Giáo án Tiếng Anh 9 Unit 4: Learning a foreign language

Tiếng Anh 9 – Giáo án
UNIT:4
Period 20

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ

I/ Objectives (Mục tiêu bài học ) :
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to discuss and share the ways to learn English
better
II/Language content (Trọng tâm ) :
Vocabulary:Examiner, aspect of learning english, written examination, oral examination
Grammar: Reported speech .
III/ Method (Phương pháp ): Communicative approach
IV/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng ) :
- Students’ & teacher’s books, pictures ,cassette,..
V/Procedures ( Tiến trình bài học ) :
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/ Warm-up:
*Brainstorming :
The teacher give the topic : HOW TO LEARN
ENGLISH BETTER and divide the class into 2
groups : each group has 3 students. The
students have to write the ways they learn
English. The winner is the group that can write
more and exactly, closely.
The teacher corrects their mistakes and
congratulates the winners.
- T : show 10 ways of learning English (page
32)
- Ss : see and draw out their own ways then he/

she tells again (They can give more than 10
elicited ways )

Content
I.GETTING STARTED


II. LISTEN AND READ
Have you ever had an oral examination in
English ?
If yes, what did the teacher ask you ?
What did the teacher ask Lan in oral exam?
Lan is talking to Paola about the oral exam
she has had .
2/Presentation:

Vocabulary:

Introducing the dialogue : - Ss answer

Examiner(n)

Task 1: Listen & then answer the question:

aspect of learning english(n)

(groupwork)

written examination(n)

With the situation : - Ss: listen and answer

oral examination(n)

Pre-teach vocabulary:

1. Did the examiner ask lan about her name,
3/Practice:

and where she comes from ?

Task 2: read the text silently and then check

2. What did the examiner ask Lan in the

again what you have said about the examiner’s

end ?

questions .-Ss : read and recheck (They can
supply more )

1. yes, she did

- T : correct

2. She asked “If you want to attend the

- T : ask Ss to read again the dialogue and

course , you must past the written

answer some questions :

examination ”

- Ss: read and answer
- T : correct

If – clause

The other clause

S.Present

Must/ may/can..+ V

a.Practice the dialogue
Now read the conversation again and see


what exactly the examiner asked Lan .
- T : review how to use conditional clause –

b. Answer : what exactly did the examiner

type I with modal verbs: must , can, may ….

ask Lan ? Look at the list of questions and

- Ss: listen and apply the rules

check(

- Ss: listen and repeat after the tape
- Pair works

) the boxes

ROYAL ENGLISH COLLEGE
Examination in English as a foreign

- T : call some pairs to practice again
- Ss: practice

language
Stage one : oral Examination

-T : review how to change direct sentences

(page 33)

into indirect sentences with the type : Wh –

1. what is your name ?

question, Yes-No question

2. Where do you come from ?

Look at the list of questions and check the

…………..

boxes

14 . Read the passage

-Ss: read and check
- T : call some Ss to read the answers
- Ss:read
T : Correct

4/Production:
Read the newwords and read the dialogue
again
5/Homework :
- Learn the words and structure
-Prepare period 21
UNIT:4

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(cont)


Period 21

SPEAK

I/ Objectives ( Mục tiêu bài học):
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to use learned rules to advise their friends to do

something with him/ her and the techniques to give their opinions with agreement
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary:Dormitory, campus , reputation, Western culture , beautiful scenery,
approximately
Grammar: rules : I think…., what do you think…, I agree/ disagree…./, why don’t
we….., if we go…., we can…., we should…., let’s…..
III / Method (Phương pháp ) :Communicative approach .
IV/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
- Extra-board .
V/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/Warm-up:
-Ask ss answer the questions

Content
HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH BETTER ?
1/ Do the homework
2/ Do more grammar exercises in grammar

2Pre-speaking:

books

-T: ask ss to look at the box with some rules of

3/ Read short stories or newspapers in

eliciting and suggestion and give the

English .

meanings , explain how to use

……

-Ss : explain

I think…., what do you think…, I agree/

T explains :

disagree…./, why don’t we….., if we go….,
we can…., we should…., let’s…..
Thu, tam, Kim have been awaded a
scholarship of US $ 2,000 to attend an
English languague summer course
abroad . You work in groups of three and
play the role of these three students to
persuade your partners to attend the


school you would like to go
First you study the ads of three schools that
the three students
-T : explain some new words :

plan to study .

