Week: 14 Date: Thứ …..ngày ….tháng …. năm 2015.
Period:27 Teaching date: ...........................................

UNIT 9: What are they doing?
Lesson 1
I. Objectives:
By the end of this unit, pupils can
use the words and phrases related to the topic Classroom activites.
Ask and answer questions about what someone is doing, using What’s he/she doing? He’s/ She’….
II. Language Focus:
+ Vocabulary: watching a video, writing a dictation, reading a text, listening to music...
+ Sentence pattern: What’s he/she doing? He’s/ She’….
III. Resources: Ss’ book, recording, computer, stereo, (projector), picture of activities, ...
IV. Procedure:
Time
Learning activities
Language Focus

Modes



3’

Warm-up:
- Ask pupils to play Bingo to revise verbs for learning activities in the classroom (e.g. read, write, listen, talk). Follow the proceduce in Games in Introduction.


Spoken Interaction.



Whole class




8’

1. Look, listen and repeat.
- Tell pupils that they are going to read a story in which pupils ask and answer questions about what someone is doing in the classroom.
- Ask them to look at the four pictures to identify the characters ( Mai, Nam, Tom and Peter) and the context in which the language is used. Ask questions such as Where are they? What are they doing? ( In picture a, Nam is holding a ball in his hand, standing with Peter and Mai What’s he doing? And Mai answers He’s reading. In Picture c, Nam asks Tom what he is reading. In Picture d, Nam suggests to the boys that they play football and the boys agree.) Remind pupils of the meaning of be + verb-ing. Check comprehension.
- Play the recording more than once, if necessary, for pupils to listen and reapeat. Do choral and individual repetition, pointing to the characters speaking
* Language note: be + verb-ing is used to express an action happening at the moment of speaking (e.g They are making a boat.)
Spoken interaction



Whole class


Individuals



Whole class




10’

2. Point and say.
- Tell pupils that they are going to practice asking and answering questions about what someone is doing.
- Have them look at the bubbles and the pictures to understand how the language. Ask pupils to look at the four pictures to identify what the girl/boy is doing in each pictures. (Teacher: What’s she doing? Pupil: She’s watching a video.) Ask pupils to say the sentences chorally and individually. Repeat the same procedure with the rest of the pictures.
- Ask pupils to practise in pairs, using the prompts in the bubbles and the pictures.
- Select some pairs to role-play the dialogue in front of the class.
* Language note: Draw pupils’s attetion to the ing-forms of different verbs
(e.g. write ( writing.)
***Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions about your school. Ask its name and where it is.
- Tell pupils that they are going to practise asking and answering questions about what one of their classmates is doing in the classroom, using What’s he/she doing? And He’s/she’s… You may ask pupils to mime different activites (e.g. reading, listening to music, playing football).
- Ask them to work in pairs: one pupil asks the question and the other gives the answer.
- Select some pairs to role-play the dialogue.

New words and structures/ function




Individuals






Pairs







Groups



8’

3. Listen and tick
- Tell pupils that they are going to listen to three dialogues about what someone is doing and tick the correct pictures.
- Ask them to look at the pictures to identify the similarities and differences among them (1a. Linda is writing. 1b. Linda is reading. 1c. Linda is listening to music. 2a. Nam is listening to music. 2b. Nam is reading. 2c. Miss Hien is reading and Nam is writing. 3a. Peter is listening to music. 3b. Peter is reading. 3c. Peter is watching a video or playing a game.) Check understanding.
- Play the recording more than once, if necessary, for pupils to listen and tick the correct pictures.
- Play the recording again for pupils to check their answers.
- Get pupils to swap their answers before you check as a class.
*Key: 1b 2c 3a
Audio script:
Tom: Where’s Linda?