Unit 1 a day in the life of

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Date :
Period 2
Unit 1
Lesson:

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF . . .
READING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Read and guess the meaning of words basing on the contexts.
- Scan the reading and take notes the information.
- Summarize the reading by speaking or writing.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar:
- New words: lead the buffalo to the field, plough, harrow, peasant, repair the banks of the plot of
land, pump water, transplant, . . .
III. Teaching Aids: Pictures, extra board, transparent sheet, overhead projector, cassette player,
textbook . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time

Warm-up
(5 minutes)

Pre-reading
10 minutes

Whilereading

20 minutes

Teacher’s Activities
- Teacher delivers hanouts to students and asks
students to match the jobs with its working
places.
1. teacher
a. market
2. doctor
b. school
3. worker
c. hospital
4. seller
d. field
5. farmer
e. factory
- Teacher ask some questions
Ex: Where does a teacher work?
(To be continued for the remaining words)
- Teacher lead into the new lesson: To undestand
more about the life of a farmer, today we learn
Unit 1.

Students’ Activities
- Students close their books
and listen to the teacher’s
explanation.

Describing picture
- Teacher shows a pictures about the life of the

farmer in the field and introduce new words
related to the given situation.
- New words:
+ peasant: farmer(n)
+ lead the bullafo to the field(v)
+ repare the banks of the plot of land(v)
+ pump water(v)
+ transplant: do the transplanting
+ plough(v,n); harrow(v,n)
+ plot of land(n)
Task 1
- Teacher asks students to read the text in silence
for the first time and helps student some more
difficult words.
- Teacher requires students to do the exercise No.
1 individually and then check with their partners.
- Teacher goes around the class and helps them
correct mistakes.
Task 2

- Students look at the
pictures, give the meaning
and write down new words.

- Students answer.
Ex: She/he works at a
school.
- Students continue. (Pair
work)

- Students read the text in
silence.
- Students do the task 1 and
then check again with a
partner.

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Postreading
7 minutes

Homework

- Teachers asks students to scan the text.
- Teachers asks students to discuss in pairs,
asking and answering questions about Mr. Vy and
Mrs. Tuyet’s daily routine.
- Teachers asks a good student to answer first. (TS). Then he requires them to work in pairs for the
remainings.
- Teacher observes and corrects mistakes if
necessary.
Task 3
- Teacher asks students to read the text for the
third time.
- Teacher asks students to work in groups of 6,
discussing Mr. Vy and Mrs. Tuyet’s daily routine.

- Teacher calls 3 groups to present their
preparation in front of the class.
- Teacher asks students to close the books and
again discuss Mr. Vy and Mrs. Tuyet’s daily
routine in small groups.
- Teacher calls a good students to present his
topic.
- Teacher asks students to talk about their mother
or father’s daily routine if there is still time.

- Students scan the reading.
- Students work in pairs
and do the exercises as
guided.
- Students answer.
- Students answer, doing
the exercise in pairs.

- Students scan the text.
- Students
groups of 6

discuss

in

- Students work and
discuss in small groups.
- Sdudents present.
- Students present their

parents’ daily routine.

- Teacher asks students to write short paragraphs - Students listen and take
about Vietnamese farmers’ daily routine.
notes.

3 minutes
Date :
Period 3
Unit 1(cont.)
Lesson:

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF . . .
SPEAKING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Ask and answer some information about their daily routines.
- Talk about their own daily routines and others’ daily routines.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: The simple present tense.
- New words:
III. Teaching Aids: An extra board, pictures in the textbooks.
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time

Warm-up
(5 minutes)

Teacher’s Activities
Play a game

- Teacher uses an extra board which is written the
list of 12 acadamic subjects on.
- Teacher asks students to look at only and try to
remember the list in 2 minutes.
Subjects learnt in school
1. English
7. Chemistry
2. Technology
8. Physical Education
3. Maths
9. English
4. Physics
10. Geography

Students’ Activities
- Students close the
textbook,
and
work
individually.

