Giáo án Tiếng Anh lớp 10: UNIT 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE Lesson 4 : Read + Language Focus pot

UNIT 3: A TRIP TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
Lesson 4 : Read + Language Focus 4
A. Aims:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read the text for details about
the life on a farm of a Vietnamese exchange student and master the adverbial clause
of result.
*Teaching aids:

Extraboard, picture, cassetle
B.procedure:
I. Pre

reading:
1. Warm

up: Kim’s game
(Using the picture on page 22. Have students look at the picture for one minute
and try to remember it. After that, ask them to write down as many activities from the
picture as possible)
*Key:
1.

water the vegetable
2.

swim
3.

collect eggs
4.

harvest (crops) rice
5.

plow/plough (with a buffalo) a field
6.

feed a pig
7.

fly a kite
8.

play soccer
2. Pre

teach vocabulary:
–

standard (adj) : tiêu chuẩn (trans)
–

exchange student (n) : sinh viên trao đổi (exp)
–

maize (n) : ngô, bắp (syn= corn)/(visual)
–

part-time(adv) : không trọn ngày công (sit)/(exp)
–

(to) feed–fed–fed : cho ăn (mime)
–

Hot dog (n) : xúc xích nóng (trans)
* Checking: ROR
3.Pre–questions:
- Set the scene: Van is an exchange student from HCM City.
- Have students guess about Van :
a.

Where is Van studying now?
b.

Who is he staying with?
c.

What does he often do to help the family?
d.

What does he often do on Saturday afternoon?
- Students guess – T writes on the board
- Ask students to read the text on p.25.
II. While

reading:
1.Answer Pre- questions:
a. He is studying in in the USA.
b. He is staying with The Parkers family on a farm.
c. He feeds the chickens and collects the eggs.
d. He watches Peter play baseball and eats hamburgers with The Parkers.

2.Matching: (individually and then comparing)
*Key:
a.

Maize = corn
b.

Feed = give a food to eat
c.

Grocery store = where people buy food and small things
d.

Part–time = shorter or less than standard time
e.

Collect = bring things together
3. Comprehension questions: (lucky lots)
- Have ss to read the text again to answer the questions:
a.

How long will Van stay (there) with the Parkers?
b.

What do Mr and Mrs Parker do?
c.

How many children do they have?
d.

What does Van do after finishing his homework?
e.

How are the Parkers?
- Give feedback and correct
*Key: a.He will stay with them till the beginning of October.
b.Mr Parker is a farmer, and Mrs Parker works part–time at grocery store.
c.They have two boys (Peter and Sam).
d.They are very nice to Van.
4.Gap fill:
- Have students to complete the summary using the information from the passage
(P.26).
- Give feedback and correct
*Key:
1.

Ohio 6. after
2.

farmer 7. farm
3.

works part–time at a grocery store 8. watch
4.

Peter… 9. baseball
5.

Sam 10. member
III. Post–reading: (Interview)

- Get students to play the role of Van and his friend who is going to the USA as an
exchange student, ask and answer about his life in the USA.
Eg: S2 : Where did you live?
S1(Van): I lived on a farm with an American family.
S2 : Do you like life on a farm?
S1 : Yes, I do.
S2 : Did you help the family with the farmwork?
S1 : Yes, I did.
S2 : What could you do?
S1 : I
IV. Adverbial Clause of Result:
- Elicit from students:
Q: How does Van feel when he lives with the Parkers?Why?

Van feels like a member of their family because the Parkers are nice.

The Parkers are nice so Van feels like a member of their family.
Form: S1 + V1 + , so + S2 + V2 +
Advebial clause of result.
Meaning: vì vậy
Use: Express the result of the action in the main clause.
- Get students to match the half- sentences (LF4, p.31) then write in full sentences in
their notebook.
- Give feedback and correct:
* Key: 1 – e, 2 – a, 3 – d, 4 – b, 5 – e.
- Have students rewrite the sentences using “because”
IV. Homework: 1.Redo LF 4 into notebook and rewrite using “because”
2.Do exercise 10 (P.25) (Workbook)
3.Find out new vocab in “write” (P.26–27)
V.Teacher’s self-evaluation: