Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 3: A trip to the countryside

TIẾNG ANH 9 – GIÁO ÁN
Unit3:

A trip to the

countryside
Lesson1:

Getting started
Listen and read

I. Aims : Introduce life, and activities in the countryside : By the end of the
lesson students will be able to talk about life and activities in the
countryside.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : home village (n) , bamboo forest (n) , banyan tree
(n) , shrine (n) , riverbank (n) .
2. Structure :

- The past simple (review)

- Prepositions of time. (review)
3. Skills : Listening, speaking, reading and writing.
III. Teaching aids : Textbook, pictures, cassette
IV. Procedure :

TEACHER’S & STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

CONTENT

Warm – up : Chatting

- Asks students some questions about the Questions for chatting :
countryside :

?1. Do you live in the city or in the
countryside ? ( in the countryside )
?2. What’s there in your place ? ( river,


mountain, paddy field, lake, buffalo …)
?3. What is the weather like in the
countryside ? ( cool, fresh …)
?4. How is the life in the countryside ?
* Getting started :

( peaceful, quiet

- Asks students to look at the pictures and …)
describe what the people are doing.
* Answers :
1. A woman is watering the vegetables.
2. The boys are swimming.
3. A woman is feeding the chickens.
4. The farmers are harvesting.
5. A man is feeding the pigs.
6. A man is plowing with his buffalo.
7. A buffalo boy is flying his kite.
8. The boys are playing soccer.
* Listen and read :
- Pre – teach vocabulary :

* New words :

- Checks( matching)

- home village (n) :
- bamboo forest (n) :
- banyan tree (n) :
- shrine (n) :

- Guiding questions :

- riverbank (n) :

+ Asks students to listen the text twice to
answer the questions.
?1. What did Ba, Liz, and his family do on Answers :
their journey to his home village ?

1. They visited Ba’s uncle, walked up the


?2. What did Liz think of the trip ?

mountain to visit a shrine, went boating in the
river and had a picnic on the riverbank.

+ Gives feedback and answers.

2. Liz enjoyed the trip very much; she took a
lot of photos.

* While reading :

* Answers :
1. F. Ba and his family had a day trip to their

- True / false stataments :

home village.

+ Asks students to read the statements, then 2. T
read the text and decide which is true and 3. F. There is a big old banyan tree at the
which is false.

entrance to the village.

+ Give feedback and answer key.

4. F. People had a snack under the banyan
tree.
5. T
6. F. People had a picnic on the riverbank.
7. T
8. F. Liz had a lot of photos to show her
parents.
9. T

- Comprehension questions :
+ Has students work in pairs to answer the * Answers :
questions.

1. It’s 60 kilometers to the north of Ha Noi.

+ Give feedback and answers

2. They got there by bus.
3. It’s at the entrance to the village.

* Post reading : Speaking

4. They saw a shrine of a Vietnamese hero on

- Asks students to talk to each other about the the mountain.
activities they can see in the pictures ( p.22 ) 5. They had their picnic on the riverbank.


or on their way to their home village, and tell 6. Liz took a lot of photos to show her
their friends whether they like going there or parents.
not.

7. She wishes she could visit Ba’s village

- Reminds the past simple and some again.
prepositions of time.
We use the past simple to talk about definite
time in the past.
Form :

S + V(-ed/v2)

- Some prepositions of time : after, at, on,
in
+ After : sau khi
+ At : luc ( chỉ giờ, phút, giây )
+ On : lúc ( chỉ ngày, buổi )
+ In : chỉ tháng, mùa, năm, thời gian dài.
* Homework :
Asks students :
- Learn their lesson.
- Do the exercises 1, 2 ( p.20 ) in the
workbook.
- Prepare some information about their own
village.
E.g : Where is it ?
How far is it ?
How can you get there ?
What is it like ?
- Prepare the lesson : Speak -Listen for the
next period



Unit3:

A trip to the countryside

Lesson2:

Listen and Speak

I. Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to :
- Ask for and give information about their own village.
- Listen and understand the information.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : route (n), pond (n), parking lot (n), to pick
somebody up (v).
2. Structure : Review.
3. Skills : Listening, speaking, reading and writing.
III. Teaching aids : Textbook, cassette, cards, pictures, small board
IV. Procedure :

TEACHER’S & STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
• Warm – up :
Noughts and crosses : Questions and

CONTENT
UNIT 3 : A TRIP TO THE

answers about a place.

COUNTRYSIDE

- Divides the class into teams.

Period 16 : SPEAK

- Draws a nine – square grid on the board.
- Each square is numbered from 1 to 9.

