Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 1: A visit from a pen pal

Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9
UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
I. General objectives:
1. Competencies:
- Make & respond to introduction
- How to compare with the likeness and the difference.
- Scan for specific information.
2. Language focus:
- Past simple tense
- Present unreal wish
II. Techniques: Brainstorming; Questions – answers
III. Etching aids: Cassette; Cassette recorder; illustrating pictures; OPH;
Pictures; Visual aids; Laptop; Flash cards, colored chalk.
IV. Total period distribution:
Period distribution
1
2
3
4
5

Items of Teaching
Getting started, Listen and read
Speak and Listen
Read
Write
Language focus

Lesson 1: Getting started – Listen and read (45 min)
I. Objectives:
- Introduce, leading to the topic of a unit

- Talking about places to visit


II. Grammar: Wish sentence & Past habit

Used to + Verb

III. Vocabulary: Words relating to famous place to visit & activities done during the
visit
Steps
Warm – Up
(15’)

Teacher’s activities
* Getting started.

Student’s activities
- Looking at the 6 pictures

- Showing 6 pictures of places of

and guessing what places

interest of Vietnam

they are.

- Eliciting the places of interest of Ho
Chi Minh City
- Asking them some questions

- Answering the questions.

1. Do you have any pen pals?
2. Do you like to have pen pals?
3. Where will you take him if he
visits Vietnam for the 1st time?
4. Can you tell me the names of the
places in 6 pictures?
- Teaching new words: Hung Temple;

- Listening to the teacher’s

Temple of Literature; Dong Xuan

explanations then write the

Market; the City hall; Ho Chi Minh

vocabulary down.

history museum; Ben Thanh market.
* Listen and read
Lead-in
(30’)

- Introducing the situation of the passage:
Rizal Mary is, Lan’s pen pal visited her

- Listening to the teacher

for the fist time and Lan took her to some
places of interest in Hanoi.
- Playing cassette once the 1st paragraph.
- Asking them questions: What do you
know about Mary am?

- Listening to cassette.


- Having them a silent reading then

- Answering the question.

identifying the places of interest.

- Having a silent reading.

- Playing cassette again.
- Explaining the new difficult words:
Mosque; peaceful; keep in touch;

- Listening to the cassette.

atmosphere

- Writing down the new

- Reminding them of new and old

words.

structures.

- Finding out structures.

* Old Structure: Past habit
Used to + V
* Ex: Lan used to walk past the mosque on
her way to primary school.
* New structure:
Wish sentence: Present unreal wish
* Ex: I wish I had more time.

- Identifying new structures.

- Asking them to have silent reading for
information to answer the questions.
- Calling some students to say their choices.

- Having silent reading and

- Briefly explaining the use of Wish

get more information.

Ex: I wish I had more time.

- Saying the choices.

I wish + clause (Past simple)
Practice:
1. I don’t have enough money.
I wish …………………………

- Doing the practice.

2. I can’t sing that song
I wish …………………………

1. I wish I had enough

3. It’s raining.

money.

I wish …………………………

2. I wish I could sing that

4. I am too fat.

song.


I wish …………………………

3. I wish it wasn’t raining.

5. The weather is bad to day.

4. I wish I weren’t too fat.

I wish …………………………

5. I wish the weather were
fine today.

Consolidation

1. Where did Lan take Mary am to
visit?
2. What place did they visit on Friday?
3. What new structure is there in the
passage?

Homework

- Do exercise 1 workbook
(p.5-6).
- Explain the way how to do
these exercises.


UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Lesson 2: Speak – Listen (45 min)
I. Objectives:
- Developing speaking and listening skills.
- Introducing oneself
II. Language contents:

1.

Grammar: Yes – No questions.

2.

Vocabulary: Some words relating to capitals and big cities in the

word, especially in Asia.
III. Techniques:
Asking and answering – Pair work – Role play – Matching.
IV. Teaching aids:
Pictures, cassette player and tape.
V. Time: 45 minutes
VI. Procedures:
SPEAK (28 minutes)
Steps
Warm – up
(3’)

Teacher’s activities
- Making questions:

- Answering the questions:

1. Where does Mary is come from?

1. Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur

2. Does she like Vietnamese people?

2. Friendly

3. Does she like Ha Noi?

3. Interesting

Presentation (7’)

Student’s activities

Introducing situation.

- Matching and putting the dialogues


-

Asking Sts to work in pairs.

in the correct order.
 Finishing part (a)

Practice
(13’)

Free
practice (5’)

- Correcting part (a)

- Replacing

- Sticking the answer key on the board.

- Making similar dialogues.

- Asking Sts to read the information in

- Practicing new dialogues (Pair

three boxes at the end of the page 8.

work)

- Asking Sts to match countries and their

- Matching

capitals (ASIA).

- Playing roles with their old names

- Asking Sts to play roles.

and their own words.

LISTEN (17 minutes)

Steps

Pre-listening

Teacher’s activities
- Introducing the lesson

(3’)

Student’s activities
- Looking at the picture and taking
about them.

While-

-

listening
(10’)

Taking about the situation of - Listening and finding out where

the lesson.

Tim and Carol are and that they

-

are doing.

Playing the tape.

- Listening and choosing the correct
answers.
- Comparing their answers with the
partner’s.

