UNIT 16: THE ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN NATIONS
LESSON 2: B. SPEAKING
I. Objectives:
1. Aims:
- Students work in pairs to describe the pictures.
- Students talk about measures and effects of the economic reforms.
2. Knowledge:
- General knowledge: economic reforms.
- Language:
+ Words related to economic reforms.
+ The way to make suggestions or predictions.
+ The tenses.
II. Methods:
Integrated, mainly communicative.
III. Anticipated problems:
-Problems: Students may face difficulty using terms.
- Solutions: teacher can give useful suggestions.
IV. Teaching aids: picture, board, chalks, textbook, handouts
V. Procedures:
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
1. Warm-up: (5 mins)
Tell a short story to prove that the renovation Listen and give one’s own ideas or story if
measures has apparently changed the social and being asked.
people’s lives positively.
2. Pre-speaking: (9 mins)
+ Task1:
- Work in pairs to discuss the three questions
- Explain the requirements clearly in English “in and find the answers.
your textbook, there are four pictures. Now, what I A: What does each pair of picture tell you?
would like you to do is to look at them carefully B: It tells us the contrast between the present
and say what they are about”
and past situations.
- Ask students to work in pairs to discuss the three A: What changes can you see in each pair
questions and find the answers.
of…?
- Correct the students’ work and give remark.
B: The new school and factory are much
3. While-speaking: (20 mins)
bigger
+ Task 2:
and more beautiful than the old ones.
- Explain the requirements “The country of A: What do you think …..to achieve these…?
Fantasia started its overall reforms…”.
B: They must have taken some renovation
- Divide the class into groups, asks each groups to
measures.
discus a section: Education
- Correct the answers oneself.
Group 1: Education
Health care
S1: The government of Fantasia has changed
the curriculum and textbooks.
Agriculture
S2: They also provided schools with more
- Guide the students how to speak by giving them equipment and facilities.
useful suggestions:
S3: They build more schools and raised the
+ They have………… so ……..
teachers’ salaries.
+ Due to the ………
S1: It is obvious that they……
+ Thanks to the………..
Group 2: Health care
+ By applying……….
S1: Many hospitals have been built as well as
- Walk round from group to group to give help if the doctors’ and nurses’ salaries have been
necessary.
raised.
- Encourage students to speak out what they think
even a phrase or a singular word.
4. Post-speaking: (10 mins)
+ Task 3:
- Ask students to work individually to summarize
what they’ve discussed in their own words.
- Move round to check the activities and to make
sure that students are working effectively.
- Ask one or two students to report in front of the
whole class.
- Check and give remarks.
5. Homework: (1 min)
Name some measures we’ve made to promote our
economic system.
S2: Due to the government’s policy, many
more highly qualified doctors have worked to
improve the people’s health.
Group 3: Agriculture
S1: Fantasia has applied appropriate policy to
encourage farmers to work more efficiently,
and they have built more dykes and damps,
irrigation and drainage systems.
S2: They’ve also applied new and advanced
farming techniques, more facilities and
equipment.
S3: They use fertilizers, pesticides and
insecticides to protect their crops.