* Suggested questions :

- Makes nine word cards : Who, Where, What, - Is there a village gate ?
When, How, How many, Which, Is, Are.

- Are there any banyan trees in your

- The teams will take turn to choose the number village ?
and make a question using the word give on the - How far is it from the city ?


card. If they can make a correct question, put a Í - Where is your home village ?
in the box.

- What can you see on the way to your

- The first teams that has three Ís in a line wins.

village?

* While – speaking :

- When do you often go to your home

a. Role play :

village?

- Has students read the questions in exercise a), - How often is the village fair held ?
work in pairs, ask and answer about their - Which places would you like to show
partner’s home village, using the information in us ?

the box.

- How many seasons are there in your

- Tells students to cover the role that they don’t home village ?
play
a. Example :
b. Ask and answer about their real home village. A : Where is your home village ?
- Asks students to do the same as part a), besides B : It’s to the west of the city.
students can talk about village fair, relatives, A : How far is it from the city ?
children’s games, interesting places …

B : It’s about 15 kilometers.

- Calls some pairs to practice their dialogues in A : How can you get there ?
front of the class.

B : I can get there by bus.

- Gives teacher’s opinion and correct if

A : How long does it take you to get

necessary.

there ?
B : It takes me an hour.
A : What do people do for living in your
home village ?
B : They plant rice and raise cattle.

A : Does your village have a river ?
B : There aren’t any rivers, but there is a


big lake.
b. Example :
A : Are there any festivals in your home
village ?
B : Yes. They often hold festivals every
year.
A : Can you tell me some ?
B : They often hold spring festival, harvest
Pre – listening :

festival, flower festival …

- Teach vocabulary :

A : Oh, it’s very interesting in your home
village

- Sets the scene : You’ll listen to the trip to Ba’s * New words :
village.

- route (n) : a way from one place to

- Prediction :

another : tuyến đường, lộ trình

+ Asks students to look at the map, guess where - pond (n) : (realia) : ao
the places on the map are and compare with

- parking lot = car park : (picture) : khu

their partners.

vực để xe oâtoâ

+ Writes students’ guesses on the board.

- to pick somebody up : đón ai

* While listening : Matching

* Answers :

- Gets students to listen to the tape and check A. banyan tree
their predictions.

C. highway No. 1

B. airport
D. Dragon

- Match the places on the bus route with the bridge
letter on the map.

E. gas station

- Gives feedback and answer key.

G. pond

* Post listening :

forest

- Asks students to show each other the bus route I. parking lot

F. store
H. bamboo


they have just listened to.
- Has students draw a sample map of their
neighborhood show their partner the way to
their house.

Tape transcript

At 6.30 in the morning, the bus collected
Ba and his family from their home. After
picking everyone up, the bus continued the

* Homework :

north on Highway Number 1. It crossed

Asks students :

- Practice ask and answer about their home
village.

the Dragon Brigde and stopped at the gas
station to get some more fuel. Then, it left
the highway and turned left onto a small

- Learn words.
- Do the exercises 5 page 22 in the workbook.
- Prepare the lesson for the next period : Read
( Unit 3

road westward. This road ran between
green paddy fields, so the people on the
could see a lot od cows and buffaloes. The
road ended before a big store beside a ond.
Instead of turning left toward a small
airport, the bus went in the opposite
direction. It didn’t stay on that road for
very long, but turned left onto a road
which went through a small bamboo
forest. Finally, the bus dropped everyone
off at the parking lot ten meters from a big
old banyan tree. It parked there and waited
for people to come back in the evening.

Unit3:

A trip to the countryside
Lesson3:

Read


I. Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand the
text in details and complete the summary.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : exchange students (n)
2. Structure : Review
3. Skills : Speaking, reading and writing.
III. Teaching aids : Textbook, small board
IV. Procedure :

TEACHER’S & STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

* Warm – up : Jumbled words.

CONTENTS

UNIT 3 : A TRIP TO THE

geehnaex à exchange

COUNTRYSIDE

- zamie à maize

Period 17: READ

- yrrgcoe à grocery

- edef à feed
- llcocte à collect
à exchange students (n) : trao đổi du học sinh
- Tells students what “ exchange student” means.
* Pre – reading :
- Introduces the text which is about Van, an
exchange student. He is from HCM City. He is now
studying in the USA. He is living with the Parker


family on a farm outside Columbus, Ohio.
- Has students tell the class what they know about
life in the country, on the farm.
* While reading :
- Asks students to read the text and answer the
questions.

a. Matching the words in column A

?1. What do people do ?

with the words or groups of words in

?2. How do they relax ?

column B having the same meaning

- Gives feedback.