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Prespeaking
10 minutes

Whilespeaking
20 minutes

Postspeaking
7 minutes

Homework
3 minutes

5. Literature
11. History
6. Biology
12. Information Tech
- Teacher takes the extra board away and asks
students to retell the subjects they have just
learnt in the list.
- Teacher checks and find out the winner of the
game.
- Teacher leads into the new lesson.
Task 1 (in the textbook)
- Teacher introduces the situation clearly and
gives the model dialogue.
- Teacher and a student practise the dialogue.
- Teacher asks students to pratise speaking the
dialogue in pairs.
- Teacher asks students to follow the above
dialogue to ask and answer questions in pairs,
using information from Quan’s timetable.
- Teacher goes around the classroom and helps
students while they are pratising.

- Teacher asks some pairs to present their
dialogue in front of class.
Task 2: Talk about Quan’s activities, using the
pictures in the textbook.
- Teacher asks students some questions about the
content of the pictures in Task 2 (using the
present simple tense)
Ex: T: What does Quan do at 2 p.m?
S: At 2pm, Quan get up after taking a short
nap.
- Teacher asks students to sit in groups of four
and talk about Quan’s activities, using the
pictures in the textbook.
- Teacher goes around and helps students.
- Teacher invites a representative of each group to
present their talk in front of the class.
Task 3: Tell your classmates about your daily
routine.
- Teacher asks students to sit in groups of four,
taking turn to tell one another about their daily
routines.
- Teacher goes around the class to helps students.
- Teachers asks some students to present their
daily routines in front of the class.

- Ss. asnwer individually
the subjects they can
rememer from the list on
the extra board.
- Students listen carefylly.

- Students observe and
listen to teacher’s guide.
- Students practise in pairs.
- Students practise in pairs.
- Students present their
dialogue in front of the
class and peer correction.

- Students answer teacher’s
questions in dividually.

- Students work in groups
of four and practise doing
the exercise.
- Students present.

- Students work in groups
of four, talking about their
daily routines.
- Students present.

- Teacher asks students to write 5 sentences about - Students listen and take
what they often do everyday.
notes

Date :
Period 4
Unit 1(cont.)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF . . .

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Lesson:

LISTENING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Listen and understand the activites of a cyclo driver.
- Listen and number the pictures in the correct order.
- Listen and choose the right information.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar:
- New words: Purchase, pedal, drop . . .
III. Teaching Aids: Pictures in the textbook, cassette . . .
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time

Warm-up
(5 minutes)

Prelistening
8 minutes

Whilelistening
17 minutes

Teacher’s Activities
Play a game
- Teacher prepares a picture of a cyclo driver.
- Teacher gives it to a students scretely. The
student doesn’t show it to the class. The rest of
the class guess who is in the picture by asking
“Yes- No questions”
Ex: - Does he have to work outside?
- Does the man usually take passengers to
somewhere? . . . .
- Teacher checks and find out the winner of the
game.
- Teacher leads into the new lesson “Today
you’re going to listen to the tape about a cyclo
driver’s daily routine.
- Teacher asks students some questions as below:
Are there any cyclos in your hometown?
Have you ever seen any cyclo drivers? . . .
- Teacher asks students to work in pairs, asking
and answering the questions
- Teacher explains some new words.
+ pedal (n)
+ purchase (v)
Task 1
- Teacher asks students to describe the pictures in
the textbook.
- Teacher calls a student to present.
- Teacher asks students to work in groups of two
tables to predict the right order of the pictures.

- Teacher calls 2 students to present their order on
the board.
- Then teacher introduces the situations “ You
will hear Mr. Lam, a cyclo driver in HCM city
talking about his daily routine. The pictures in
your textbook describe his activities but in wrong
order. Now listen to the tape/ my reading, and
then number the pictures in the correct order.
- Teacher plays the tape for the threes times. Each
time, teacher gets feedback from students and
helps them correct mistakes.
* Expected answer:
1-e; 2-f ; 3-a; 4-c; 5-b;6-d

Students’ Activities
- Students close the
textbook,
and
work
individually.

