Planning date: 26/ 11/ 2014
Period: 44
Teaching date:
UNIT 7: THE WORLD OF WORK
(B. 2, 3, 4)


I. OBJECTIVES: Talking about the activities of a farmer, Helping Ss compare the worker’s activities with the farmer’s activities (hours per week, days off, vacation, time)
1. Knowledge:
a. Grammar: The comparison: fewer… than; more … than
b. Vocabulary: start work, feed, grow rice, main crop, buffalo shed, chicken coop, real.
2. Skills: Reading, listening and writing.
3. Attitude: Talking about the activities of a farmer.
- Helping Ss compare the worker’s activities with the farmer’s activities
- Work hard
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: lesson plane, book, color chalks, pictures, cassette and tape
2. Students: books, notebooks, pen, ruler …
III. Teaching methods
- Communication approach
- Question and answer, eliciting
- Techniques: Ask and answer, Work in pairs/ groups, Discuss.
IV. PROCEDURES
1. Greeting and checking attendance (1’)
2. Review of the previous lesson (4’)
- Ss read Tim’s letter. Then answer the questions:
a. How many people are there in Tim’s family. (four)
b. What does Tim’s father do? (mechanic)
c. How many hours a week does he work? (40 hours)
3. New lesson (36’)

Teacher’s and Ss’ activities
Content

1. Warm up.
- T asks Ss some questions about Ss’ family.
- Ss listen and answer.
- T gives feedback and remarks.
* Chatting.
1. How many people are there in your family?
2. What does your father do?
3. How many hours a week does he work?

- T introduces new lesson.
2. Presentation.
- T shows the picture B.2/ 77 and asks some questions.
- Ss look at the picture and answer the questions.
- T asks Ss to tell some activities of a farmer.
- T asks Ss to read the text in a few minutes.
- T elicits some new words and explains them by picture, translation, explanation …
- T reads model.
- Ss listen and repeat.
- T asks Ss to read new words in front of the class loudly.
- T checks pronunciation.
B2. Read.
*Questions:
- Can you guess who is he?
- What does he do?
* New words.
- start work (v): bắt đầu công việc
- feed (v) : cho ăn
- grow rice : trồng lúa
- main crop (n): vụ mùa chính
- buffalo shed (n) : chuồng trâu
- chicken coop (n) : chuồng gà
- real (adj) : thực sự, thực tế

3. Practice.
- T gives Ss some questions.
- T asks Ss to read the text silently and find the answers.
- Ss answer the questions.
- T checks and corrects their mistakes.
* Questions.
1. What does Mr. Tuan do?
2. What time does he start his work?
3. What time does he finish his work?
4. Does he have vacations?
5. How many hours a week does he work?




* Keys:
1. Mr. Tuan is a farmer.
2. He starts his work at 6 in the morning.
3. He finishes at 6 pm.
4. No, he doesn’t.
5. He works about 84 hours a week.

- T asks Ss to read Tim’s letter again and the text about Mr. Tuan. Then compare.
- Ss work in groups of four.
- T calls on some Ss to give their answers.
- T checks and corrects.
- Ss listen and copy.

B.3. Compare.
Name
Hours per week
Days off
Vacation time

Mr. Jones
40
2
3 weeks summer vacations

Mr. Tuan
84
4 or 5 times a year
No real vacations



- T introduces the listening: there are four people: Peter, Susan, Jane and Phong. You will listen and take notes their jobs, working time and vacation time.
- T turns on the tape.
- T introduces some new words.
- T reads the words; Ss listen and repeat.

- T turns on the tape again.
- Ss work in pairs and take notes.





- T calls on some Ss to give their answers.
- Ss listen and copy.



B4. Listen and take notes.