unit 13

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UNIT THIRTEEN. HOBBIES.
Date: .. ……… 1
st
lesson. Reading
79
th
period.
A) Aims. To help Ss practise reading a passage about someone’s hobbies.
B) Objectives. By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to understand the reading passage
about someone’s hobbies.
C) Materials. Textbook.
D) Methods. Integrated, mainly communicative.
E) Anticipated problems. Ss may not have sufficient vocabulary to talk about the topic.
F) Procedure.
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
3
minutes
10
minutes
20
minutes
I) Warm up. Use some pictures then ask Ss to write
down what these people in the pictures are doing.
- Ask Ss to answer some questions.
+ When do people do these kinds of things?
+ Do they help to make more money?
+ What is your way of spending your freetime?
+ What do you call things you do in your freetime?
=> Today we study about someone’s hobby.
II) New lesson.

* Before you read.
Work in pairs.
- Ask Ss to ask and answer about their own hobbies.
- Go around and offer if necessary.
- Write on the board the Ss’s hobbies.
+ Playing football/ the guitar / computer games /
chess .…
+ Keeping fish
+ Singing
+ Reading
+ Keeping stamps
+ Gardening
+ Fishing
+ Swimming
+ Cooking
+ Collecting stamps/ coins/ books .………
* While you read.
+ Task 1. Translate the words into Vietnamese.
- Ask Ss to read the words first.
- Ask Ss to read after the teacher.
- Ask Ss to read the passage in silence and find out the
words in the passage then use the context to guess the
meaning of the words.
- Ask Ss to work in groups then read aloud the meaning
of the words.
- Translate again if necessary.
+ Task 2. Answer the questions.
- Ask Ss to read the questions carefully then underline
- Write down.
- Answer the questions.

- Ask and answer.
- Work in pairs.
- Read aloud then copy.
- Read individually then
read aloud.
- Read the passage again
then give the meaning.
- Copy.
- Read in silence.
- Work in pairs.
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minutes
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the keywords.
- Ask Ss to read the passage again then find out the
needed information to answer the questions.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs.
- Go around and offer help if necessary.
- Ask Ss to read aloud the questions and answers then
ask others to gives remarks.
- Give corrective feedback if necessary.
1. His first hobby is playing his guitar.
2. No, he isn’t.
3. Because he is an accomplished guitarist and he is
good at accompanying people singing by his guitar.
4. His second hobby is keeping fish.
5. He bought some from the shop and collected some

from the rice field near his house.
6. He is an avid stamp collector.
7. He collected them from discarded envelopes his
relatives and friends give him.
8. Local stamps.
9. He keeps the less common ones inside a small album.
The common ones he usually gives away to others or if
noone wants them he simply throws them away.
* After you read.
- Ask Ss to work in groups.
- Go around the classroom then offer help if necessary.
- Ask Ss to read aloud then give some remarks.
III) Homework assignment.
Ask Ss to prepare “ Speaking” in advance.
- Read aloud.
- Give remarks then copy.
- Work in groups.
- Read aloud then copy.
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UNIT THIRTEEN. HOBBIES.
Date: .. ……… 2
nd
lesson. Speaking
80
th
period.
A) Aims. To help Ss practise speaking about their own hobbies.
B) Objectives. By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to talk about their own hobbies.
C) Materials. Textbook.

D) Methods. Integrated, mainly communicative.
E) Anticipated problems. Ss may not have enough vocabulary to talk about the topic.
F) Procedure.
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities.
3
minutes
10
minutes
15
minutes
I) Warm up. Ask Ss to find out the verbs that go with
stamps.
STAMPS.
- To collect - To buy
- To keep - To exchange
- To organize - To classify
- To get - To throw
+ Who often does the things?
II) New lesson.
* Task 1. Say which if the following you would like /
not like to do and why.
- Ask Ss to read the words in silence.
- Ask Ss to read after the teacher.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs.
- Go around and offer help if necessary.
- Ask Ss to read aloud then give corrective feedback.
- Give Ss a model then ask them to do as the model.
+ The model.
A. Which of the hobbies would you like to do?
B. Swimming. I like it best because I find it interesting