- Students listen carefylly.
- Students observe and
listen to teacher’s guide.
- Students practise in pairs.
- Students listen and take
notes.
- Students go to the board
and do the task .
- Students listen carefully.

- Students listen to the tape,
giving out the right order of
the pictures.

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Task 2
- Teacher introduces the situation clearly, asks
students to read the whole sentences in Task 2.
- Teachers asks students to try to guess the
answer.
- Teacher plays the tape for the threes times. Each
time, teacher gets feedback from students and
helps them correct mistakes.
* Expected answer:
1-F; 2-T; 3-F; 4-F; 5-F; 6-F
Postlistening
13 minutes

Homework
2 minutes

Task 3: Tell your classmates about your daily
routine.
- Teacher introduces the situation clearly ans asks

students to work in pairs, asking and answering
about Mr. Lam’s activities.
Ex: + What is his name? / What is his job? (What
does he do?)/ What time does he start his wok?
- Teacher goes around the class to helps students
to work the exercise in groups of four or five.
- Teachers asks each student, in turn, in the
group to retell an event in the story, continuing to
the last event of the story. Then teacher invites a
representative in the group to tell the whole story.

- Students listen to T’s
guide
and
read
the
sentences.
- Situdents listen to the
tapes three time, giving out
the answers, correcting
mistakes if having.

- Students work in groups
of four, talking about their
daily routines.
- Students present.
- Students listen & practise
doing the exercise.

- Teacher asks students to write a short paragraph - Students listen and take

(50 words) about Mr. Lam’s activities.
notes

Date :
Period 5
Unit 1(cont.)
Lesson:

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF . . .
WRITING

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Write a narrative about a certain event.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: The simple past tense and the time relaters (time expressions)
- New words: stare death in the face, air-hostess, shake, fasten seat0belt, dip, scream in panic,
announce, be relieved, climax, choke, fire brigade . . .
III. Teaching Aids: An extra board.
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time

Warm-up
(3 minutes)

Teacher’s Activities
Play a game
- Teacher asks students to close the books and
asks them some questions.
Ex: - Have you he ever heard/known about a
frightening/terrible story?

- When did you see it?
- How did you feel about it?
- Teacher leads into the new lesson “Today
you’re going to read a narrative about a plane’s

Students’ Activities
- Students close the
textbook, listen and answer
the questions of the teacher.
- Students listen carefylly.

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Pre-writing
10 minutes

Whilewriting
15 minutes

Postwriting
15 minutes
Homework
2 minutes

shaking and then write a narrative about a hotel
fire”.

Task 1
- Teacher asks students to open their books and
then read the narrative.
- Teacher explains some new words.
+ stare death in the face (v)
+ air-hostess(n)
+ shake – shook – shaken (v)
+ fasten seat-belts (v)
+ dip (v)
+ scream in panic (v)
+ be relieved (a)
- Teacher asks students to find out all the verbs
that are used in the past tense and the time
relaters. (first, then, later, after that . . .)
- Teacher goes around the class and helps
students when they need.
* Expected answer:
+ Verb in the simple past tense: stared, was,
arrived, got on, took off, began, thought . . .
+ Time connectors: At first, then . . .
Task 2
- Teacher asks students to work in groups of 2
tables to identify the events, the climax, and the
conclusion of the story.
- Teacher asks students to hang their extra board
on the board in order to peer correction.
* Expected answer:
+ The events: got on the plane, plane took off,
air-hostess was just beginning to serve lunch
when the plane began seemed to dip, people

screamed in panic.
+ The climax: we thought we had only minutes to
live.
+ The conclusion: The pilot announced that
everything was all right.
Task 3
- Teacher explains the requirements of Task 3
And some new words.
+ choke (v)
+ fire brigade (n)
- Teacher asks students to work in groups of two
tables, practising writing on the extra board.
- Teacher goes around the class and helps
students correct mistakes.

