READING UNIT 1

A.OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will:
- Understand more about home life.
- Use vocabulary related to the topic of the lesson through exercises.
B. TEACHING AIDS:
- Textbook, pictures, cassette, tape, handouts and real objects
C. PROCEDURE:
- Method: mainly communicative approach and learner-centered approach
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. WARM-UP ( 5')
- Ask Ss to work in groups and tell about their families
- Suggestion questions
1. How many people are there 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
II. PRE- READING (10')
- Short introduction the types of family (show the pictures)
Nuclear family:
A Nuclear family consists of 2 generations only.
( the father, the mother, and the children )
Extended family: An extended family consists of three or more
generations. (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 or the mother.
+ In USA, single parent families are popular.
+ In Viet Nam, there are more and more single families.

Blended families or stepfamilies:
In a blended family, or stepfamily, one or both partners have been
married before. One or both has lost a spouse through divorce or death,
and may have children from the previous marriages. They fall in love and
decide to remarry, and in turn, form a new, blended family that includes
children from one or both of their first households.
- It consists of stepparents, stepsister, stepbrother,
- Group work
- Discuss
- Present
- Listen and take notes
halfbrother and half sister.
Pair work
- Have Ss to look at the pictures in the textbook and answer
questions
1. Who do you think they are?
2. Where is the family?
3. What is each member doing?
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?
- Call some pairs to answer and give feedbacks.
- Introduce the text.
Explain some new words:
- Introduce and explain the meaning of the new words
1. Caring (a): paying attention to the others = quan tâm,
chu đáo với mọi người
2. run (V) = manage (v) = điều khiển, quản lý, trông nom

to run the household / family.
4. household chores (n) = housework (n)
5. mischievous(a) ['mist∫ivәs ]
6. obey (v) , obedient(a) [ә'bi:diәnt]
7. close-knit(a)
8. supportive(a) ~ of
9. frankly ['fræŋkli](adv) = thẳng thắn, trung thực, chân thành
10. secure [si'kjuә](a) = an tâm, không có cảm giác lo âu
11. to take the responsibility for + N/ V-ing.
12. to be under a lot of study pressure
In my attempt to win a place at university, I am under a lot
of pressure.
13. to give sb a hand with (doing) sth = to help Sb (to) do/ with Sth.
14. attempt (n) / (v)
In one's attempt to + V / at V-ing
To make attempt to + V / at +Ving
Eg: He made attempt to break out of the jail.
breaking out of the jail.(v/ ngục)
15. supportive [sә'pэ:tiv] = thông cảm, khuyến khích,
đem lại sự giúp đỡ
- Read aloud and ask Ss to repeat
- Explain new words in Vietnamese if necessary
III. WHILE-READING (20'):
Ask Ss to read the passage silently to understand about it then do
the tasks.
a. Task 1 : Choose the best answer:
- Work in pairs, Answer the
questions (In E or V )
* Suggestion answers:
1 - Parents and children.

2 - At home.
3 - The mother is helping the
daughter with her study, the
father is playing with the son.
4, 5, ... : Depend on Ss.
- Answer.
- Listen and take notes
- Read the passage silently.
- Get Ss to read the requirement of task 1.
- Ask Ss to read through the sentences and find out new words.
- Explain new vocabulary if necessary.
- Ask Ss to read the text again to find out the answers.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs and choose the right answer.
- Get Ss to share the answers with other pairs.
- Call 2 Ss of 2 groups to write down the answers.
- Check and give feedbacks:
b. Task 2 : Answer the questions:
- Check if Ss can answer the comprehension Qs without reading the
text again. If not, get them to read the Qs carefully and underline the
key words.
- Ask Ss to read the text again and then answer the questions
individually.
- Get Ss to exchange theirs answers with a friend for peer check
- Call some Ss to read their answers and explain their choices.
- Comment and give feedbacks.
Suggestion answers:
1. Very busy. They have to work long hours and sometimes they
have to work at night.
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.
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.
4. She attempts to win a place at university.
5. Because they are very closed – knit and supportive of one
another. They often share their feelings and whenever problems
come up, they discuss them frankly and find solutions quickly.
IV. POST READING (8'):
- Give some Ss handouts and asks them to fill in the table the
missing information from the reading text (work in groups of 4).
What is your mother's/father's/your responsibility in your family?
Work father mother children
- Work / Earning money
- Washing dishes
- Cooking
- cleaning the house
.......................................................
v v
- Read the task.
- Read through 5 sentences and
find out new words.
- Read the text by self..
- Work in pairs.
- Share the answers.
- Listen and check.
1-B; 2-C; 3-A; 4-B ;
5-A;

- Individual work and then
share the answers with a
friend.
- Take notes.
Work in groups: Fill the table.
- Check and give feedback.
- Call some to give answers
- Let Ss compare the family described in the text with your own
family (basing on the handouts).
Work Her family Your family
- Work / Earning money
- Washing dishes
- Cooking
- cleaning the house
.......................................................
- Tell each group to choose a secretary to note down all of others’
ideas.
- Ask the secretary to report their ideas.
- Comment and corrects Ss’ mistakes.
V. REVISION AND HOMEWORK (2'):
- Revise the main points of the lesson.
- Ask Ss to learn the new words by heart, read and translate the text,
do the tasks again.
- Prepare the section B (The Speaking part of Unit one).
- Check the answers.
- compare the family described
in the text with your own
family.
- Report their ideas.
- Listen and comment.

- Learn the new words by
heart, read and translate the
text, do the tasks again.
- Write down the homework
requirements.