Unit9- Lesson 1. A1

English 7 Loc Binh
secondary school
Preparing date:28/12/2008
Teaching date:29/12/2008 Class: 7A2 ..................................................................
31/12/2008 7A3 ..................................................................
31/12/2008 7A1 ..................................................................

Period 54: unit 9: at home and away
Lesson 1: A. A holiday in Nha Trang (A1)
I/ Objectives:
- By the end of this lesson, students will be able to
+ Talk about vacation activities using the past simple tense with some irregular
verbs.
+ Listen to a conversation, read and number the statements.
+ love travelling and be proud of the beauty of our country.
- Train students four skills.
II/ Language content:
1. Vocabulary: aquarium, trip; some irregular verbs in the past simple tense.
2. Structures: - The past simple tense
III/ teaching aids:
Text book, chalks, board, pictures, postcard, wordcards.
IV/ Teaching methods:
- Methods help students improve communicating skills:
- Asking and answering.
- Pair works, group works, individual works, class work.
- ordering, matching
V/ Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Warm up ( 5')
Chatting
- What do you usually do on your summer

vacation ?
- Do you like travelling ?
- Where do you usually travel ?
Introduce the new lesson:
Student's answer.
Listen to the introduction.
2. presentation (10')
Present new words:
- an aquarium : hå, bÓ nu«i c¸ (visual P.88)
- wonderful (a): tuyÖt vêi
- (to) think of (v): nghÜ vÒ (act)
Listen and guess
Listen & repeat
Read
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- trip (n): chuyÕn ®i
Checking vocabulary: R & R
- Ask sts to look at the picture P.86 and
guess: where is the beach ?
- T introduces some features of Nha Trang
and its scenic sports.
- T sets the sence: We're going to listen a
conversation between Ba and Liz about Liz's
trip to Nha Trang. Befor listening it, now
predict:
- What did Liz think of Nha Trang?
- What places did she visit?
- Did she buy any souvernirs in Nha
Trang?

- Was she tired after the trip?
- T collects sts' predictions on the BB.
Copy
- It s in Nha Trang’
- Cham Temple, Tri Nguyen
aquarium, beautiful beaches...
Listen
Predict
2. Practice (22 )’
* Sts listen to the dialogue twice and check
their prediction (4 groups)
- Call some to answer.
- Sts listen the third time while reading in
silence to check their answer.
- Feedback:
- It was beautiful.
-She visited Cham Temples and Tri Nguyen
Aquarium.
- Yes, she did.
- No, she wasn t.’
- Sts practice reading in pair → exchange
* Present The past simple tense through the
questions and answers above and some past
simple form of verbs in the dialogue
Poster 1
- (to) be
→
was / were - to) buy
→
bought

- (to) do
→
did - (to) have
→
had
- (to) take
→
took - (to) visit
→
visited
- (to) go
→
went - (to) return
→
returned
* Let Ss read the dialogue again and number
the sentenes on page 87.
- Check and correct.
- Listen and check their prediction
without looking at the book.
- Answer.
- Check and correct the answer.
- Roleplay the dialogue.
- Look at the BB, listen and repeat.
- Take notes.
- Read the dialogue and number the
sentences individually and then
compare with a partner.
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Answer Key: 3-2-4-1-5.
* Have them do the game matching:
A B
1. Nha
Trang
a. quite
expensive
2. The
people
b. friendly
3. The food c. beautiful
4. The things d. delicious
5. The
vacation
e. wonderful
Answer Key:
1-c, 2-b, 3-d, 4-a, 5-e
- Elicits the model sentences from Ss:
Nha Trang was beautiful.
- Let Ss listen and repeat.
- Write the model sentences on BB.
• Nha Trang was beautiful.
• The people were friendly.
- Notice the past simple tense of the verb To
be.
* Use these words to give example:
• How was the vacation?
• It was wonderful.
- Ask a Ss to answer.
- Let a pair to do for sample.

- Let them work in pairs.
- Call some pairs to ask and answer in front of
the class.
- Remark.
- Do the game as teacher’s
commands.
- Listen and repeat.
- Listen and take notes.
- Listen.
- Answer.
- Ask and answer.
- Pair works.
4. consolidation(6')
- Have them close all the books and
notebooks and work in groups, complete the
passage.
Liz (1)..... to Nha Trang with her parents.
They (2)..... her to Tri Nguyen aquarium. Liz
(3)....... a lot of gifts. The Robbinson (4)..... a
great time in Nha Trang.
Answer key:
1. went, 2. took, 3. bought, 4. had.
- Summarize maint points of the lesson.
- Do exercise as teacher’s commands.
- Listen and memorize.
5. homework (2')
1. Review the lesson.
2. Read the dialogue and translate it into
- Listen and write
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Vietnamese.
3. Do exercise 1 (P53)
4. Prepare: Lesson 2 - A2.