Period: 100
UNIT 15: COMPUTERS
SPEAK & LISTEN
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge:
- By the end of the lesson, Ss use some common useful expressions to express agreement and disagreement, listen the inventions using the passive.
- Vocabulary: Related to “Computers”
- Grammar: Expressions used in expressing & responding to opinions.
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
c. Attitude: Ss will be educated about using the computer.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self-learning capability.
- Communicative competence
- Cooperation capacity
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: lesson plane, book, color chalks, pictures, MP3
2. Students: books, notebooks, pen, ruler …
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5’)
Teacher’s and Students’ activities
Content

- T asks Ss to think of one of the ways computers are helpful and write it on a piece of paper.
- T calls on a student to the front of the class.
- T gets the rest of the class to ask him/ her.
- Students can only answer with yes or no.
- T tells Ss the S who has the right guess will get one good mark and go on answering the classmates/ questions.
Guessing game “Do you think that …?”


“Do you think that computers are …?”



2. Knowledge formation activities (32’)
- T writes the topic on the board: useful expressions to express agreement and disagreement.
- T puts the table on the board and elicit Ss’ answers then write them in the table.

- T explains the phrase “on the other hand” to Ss.
- T has Ss copy the table.

- T puts the photocopied pictures (page 139) on the right of the board and the words cues on the left (not in order).
- T asks Ss to match the words with the pictures.
- T calls on some Ss to go to the board to draw the matching lines.

- T erases the words but leaves the pictures.

- T gets a student to demonstrate the model (a).
- T asks Ss to use the adjectives in the box on page 140 to express their opinions after going through the meaning of some new words.

- T asks Ss to use the pictures on the board to practice speaking with their partners.
III. SPEAK
* Ss use some common useful expressions to express agreement and disagreement.
1. Work with a partner. Look at the table and the pictures. Take turns to express and respond to opinions about the activities …
(Brainstorm
Opinion
Agreement
Degree of Agreement
disagreement

 I like …
I don’t like …
I think …
I feel …
I don’t believe
 So do I
I agree
You’re right
Neither do I
 I agree, but …
Yes, but on the other hand
 I disagree
I can’t agree with you
No, I think


*Practice
(Matching
1/ Reading comic books d. (
2/ Playing in the rain a. (
3/ Driving a car b. (
4/ Foreign food c. (
*Answer key:
1/ b 2/ c 3/ a 4/ d
(Picture drill
( Oral drill
T: I think driving a car is easy
P: I disagree. I think it’s difficult to drive a car or so do I.
- entertaining (adj)làm vui lòng
- time-consuming:(adj) tốn nhiều thời gian
- challenging: [‘t∫ælindʒiη](adj) kích thích

- T presents content of the dialogue.
-Ss read the dialogue with a partner.
- T checks and asks Ss to make similar dialogues.
- Ss work in pair.
- T checks pronounciation if necessary.

2. Read the dialogue.
Now make similar dialogues about these items. Use the information in the table in exercise 1.
Item
Problem
Solution

Printer
Monitor
Mouse
won’t print
screen is too dark
doesn’t work
turn it on
adjust the knob
check the plug



- T informs the topic: paper-making process.
- T has Ss read the sentences.
- T plays the tape 2 or 3 times and ask Ss to fill in the gaps with the words they catch.
- T asks Ss to compare their answer with their partners.
- T calls on Ss to give their answers.
- T gives feedback and corrects.
- T asks Ss to read the sentences (a (g) carefully and guess the order.
- T writes the Ss’ predictions on the