unit 13 - reading

Unit 13
HOBBIES
Period 1: Reading
I. Objectives:
1. General knowledge:
- Sts know about the hobbies.
2. Language: Sts recall and learn more about:
- The present simple tense.
- Vocabulary on hobbies.
3. Skills: Sts develop the following skills:
- Reading for specific information and explaining meaning in context.
- Reading for specific information and answering the questions.
- Discussing.
II. Anticipated problems:
Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic.
III. Teaching aids:
- Textbook
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
1. Before you read: (10 minutes)
Aims: focus sts on the topic, revise and introduce the
words and phrases used to talk about the hobbies.
- Ask Ss to look at the pictures in the textbook and
answer the question:
What do you like doing in your free time?
- Check the answers with the whole class.
- Suggested answer:
playing the guitar, playing computer games,
collecting stamps, swimming , fishing, reading,
singing, listening to music
2. While you read :

Set the scene: You are going to read a passage about
the writer’s hobbies. While you are reading, do the
tasks in the book.
Task 1: (10 minutes)
Aims: Sts practice reading for specific information by
finding the meaning of the words .
- Ask Ss to read the passage quickly and underline
the words in task 1 .
- Ask Ss to exchange the answers with a friend.
- Call on some Ss to give the answers in front of the
class.
- Give the correct answers:
1. accomplished (adj): well-trained , skilled ( tµi ba,
tµi hoa)
2. accompanying : going with a singer, using a musical
instrument ( ®Öm ®µn)
3. modest(adj): humble, unasuming ( nhá, khiªm tèn)
- Look at the picture and answer
the question.
- Some sts answer the question.
- Others listen to their friends.
- Read the words and do the task.
- Some ss answer and others listen.
4. avid (adj): eager( say mª)
5. discarded (adj):thrown away ( ®· bÞ bá ®i)
6. indulge in: allow oneself the pleasure of ( ®am mª
vµo viÖc g×)
7. keep me occupied; keep me busy ( lµm t«i bËn rén)
Task 2: (15 minutes)
Aims: Sts practice reading for specific information by

answering the questions.
- Ask S to read the statements carefully and find the
answer
- Ask S to work individually , then discuss their
answers with a partner.
- Call on some Ss to give the answers in front of the
class.
- Give the correct answers:
1. His first hobby is playing his guitar.
2. No, he isn’t.
3. Because he’s an accomplished guitarist and he is
good at accompanying people singing by 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.
6. 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 others
or if no one wants them he simply throw them away.
3. After you read: (9 minutes)
Aims: Sts practice working in groups and talk about
their hobbies.
- Ask Ss to work in groups to talk about their hobbies.

- Go around and offer help.
- Call on some Ss to give the answers in front of the
class.
- Correct the Ss’ mistakes and give the comments.

4 . Homework: (1 min.)
Write the paragraph about your hobbies.
- Work in pairs and do the task .
- Some Ss answer in front of the
class.
- Work in groups.
- Some Ss present in front of the
class.