- Ss : listen and write

3.SPEAK
Vocabulary:
Dormitory(n)
campus (n)
reputation(n)
Western culture (n)

3/While-speaking:

beautiful scenery(n)

- Ss :work in groups of 3, read the ads and

approximately(adv)

persuade the partner to attend to the school he/
she likes after the T and 2 good students model
- T : give some structures to help them on

A. Agreements :

agreeing or disagreeing naturally :

I couldn’t agree more/ That ‘s just what I
was thinking/ I agree entirely…..
B. Disagreements :
Yes, that’s quite true , but…./ Well, you
have a point there , but……/ I see what you
mean but…..
Thu:

The Brighton Language Center – UK

-Ss : persuade together (groupwork)

@ live in a dormitory on campus

- T : go around the class and check

@ school has exellent reputation

- Ss: play roles of three again(3 groups)

@ six weeks

- T : correct their mistakes

Approximately US $ 2,000
Tam
Seatle school of English- USA
@ stay with Vietnamese friends
@Experience Western Culture


@ seven weeks
Approximately US $ 1,700
Kim
Brisbane Institute of English – Austalia
@ stay with an Australian family
4/ Post-speaking:

@ quite close to Vietnam

-T : Asking S to report the advantages of the

@ seven weeks

English school that they plan to study (Ss can

Approximately US $ 1,2000

supply more information )

*speak:

- Ss: work in pairs

I’m Kim. It’s pleasure to tell you about the

- T : call some to introduce again

Brisbane Institute of English. It’s in the

Ss: introduce the school they plan to study

Australia. Students who study here can stay
with an Autralian family so they can speak

5/Homework :

English with native speakers…it’s very close

- Ss lean the characteristics that they play roles

to Viet nam…

-Prepare period 23

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UNIT:4

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(cont)
Period 22

LISTEN

I/ Objectives (Mục tiêu bài học )
By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to identify the correct information by
listening
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary: weight

National bank

Grammar: review
III / Method ( Phương pháp ) : Communicative approach
IV/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
-Students’ & teacher’s books.
-Cassette

V/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/ Warm up :

Content
* Suggested sentences :

-Having Ss play the game “Information
transmitting”
Choose 6 Ss from 2 teams, they stand in 2
lines . The first student in each line receives a
sentence from the teacher . Then he / she

1. I want to improve my writing skill .
2. English is an intersting language
3. ( It’s very useful)

whispers the sent. to the second … and so on .
The last student shouts out the sentence, and if
it’s right , that team wins the game .
Two sentences :
2/ Pre-listening :
-Setting a situation:
-Showing the statements in the exercise on the
board and asking Ss to read them carefully and
guess which is true and which is false

Today you will listen a conversation
between Lan and Kate . Lan is talking to
Kate about her studying English

New words :
-a national bank : ngân hàng
nhà nước
-international :


-introducing some new words

- skill:
Choose true or false and correct the false
sentences

3/ While listening :

a. T

-Letting Ss listen to the tape twice and find out

b. T

which is true and which is false

c. F _ She works for inter-

-Getting feedback
-Correcting the false statements

national bank in Ha Noi .
d. T
e. F _ Her listening is terrible .

f. T

-Having Ss listen the last time to check the

* Question :

answers

- Why is Nga studying English in London ?
- Where does she work ?

4/ Post listening :

- What is her biggest problem in learning

-T : ask some questions

English ?

