GA 10NC-Unit 1-3

UNIT 1: SCHOOL TALKS
Period 3: (LISTENING)
Time: 45 minutes
Date of preparation: 5.9.2006
Date of teaching: 8.9.2006
I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES :
1. Educational aim: To help the pupils listen and understand what Mr. Ba says about his
school days in the past. From that, pupils themselves can recollect and tell about their school
days in Elementary or Lower Secondary Schools.
2. Language:
- Language function: Talking about school activities.
- Vocabulary: Recite, left-handed, oversleep, strict, hit.
- Structures: Review of the simple past tense.
3. Skills: Listening.
II. METHOD: integrated, mainly commmunicative.
III. TECHNIQUES: Gap-filling, True-False, Question-Answer.
IV. TEACHING AIDS NEEDED: Textbook, tape, cassette player.
V. PROCEDURE:
Teaching steps
and time
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Stabilization:(2’)
II. Presentation of
the new
material: (40’)
-Checks absence …
WARMER: (5’)
PRE – LISTENING: (10’)
-Tell the pupils the aim of exercise a: to learn
some new words appearing in the listening
text.

-Teaches the words:
+ Recite (v) : to retell, tell again.
+ Oversleep (v) (overslept – overslept) : to
sleep longer or later than one intened.
Eg. I overslept and was late for work.
+ Left-handed (adj) : (Example)
I write with my left hand. I hold chopsticks
with my left hand… So I am a left-handed
person.
+ Strict (adj) : (Example)
If we are late for class, my teacher will not
allow us to go into the clas. When we don’t
prepare lessons, he will punish us …He is
really strict.
+ Hit (v) : (Action)
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to fill in the
-The monitor answers.
-Listen.
-Copy down the words,
their meanings.
-Work in pairs to do the
gaps with the words provided.
-Asks some pupils to give the result.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
1. strict 2. overslept
3. hits 4. village school
5. left-handed 5. recite
WHILE – LISTENING: (17’)
* Exercise b:

-Introduces the situation.
-Instructs the pupils to do the exercise.
-Plays the tape twice and lets the pupils to
decide which statements are true and which
statements are false.
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to compare
the results.
-Asks some pupils to stand up and give the
result to the class.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
1. F 2. T 3. T 4. F 5. F
-Listening Script:
Nam : When did you start school,
granddad?
Mr. Ba: Well, … er … I was born in 1936 and I
started school when I was six. It was
just a village school with only five
rooms. I stayed there till I was
eleven. Then I transferred to a bigger
school in town.
Nam : And what can you remember about
your first school days?
Mr. Ba: (laughs) In the beginning, I was
terrified because, you know, I am
left-handed and my teachers made
me write with my right hand. All of
them were kind but very strict. They
hit me on the fingers when I wrote
with my left hand.

Nam : And when you were eleven, you
studied in town. Was it far from your
home?
Mr. Ba:Well, about 4 km. Every day I had to
get up very early and walk to school
because there was no transportation.
exercise.
-The pupils on duty give the
result.
-Listen.
-Copy down the answer
keys.
-Listen.
-Listen.
-Listen and do the exercise.
-Work in pairs to compare
the results.
-The pupils on duty give the
result to the class.
-Listen.
-Copy down the keys.
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III.Homework:
(3’)
I didn’t get a bike till I was eighteen.
However, I was never late for school
except one day when I overslept and
arrived at school 15 minutes late.
Nam : Were you punished by your
teachers?

Mr. Ba: Certainly. I was asked to write one
hundred times the sentences: “I must
leave home early. I must not arrive
late.” But I was never hit, never.
Nam : And did you have to do much
homework?
Mr. Ba: Homework? I don’t remember any
homework. I just learned my lessons
at home and recited them in class.
The teachers never thought of it.
Nam : So were your school days the happy
days in your life?
Mr. Ba: Yes, I think so.
* Exercise c:
-Tells the pupils the aim of the exercise.
-Instructs the pupils to do the exercise.
-Plays the tape twice and lets the pupils to find
the answers to the questions.
-Asks the pupils to work in pairs to compare
the results.
-Asks some pupils to stand up and give the
result to the class.
-Feedback.
-Answer keys:
1. He was six.
2. Because his teachers hit him on the fingers
(when he wrote with his left hand).
3. On foot.
4. Because he was late for school.
5. By writing 100 times the sentences: “I must

leave home early. I must not arrive late.”
POST – LISTENING: (8’)
-Asks the pupils to work in groups of 3 to tell
about a memory about school that they
remember most.
-Asks two or three pupils to stand up and speak
to the class.
-Asks the pupils to learn the new words ,
prepare SPEAKING.
-Listen.
-Listen.
-Listen and do the exercise.
-Work in pairs to compare
the results.
-The pupils on duty give the
result to the class.
-Listen.
-Copy down the keys.
-Work in groups of 3 and
speak.
-The pupils on duty speak to
the class.
-Listen and keep in mind.
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V. Self - evaluation :
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