Week: 3
Date of teaching: 18/09/2023
Period: 7

UNIT 1: MY NEW SCHOOL
Lesson 6:

SKILLS_2/ Listening and Writing

I. OBJECTIVES:
1. Competences: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
- Be ready to describe and give opinions about hobbies.
- Be interested more about new hobbies.
- Listen for specific information about Trang's hobby
- Write a passage about her hobbies
2. Knowledge:
*Vocabulary:
- Vocabulary: use the words related to the topic Hobbies. To pronounce the words
correctly: benefit, duty, share, decorate
* Grammar:
- use the present simple;
- use the verbs of likings;
3. Attributes:
- The awareness about importance of leisure activities.
- Students have the good attitude to working in groups, individual work, and pair
work, cooperative learning and working.
- Be interested more about new hobbies.
- Group work and independent working, pair work, linguistic competence,
cooperative learning and communicative competence.
- Ability of using Present Simple Tense, some popular verbs of liking
- Ability of using everyday English phrases and expressions and develop their
language skills, as well as learn about Vietnamese culture and other cultures.
II. INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
- Grade 7 textbook, Unit 1, Skills 2
- A laptop connected to the internet
- TV
- sachmem.vn
III. PROCEDURES
1. Activity 1: WARM UP (5 minutes)
- Aims:
- To develop student's listening skills for specific information. It also provides
input for the writing skills.
- To learn how to write an email to a friend or pen pals.

- Content/Performance tasks:
- Revision: talk about your hobbies.
- Having some warm-up activities to creat a friendly and relaxed atmosphere to
inspire students to warm up to the new lesson.
- Outcome/Performance Products:
- Interest and concentration of Ss on the class activities.
- A friendly and relaxed atmosphere to the new lesson
- A chance to speak English and focus on the topic of the lesson.
- Implementation:
- Teacher (T) asks Ss some questions about them and class.
- Students (Ss) listen and answer the teacher's or friend's questions
- T asks Ss to open their book and introduce what they are going to study….
- T leads in the lesson.
- Assessment Tools: observation
2. Activity 2: PRE- STAGE (5 minutes)
Task 1:
* Aims:
- To get students to acquaint with listening skills.
- To help develop students' skills of listening for specific information.
- Content/Performance Tasks:
- To practice using the present simple in context.
- Outcome/Performance Product:
- Vocabulary about the topic
- Guessing the answers to the questions.
- Improvement of listening skills.
1. Decorate (v)/ˈdekəreɪt/: to make something look more attractive by putting
things on it (trang trí)

2. Benefit (n) /ˈbenɪfɪt/: an advantage that something gives you; a helpful and
useful effect that something has (lợi ích)

Suggested answer:
In the picture, I can see two girls. They build a dollhouse. In my opinion, their
hobby is building dollhouses. I think It's a good hobby. Because it develops your
creativity. It also makes you more patient.
TASK 1: LOOK AT THE PICTURE. WHAT HOBBY IS IT? DO YOU
THINK IT IS A GOOD HOBBY? WHY OR WHY NOT? (Ex 1, p. 15)
+ Do you know anything about building dollhouses?
+ Do you think it is a good hobby? Why/ Why not?
+ What is Trang's hobby? (name of the hobby)
+ When did she start the hobby?
+ Who shares the hobby with Trang?
+ To do this hobby what does Trang have to?
+ How does she feel about the hobby?
+ Does she intend to continue her hobby in the future?
- Implementation:
Pre-Listening:
VOCABULARY
- Teacher introduces the vocabulary by:
+ Providing the pictures of the words.
+ Providing the definition of the words.
TASK 1: LOOK AT THE PICTURE. WHAT HOBBY IS IT? DO YOU
THINK IT IS A GOOD HOBBY? WHY OR WHY NOT? (Ex 1, p. 15)
* Teacher asks students to work in pairs to answer the questions.

* Students work in pairs to answer.
* Students share their answers. Teacher monitors and accepts all answers if they
make sense.
* Teacher explains the way to listen to Trang's hobby and asks them to guess and
complete the mind map.
* Students share their answer.
- Assessment Tool: Observation
3. Activity 3: WHILE - STAGE (25 minutes)
Task 2:
- Aims:
- To develop student's listening skills for specific information. It also provides
input for the writing skills.
- To help Ss understand and activate their knowledge of the topic.
- Content/Performance Tasks:
- Listening to two students talking about hobbies to get used to listening skills.
- Outcome/Performance Product:
- Vocabulary about the topic.
- Guessing the answers to the questions.
- Improvement of listening skills.
KEY TO TASK 2: LISTEN AND COMPLETE THE MIND MAP. (Ex 2, p.
15)
Trang's hobby (Sở thích của Trang)
1. Her hobby is: building dollhouses
(Sở thích của cô ấy là: xây nhà búp bê)
2. She started her hobby: three/ 3 years ago
(Cô ấy bắt đầu sở thích của mình: 3 năm trước)
3. She shares her hobby with: her cousin
(Cô ấy chia sẻ sở thích của mình với: chị/ em họ của cô ấy)
4. To do her hobby Trang needs: 
(Để thực hiện sở thích của mình Trang cần)
a) cardboard and glue to build the house and furniture
(bìa cứng và keo để xây nhà và đồ nội thất)
b) cloth to make some dolls
(vải để làm một số búp bê)
5. Benefits: She becomes more patient and creative
Audio script:
Lan: Today we'll talk about hobbies. I know that your hobby is building
dollhouses. It's quite unusual, isn't it?
Trang: Not really. A lot of girls like it.