* Answers for matching :

a. Matching :

- maize à corn

- Asks students to work in pairs, read the text and - feed à give food to eat
match the words in column A with the explaination - grocery store à where people buy food
in column B.

and small things

- Gives feedback and answer key.

- part-time à shorter or less than
standard time
- collect à bring things together.
b.

Complete

the

summary.

Use

information from the passage
b. Complete the summary :
- Asks students to read the summary, and then the
text, complete the summary, using the information

from the passage.
- Asks some students to read the completed

* Answers :
A Vietnamese boy named Van is

summary in front of the class.

living with the Parker family in the

- Gives feedback and answer key.

American state of Ohio. Mr. Parker is a


farmer and Mrs. Parker works parttime at a grocery store in a nearby
town. They have two children, Peter
and Sam. Van often does chores after
school. Sometimes, he also helps on the
farm. The family relases on Saturday
afternoons and they watch Peter play
baseball. Van likes the Parkers, and he
enjoys being a member of their family.
* Post reading :
Comprehension questions :
?1. How long will Van stay there ?
?2. What do Mr and Mrs Parker do ?
?3. How many children do they have ?
?4. What does Van do after finishing his homework
?

?5. How do the Parker family spend their
weekend ?
Roleplay.
- Asks students to work in pairs. One is Van who
has just come back from the USA and the others
play the role of a student who is going to the USA
as an exchange student.
The interview can begin :
S1 : Hi, Van. I’m going to the USA next month as
an exchange student. I want to know what I should
do when being there. Can you help me ?


Van : Sure. Where are you going to stay ?
S1 : I’m going to stay with the Brown family. They
live in a suburb 50 kilometers from …
* Homework :
Asks students :
Write the summary into their notebooks
- Learn their lesson.
- Do the exercises 6, 8 page ( 22, 23, 24 )
- Prepare the lesson for the next period :
Write ( Unit 3 )


Unit3:

A trip to the countryside
Lesson 4:

Write

I. Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to write a short
paragraph describing a story happened in the past, a picnic in the countryside.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : blanket (n) , lay out (v) , gather (v) , site (n)
2. Structure : Review the past simple tense.
3. Skills : Speaking, reading and writing.
III. Teaching aids : Textbook, pictures, projector.
IV. Procedure :

TEACHER’S & STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

* Warm – up : Chatting
- Asks students some questions about going on a
picnic.

CONTENTS

UNIT 3 : A TRIP TO THE
COUNTRYSIDE
Period 18: WRITE

* Questions for chatting :
?1. Have you ever gone on a picnic ?
?2. When did you go ?
?3. Where did you go ?
?4. How did you get there ?

* New words :

?5. What did you do ?

- blanket (n) : (picture) : chăn, mền

?6. When did you come back home ?

- lay out (v) : (mime) : trải, dọn

?7. Did you enjoy it ?

- gather (v) : (translation) : thu lượm


* Pre – writing :

- site (n) : (translation) : địa điểm

- Teach vocabulary :
- Checking vocabulary : What and Where
+ Have Ps repeat the words in chorus then rubs
out word by word but leaves the circles.
Remember to let students repeat before and after
rubbing out each word.
+ Go on until students can remember the words.
+ Get students to write the words again in the
correct circles.
* While writing :
- Describing :
+ Ask students to look at the pictures one by one,

read the cues.
+ Have Ps describe the pictures to their partners.
+ Ask students to talk to the class about what
they can see in each picture.
+ Go on doing the same steps for the rest of the
pictures.
+ Ask students to write a passage entitled “ A
country picnic ”.
+ Write the starting sentence on the board : “ It
was a beautiful day, my friends and I decided to
go on a picnic.”
+ Ask students some questions to make sure they
understand their task.

* Suggested writing :


+ Ask students to use the pictures and the cues to
write the passage.

It was a beautiful day, my friends
and I decided to go on a picnic. We
took a bus to the countryside and then
walked about 20 minutes to the picnic

* Post writing :

site next to the river. We put down the

- Asks students to wrap their writing and compare blankets and laid out the food. After

with their partners and correct if they can.

meal, we played the games “ What song

- Chooses some writing to correct in front of the is it ? “ and blind man’s buff. Late in
class.

the afternoon, we went fishing. We
enjoyed our picnic. When we looked at
the time, it was nearly 6.30 pm. We
hurriedly gathered our things and ran to
the bus stop. We were lucky to catch
the last bus and we arrived home very
late in the evening.

