Unit 6 - Tiet 33. Read - BGDDT

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Unit 6. THE YOUNG PIONEERS CLUB
Period 33. READ
Date of preparation: November 3
rd
, 2010
Date of teaching: November 4
th
, 2010
Classes: 8A1, 8A2, 8A3
¯Aims and objectives:
- Language content:
+ To introduce some new words relating to Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.
+ To enable the students to know more about The Youth Union.
+ To develop students’ reading skill (reading comprehension).
- Language function:
+ By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to know more about The Youth Union – an
organization for Vietnamese youth.
- Educational aims:
+ To extend the students’ knowledge of The Youth Union.
+ To educate students in building good characters, loving the nation, and encouraging good
citizenship, soft skills and personal fitness.
1. Language:
- Vocabulary: encourage, citizenship, soft skill, personal fitness, awareness, personality, principle,
establish.
- Structure: review: + present simple tense.
+ past simple tense.
2. Skills: Listening- Speaking- Reading- Writing
3. Educational factor:
+ Knowing other names of The Youth Union such as Young Pioneers Organization, the Vietnam Youth
Federation, the Vietnam Students Union ... .

¯Teacher’s and students’ preparation:
1. Method : Communicative Approach
2. Techniques : Repetition, Explanation, Pair work, Group work, Questions- Answers, Predicting, Gap-
fill, True- False.
3. Materials needed : Lesson plan, textbook, chalk, sub-boards, pictures, color chalk
4. Students’ preparation : + Look up the new words.
+ Prepare the lesson at home.
5. Previous exercise : Do exercises 1, 2 on page 57.
¯Procedures in class:
1. Stabilization : - Greeting and asking about health
1’ - Checking: absence
2. Checking- up previous knowledge: 4’
- Call on 2 students to make a dialogue using the phrases in the boxes (page 55).
3. New lesson:
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Teaching
steps and
time
Teacher’s activities Students’ activities The lesson content
I.
Presentation
of the new
materials
6’
1. Lead in:
- Asks the students to answer
some guiding questions:
1. When was the Youth Union

founded?
2. What social activities do the
Youth Union in Viet Nam often
do?
3. What names have the Youth
Union had over the years?
4. Do you want to know more
about the Youth Union?
- Leads to the new lesson:
+ Today we are going to read
about the Youth Union.
- Answer the questions:
1. On March 26, 1931.
2. helping blind people…
3. Vietnam Communist
Youth Union.
...........
4. Yes
- Listen to the teacher.
Unit 6. THE YOUNG
PIONEERS CLUB
Period 33. READ
10’
2. Pre- reading:
- Introduces the new words:
+ encourage (v) (explanation)
+ citizenship (n) (translation)
+ soft skill (n) (translation)
+ fitness (n) = talent
→ personal fitness

+ awareness (n) (translation)
+ personality (n) = character (n)
(synonym)
+ principle (n)
+ establish (v) # destroy (v)
(antonym)
¯ Checking vocabulary: Slap
the board.
* T/ F statements prediction:
- Asks the students to read the
statements and guess which is
true, which is false.
- Calls on some students to
predict.
- Listen, repeat, guess the
meaning and copy down.
- Slap the board.
- Read the statements and
guess which is true, which
is false.
- Some students predict.
1. New words:
+ encourage (v)
+ citizenship (n)
+ soft skill (n)
+ fitness (n) = talent
→ personal fitness
+ awareness (n)
+ personality (n) = character
(n)

+ principle (n)
+ establish (v) # destroy (v)
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3. While- reading:
- Asks the students to read the
text and check their prediction
and then correct the false
statements.

- Asks the students to work in
pairs to do exercise 1 (page 57).
- Calls on some students to read
their answers.
- Corrects mistakes and gives
feedback.
* Exercise 2: Answer the
questions:
- Asks the students to work in
pairs and ask and answer the
questions in the book.
- Calls on some pairs to ask and
answer in front of the class.
- Corrects and gives feedback.
- Read the story silently,
check the prediction and
then correct the false
statements.

- Work in pairs to do
exercise 1.
- Some students read the
answers.
- Listen and write down.
- Work in pairs to ask and
answer the questions in the
book.
- Some pairs ask and
answer in front of the
class.
- Listen and write down.
Exercise: True or False?
1. Ho Chi Minh Communist
Youth Union is an
organization for Vietnamese
Youth.
2. The Youth Union was
founded on March 20 1930.
3. In November 1970 the
Youth Union was officially
named as it is today.
4. President Ho Chi Minh
established the guidelines
for the Vietnamese youth.
* After reading:
1. T
2. F
 The Youth Union was
founded on March 26 1931.

3. F
 In December 1976 the
Youth Union was officially
named as it is today.
4. T
Exercise 1: Fill in the
missing information.
a. March 1931
b. December 1976
c. their public awareness and
form their personality.
d. the guidelines.
Exercise 2: Answer. Then
write answers in your
exercise book:
a. From 15 to 30 years of
age can join the Youth
Union.
b. The Youth Union was
founded on March 26 1931.
c. The complete name of the
Youth Union is Ho Chi Minh
Communist Youth Union.
d. Yes, I can.
e. These activities aim to
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help the young develop their
public awareness and form

their personality.
f. President Ho Chi Minh
established the guidelines
for the Vietnamese youth.
g. The Youth Union had
names such as
6’
4. Post- reading:
- Asks the students to work in
pairs: one takes the role of an
interviewer, the other takes the
role of a member of the Youth
Union.
Interviewer
1. When was the Youth Union
founded?
2. What are these aims?
3. Can you join the Youth
Union?
4. Are you happy to join the
Youth Union?
- The interviewer asks the
member of the Youth
Union some questions
The member of BSA
1. On March 26 1931.
2. They are building good
characters, loving the
nation, and encouraging
good citizenship, soft skills

and personal fitness.
3. Yes.
4. Yes, I am.
II.
Homework
5’
- Gives homework :
+ Learn the new words by heart.
+ Read the text fluently.
+ Translate the passage into
Vietnamese.
+ Prepare next period:
Unit 6. (cont)
Period 34. Write
- Listen and copy down.
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