WEEK 10 -Period 27
Planning date: 7 / 11 / 2011
Teaching date: 9 /11 /2011
UNIT 4: LIFE IN THE PAST
LESSON 1 : GETTING STARTED

(I( Aim : To help students to develope their reading and lítening skills
(II( Objective : By the end of the lesson, students can answer the questions and practice the exercises on the bôks
(III( Language content
Vocabulary : How cool , a mobile movie team , a loudspeaker , wealthy, soppose
Grammar : Review : used to - Inf
(IV( Teaching aids: Books ,postcards, pictures, a computer
(V( Method : communicative approach
(VI( Procedures
Greeting: Clap the hands and welcome Teachers to visit our class

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I. Warm up : Look at the picture and answer the questions


1. Who do you think the people in the picture are?
2. What do you think they are talking about?
3. “Preserving the past” ? What does it mean?
( Answer key:
Nguyen and his father
Life in the past
It means : Bảo tồn quá khứ

II. Pre – Writing :

(New lesson: Unit 4 : Life in the past
Lesson 1

2/Pre – teach Vocabulary
❖ Vocabularies
- How cool!( Picture – explain)
- a mobile movie team( picture)
- a loudspeaker ( picture)
- weathy = rich( synonym)
- suppose ( translate)
❖ Checking vocabularies: Rub out and remember
❖ Listen
A conversation in Getting started in page 40

Find out wish sentences

- I wish there were movie teams like that now.
- I wish I could go back to that time

Structure: S1- wish/wishes - S2 - V.simple past

-This structure will study in A closer look 2
❖Read the conversation in silently
a/ Answer the questions
1. Fathers make kites for sons
2. Once every two months
3. They were always early, trying to get a place near the screen.
4. Only wealthy people had a radio
5. Yes, he does. He said: “Sometimes I wish I could go back to that time.”
b/ Match the expressions with their meaning
Keys: 1c , 2a , 3d , 4b

c/ Complete the short conversations with suitable expressions
( Example:
A: Would you like to participate in this `Preserving the Past` project? B: Sure
( Keys:
1. I can’t imagine that
2. How cool
3. I wish I could go back to that time
4. How cool
5. I can’t imagine that
2/ Complete sentences in the suitable word or phrases
( Example:
0. A ________________is used to make the sound much louder so that many people can hear it from a distance.
(loudspeaker ( Keys:
traditions
generations
technological changes
events
a special occasion
3/ Review the structure with brainstorm some past events
..used to + Infinitive …: thường là
It expesses a habit was happened in the past
( Example:


wear / the conical hat and the traditional long dress.
(In the past they used to wear the conical hat and the traditional long dress
1.use water from wells



( In the past they used to use water from wells

2.cook meal with fire from wood or hay



( In the past they used to cook meal with fire from wood or hay

3. write hand-written letters.



( In the past they used to write hand-written letters.


4.live in small houses.


( In the past they used tolive in small houses.

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