Unit 2: Personal experiences

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Period 7:
Personal experiences
Lesson A: Reading
I. Aims: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to:
- Scan read for specific information
- Understand the text and express their ideas about past experiences
II. Teaching aids: Pictures, charts, handout, textbook, lesson plan
III. Procedure
Stages/timing Procedure Interactions
1. Warm up
5 minutes
Game: Middle (see Appendix)
(taxis)
_E_ _X_
(apple) (key) (arrow) (knife)
(trees) (one) (ice) (bed)
- Deliver handouts with 10 pictures on.
- Put Ss to work in groups of 4 or 5
- In groups, Ss Identify each picture. In the space beneath
each picture, Ss write the middle letter of each word. When
finished, the middle Riddle will reveal a word.
- The group who first finds out the word wins.
- Check Ss understanding of the instructions
The key word: Experience
Lead- in: what is experience ?“ ” (an event or activity that
affects you in some ways)
- Have you ever been in an embarrassing situation?
- What did you do then?
Today, our reading lesson is about the embarrassing
experience of a girl on the bus.

Group work
2. Pre-
reading
7 minutes
Pre- teaching vocabulary
1. Make a fuss about sth: (definition) become angry or
excited about sth and complain.
Whole class
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2. Sneaky (n) + How do you say vuùng troọm, leựn luựt in
English?
3. glance(v) (at something/somebody)
+ Do the action of glance and ask Ss: What am I
doing?
4. Idol (n) (situation)
+ Do you know Hoang Hai? Hes a very famous singer
from Ha Noi. Hes becoming theof teenagers.
Checking: Gap- filling (hang on a chart).
1. The girl was so shy that she didn t look at him in the
face. She just ...at him and looked away.
2. She complains noisily about anything she doesn t like.
She is the type of person who is always .
3. Teenagers nowadays often have their own ..who
they really love and intimate in different ways.
4. I don t like the look of that man. There is
something . about him .
3. While-
reading
19 minutes
Activity 1: Reading and Re- ordering

- Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the story and put the
pictures of the events in the order they happened in the story
(task 2).
- Call on some Ss to give the answers.
- Check with the class.
Expected answers:
1. Picture d 2. Picture b 3. Picture c 4. Picture f
5. Picture e 6. Picture 4
Activity 2: Questions and answers (task 3)
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the question.
- Call on some Ss to write the answers on the board.
- Make corrections if necessary.
Expected answers:
1. The girl wished to have a red hat when she was in grade
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2. Because her father knew her biggest dream.
3. She saw a wad of dollar notes exactly like the ones her
father had given her.
4. Because she was sure that the boy was a thief. He had
stolen her money.
5. She bought the pretty hat of her dream
Pair work
4. Post-
reading
12 minutes
Mime the story
- Ask Ss to work in groups of three to play the parts of the
narrator, the father and the daughter:
+ The narrator tells the story, the father and the daughter
mime the story.

- Go around to give help.
- Call some groups to act out the story in front of the class.
Group work
14
- Give comments.
5. Wrap up
Summarise the main points
Assign homework
Whole class
Monday, September 15, 2008
Period 8:
Personal experiences
Lesson B: Speaking
I. Aims: To get ss to
Talk about past experiences and how they affected one’s life
II. Teaching aids:
blackboard, chalks (colors), E11, pictures
III. Steps of teaching:
1. classroom procedures:
Greeting + Checking attendance
2. Check up: Checks vocabulary
3. New Lesson:
Time
5’
10’
10’
T S ACTIVITIES’
WARM UP:
- asks SS some questions :
1. Have you got any embarrassing

experiences?
2. When did you have?
3. How did you feel?
TASK 1
- asks SS to work in pairs, and discuss task
1.
- calls some pairs to read out their
answers
- asks other SS to correct the mistakes
- corrects and give feedback
TASK 2
- explains.
- asks SS to work in pairs, read the lines of
the conversation, discuss about the order
of the conversation.
- asks SS to give the answers.
- calls some pairs to practice speaking the
conversation
- corrects their pronunciation
CONSOLIDATION
TASK 3
SS ACTIVITIES’

