ask them to practice in front of the
class.
Give the correct answers:
-Summer vacation is the longest in
America.
-During his vacation, Tim spends
time with his family.
-Vietnamese students have fewer
vacations than American students.
*Can you name American vacations
that you have just learnt.
Now you look at these pictures and
talk about them.( you can answer the
question: Which vacation is in the
first picture?)
Play the tape and ask students to
write the name of the public holiday
in each of these pictures.
Play the tape again.
Ask students to give their answers.
Then give the correct answers:
Practice these questions in front of
the class.
Write the correct answers into
notebooks.
Talk again these vacations.
Guess: which vacation is in each
picture.
Listen to tape and write the name of
the public holiday in each picture.
Give the answers.
4, Production
a. Thanksgiving.
b. Independence Day.
c. New Year’s Eva ( Day ).
d. Christmas.
Talk some sentences about these
public vacations.
@Now you talk about the vacations
in Viet Nam.
Teacher can make some questions:
-How many vacations are there in
Viet Nam?
-What are they?
-What do you usually do on each
vacation?
Ask students to work in pairs, then
write on the papers.
Call some students to read.
Listen and correct.
@ Learn by heart the new words.
Name vacations in Viet Nam and in
America.
Listen to teacher.
Work in small groups
Answer the teacher’s questions.
Go to the board and write all
sentences that you wrote.
Correct the mistakes.
Rewrite exercises into notebooks
5, Homework.
Answer the questions:
-What do American students often
do in that day?
-What do Vietnamese students often
do on that day?
V/ Draw experience.