Giáo án Hội giảng tỉnh 2007 - 2008

LESSON PLAN
Period: 79 UNIT 12: (Cont) LANGUAGE FOCUS
1/ Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Students will be able to understand and use the
past progressive and the present progressive with “always”.
2/ Language contents:
a) Grammar: The past progressive; The present progressive with “always”
b) Vocabulary: race, drum, cheer
3/ Techniques: chains in chains, eliciting, question and answer, pair work, group work,
correction, matching
4/ Teaching aids: projector
5/ Procedures:
STAGES/ TIME CONTENTS NOTES
* Warm-up:
(5 minutes)
* Chains in chains: (Telling habits)
A: I always go to school early.
B: I often play soccer in the afternoon.
…

* eliciting:
 He is always working.
Ss: Group A – Group B
(Two representatives of each
group tell their habits.)
- remind the adverbs of
frequency.
- remind the sentence with
“always” in the dialogue
between Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
Quyen.
Ss: find and tell.

T: introduce another use of
“always” to Ss and lead in the
new lesson.
1/ Activity 1:
(10 minutes)
I. Present progressive with “always”:
* Examples:
- He is always working .
- Son is always going to school late.
* Form:
* Practice:
Exercise3: Look at the pictures. Write
the sentences. Say what the people are
always doing.
a) Bao is always forgetting his homework.
b) Mrs. Nga is always losing her umbrella.
T: gives Ss some short films of
Son.
Ss: watch the films.
T: gives Ss one more example.
Ss: remark examples and tell
the form.
T: remark.
T: gives Ss the exercise 3.
T: guides Ss to do sentence
“a” for picture a.
Ss: work in groups.
T: takes feedback and corrects
S + am/is/are + always + V-ing
c) Mr. and Mrs. Thanh are always missing the

bus.
* Note: “Always” used in the present
progressive to express a complaint.
d) Nam is always watching TV.
e) Na is always talking on the phone.
f) Liem is always going out.
* Further practice:
Talking about classmates/ friends/
family/relatives/neighbors/ …
* Singing:
“I was reading books at 8 o’clock last night.
And my parents were watching TV.”
sentences “b and c”.
Ss: give their remarks on
using.
T: remarks and gives Ss the
note.
Ss: make sentences “d,e, f”.
T: corrects.
T: gives Ss more situations.
Ss: practice saying.
T: corrects/ remarks.
T: sings and asks Ss about it.
Ss: tell what they hear.
T: shows it to Ss.
 lead in the past progressive.
(activity2)
2/ Activity 2:
(20 minutes)
II. Past progressive:

* Examples:
- I was reading books at 8 o’clock last night.
- My parents were watching TV at 8 o’clock last
night.
* Form:
* Practice:
Exercise 1: Look at the pictures. Say
what each person was doing at eight
o’clock last night.
a) Ba was taking a shower at eight
o’clock last night.
b) Hoa was eating (dinner) at eight o’clock last
night.
c) Bao was reading at eight o’clock last night.
d) Nga was writing a letter at eight o’clock last
night.
* Use: used to express an action going on
in the past at a definite time.
e) Na was walking with her dog at eight o’clock
last night.
f) Lan was talking to her grandmother at eight
o’clock last night.
* Further practice:
T: gives Ss two examples.
Ss: remark and gives the form.
T: gives Ss the exercise 1.
T: gives Ss the modal sentence
for picture a.
Ss: look at the rest pictures and
work in groups.

T: takes feedback and corrects
the sentences “b,c,d”.
Ss: remark and tell the use.
T: corrects sentences “e, f”.
T: guides Ss to say by saying
S + was/ were + V-ing
Talking about them/ their family/
friends/...
Past progressive with when and while.
* Examples:
- Tom was reading a book when the bell rang.
- When Tom was reading a book, the bell rang.
- While Tom was reading a book, the bell rang.
Exercise 2: Look at the pictures. Then
match the half-sentences in column A to
those in column B. Write the full
sentences in your exercise book.
* New words:
- race (n):
- drum (n):
- cheer (v):
a) – C : The Le family was sleeping
when the mailman came.
b) – F
c) – E
d) – B
e) – D
f) – A
* Notes:
- used to express an action was in

progress when another happened.
- The action in progress is used with the
past progressive; the action happening
suddenly is used with the past simple.
modally or asks Ss some
questions:
-“I was watching TV at eight
o’clock last night.”
- what were you doing at that
time?
- What were you doing at 7 o
clock yesterday morning?
- ….
Ss: practice saying.
T: listens and remarks.
T: gives Ss a short cartoon of
“Tom and Jerry”.
Ss: see and answer:
“What was Tom doing when the
bell rang?
T: introduces and notices two
actions in the examples with
when and while to Ss.
T: explains how to use when
and while to Ss.
Ss: notice and do exercise 2.
T: gives Ss some new words.
- picture
- picture
- action and face

T: guides Ss to do.
Ss: work in groups and match.
T: takes feedback, corrects and
gives the answer keys..
Ss: give the second use of the
past progressive.
Ss: remark the two actions in
these ones with while and
when.
Continuous action action happened
Past progressive simple past
* Further Practice:
Choose a film and give your sentence
about it.
* cues:
- sing/ come
- walk/ meet
- sleep/ come and leave a letter
- dance/ ring
* Answer keys:
a/ She was singing when the fish
came/appeared.
b/ While she was walking/jogiing in the park,
she met her friend, Nam.
c/ While Tom was sleeping, Jerry came and left
him a letter.
d/ When they were dancing, the telephone rang.
T: remarks and gives Ss the
note.
Ss: write down.

T: shows four short films to Ss.
Ss: watch the films frist.
T: gives Ss some cues about
these films.
Ss: choose, watch again and
give sentences.
T: corrects and give the answer
keys.
*Consolidation:
(7 minutes)
Choose the best answer:
1/ Lan _______ books at 9 o’clock yesterday morning.
A. read B. is reading
C. were reading D. was reading
2/ We were studying math _______ he came.
A. when B. which
C. while D. at that time
3/ A: May I watch TV, Mom?
B: You _______ TV. You should do something more
active.
A. don’t watch B. are watching
C. are always watching D. Were watching
4/ While I was writing, he _______ .
A. arrived B. is arriving
C. were arriving D. All are correct.
5/ Nam is a naughty boy, he _______ at the girls.
A. laugh B. is always laughing
C. always is laughing D. All are correct.
* Answer keys:
1/ D 2/ A 3/ C 4/ A 5/ B

Ss: do in 3 minutes.
T: takes in and corrects
* Homework:
(3 minutes)
Rewrite down all exercises in the notebooks.
Notice the past progressive and “always” in
the present progressive.
Do exercise 6 in the exercise book.
Prepare new lesson: Unit 13: Festival
(Getting started + Listen & Read)
* New words:
- competition - participate - yell - judge
* Compound words: fire-making, rice-coking,…
* Websides:
-
-
T: explains and guides
homework to Ss.
T: introduces Ss two websides
of festivals so that they can get
more information on festivals.
Check:
Dong Hoa, March 17
th
2008
Teacher
Nguyen Minh Chinh