unit 10 Communication Getting started

<span class='text_page_counter'>(1)</span>Teacher’s name: Dong Thi Thao Trang Date: Friday October 14th, 2016 Class: 8C LESSON PLAN UNIT 10: COMMUNICATION Lesson 1: Getting stared My battery was flat I. Class description: 26 boys, 13 girls. All Vietnamese. They are all students and they get on well together as a class. Most of them had actually studied some English at primary schools. II. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:  Use lexical items related to topic " Communication" as: using social media, emailing, video chatting, using telepathy, sending letters( snail mail), meeting face-to- face, having a video conference,...  Understand meaning of the words or phrases as: show up, never mind, oversleep, waiting for ages, get through, “My battery was flat", “Are you kidding?”, "We can try again"  Listen, understand and practice conversation between Phuc and Nick about topic "My battery was flat"  Know these nouns can be used as verbs such as: email => to email/ emailing, text => to text/ texting,.... III. Time: 45 minutes IV. Teaching aids: - Pictures, cassette, tape/ CD, board , textbook and notebook. V. Anticipated problems - Problem : Students the specific information because of some new words - Solution : Support them some new word related to the topic today. VII. Procedure.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(2)</span> Steps Greeting. Time Teacher’s activities 1’ Greeting and checking attendance. Warm-up 3’. Pre listen 3’ and read. Do a quick whole- class activity to review the past perfect learnt in Unit 9. - Write two sentences on the board and ask students to change them into one sentence using past perfect eg: + I missed the school bus. I was annoyed. + The last time she went out with him was two years ago - Show two pictures: one of people talking to each other face-to- face using verbal language, gestures, facial expressions, body languege etc, and one of people communicating with animals - Ask students to guess the topic of this unit - Ask them to work in pair to list down as many ideas they can bout how people communicate - Ask students to open their books and look other pictures of Phuc, Mai, and Nick - Give brainstorm questions with students as: * What do you think Phuc and Nick are talking about on the phone? * Where are Mai and Phuc in first picture?. Student’s activities Focus on teacher. Purpose Making class stability and focus on lessons - Review the previous unit. - Rewrite sentences using past perfect: + I was annoyed, as I had missed the school bus + I hadn't seen him when I was a student. - Once student have got the answer -Work in pair to write down the ideas about how people communicate. - Motivate students to the new lesson.. - Look at three pictures in page 38 - Guess and give their answer. - Help students understand the context of the conversation. - Interpret the.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(3)</span> While. listen and read. 4’. Post listen 10’. and read. * Whats are they doing there? * Where is nick in sencond picture? What is he doing there? * What is it in the third picture? What does it mean? * What is a possible connection between picture 1, 2, 3? - Accept all possible answer from students. Remember not to give give correction at this stage - For a more able class and if time allows, ask students to work in pair to build a story based on pictures. Have students report their stories. Accept all versions - Tell students they are going to listen to the conversation between Phuc and Nick. Play the recording. Elicit the connection between the pictures. Were their earlier guesses correct? - Ask students practice in pair this conversation Task a: Playing game: Gold Star - Divides class into two teams - Explains the rule of the game : Teacher have 8 words/ phrases for class. When teacher show a words/ phrases if Ss find meaning of this in the. meaning of new words from their contexts.. - Listen to the conversation between Phuc and Nick - Check their ideas with teacher’ answer. - Listen, understand and practice conversation between Phuc and Nick about topic "My battery was flat". - Practice this conversation. - Focus on teacher - Playing game. - Interpret the meaning of new words from their contexts..

<span class='text_page_counter'>(4)</span> conversation. Ss go to the board quickly and stick their answer as fast as them can. If the answer is correct and fastest, this group will take one gold star. And If group have more star, group will wining team Key: 1. to wait for a very 1. waiting for long time ages 2. to arrive 2. show up 3. to succed in 3. get through taliking to someone 4. “My battery on the phone was flat 4. “ My bateery had 5. “Are you no eclectrical kidding?” power left” 6. We can try 5. “ Are you making a again jole?” 7. Oversleep 6. “Let’s do that 8. Never mind again” 7. Sleep longer or later than one intended 8. Don’t bother Task b: - Have Ss work in indiviually then in group to compare answers with each other - Correct the task as class and encourage Ss to explain for both T anf F options. Key: 1. T 2. T 3. F=> Nick was waiting outside the wrong cinema 4. T 5. T. Task c: Ask students to work of. -Give their answer: They could’t see the. - Understand meaning of the words or phrases as: show up, never mind, oversleep, waiting for ages, get through, “My battery was flat", “Are you kidding?”, "We can try again". - Improve the skill : reading for specific information from conversation between Nick and Phuc - Improve the reading strategies when dealing with gapped text exercises.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(5)</span> three or four and discuss the question: -Why couldn’t Phuc, Mai and Nick see the film together as was their plan? - What was the proplem? - Was it only because of Nick’a mobile phone?. Revision. 15’. film together because nick went to wrong cinema. They didn’t communicate clearly the name and address of the cinema beforehand. Then they were not able to contact each other because the battery of nick’s mobile phone was flat. Task 2: - Ask students work in. - Work in pair to complete this task. - Each group show pair to complete this task: their answers match the photos about Key: 1. having a ways of communication video - After they have finished, conference 2. emailing go through each item as a 3. video whole class chatting 4. meeting face- Ask students to further to- face explain the meaning of the 5. using socila media words/ phrases in the box, 6. using and/ or how they work. telepathy 7. sending - Allow students to use letters( snail vietnamese if necessary mail). Task 3:. - Work independently to. - Explain why Phuc, Mai, Nick could not see the film together - Practice talking about this issues. Use lexical items related to topic " Communication" as: using social media, emailing, video chatting, using telepathy, sending letters( snail mail), meeting face-to- face, having a video conference,.... Know these nouns can be.

<span class='text_page_counter'>(6)</span> - Draw students' attention to the words/ phrases from the word box in 2 again. complete this task. - T asks Ss to learn by heart the new words, and phase abot topic today - Prepare for new lesson(Closer 1). - Ss: Listen and take - To help note. students remember what they learnt in the classroom.. Key: 1. using socila - Tell them to do this task media by first underlining the 2. meeting face-tocues in each item. Also face remind students to 3. emailing/ sending consider the part of speech letters( snail mail) of the missing words( where applicable) 4. using telepathy 5. video chatting 6. have a video conference - Explain the Look out! box. - Write down the These nouns can be used note in their as verbs such as: textbook email => to email/ emailing, text => to text/ texting,.... Homework 2’. used as verbs such as: email => to email/ emailing, text => to text/ texting,..... Evaluation: ........................................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................................... .....................................................................................................................................................

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