to swim in swimming pools with my friends.It is
also good for my health and help me to stay fit.
A. And which one wouldn’t you like to do?
B. Fishing. I’m not patient enough.
* Task 2. Work in pairs.
- Ask Ss to read through the dialogue first.
- Help Ss to deal with newwords and pronunciation if
necessary.
- Call some pairs to read aloud.
- Ask Ss to give some remarks then help them use the new
structures correctly.
- Ask Ss to do as the model then go around to offer help if
necessary.
* Task 3. Work in pairs.
- Ask Ss to read task 3 in silence.
- Help Ss to learn newwords.
- Give Ss a model.
+ The model.
- Work in groups then
read aloud.
- Give remarks then
copy.
- Read in silence.
- Read aloud.
- Work in pairs then read
aloud.
- Give remarks.
- Read in silence.
- Read aloud.
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minutes
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minutes
T. What is your hobby, Lam?
L. Well, I like collecting stamps. I have been collecting
them for more than five years.
T. You must have a lot of stamps now. Could you tell me
how you collect your stamps?
L. I get them from old envelopes and sometimes my
relatives or my friends give me some. If I have money, I
can go to the post office and buy some valuable ones.
T. Where do you keep your stamps?
L. In albums of course. I have three albums so far.
T. Do you put them all in one album or do you put them in
categories?
L. In categeries of course. I put local stamps in one and
foreign stamps in an other, then I classify them into
categeries like plants, birds, landscapes, . ………
T. I see. What do you plan to do next?
L. I will attend stamp exhibitions to learn more from
experienced collectors to make my collection more
valuable.
T. I wish you every success. I’d love to see your albums
someday.
L. Sure. See you!
T. Bye!
- Ask Ss to work in pairs as the model.
- Go around and offer help if necessary.

- Ask some pairs to read aloud their dialogues.
- Ask others to give remarks.
- Correct their mistakes and help them to understand and
use the difficult points correctly.
III) Homework assignment.
Ask Ss to do task 3 again at home and prepare “
Listening” in advance.
- Read in silence then
find out newwords.
- Work in pairs.
- Read aloud then give
remarks.
- Copy.
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UNIT THIRTEEN. HOBBIES.
Date: …………… 3
rd
lesson. Listening
81
st
period
A) Aims. To help Ss practise listening to the tapescript then do the tasks that follow.
B) Objectives. By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to develop their listening skills and do
all the tasks correctly.
C) Materials. Textbook.
D) Methods. Integrated, mainly communicative.
E) Anticipated problems. Ss may not be familiar with doing the listening tasks.
F) Procedure.
Time Teacher’s activities Students’ activities

3
minutes
10
minutes
I) Warm up. Make as many sentences as possible with
the words provided.
+ Stamps – fish – books – swimming.
- Ask Ss to work in groups then read aloud.
- Ask others to give remarks.
- Correct their mistakes if necessary.
+ I like stamps. I have a lot of stamps. Give me some
stamps. .…………………
+ We always have fish for meals. What kind of/sort of
fish would you like to eat?
+ She likes reading books.I read any kind of books.
+ We go swimming everyday. Do you like swimming?
II) New lesson.
* Before you listen.
- Today you will hear a student who talks about his
hobby.
- Before listening to the tapescript, please give me three
benefits from reading books.
- Ask Ss to work in groups.
- Call some Ss to read aloud their answers.
- Give suggestions.
+ Books help to widen our knowledge.
+Books give us valuable experience.
+ Books are good sources of information.
+ Books make our life better.
- Ask Ss to open their books then read “ Listening and

repeat” in silence.
- Ask Ss to read after the teacher.
- Ask Ss to read aloud then give their meanings.
- Ask Ss to guess the main idea of the tapescript.
+ Suggestion.
T. Can you guess what the listening text is about?
S. May be about reading books, magazines and its
benefits.
* While you listen.
* Task 1. Listen to the student s talk then decide ’
whether the statements are true or false.
- Make sentences.
- Read aloud then give
remarks.
- Copy.
- Give benefits from
reading books
- Work in groups the read
aloud the benefits.
- Read aloud listen and
repeat.
- Guess the main idea of
the listening passage.
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