Unit 1: A visit from a pen pal

Period : 2 Date of teaching : September 13
th
, 2007
UNIT 1 : A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
LESSON 1 : GETTING STARTED & LISTEN AND READ
LANGUAGE FOCUS 3
I. Objectives :
_ To introduce the topic and new material
_ By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know about places
Lan went to with her foreign friends and activities they took part in.
II. Language contents :
1. Grammar :
+ The past simple
+ The past simple with wish
2. Vocabulary :
Verbs Nouns
Correspond mosque
Impress friendliness
pray
III. Techniques : Eliciting questions, asks and answers
IV. Teaching aids : Textbook, pictures
V. Procedures :
Steps Contents and techniques Students’activities
Warm up
Presentation
Practice
+ Teacher’s questions
• Do you have any pen pal ?
• Where does she / he live ?
• What activities would you do
during the visit ?

+ Possible answers : I’ll take him / her
to ……
+ Introduce the new words and explain
- to correspond
- a mosque
- to be impressed by
- to pray
- friendliness
+ Checking vocabulary: Rub out and
Remember
+ Call some students go to the board
and write down.
+ Lan’s Malaysian pen pal came to visit
her in Hanoi . Can you guess where she
went and what she did during her
stay ?
+ Ask students to read the text to check
Try to answer the
questions
Listen and practice
before the class
Notice and copy
Play the game
Go to the board
and write down
Listen and guess
Read and check
Period : 2 Date of teaching : September 13
th
, 2007

Production:
Presentation:
Practice:
Homework :
their prediction and add some more
information.
+ Ask them to choose the correct option
to complete the sentences.
+ Call some students practice before the
class.
+ Give the correct answers :
• 1/ C
• 2/ B
• 3 / D
• 4 / B
+ Ask students to recommend places of
interest in the city they’ve visited.
* Cues :
- Lang Biang Mountain / blimbing
- Xuan Huong Lake / walk around
- Valley of Love / sightseeing
A : I think I’ll take my friends to
………….We can ……
B : Good ideas ! I believe they will be
interested in it.
The past simple with wish
+ Give example and explain the way to
use
Ex : a. You are a student ( I wish I were
a teacher )

b. You live in a bike. ( I wish I
lived in a car )
Form : I wish + S + Past subjunctive
+ Ask students to look at the real
situations and make wishes
• Sample answers :
a) I wish I were in the swimming
pool now .
b) I wish I had a computer now .
c) I wish I lived close to school.
d) I wish I drew well.
+ Let students make three wishes of
their own.
- Lern by heart the new words
- Do exercises
prediction
Work in pairs
Individual
Work in pairs
Individual
Practice
Individual
Copy
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Period : 2 Date of teaching : September 13
th
, 2007
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