- S: answwer
- Ss work in pairs
-getting feedback
5/Homework :
-Learn by heart all the new words and the main
ideas Nga’s studying english.
-Prepare the next lesson _ unit 4 – “read”


UNIT:4

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(cont)
Period 23

READ

I/ Objectives ( Mục tiêu bài học):
By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able to get the information about the English classes
from the advertisements
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary: intermediate available academy

well-qualified advanced

Grammar: review
III/ Method (Phương pháp):
IV/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
- Students’ & teacher’s books.
- Cassette
V/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/Warm up :

Content
Do you want to be good at English ?

-Asking :

How many ways of learning English ?

-Having Ss play the game

“networds” to write down the ways
of learning English , and the team
which has more ways wins the game

Do you usually watch English TV programs?
How often do you use dictionaries ?
Asking Ss some questions about the

How often do you write letters in English ?

ways they learn English :
Have you ever read an advertisement about English
courses ?
2 /Pre-reading :
-Asking :

What kind of information do you see in these
advertisements ? ( time / teachers / level / address /
phone number … )


Do you want to understand the content of them ?
I will help you , OK ?
* New words :
-intermediate (adj) : trung cấp
-advanced (adj) : cao cấp
-well-qualified (adj) : trình độ cao
-available (adj) :
-academy (n) : = institute
-Introducing the new words to help

a). Note down information about the english classes

Ss understand them easier

from the advertisements :

-Guiding Ss to read them

The advertisements on page 36

3/ While reading :

School

Class time

Language

Time to

Academy

morning,

level
advanced

start
first

carefully, so saying : These are 3

of

afternoon

week of

advertisements about the English

Languge

evening

Novem-

Foreign

morning,evening

*Task.1 :
-having Ss read three advertisements

courses from 3 language schools :
Foreign Language Council, New
English Institute , Academy of
Language . You must read them
carefully and note down information
about the class time, language level

and time to start .

Language
Council
New

afternoonevening

English

weekend

beginner,

ber
Novem-

intermedi-

ber 3rd

-ate
beginner

today

Institute
b). Choose a suitable language

-Having Ss work in pairs to

school for him. Give reasons

complete the table in a) on the

for your choice :

handouts
-Calling Ss to complete the table on

a. Mr Lam needs to learn French .

the board

b. Mr Lam needs the intermediate level class.

-correcting the mistekes and then

c. He wants to learn English in the morning .


compare with their work on

d. He wants the course to begin early Nov.

handouts

F _ English

*Task.2 :

T

-having Ss read the notes of Mr Lam F _ evening
-saying : Mr Lam wants to attend a

T

foreign language course. You must

Which language school is suitable for MrLam ?

read his notes and guess what he

Why ?

needs for his class.

Answer :

-having Ss listen to the teacher and

Foreign Language Council is a suitable language school

answer true or false :

for Mr Lam

-asking :

4/ Post reading :
Asking ss read the text again.
5/Homework :
- Prepare the next lesson _ Unit 4 :
Listen


UNIT:4

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(cont)
Period 24

WRITE

I/ Objectives ( Mục tiêu bài học):
By the end of the lesson, S will be able to write a letter of inquiry to the institution
requesting for more information about the course and fees .
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary: review
Grammar: The simple present and a letter of inquiry
III/ Method ( Phương pháp) : Communicative approach .
IV/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
- Students’ & teacher’s books.
V/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/ Warm-up:

Content

2/ Pre – writing:

Do you want to take the course in foreign

Questioning T  Ps

language council ?

If no , you have to write a letter to request for

Do you know this center well ?

information or action the same the letter page 37

*/ New words:

- Introduce and explain new words

Request (n/ v ) : ask for

-Ss read the new words

Detail : ( n ) chi tiết

3/While _ writing:

Look forward to + Ving : trông chờ

Task 1 : Reading comprehension

Express ( v) : bày tỏ , biểu lộ

_ have sts read the letter written by John

Exactly ( adv ) : moat cách chính xác

Robinson on page 37

Edition ( n ) ấn bản
*Answer the questions
- Where did Robinson see the school’s
advertisement ?” and “ What language
does he want to learn ? “
- What aspect of Vietnamese does he want
to improve ? “