Lan: When did you start doing this?
Trang: Three years ago. I read an article about building dollhouses. I loved the
idea right away.
Lan: Do any of your friends or relatives build dollhouses too?
Trang: Yes, my cousin Mi loves building them too.
Lan: Is it hard to build a dollhouse?
Trang: No, it isn't. I use cardboard and glue to build the house and make the
furniture. Then I make the dolls from cloth. Finally, I decorate the house.
Lan: What are the benefits of the hobby?
Trang: Well, I'm more patient and creative now.
- Implementation:
TASK 2: LISTEN AND COMPLETE THE MIND MAP. (Ex 2, p. 15)
* Teacher asks students to work individually to listen and complete the word web.
* Students work individually to listen and complete the word web.
* Students work in pairs to compare their answers with each other and with the
word / phrase on the board.
* Teacher plays the recording a second time for pairs to check their answers.
* Teacher asks students to write the answers on the board.
* Teacher checks and corrects.
* Teacher gives further comments.
POST-LISTENING
* Teacher asks Ss to work in groups of four.
* Ss work in groups of four.
* Teacher asks students to summarize the information in the listening part and talk
about it.
* Teacher helps if necessary.
* Students give answers.
* Teacher gives comments and feedback.
- Assessment Tool: Observation
Task 3:
- Aims:
- To help students practice using verbs in the present simple in sentences and in
context.
- To brainstorm ideas and make an outline for students' writing.
- Content/Performance Tasks:
- To use present simple to do the exercises.
- Outcome/Performance Product:
- Understand more about using the words in contexts.
Suggested answers:

Lan's hobby:
1. Name of the hobby: collecting waste paper
2. Started: 3 years ago
3. Person who shares he hobby with: Nga
4. To do this hobby Nga has to:
a. collect paper after use
b. make flowers, dishes, toys. boxes...
c. use it for drawing if possible
5. Lan's feeling about the hobby: interesting, useful, protect the environment
6. Future: continue the hobby
- Implementation:
Pre-writing
TASK 3: WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY? FILL IN THE BLANKS BELOW. (Ex
3, p. 15)
* Teacher tells students that they are going to write about his / her hobby.
* Teacher asks students to use the word web as a way to organize their ideas.
* Teacher models with a student (Ex: Lan)
* Ss work individually to do Task 3.
* Teacher checks the answer.
* Teacher gives more comments and feedback.
- Assessment Tool: Observation
Task 4:
- Aims:
- To help students take notes and make outline for the next writing passage.
- Content/Performance Tasks:
- Prepare ideas for writing a paragraph about hobby and complete it.
- Outcome/Performance Product:
- A paragraph about hobby
Suggested paragraph:
My hobby is gardening. I started my hobby 3 years ago. I really like it because I
can do it with my family. My family can join in and do something together. We
usually spend 1 hour on Sunday morning in our garden. I need some plants,
gloves, pots and soil to do my hobby. Gardening has many benefits. It helps me
become more patient and responsible. I also learn about insects and bugs.
Gardening can help us to protect our environment.
- Implementation:
TASK 4: WRITE A PARAGRAPH ABOUT YOUR HOBBY. (Ex 4, p.15)
* Teacher asks students to write their paragraphs individually based on the
information in their word webs.

* Students listen to the teacher then do the task individually
* Teacher asks one studentto write his / her paragraph on the board.
* Teacher asks students to check the writing.
*Teacher gives comments to the students.
* Teacher may have students do their writing on large sheets of paper and organize
a class gallery for students to display their writings on the board. Then students can
go around to see their friends' work, give and receive comments.
- Assessment Tool: Observation
4. Activity 4: POST- STAGE (5 minutes)
- Aims:
To help students revise all they have learnt.
- Content/Performance:
A mind map summarizing the main points of the lesson.
- Outcome/Performance Products:
Review the old lesson
- Implementation:
- Teacher asks students to exchange their textbooks to check their friends' writing.
- Teacher summarizes the lesson by mind maps.
- Teacher then gives feedback as a class discussion.
- Assessment Tools: Observation
IV. WRAP-UP ACTIVITY, GIVE INSTRUCTIONS ON SELF-STUDYING HOMEWORK / ASSIGNMENT (5 minutes)
- Teacher asks students to talk about what they have learnt in the lesson.
- Teacher guides students to prepare the coming class.
* HOMEWORK
- Finish writing the paragraph. Copy in the note books.
- Write about one of your family members' hobby in about 60 words.
- Prepare: Unit 1 Looking back & project/ page 16-17
- Review new words about hobbies.
- Review the present simple.
- Complete the project at home.
Comments:
Attendance:
Class 7A1:
Class 7A2:
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