lesson 2

Unit 7: The world of work
Lesson 2: A
2- 3
A.Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to read for details to
compare
American students’ vacation and Vietnamese students ‘s
vacation
B.Teaching aids: Text book, pictures, posters.
C. Methods: Pelmanism, T/F statements Prediction, grid, write it up.

D. Contents:
I- Organization ( 1’):
Class……… Date of teaching …………………………… Absent Ss:
…………..
……… …………………………
…………..
II- Warm up and Revision (5’): Good morning
How are you today?
III-New lesson (34’):
Teacher & students activities’
Contents
* Pelmanism
- Teacher sticks the cards on the board .
- Give instructions.
- Let Ss play the game.

Step 1 : Pre - reading
1. Vocabulary:
( explain)
(picture))
(explain)

( example)
( synonym )
( picture)
- Sts listen.
late early few long
later longer earlier fewer
1. Vocabulary
- celebrate (v): KØ niÖm
- Easter (n): LÔ phôc simh
- Thanksgiving (n): LÔ t¹ ¬n
- New Year’s Eve: §ªm giao thõa
- Independence Day: Ngµy quèc kh¸nh
- Christmas ( n : LÔ gi¸ng sinh
2. Reading
1) Vietnamese students have fewer
- listen and repeat (chorally then
individually).
- copy.
Check ing voc : Slap the board
2 T/F statements Prediction :
- Set the scence: These staments are about
American students’vacation and holiday.
Read them and guess which staments are
true.
- Teacher sticks the poster on the board .
- Ask ss to run through the staments.
- Ask ss to work individual and guess.
- T gives feed back.
Step 2 : While Reading:
1. Checking prediction

- Ss read the text and check their prediction
Answer keys
1) T
2) F - American students have the longest
vacation in the
summer.
3) T
4) F - Their important vacations are
Easter, 4
th
of July,
Thansgiving and Chrismas
5) T
2. Filling the grid
- Draw the grid on the board.
-Ask ss to copy down in their note book.
- SS read the text again then fill in the grids.
- Ss go to the board and fill in the
information.
- Teacher gives feedback.
Step 3 : Post - reading
Listening
- Teacher asks Ss to look at the pictures A3
on page 74 and guess the name of the public
vacations than American students
2) American students have the longest
vacation in the winter
3) They don’t have a Tet holiday
4) Their most important vacation is New
Year’s Day

5) They usually spend their time with their
families on Thanksgiving and Christmas
Day
3. Listening

Vacation Vietnam
ese
students
Americ
an
student
s
Longest
vacation
In the
summer
In the
summer
Tet holiday
√
x
Thanksgivi
ng
x
√
Christmas x
√
Independe
nce Day
Septemb

er
2nd
July4th
Easter x
√
New
Year’s Eve
Lunar
Decembe
r 30
th
January
holiday in each picture.
- Give feed back.
- Get ss to listen to the tape and check their
prediction.
- Give feed back.

Answer key :
a) Thanksgiving
b) Independence Day
c) New Year’s Eve
d) Christmas
IV. Summary (2 ): ’ - Read a text about American student ‘s vacation and
compare with Viet name students’
V. Homework (2 ): - ’ Study the lesson
- Write about Vietnamese vacations. Use information from the grids
Eg : We have the longest vacation in the summer and we have the Tet holiday
from…………….
- Prepare the new lesson: Unit 7: A

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E. Evaluation: