Unit 1: Home life
Date:………/……………./…………………
The 3
rd
period
Theme: Home life
A: Reading
Time: 45 minutes
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students should know about International Red Cross
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students read and guess the meaning of new
words from the context.
+ Read the passage and complete the tasks of the lesson.
- Language: Students could understand and use new words after reading
- New words: Words related to home life
3. Skills: Guessing meaning in context, scanning for specific information
and passage comprehension
II. Method: Integrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Student’s book and pictures, Board, tape, cassette
player, chalks, etc.
IV. Procedure:
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities Notes
Warm-up: (5 minutes)
- Ask Ss to work in groups and tell
about their family
- Suggestions
1. How many people are they in your
family?
2. What is your father’s job?
3. What is your mother’s job?
- Go round the class and control
- Call on some Ss to present
- Feedback
- Short introduction the types of family
(show the pictures)
Nuclear family
- Nuclear family consists of the father,
Work in group
Present their answers
Listen to T’s introduce
the mother, and the children
Extended family
- Extended family consists of the
grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins,
nephews, nieces, and in-laws,
(relatives through marriage).
SINGLE PARENT FAMILY
- A single parent family consists of the
children and one parent either the
father and the mother.
+ In USA, single parent families
are popular
+ In Viet Nam , there are more and
more the type of single families.
BLENDED FAMILIES OR
STEPFAMILIES
- A family in which both parents have
been divorced, each with their own
children they remarry and bring both
sets chilren into the marriage
+ It consists of stepparents, stepsister,
stepbrother, halfbrother and half sister.
- Let students understand more about ,
house hold chores and family life,
today we learn Unit 1- part A: Reading
Before you read : (7 minutes)
Ask students to work groups to ask
and answer about the pictures
- Hang on the blackboard the table of
questions. Ask students to work in
pairs looking at the pictures to ask and
answer them.
1. Where is the family?
2. What is each member of the family
doing?
3.Is the family happy? Why (not)? 1.
- Listen to the teacher and open
the book – Unit 1, part A:
reading
- Work in groups to discuss
about the pictures
- Work in groups to ask and
answer the questions given by
the teacher.
- Stand up to answer in front of
the class
P1: The family is at home.
P2: The father is playing games
with his son and the mother is
helping her daughter do
homework.
P3: Yes, it is. Because they
4. Is the family happy? Why/why not?
5. Are there any pets? What are they?
6. What are they doing?
7. Do you like having pets in your
house?
8. What pets do you want to have?
- Introduce the situation of the context
- Read the context once to the class.
- Show students some
new words:
1. Caring(a): paying attention to the
others
2. To run the household.
3. To be willing to do st.
4. Household chores
5. Responsibility(n): [ri,spɔnsə'biləti]
trách nhiệm
Responsible to sb for st.
6. Mischievous(a) ['mist∫ivəs] tác hại,
có hại
7. Obedient(a) [ə'bi:djənt]
biê
́
t nghe lơ
̀
i, biê
́
t vâng lơ
̀
i, dễ ba
̉
o,
ngoan ngoa
̃
n
8. Close-knit(a) quan hệ khăng khít
9. Supportive(a) ~ of : ủng hộ
10. Frankly(adv) ['fræηkli] thẳng thắn,
trung thực
11. Secure(a) [si'kjuə] an toàn, vững
chắc đảm bảo
12. confident(a) ['kɔnfidənt] tin chắc
confidence(n) ['kɔnfidəns] sự tin
tưởng
13. to be caring
14. to be willing to do something
15. to be close -knit
16. to be mischievous
- Help students to summary the main
look warm and close –knit.
- Look at the book and listen to
the teacher
- Listen
- Note down
- Practice reading new words.
- and make sentences with new
words if Ss have enough time
- Work in groups and try to
repeat the main ideas in each
ideas of the context.
* The first paragraph: the writer says
about the parents’ jobs and the people
in her family.
* The second paragraph: The writer
says about the activities of her parents
every day.
* The third paragraph: The writer says
about her younger brothers and her
herself.
* The writer says about the happiness
in her family.
- Ask students to think of their
thoughts about a happy family.
- Introduce the situation of the passage
While you read : (23 minutes)
- Ask students to look through the
passage and read in silence
- Help students read the passage
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of
new words which appear in the passage
+ Task 1: (10’)
- Ask students to work in groups to
read the sentences in the task and then
choose the sentence A, B or C that is
nearest in meaning to the sentence
given.
- Read all the sentences which they
have chosen loudly to the class
Teach some new words: close –knit
(a), mischievous (a).......
- Ask students to work in groups to do
the task.
- Call on some students to read the
sentences.
- Common in whole class
- T gives feedback and the correct
paragraph.
-Practice speaking their ideas
freely.
Listen to the teacher
- Work in groups , read the
sentences carefully
- Listen to the teacher and read
up the sentences aloud.
- Note down the new words.
- Read up.
- Work in groups to do the task
- Read the passage
- Work in groups to find the
sum up of the passage
- Present the answers in front
of the class
- Comment
answers:
1, B 2, C 3, A 4, B 5, B
+ Task 2: (15’)
- Check if Ss can answer the
comprehension Qs without reading the
text again. If Ss cannot, T gets them to
read the Qs carefully and underline the
key words to do task.
- Get Ss to check theirs answers and
explain their choices.
- Ask students to read the questions
carefully and discuss the answers
- Help students to find the paragraph
which contain the information for the
answers
1, How busy are the parents in the
passage?
2, How caring is the mother?
3, How do the father and the daughter
share the household chore?
4, What is the daughter attempting to
do after secondary school?
5, Why do the children feel they are
safe and secure in their family?
- Ask students to read the questions
carefully and discuss the answers
- Help students to find the paragraph
which contain the information for the
answers
- Call Ss to answer the questions
- Ask the whole class to commend
- Feedback and give the correct
answers and give point.
- Note down the reason of the
choice
- Work in groups to ask and
answer the questions using the
information from the passage
1. Very busy. They have to work
long hours and sometimes they
have to work at night. ( par 1)
2. She is always the first one to
get up in the morning to make
sure that her children leave
home for school having eaten
breakfast and dressed in
suitable clothes. She always
makes dinner ready before her
husband comes home.( par 2)
3. The daughter helps with
household chores: she washes
dishes and takes out the
garbage. She also looks after
the boys/her younger brothers.
The father sometimes
cooks/does some cooking or
mends things around the house
at weekends.(par3)
4. She attempts to win a place
at university.(par 3)
5. Because they are very closed
– knit and supportive of one
another. They often share their