Date of preparation: March 18th Date of signing: March 21st
Distributive period: 83 Date of teaching:
Unit 9 cities of the future
Lesson 1 Getting started
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A. Objectives:
1. Language focus
- To help learners get started with some language items in Unit 9
- For vocabulary, that is words and phrases related to cities of the future
- For pronunciation, that is intonation in questions tags
- For grammar, that is question tags and the conditional sentence type 0.
2. Skills
- To help learners get started with 4 skills in Unit 9
- Reading: Read about higher education opportunities
- Speaking: Explaining facts and giving predictions.
- Listening: Listen for information about future cities.
- Writing: Write an email to a friend about city life in the future
3. Attitudes
- To help Ss get started for Unit 9 with the topic " cities of the future "
- To provide Ss some motivation
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, lesson plan, pieces of papers and cassette.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions


1. Warm up
5 minutes

Lead in
- Ask Ss listen to answer some questions to lead Ss to the lesson.
- Ask Ss to tell the class about cities of the future.


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2. New lesson

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Activity 1: Phong, Chi and Ha are discussing their class assignment. Listen and Read
- Tell Ss that they are going to listen to a conversation between Phong, Chi and Ha.
- Ask them to read the heading and guess what the two speakers will be talking about
- Play the recording. Have Ss listen and read the conversation silently. Then ask Ss if their predictions were correct. Have Ss summarise the conversation.
- Ss listen and read the conversation, take notes new word
Activity 2: Answer the questions
- Ask Ss to read the conversation again and answer the questions.
- Let Ss compare their answers in pairs or groups.
- Check Ss’ answers as a class.
Keys:
1. It’s about life in the city in the year 2050
2. Both think life will be better; Phong believes modern technology will be the reason, while Chi thinks there will be no pollution
3. They choose to talk about the environment
4. Solar energy is mentioned. This energy can be used for transport, lighting, cooking, heating water and helping plants grow
5. Yes. Thanks to the development of science and technology, our life will be better and more liveable in the year 2050.
Activity 3: Find the question tags in the conversation
- Ask Ss to read the conversation again and find the question tags.
- Let Ss compare answers in pairs or groups.
- Check Ss’ answers as a class.
Keys:
1. It’s a group presentation, isn’t it?
2. You mean it will be environmentally friendly, won’t it?
3. We will have only ten minutes, won’t we?
4. Phong presented them so well, didn’t he?
5. Phong, you will do the talking, won’t you?
Activity 4: Read the conversation again and complete the conditional sentences.
- Ask Ss to complete the sentences.
- Have them write the sentences in the space provided
- Check Ss’ answers. Ask Ss to explain the differences between the sentence structures.
* Keys:
1. … the air will become cleaner and our health will be better (1)
2. People can develop health problems and become ill … (1)
3. … we’ll be able to generate our own electricity (1)
4. … their impact on the environment is less (0)
5. Let me know … (0)

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Pair work





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Group work



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Pair work



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3.
Consolidation
2 minutes
- Ask Ss: What have you learnt today? What can you do now?
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.


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4. Homework
1 minute
- Words and phrases about cities of the future
- Practice the conversation
- Do the task again
- Read Unit 9