Week : 1
Period : 3

UNIT 1: MY NEW SCHOOL
Lesson 2: A closer look 1

I. OBJECTIVES:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Use the lexical items related to the topic My new school;
- Use the combinations: to study, to have, to do, to play + N;
- Pronounce correctly the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
II. LANGUAGE ANALYSIS
1.Knowledge:
* Vocab: School lexical items and practising the sound /ɑː/ and /ʌ/
* Grammar: The simple present.
2. Skills: Listening, speaking , reading and writing
3. Attitude: To teach SS to work hard, love their school and friends
4. Competences: Listening and reading to get information about the first day at school
of a student.
- Communication, self-learning capability, creative capacity, ability to use of
language……
III. MATERIALS
* Preparation:
1. Teacher: Text books , pictures, planning , …
- Grade 6 textbook, Unit 1, A closer look 2
- Projector/ Pictures sets of word cards
- sachmem.vn
2. Students: Text books, notebooks, posters, ….
IV. PROCEDURES:
Warm-up: 5'
* Aim: -To activate students' knowledge on the topic of the unit.
- To set the context for the listening and reading part.
* Content: Game : Hot seat
* Products: Ss write words exactly on the board.
* Organization

Teacher's and Ss'activities
* Game: Hot seat

Content

- Teacher divides students into 2 teams.
Each team has a member standing against the
board.
- Teacher shows pictures of some activities one by
one and other members use body language to let
their team member guess the names of the
activities.
- The team with the most correct answers in the
fastest time is the winner.
- Teacher gets feedback -> Today we are going to
learn some more combinations about school.

2. Presentation : 5'

* Aim: To enrich students' vocabulary to talk about activities at school.
* Content: Vocabulary about school
* Products: Read and understand the maning of words
* Organization:

Teacher's and Ss'activities

Content

Pre teach vocabulary
- Teacher use different techniques to teach vocab
(pictures, situation, realia)
- Follow the seven steps of teaching vacab.
- Repeat in chorus and individually

* Vocabulary
- science (n) : môn khoa học
- exercise (n/v): bài tập, tập luyện
- history (n) : lịch sử
- lesson (n): bài học
- school lunch: bữa trưa ở trường

- Copy all the words

* Checking vocab: Matching

3. Practice: 30'
Task 1: (5')

* Aims: To revise / introduce the names of school subjects, and some nouns related to school and school
activities.
* Content: Listen and repeat the words.
* Products: Students read words exactly aloud.
* Organization

Teacher's and Ss'activities
Task 1: T-Ss

Content
Task 1: Listen and repeat the words.

- Teacher asks students to listen and repeat the
words.
- Teacher calls some students to read the words
aloud.

Task2: (7')

* Aims: To teach Ss how to combine a verb and a noun to talk about school activities.
* Content: Put the words in the correct columns. (V with N)
* Products: Ss say the correct answers ( pair work).
* Organization

Teacher's and Ss'activities
Task 2: T - Ss, Ss - Ss
- Teacher asks students to work in pairs and use
the words in Task 1 to put into the correct
columns.
- Students work in pairs and do the task.
- Teacher calls some pairs to share their answers
with the whole class.
- Teacher gives feedback and corrections (if
necessary).
- Teacher explains which nouns go with each verb
to make meaningful names of activities.
- Teacher asks students to work in groups of four
and add as many words into each column as
possible.

Content
Task 2: Work in pairs. Put the words in Task 1 in
the correct columns.
*Answer key:
play
football
music
have
school
lunch
lessons

do
homework
exercise
study
English
history
science

Task 3:(5')

* Aims: To help students use the vocabulary in context.
* Content: Fill in the blanks with a suitable word
* Products: Student's correct answers on the board.
* Organization:

Teacher's and Ss'activities
Task 3:T-Ss, Ss-Ss
- Teacher asks students to work
independently and put a suitable word in

Content
Task 3: Put the words in the blanks.
Answer key:

each blank.
- Teacher allows students to share their
answers before discussing as a class.
- Teacher asks some students to share the
answers and gives feedback.

1. homework
2. football
3. lessons
4. exercise
5.science
Task 4:(7')
* Aims: To teach Ss how to pronounce the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/ and practise pronouncing these
sounds in words correctly.
* Content: Understand and how to pronounce the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
* Products: Students pronounce words exactly .
* Organization
Teacher's and Ss'activities
Content
* Presentation
* PRONUNCIATION
(Pre-teach the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/)
- Teacher introduces 2 sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/ Suggested answers:
- /ɑː/: car, start, after, party
to students and lets them watch a video
- /ʌ/: cut, one, country
about how to pronounce these two
sounds.
- T gives some words and show how to
Task 4: Listen and repeat. Pay attention to the
pronounce these two sounds.
sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
Task 4:T-Ss, Ss-Ss
- Teacher asks students to listen and
Key:
repeat.
+ /ɑː/: smart, art, carton, class.
- Students work independently.
+ / ʌ /: subject, study, monday, compass
Task 5:(6')
* Aims: To help students practise the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/ in sentences
* Content: Listen and repeat. Underline the words with the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
* Products: Students' answers in your notebook ( Students share with the whole class )
* Organization
Teacher's and Ss'activities
Content
Task 5:T-Ss, Ss-Ss
Task 5: Listen and repeat. Underline the words
Before listening, teacher let students
with the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
discuss in pairs and find the words with
the sounds /ɑː/ and /ʌ/.
Key+ Audio script:
- Teacher plays the recording for students
1 . My brother has a new compass.
to check and repeat the sentences.
-Have them work in pairs to compare their
answers. Check Ss'answers.
- Play the recording again. Let
Ss listen and repeat sentence

2.

. Our classroom is large.

3.

They look smart on their first day at school.

4.

The art lesson starts at nine o'clock.

by sentence, paying attention
to the underlined words.

5.

. He goes out to have lunch every Sunday.

3. Production : 5'
* Aim: To give students a chance to apply what they have learnt.
* Content: Game : write sentences including 2 features: school activities and one of the sounds
/ɑː/ or /ʌ/.
* Products: Students read aloud their sentences.
* Organization:
Teacher's and Ss' activities
Content
- Teacher asks groups to write sentences
including 2 features: school activities and * Game: Who is faster?
one of the sounds /ɑː/ or /ʌ/.
- Ss Work in groups
- Teacher asks each group to hand in their
- (e.g: I usually play basketball with my brother.)
- I often use compass to do Math exercise.
paper and checks, the group with more
correct sentences is the winner.
- Teacher invites the winner to read aloud
their sentences.
4. Homework: 2'
* Aim: To revise the lesson and prepare for the next lesson.
* Content: Review the lesson and prepare for the next lesson and do exersie in the workbbook
* Products: Students' textbook and workbook
* Organization
Teacher's and Ss' activities
Content
- To revise what they have learnt.
Learn by heart all the new words.
- Rewrite the sentences into notebooks.
Find 3 more school activities that have the sound /ɑː/
or /ʌ/.
- Prepare lesson 3 ( A closer look 2)..