UNIT 5- HIGHER EDUCATION

A. Aims: To help students to practice:
 Guessing words' meanings in contexts
 Reading for details of information about application process for universities in the UK
 Reading for gist and answer comprehension questions.
 Using vocab and structures about a letter of request and expresss their hope to study in
England.
B. Aids: textbooks, pictres, board, chalks
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
T-T; T-Ss; S - S
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities
I. Warm-up:
- Give Ss some questions:
1. What are you going to do after you finish high
school?
2. Which university would you like to attend?
3. Where will you live if you study at a university
far from your house?
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to ask and answer.
- Call some pairs to act out in front of the class.
- Get feedback
- Lead Ss to the new lesson: higher education

II. PRE-READING:
* Questions:
- Ask Ss to work in pairs, ask and answer the
following questions:
1. Name the universities.
2. What university would you like to apply for and
why?
- Get feedback.

- Give Ss suggested answers.
Names of universities/ colleges
- Work in pairs, discuss and answer the
questions.
- Some pairs act out in front of the class.
The answers may vary.
- Listen and take notes.
Hue University
Hanoi University of Architecture
Hanoi University of Natural Science
Polytechnical college : Bach khoa
School of Law: Luat
Agricultural College /
Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Military Academy / Military College
State University
The National University in Ha noi/HCM City
Teachers' College
Consolidated University
Civil Engineering College: DH Xay dung
Medical Un : DH Y Duoc
Academy of Sciences
Banking Acadamy
Academy of Arts : HV nghe thuat
Introduce new vocabulary
- Explain pronunciation and meaning of new words
which appear in the passage
• applicant (n): người xin học
• application from (n): đơn xin học
• blame (v): đổ lỗi

• daunt (v): làm nản long
• mate (n): bạn bè
• scary (v): sợ hãi
• undergraduate course: khóa học đại học
III. WHILE-READING:
- Ask students to look through the passage and
read in silence
- Help students read the passage
Task 1 :
- Introduce the task: Complete the following
sentences, using the right forms of the words in the
box.
- Ask Ss to complete the following sentences,
using the right forms of the words in the box.
- Go around class and help Ss if they need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
Task 2:
- Introduce the task: Find out who:
a. attended a party on the first weekend at college.
b. didn't get on very well with the roommate.
c. was not used to meeting different people every
day at college.
d. liked having a chance to be creative.
e. was very excited about going to college.
f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Go around and help Ss if they need.
- Call on Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes.
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Artillary Institute
Institute of forein languages
Institute of OCEANOGRAPHY
Institute of Science and Technology
4. I would like to apply for Hanoi
University of Natural Science.
- Read the text in silence.
- Find out new words.
- Understand the aim of the text.
- Do the tasks that follow.
- Study the task carefully.
- Choose the right word to fill in the blanks.
- Exchange their answers for peer correction.
- Tell the class the answers.
1. campus
2. blamed
3. scariest
4. challenges
5. amazing.
- Look at the task, read the text again to give
the answers.
Sarah:
1- a. attended a party on the first weekend at
college.
2- e. was very excited about going to college.
Ellen:
3- b. didn't get on very well with the
roommate.
4. c. was not used to meeting different people
every day at college.

Brenden:
5- d. liked having a chance to be creative.
- Give the right answers.
Task 3:
- Introduce the task: Answer the following
questions.
1. What did Sarah do on the first weekend?
2. Why did Sarah feel so lonely at the party?
3. What problems did Ellen have with her
roommate?
4. What did Brenden think about his first year at
college?
5. What does the social calendar of the colleges
provide him?
- Guide Ss to answer.
- Go round the class to help Ss if necessary.
- Call on some Ss to give their answers.
- Correct mistakes
IV. COSOLIDATION AND HOMEWORK:(2')
- Ask students to read the passage again.
- Ask students to do Reading exercise of Unit 5 in
workbook and prepare Part B ( Speaking) at home
6- f. enjoyed the first year at college.
- Understand the task.
- Read the text again, answer the questions
on the text.
1. She went out with her new friends,
walking around the campus.
2. Because at the party everyone was busy
playing some games and no one seemed

to noticed her.
3. Her roommate left the window open
when it was cold outside. She went to
bed early. She blamed Ellen for making
her sick.
4. Brenden thought the first year at college
was the best and most challenging of
his life.
5. It provides him plenty of opportunities
to meet non-engineering students as
well as other engineers and many of
them have become his best friends.
- Do Reading exercise of Unit 5 in workbook
and prepare Part B : Speaking at home
A. Aims: To help students to practice:
 Talking about application process to tertiary study in Vietnam
 Asking and answering about time of application process to tertiary study in Vietnam
B. Aids: Textbooks, pictures, board, chalks
C. Methods : Communicative approach and leaner- centered approach.
Teacher’s activities students’ activities
I. WARM-UP:
what is my job?
- Show Ss some documents requiring for
tertiary institutions and ask them what they
are.
- Call on some Ss to answer.
- One Ss go to the board, chooses a job that
he/she wants to do in the future and mime a
typical activity which it involves.
- Answer the questions

1. an application form
2. an identity card
3. a reference letter
4. a birth certificate
-The S ask the other :
What is my job?
- The others watch his/her activities and make
yes/no questions to guess the job.
Possible questions:
- Are you mending something?
II. PRE-SPEAKING:
- Call on an S to go to the board and ask him/her
to choose a job that he/she wants to do in the
future and mime a typical activity which it
involes.
- Ask the whole class to look at their friend’s
activity then ask him/her yes/no question to
guess his/her job
- Observe students playing game and stop when
there is a winner
- Are you typing?
- Do you work outside?
- The S answer the questions using only yes or
no. The game is over if an S guess the job.
III. WHILE-SPEAKING:
Task 1
- Call an Ss to read aloud the request of the task
- Ask the whole class to do task 1
- Ask students to exchange the answers with
their friends'.

- Call some students to read aloud their answers
to the class to check.
- Give corrections and remarks.
- The teacher elicits the meaning of these
application process for students to guess
Task 2
Possible problems:
- Students may don’t know the meanings of
some application process
- One S reads aloud the request of the task
- Do task 1 individually. Put the ticks on those
which are obligatory for whom to be admitted to
a university in Vietnam
- Exchange their answers with their friends.
- Some students to read aloud their answers to the
class; others listen and comment
Expected answers:
an application form
an identify card
a copy of the originals of school certificate
a birth certificate
a copy of records of your performance at
school
scores of the required entrance examination.