Giáo án Tiếng Anh 12 - Unit 3: Ways of socialising (Reading)

UNIT 3: WAYS OF SOCIALISING - READING
I. Objectives:
1. Educational aim: Students can
+Develop such reading micro-skills as guessing meaning from context
+ Use the information they have read to answer the questions
+ Pictures in the student’s book enlarged.
+ A table of the active words of the passage.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: Students could understand and use the new words through
speaking, asking and answering
- Language:
- New words: Words relate to ways of socialising
3. Skills:
-Reading for general or specific information
-Guessing meaning from context
II. Method: Intergrated, mainly communicative
III. Teaching aids: Some photos of ways of socialising and some information about
them. Board, tape, cassetteplayer, chalks, textbook and notebook.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher’s activities
Students’ activities
Warm-up: (4 minutes)
- Ask students to list some ways of communication -Listen to the teacher
they have know
-Give their answer
- Let students work in pair
- Check the whole class
Pre-reading: (7 minutes)
- Ask students to work in groups to discuss about the -Work in groups to discuss about
pictures in the textbook.
the pictures

- Ask students to use the questions to ask and answer - Work in pairs to ask and answer
about the pictures :
- What are the people in the pictures doing?
- What will you do if you want to get your teacher’s - Some students answer the
attention in class?
questions in front of the class.
- What will you do if you need to ask someone a question
but they are busy talking to someone else?
- Comment and lead the whole class to the topic of the
passage.
* Pre-teach: New words and phrases:
- Look at the board and note down
- write some new words and phrases on the board
+verbal(a)
+ non –verbal(a)
+ attract (v)
+ nod (v)
+ approach (v)
+ rude (a)
- Ask students to guess the meanings of the words
- Ask students to read the words in chorus twice.
- Call two students to read the words in front of the class
Task 1
- Ask students to read the passage and give the
Vietnamese equivalents to the following words phrases.
- Guess the meaning of the words
- Verbal: bằng lời, hữu ngôn
and phrases.
- Non- verbal: không bằng lời
- Listen to the teacher and read up

- Attract someone’s attention: thu hút chú ý
- impolite: không lịch sự
- rude: thô tục, thô lỗ
-informality: thân mật
- approach: tiếp cận
-a slight nod will do: một cái gật đầu nhẹ là đủ
- Call on some students to show their answers in front of
the class.
- Comment and give the correct answers

the words and phrases in chorus
- Some students read them in front
of the class
- Read the passage in skim to guese
the meaning of the words
- Ask students to work in groups to
guess the meaning of the phrases
Some students show the answers in
front of the class.

While-reading: (20 minutes)
- Let students open the book and read silently while
teacher reads aloud and correctly
- Ask students to read themselves and write down some
information
- Let students work in pairs to do the task 2

- Work in pairs to anwer the

questions
P1:What can you do when you want
to attract someone’s attention?
P2 :We can use either verbal or non
verbal.
P1 : What are considered to be big,
obvious non verbal signals?
P2 :They are strong actions that
can easily be seen...etc.

Task 2:
- Ask students to read the passage again to choose the
best title for the passage.
- Call four students to go to the board the write their
answers
- Ask some students to correct and remark with giving the
reason why they have chosen it
- Feedback and give the right answers

-Practice
talking
about
communication by non- verbal
actions.
- to express the happiness they can
whistle or clap
- sometimes, they clap or whistle to
encourage or despise.

Task 3 :

- Ask students to work in pairs to answer the questions .
- Listen and note down
- Listen to the students and remark.
Post-reading: (10 minutes)
- Ask students to work in groups to discuss the meaning
of whistling and clapping in Vietnamese culture.
- Call on some representatives of the groups to answer the
questions in front of the class.
Homework (4 minutes)
-Ask students to learn the new words and phrases
- Ask students to prepare for the next lesson.

- Listen to the teacher.
- Do the exercises at home
- Prepare for the next lesson.