- Students observe and
listen to teacher’s guide.
- Students guess the
meaning of the new words.
- Students listen and take
notes.
- Students work in pairs.

- Students listen carefully
and work in groups to do
the exercise.
- Students hang their extra
board on the board and
remark.

- Students listen carefully.
- Students take notes.
- Students work in groups
and practise writing on the
extra board.

- Teacher invites the representative of the groups - Students look at the extra
to check and correct the mistake.
board and find out the
mistakes.
- Teacher gives his feedback to students.
- Students listen and take
notes.
- Teacher asks students to continue their writing - Students listen and take
at home.
notes
- Teacher asks students to prepare Language

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Focus.
Date :
Period 6
Unit 1(cont.)
Lesson:

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF . . .
LANGUAGE FOCUS

I. Objectives: By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
- Pronounce exactly and fluently the sounds / I / and / i: / in words and its sentences.
- Use the simple past and simple present tense, adverbs of frequency correctly in speaking and
writing.
II. Language Focus:
- Grammar: The simple past tense and the time relaters (time expressions)
- New words:
III. Teaching Aids: Cassette player, textbook.
IV. Procedures:
Stages/Time

Warm-up
(3 minutes)

Pronunciation
12 minutes

Grammar
Vocabulary
28minutes

Teacher’s Activities
Play a game
- Teacher asks students to close the books and
writes some these sentences on the board.
+ She sits in the kitchen and eat some meat for
dinner.

- Teacher asks students to read the sentence and
idendify what sounds are repeated many times.
- Teacher underlined the sounds repeated and
leads into the new lesson.
Activity 1 – Listen and repeat
- Teacher writes two sounds / I /, / i: / on the
board, reads twice first.
- Teacher explains the differences between the
two sounds.
- Teacher guides students to practise
pronouncing.
Activity 2 – Practise these sentences
- Teacher reads the sentences first as model.
- Teacher asks students to pay much more
attention to stressed syllables.
- Teacher asks students to work in pairs, picking
out the words containing the sounds / I /, / i: /
- Teacher asks them to take peer correction.
- Teacher requires students to answer the
questions given by him.
+ What time do you often have breakfast?
+ Where does she live?
“Which tense is used in these sentences?”
- Teacher calls a student to repeat the usage of the
simple present tense.
- Teacher explains more if necessary.
Activity 1
- Teacher asks students to do the Exercise 1
- Teacher gives out the feed back.

Students’ Activities
- Students close the
textbook, read the sentence
shown on the black board.
- Students work and find out
the repeated sounds in the
sentence.
- Students observe and
listen to teacher’s guide.
- Students listen.
- Students practise

- Students listen carefully
and work in pairs to do the
exercise.

- Students listen & asnwer
the teacher’s questions.
- Students take notes.
- Students work individually
and then exchange the
results in pairs to take peer

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Homework

2 minutes

1. is
2. finish
3. worry
4. are
correction.
5. catch
6. am
7. catch
8. go
9. give up 10. says
11. realise
12. am
Activity 2
- Ss listen and do the Ex.
- Teacher asks students to order these words to
make complete sentences.
+ He usually goes home on
+ he / on / usually / goes / home / foot
foot.
+ we are never late for
+ we / late / never / are / school / for.
school.
- Ss listen and take notes.
- Teacher notices the position of adverbs of
frequency in the sentence.
* “As a rule” is put at the beginning at the
sentence.
- Ss listen to answer

Activity 3
teacher’s questions.
- Teacher review the usage of the simple past + I wached TV.
tense by asking Ss some questions.
+ I went to the cinema.
+ What did you do last night?
- Ss work individually and
+ Where did you do this afternoon?
do the Ex. 3.
- Teacher guides Ss to do the Ex. 3
- Ss listen and take notes.
- Teacher goes around the class and helps Ss.
- Teacher gives feedbacks.
- Teacher asks students to continue doing the - Students listen and take
remaning exercises.
notes
- Teacher asks students to prepare Unit 2 –
READING

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