* Homework :
Asks students :
- Write their passage (after correction) into their
notebook.
- Learn their lesson.
- Do the exercise 9 ( page 24, 25 )
- Prepare the lesson : Language focus ( Unit 3 ).

Unit3:

A trip to the countryside

Lesson 5:

Language focus

. Aims : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to use the past simple
with wish, prepositions of time, and adverb clauses of result.
II. Language contents :
1. Vocabulary : Prepositions of time (review), to pass the exam, to
win the contest, itineraty, to depart (v)
2. Structure :

- Modal could, past simple with wish.

- Adverb clauses of result
3. Skills : Listening, speaking, reading and writing.
III. Teaching aids : Textbook, pictures
IV. Procedure :

TEACHER’S & STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

* Warm – up : Matching
- Divides the class into teams

CONTENT

UNIT 3 : A TRIP TO THE
COUNTRYSIDE

- Asks students to write down two sentences on Period 19: LANGUAGE FOCUS
different pieces of paper, each sentence begins
with :
I am …… (real situation)

I wish …….
- Collects these pieces and put them into two
different bags.

1. What do these people wish? Write the


- Asks students to pick up the paper one at a sentences.
time, read it loudly to the whole class.

* New words :

- Those who have the funniest matching will be - to pass the exam;to fail the exam
the winner.

- to win the contest : (translation) : thắng

* Activity 1 :

cuộc đua

- Teach vocabulary :

- itineraty : (picture) : lịch trình

- Checking vocabulary : What and Where :

- to depart (v) (explanation) : to leave a

What do these people wish ?

place, usually at the beginning of a

- Revision :

journey : khởi hành.

+ Picks one example from the matching game.

* Note :

I’m hungry. I wish I were at home now and - Wish : expresses wishes about the
had lunch.

present / future.

- Elicit from students.

- Form : Wish + S + V(s.past)/ were

- Ask students to look at the pictures, study the * Answers :
real situation by answering the questions.

a. Ba wishes he could have a new bicycle.

- Ask students to do the exercise 1.

b. Hoa wishes she could visit her parents.

Questions :

c. I wish I passed the exam

b. Where is Hoa Now ? How does she feel ?

d. We wish it didn’t rain.

c. What is the boy doing ? What does he have in e. He wishes he could fly.
his mind ?

f. They wish they stayed in Hue.

- Gived feedback.
2. Work with a partner

* Activity 2 :
- Asks students to match the prepositions with


words on the list :
- Prepositions : in, on, at
- Words : the twentieth century, Christmas day,
1925,

Saturday,

winter,

Sunday

evening,

September, the evening,
10 o’clock, 10 October, weekend.
* Answers :
- in the twentieth century, in 1925, in winter, in
September, in the evening.
- on Christmas day, on Saturday, on Sunday
evening, on 10 October, on weekend
- at 10 o’clock.
* Questions :
?1. What does he do on the first day? the second
day? the third day? and the last day?
?2. What time does the meeting at Raffles
Center begin ? finish ?
?3. What about the meeting at Lion City
Restaurant ?

a. Mr Thanh leaves Hanoi at 2 p.m

?4. What time does the meeting in Raya Palace

Answers :

begin ? finish ?

a. at,

b. on,

c. between

?5. What about the meeting at Little Indian

d. at,

e. at,

f. till

Restaurant ?
- Asks students to look at the itinerary and 3. Complete the sentences with on, at, in,
answer the questions.

for

- Asks students to use the prepositions in the * Answers :


box to do exercise a)

a. on,

b. at,

- Gives feedback.

d. for,

e. in,

* Activity 3 :

c. in
f. at

4. Match the half- sentences. Then write

- Asks students to complete the sentences with the full sentences in your exercise books
on, at, in, for.

* Note :

- Gives feedback.

- So : is used to express the result of the

* Activity 4 :

statement before.

Match the half – sentences :

- Meaning : do đó

- Asks students to look at the sentence :
Everyone felf tired, so they sat down under the * Answers :
tree and had a snack.
1. e,
2. a,

?. What did everyone do when they felf tired?

c

 They felf tired, so they sat down under the
tree and had a snack.
- Ask the question to elicit the answer.
- Have Ps match the half – sentences.
- Give feedback.
* Consolidation :
Remind :
- Modal could, past simple with wish
- Prepositions of time
- Adverb clauses of result.
* Homework :
Asks students :
Write all exercises in their notebooks.
- Make five wishes about the present or future

-

3. d,

4. b,

5.


- Do the exercise 10 ( page 25, 26 )
- Prepare the lesson :

Getting started + Listen and read ( Unit 4 )