period 5 period 5 date aug 23rd 2009 unit 1 a day in the life of d writing teacher’s activities students’ activities old lesson ask some questions about mr lam activities a cyclo driver 1 wh

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Period: 5 <i>Date: Aug 23rd_{, 2009}</i>

<b>UNIT 1</b>

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<b>A DAY IN THE LIFE OF…</b>

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<b>D.WRITING</b>

<b>Teacher’s activities</b>

<b>Students’ activities</b>

<b>OLD LESSON:</b>

- ask some questions about Mr.Lam activities, a
cyclo driver.

<i>1.</i> <i>What is his occupation?</i>
<i>2.</i> <i>What time does he start work?</i>
<i>3.</i> <i>Does he have lunch at home?</i>

<i>4.</i> <i>How many passengers does he take in the </i>
<i>morning?</i>

<i>5.</i> <i>Who’s his first passenger?</i>
<i>6.</i> <i>Does he take a long rest?</i>
<b>WARM-UP:</b>

- Asks Ss some questions.

 <i>Have you ever heard a frightening story?</i>
 <i>When and where did it happen?</i>

 <i>How did you feel about that?</i>

- T introduces the situation. Now we study a
frightening story

- Answer questions

<i>1.</i> <i>A cyclo driver</i>
<i>2.</i> <i>At 6 a.m</i>
<i>3.</i> <i>Yes, he does.</i>
<i>4.</i> <i>4 passengers</i>
<i>5.</i> <i>an old man</i>

<i>6.</i> <i>no, he doesn’t. He takes a short rest. </i>

- Answer questions

 <i>Yes, I have / No, I haven’t.</i>

 <i>It happened when I was young in my</i>
<i>neighborhood. </i>

 <i>It made me frightened / happy / bored</i>

<b>PRE – WRITING:</b>

<b>-</b> Ask student to read the narrative in <b>task 1</b>
- Explain some new words

 <i>be due to (a): because of, owing to (bởi vì)</i>
 <i>stare death in the face (v): so scared, afraid </i>

<i>(đối mặt với cái chết ) </i>

 <i>take off (v): (plane) leave the ground (caát caùnh )</i>
 <i>air-hostess (n): person who takes care of </i>

<i>passengers on a plane (tiếp viên hàng không ) </i>

 <i>fasten seat belt (v): fix the seatbelt around the </i>
<i>body to keep safe on the plane (thắt dây an toàn ) </i>
 <i>dip (v) nhúng , ngâm, chìm xuống .</i>

 <i>We had only minutes to live : còn vài phút để </i>
<i>sống</i>

- T helps Ss to read the story and find all the
verbs that used in the past simple and the
connectors (time expressions) in the story.
-T goes around to help if necessary

-T calls on some Ss to give answers

- Listen and guess the meaning of words.

<b>Task 1:</b>

- Suggested answers :

<i><b>Verbs: started. was, arrived, got, took off, </b></i>

<i>began, thought, were, told, seemed, </i>
<i>realised, were, screamed, thought, felt, </i>
<i>announced, was, landed,.</i>

<i><b>Connectors: on that day, at first, then, just, </b></i>

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<b>-T can explain the form and uses of the Simple </b>
<b>Past</b>

<b>*It is used to express a habit ,an action in the </b>
<b>past</b>

<b>WHILE - WRITING:</b>
- Ask students to do <b>task 2</b>

- Explain to Ss the format of a narrative: <i>the </i>
<i>events, the climax. and the conclusion </i>
<i> </i>

<i>- Tell </i>Ss to work in groups and identify the
events, climax, and the conclusion of the story.
- Goes around and helps.

- Ask them to report the results to class.
- Checks (corrects)

<b>AFTER - WRITING:</b>
<b>Task 3</b>

- Ask students to keep book open

- Ask them to use the prompts to build up a
narrative about a hotel fire

- Let students work individually
- Walk round and help students

- Do task 2 in groups
- suggested answer

<b>The events: </b><i>Got on plane, plane took off, </i>
<i>hostesses were just beginning to serve lunch </i>
<i>when plane began to shake, plane seemed to </i>
<i>dip, people screamed in panic.</i>

<b>The climax: </b><i>We thought we had only minutes </i>
<i>to live. </i>

<b>The conclusion: </b><i>Pilot announced that </i>
<i>everything was all right. We landed safely.</i>

<b>Task 3</b>

- Practice in group, write in a sheet of paper
- Change the sheet of paper to each other to
correct.

<b>- Suggested answer: </b>

<b> Last year, I </b><i>spent my summer holidays</i>

<i>at a seaside town. The hotel was modern</i>

<i>and comfortable. I had a wonderful</i>
<i>holiday until the fire. It was Saturday</i>
<i>evening and everybody was sitting in the</i>
<i>discotheque (which was) on the ground</i>
<i>floor. I was crowded with people. They</i>

<i>were dancing and singing happily.</i>

<i>Suddenly we smelt smoke. Then smoke</i>

<i>began to fill in the room . Everybody</i>

<i>started to scream in panic. People ran</i>

<i>toward the fire exits. One door was</i>

<i>blocked.Many</i> <i>people</i> <i>began</i>

<i>coughing and choking. Then, just</i>

<i>as we thought we had only minutes to</i>

<i>live, The fire brigade arrived. Firemen</i>

<i>fought their way into the room and soon</i>

<i>everyone was safely out of building.</i>

<i>Luckily, nobody was seriously hurt. It was</i>

<i>the most frightening experience of my</i>
<i>life. </i>

- Gets class to continue their writing
correctly at home<b>. </b>

<b>HOMEWORK :</b>

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