- listen
- answer the questions about their
embarrassing experiences
- work in pair and discuss.
- some pairs give the answers
- other SS correct the mistakes
- listen and take notes

4 .f ; 1 . d ; 2 . e ; 3 . b ; 5 . a ; 6 . c

- work in pairs and read the lines of the
conversation .
- discuss the order of the conversation
- give the answers
- practice speaking.
- note their mistakes
b d h a e g c f
- work in groups of 6.
15
10’
- asks SS to work in groups of 6, and make
similar dialogues as task 2, using the ideas
in task 1.
- moves around and helps SS if they need
- calls some pairs to practice their
dialogues
- corrects mistakes and gives feedback
HOMEWORK
- SS learn by heart task 3
- Prepare the next part: LISTENING
- make the dialogues.
- discuss the dialogues
- practice the dialogues in front of the
class.
-listen
- listen and take notes
Wednesday, September 17
th

, 2008
Period 9 :
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
C: LISTENING
I. Aims: To get Ss to
- Listen the dialogues and decide T or F statements
- Gap-filling
II. Teaching aids:
- Blackboard, chalks (colored), E11, Cassette, pictures
III. Steps of teaching:
1. Classroom procedures:
Greeting, checking attendance
2. Check up
- Make similar dialogues using the ideas in task1, 2
3. New Lesson:
Time
10’
T S ACTIVITIES ’

BEFORE YOU LISTEN
- asks SS to look at the picture and
answer the question :
What is happening in the
picture?
Listen and repeat :
- gives some words and expressions
from the book
- unforgettable(a)
- audience(n): khán giả
- burn down(v): cháy rụi

- walls of fire: những bức tường
SS ACTIVITIES’
Look at the picture and answer the
question
. The house is burning
. Some trees is cut down
. The woman with her baby is running
Listen and repeat.
-give the meaning and pay attention to the
stress mark of the word.
- listen and repeat the words in the textbook.
- give the meaning of the words.
-listen and take notes
- read the sentences.
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10
10
10
lửừa
- a minor burn: moọt veỏt boỷng nhoỷ
WHILE YOU LISTEN
TASK 1
- asks Ss to read the sentences
quickly.
- Helps them to know the meaning of
the difficult words and phrases
- reads the dialogue and asks Ss to
decide whether the statements are
True or False
(3 times)

- asks Ss to work in pairs, compare
the results that they have heard.
-asks Ss to give answers and explain
why?
-corrects.
TASK2
- asks Ss to read task 2 carefully
- gives Ss to listen to the dialogue
again and asks Ss to fill in the gaps.
- asks Ss to read the passage again
- asks Ss to compare the answer with
their partners.
- calls some Ss to answer.
- corrects
AFTER YOU LISTEN
- asks Ss to work in pairs and discuss
Family is more important than
things
- moves around and helps Ss
HOMEWORK
- asks Ss to rewrite after you read
and learn vocabulary.
- give the meaning

- listen carefully and do task 1

- compare the answers
- answer and explain
Take notes
1 . F ; 2 . F ; 3 . F ; 4 . T ; 5 .F

- read task 2
- listen the dialogue again and do task 2
- read the passage again
- compare the answer.
- answer
- listen and take notes
- work in pairs and discuss together
do as teacher asks
Saturday, September, 20
th
, 2008
Period 10 :
UNIT 2: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
D: WRITTING
I . Aims : To get ss to
- Write a personal letter past experiences to describe past experiences
II. Teaching aids:
- blackboard , chalks (colors) , E11 ,
III. Steps of teaching:
1. Classroom procedures:
Greeting, checking attendance
2. Check up: some vocabularies
3. New Lesson:
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