Postlistening (4’)

- Checking the answers with the whole
class.

- Saying the answers.



UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL
Lesson 3: Read (45 min)
I. Objectives:
1. Developing speaking and listening skills.
2. Help students to know more about Malaysia.
II. Language contents:
Vocabulary: divided, separated, comprise tropical climate, official, language of
instruction.
III. Techniques:
Communicative approach.
IV. Procedures:
Steps
Warm-up

Teacher’s activities
- T shows the map of Vietnam and asks

Student’s activities
- Answering the questions.

students:
1. Which country is on the map?
2. Which city is the capital of Vietnam?
3. How many regions are there in
Pre-reading

Vietnam?
- T introduce a the passage by showing

- Sts answer (in Vietnamese)

the map and the picture about Malaysia.
- T asks “What do you know about
Malaysia.

- Reading the passage in silently an

- T asks sts to read the passage silently

underline the new word

and underline the new words.

- Listening to the explanation.

- T explains new word (translation

method)


While-

- T reads the passage and students listen

reading

and find the right information about

Post-reading

Malaysia to fill in the table. (pair word)
- T hangs a cardboard and gets sts to do

- Sts read their answer sentences.

- Doing the exercise in pairs.

T/F exercises in pairs.
- T asks some pairs to write their answers - Answering the questions.
on the board.
Feed-back
Consolidatio
n

- T gives answer keys and corrects them.
- T asks. For the false statements T asks

- Correcting the mistakes.
- Giving the correct statements.

sts to give the correct ones.
- T gives some questions about Malaysia: - Answering the questions.
1. Is Malaysia one of the countries of the
ASEAN?
2. How many regions are there?
3. Is Kuala Lumpur the largest city in the
country?
4. Which language is taught on
secondary school?
5. What’s the weather like in Malaysia?

Homework

- Learning the new words by heart.
- Rereading the passage.


UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL
Lesson 4: Write (45 min)
I. Aims:
Sts can practice the skill of writing a letter (a normal letter and a friendly letter)
II. Teaching aids:
Pictures of some places of interest ( Hoan Kiem Lake, West Lake, London Bridge,
etc), Overhead, projector.
III. Teaching steps:
Steps
Warm-up

Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities
- T introduces the topic of the - Answering the questions.
lesson by telling the sts his/her
trip.

Then

T

ask

sts

some

questions:
a. When did you go last summer?
b. Do you have any relatives?
c. Have you ever visited them?
d. Could you tell us about your
Presentation

trip?
- T reads a sample letter.

- Listening to the teacher.

- T guides sts how to write a letter

(address, heading, body, closing,
signature…)
Practice

- T has some sts read their letters - Sts read the outline, pay
in front of the class.

attention to he content of

- T corrects the mistakes.

each part.
- Sts base on the outline and


teacher’s instructions and
write a letter.
- Sts discuss in groups and
write letters by themselves.
Consolidation
Homework

- How to write a friendly letter
- Sts write letters to invite
their friends to their places
where they are living, tell
them what they’ll do, what
food they’ll eat …

UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Lesson 5: Language focus (45 min)
I. Objectives:
Students can retell their preparations before a special occasion and express their
wish.
II. Language content:
Grammar: Revision:
-

Past simple.

-

Wish sentence.

III. Technique:
Question – Answer.
IV. Teaching aid:
Pictures, colored chalk.
V. Procedure:
Past simple
(page 11)

Teacher’s activities
- Creating the situation by asking some questions:

Student’s activities
Answering
the
T/s

questions.

1. Where was Mary am last 1. She was in HN
week?
2. What did she do in her 2. Lan took her to HOAN
first day in HN ?
- Asking the students to pick
out the tenses in 2 answers.
- Having some students give
the formation of past simple

KIEM lake.


tense.
Exercise 1 page 11

- Asking the students to do pair 1. What did Lan do on the
word (exercise 1)

Weekend?

- Having some pairs present in - She went to the concert.
front of the class.

2. When did she go there?

- Having the students do group - She went there on Saturday
work and the quickest group at 8pm.

present their key on the board.
Exercise 2:
- Lan made a cake
Exercise 2 page 12

- Tan hang colorful lamps.
- They bought flowers.
- Huy paint a picture of HN
- They went shopping.

Exercise 3 page 12
The past simple with wish:
S1 V1 S2 V2
I wish you had a longer
vacation.
S1 V1 S2 V2

Exercise 3:
- Creating the situation by - “ I wish you had a longer
asking questions:

vacation”

“What did Lan say to Mary am at the end of the week?”

Wish

S1 + WISH S2 + verb

- Having the students withdraw Exercise 3:

subjunctive.

conclusion.

a. I wish I were taller

- Asking the sts to do exercise 3

b. I wish it were not so

page 12 (group work)

hot

- Having some of the sts write
Consolidation

their

sentences

on

the

blackboard.
Homework

a

- Asking the students to analyze - Verb is used in the past
the sentence.

_/v(past)

=>

complex sentence.

I wish I had more time.
_be (were)

sentence

- Giving comments or corrects

c. I wish I had a
computer
d. I wish I didn’t do it’s.


the mistakes if necessary.
- Asking the sts to give the
formation of wish sentence.
- Asking the sts to write five
wish sentences.