- What does he want to know ? “
Four parts of letter of inquiry
a) Introduction
b) Request
c) Further information
d)Conclusion
Answers
a) Introduction : I saw you school’s
-

Feedback

-

Read the letter again and answer the
questions

Task2 : Matching
( pair work )
Give sts 4 parts of a letter of inquiry
Match each paragraph with suitable headline
Cross check with another pairs
T: correct

advertisement in today edition of
the Vietnamese news
b) Request : I am interested in
learning Vietnamese and I would
like some information about your
school
c) Further information : I speak little
Vietnamese but I want to learn to
read and write it . Could you
please send detail of course and fee
? I can complete a spoken
Vietnamese test if necessary
d) Conclusion : I look forwordto
hearing from you
Suggested letter :
Dear Sir ,
I saw your Institude’s advertisement on

Task3 : Writing a letter
-

-

today’s TV program . I am very interested

Have sts read 3 ads on page 36 again and

in leagning E and I would like some more

choose one of the school they want to

information about your institude .

attend to improve their English

I can speak a little English , but I read it

Get sts to write a letter of inquiry to the

very slowly and my writing is bad , so I


-

institution requesting for more

want to improve my speaking and

information about the courses and fees

writing .

( work individually )

Could you please provide some more

Give feedback ( make some corrections

information about the length of the

on OHT )

courses and fees for beginners ? I can

4 Post-writing

supply my record of English Study if

.Ask Sts to write the letter they have written on

necessary .

the board

I look forward to hearing from you soon .

T corrects .

Your faithfully ,

5/Home work:
S write their letters after correction in their
notebooks
Prepair for Language Focus .
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UNIT:4

LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE(cont )

Period 25

Language focus

I/ Objectives ( Mục tiêu bài học):
By the end of the lesson , Ss will be able change into reported speech from
affirmative sentences, Yes_No and Wh-questions
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary: review
Grammar: Aunt Xuan said …
She asked me …
III/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
Textbook , OHP , OHT , handouts
IV/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/ Warm up :

Content
*Conditional sentence with modal

-having Ss play a game by completing the table

verbs:

in exercise 2 on page 38

If - clause

, main clause

-dividing the class into 6 groups and the group

V (s / es)

must

finishing the table first and right is winner

don’t + Inf.

should +Inf.

doesn’t + Inf. might
-calling a student to complete the table on the

am/is/are(not)

ought to

board
-correcting the mistakes
-reviewing the change about the tense, some
adverds of time, and the modal verds
2/ Practice:
*Activity 1 :
-reviewing the structure : conditional sentence
with modal verbs
-helping Ss understand the structure and the way
of using the verb form in two clauses

c. …, you should do a lot of exercise .
d. …, he might miss the train .
e. …, you ought to stay in bed .S
f.You must do your homework..


-introducing the exercise 1 on the board
-explaining the construction

2/. Complete the table :

-having two pairs practice the examples a, b
-asking Ss work in pairs to complete the last
dialogues
-calling some pairs to show their work and then
write them on the board
-correcting mistakes
-having Ss practice these dialogues in pairs and
then produce the same dialogues

Direct speech
Pre. simple
present
progressive
tense
can / may
must
this / these
here
now
today
tomorrow

Reported speech
Past simple
past progressive
tense
could / might
had to
that / those
there
then
that day
the following day

*Activity 2:
-reviewing the way of changing statements into

3/.Lan reported everything to her

reported speech by explaining some examples

grandmother :

Ex : 1. “I’m happy to see you”

a. Uncle Hung said that birthday cake

(Aunt Xuan)

Aunt Xuan said she was happy to see you .
2. “I like playing soccer.”

(Minh)

Minh said he liked playing soccer .
-setting the situation of the ex 3 : Lan’s
grandmother couldn’t hear what people were
saying in her birthday party,so Lan reported

was delicious.
b. Miss Nga said she loved those roses.
c. Cousin Mai said he was having a
wonderful time there.
d. Mr. Chi said he wouldl go to Hue the
following day.

everything to her .

e. Mrs. Hoa she might have a new job.

