untin 1-9

Week 1
Date of preparation: 3/9/2007
Date of teaching: 5/9/2007
UNIT 1 A VISIT FROM PENPAL
Period: 2 - Getting started
- Listen and read
I Objective:
By the end of the lesson: Sts will be able to know about some places Lan went with a foreign friend and
some activities they took part in together.
II Language content :
* Grammar: The past Simple
The Past Simple with wish
* Vocabulary: impress(ed); to pray; a mosque; correspond
III Teaching aids: - text book, cassette, picture, poster card
IV Teaching steps:
Stage Teacher’s activities Sts’ activities
Warm up
Pre – reading
While – reading
Post – reading
• Chatting:
- Do you have any pen pal?
- Where does She/He live?
- Has She/He ever visited your City?
- What activities would you do during the visit?
• Possible answer:
- I think I’ ll take our friend to temple and churches.
- I’ ll take them to the beach.
- I’ll take them to the mountains.
- I’ll take them to the theatre and restaurants.
E.X: Picture C

P1: I think this is one of the places we want to take our
friends to. We can do the shopping or I”ll just introduce
them a Vietnamese Market.
P2: Good idea! I believe they will be interested in it.
I. Pre – teach Voc:
- To correspond (explanation: If two people correspond, they
regularly write to each other): trao đổi thư từ
- A mosque (picture) nhà thờ hồi giáo
- To be impressed by (explanation: admiring someone or
something very much): có ấn tượng
- To pray: (mime): cầu nguyện,cầu khấn
* Check Voc: Rub out and remember
II. Open prediction:
Lan’s Malaysian pen pal came to visit her in Hanoi. Can you
guess where she went and what she did during her stay?
- Give feedback to the whole class to the open prediction.
- Ask Sts to read the text to check their prediction and add some
more information.
- Ask Sts to read the text again to choose the correct option to
complete the sentences on page 7 (work in pairs)
* Answer keys:
1. …two weeks
2. ….Hanoi people were friendly
T – Whole class
Whole class
Whole class
Individual
Pair work
Homework
3. …famous places in Hanoi, areas for recreation, a place of

worship
4. ….invite Lan to Kuala Lumpur.
- Note the “ used to” structure in the text. Give some example
E.X Lan used to walk past the mosque on her way to
primary school…
- Ask Sts to learn Voc by heart
- Prepare for the next lesson
Date of preparation: 4/9/2007
Date of teaching: 7/9/2007
UNIT 1 A VISIT FROM PENPAL
Period: 3 SPEAK

I Objective:
By the end of the lesson: Sts will be able to make and respond to introduction
II Language content :
* Grammar: The past Simple
The Past Simple with wish
* Vocabulary: impress(ed); to pray; a mosque; correspond
III Teaching aids: - text book, cassette, picture, poster card
IV Teaching steps
Stage Teacher’s activities Sts’ activities
Warm up
Activity 1
• Pelmanism
- Prepare 10 cards with numbers on one side and the countries
and their cities on the other.
- Make sure the countries and the cities are mixed up. Stick the
cards on the board so Sts can only see the numbers.
- Divide the Sts into 2 teams and ask them to choose 2 numbers.
- Turn over the cards and see if they match, E.X: Tokyo – Japan.

If not, turn the cards face down again and ask the other team to
choose.
- Continue until all the cards are turned over.
Tokyo Perth Liverpool Bombay Hoi An
Japan Australia England India Vietnam
- T introduces the situation: Nga is talking to Maryam. They are
waiting for Lan outside her school.
- Ask Sts to do exercise a on page 8. The Sts have to work
impairs to put the sentences in the correct order to make a
complete dialogue.
* Answer keys:
1 c; 5 b; 4 d; 2 e; 3 a
* Check Sts’ understanding:
- Ask some questions to check Sts’s understanding
* Have Nga and Maryam met each other before? (No)
* Is Maryam enjoying her stay in Hanoi? (yes)
* What does she like in Viet nam? (their people is very friendly
and Hanoi is very interesting city)
Group work
T – Whole class
Pair work
T – whole class
Pair work
Activity 2
Homework
- Ask Sts to practice speaking the dialogue.
T – St
St – St
Set the scene : You are talking to Maryam’s friends. Introduce
yourself.

- Ask Sts to take turn to be one of Maryam’s friends and
practice.
* Answer keys:
1. A: Hello.You must be Yoko
B: That’s right,I am.
A: Are you enjoying your stay in Hue?
B: Oh yes,very much. I like Vietnamese people and I love
old cities in Vietnam.
A: Do you live in Tokyo. Have you been there?
B: No. What’s it like?
A: It’s busy big capital city. It’s very different from Hue.
B: I see.
2. …………
3. …………
- Ask Sts to work in pairs to practice the dialogue.
+ First ask some pairs to present their dialogues.
+ Then ask Sts to practice with their partner..
- While Sts are doing their tasks, T goes round, take notes things
should be corrected afterwards.
- Ask Sts to copy dialogues into their notebook
- Reinforce the knowledge.
Pair work
T – Whole class