-having Ss work in pairs to change the sentences

f. Mr. Quang said he had to leave then .

below
-calling Ss to write reported sentences on the
board
-correct the mistakes
-noticing the change of the tense

Ex : “Do you like pop music ?”
She asked me if (whether) I liked
pop music .
“Where do you live ?”
She asked me where I lived .
4/.Change into reported speech

*Activity 3

a. She asked me how old I was .


-reviewing the way of changing questions into
reported speech by explaining some examples
- setting the situation of the ex 4 : This morning
Nga had an interview for a summer job. When
she arrived home, she told her mother about the
interview .

b. She asked me if (whether) my school
was near there .
c. She asked me what the name of my
school was.
d. She asked me if (whether) you went to
school by bicycle .

-having Ss work in pairs to change the sentences

e. She asked me which grade I was in .

below

f. She asked me if (whether) I can use a

-calling Ss to write reported sentences on the

computer.

board

g. She asked me why I wanted that job .

-correct the mistakes

h. She asked me when my school

-noticing the change of the tense and some words

3/ Production:
-St read again all sentences in exercises 3 and 4 .
4/ Homework
-Do these exercises again at home .
-Prepare the next lesson – revision ( unit 1
to unit 4)

vacation started.


Period 26:

REVIEW

I/ Objectives ( Mục tiêu bài học):
By the end of the lesson students can review all the structures, expressions, vocabulary
they’ve learnt from unit 1to 4
II/Language content (Trọng tâm)
Vocabulary: review
Grammar: reported speech ,conditional sentence with modal verbs,review the usage of
the past simple with “Wish”, preposition of time…
III/ Teaching aids (Phương tiện trợ giảng):
- extra-board.
IV/Procedures(Tiến trình bài học):
Teacher’s & students’ activities
1/ Warm up
T: ask about the important grammar points in

Content
* Question :

- What have we learnt in Unit…..?

each Unit

* Wish clause :

S: point out the grammar points

a. Usage : expresses a wish that can’t

2/Presentation

become true in the present

T: give examples

b. Formation :

S: draw the formations and usages

S+wish+S+V( past subjunctive )

T: ask Ss to give more examples

Ex: I wish I were a rich person
* Direct and Reported speech :
a. In statements

S: draw the formations

b. In Yes-No question

T: ask Ss to give more examples

c. In Wh- question

T: ask Ss to remind of the table of words which * Revision of modal verbs
used in reported speech page 38
Main clause
If clause
S: give examples for each case
Will+V(infi)
simple present
T: review
Ex: If you want to improve your English, I
S: give examples
can help you
T: introduce If –clause and examples
* Adverb clauses of result :
T : ask
+ What did everyone on the picnic do when


S : answer, using adverb clause with “ so “.

they felt tired ?

Give more examples. Then draw the usage and

* Prepositions :

the meaning of “ so- clause
1/Choose the best answer:
1. She wishes she….a good teacher.(is, was,
were).
3/ Practice

2. I like ……the stars at night.(watch,
watching, to watches).
3. She……me a letter last week.(give, gives,

T : give examples

gave).

S: do some more exercises

4. Na woke up late…..she didn’t have time

T: call some ss write the answer

for breakfast.(if, so, but).

Ss write the answer

5. They told me…….them a book.(give, to

T: correct

give, gave).

6. ………Nga is sick. ,she won’t go to
school.(if, so, but).
7.We exchange gifts……Chistmas.(in, on,
at).
8.they planned to have the trip……May.(in,
on, at).
***/ Rewrite the sentences:
1. The car is too old for him to buy. (so)
2. “Where do you live?”
She asked ……….
3. “I will go to Hue tomorrow”
Miss Nga said ……
1. Phong gets bad mark this semester.
 Phong wishes ….
I said “I love my children”
 I said……

4/ /Homework:


S: learn by heart and do the exercises again
Prepare the next period : test 45’
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