UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
I. General objectives:
1. Competencies:
- Make & respond to introduction
- How to compare with the likeness and the difference.
- Scan for specific information.
2. Language focus:
- Past simple tense
- Present unreal wish
II. Techniques: Brainstorming; Questions – answers
III. Etching aids: Cassette; Cassette recorder; illustrating pictures; OPH;
Pictures; Visual aids; Laptop; Flash cards, colored chalk.
IV. Total period distribution:
Period distribution
Items of Teaching

1
Getting started, Listen and read

2
Speak and Listen

3
Read

4
Write

5
Language focus

Lesson 1: Getting started – Listen and read (45 min)
I. Objectives:
- Introduce, leading to the topic of a unit
- Talking about places to visit
II. Grammar: Wish sentence & Past habit Used to + Verb
III. Vocabulary: Words relating to famous place to visit & activities done during the visit
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm – Up
(15’)















Lead-in
(30’)











* Getting started.
- Showing 6 pictures of places of interest of Vietnam
- Eliciting the places of interest of Ho Chi Minh City
- Asking them some questions
1. Do you have any pen pals?
2. Do you like to have pen pals?
3. Where will you take him if he visits Vietnam for the 1st time?
4. Can you tell me the names of the places in 6 pictures?
- Teaching new words: Hung Temple; Temple of Literature; Dong Xuan Market; the City hall; Ho Chi Minh history museum; Ben Thanh market.
* Listen and read
- Introducing the situation of the passage: Rizal Mary is, Lan’s pen pal visited her for the fist time and Lan took her to some places of interest in Hanoi.
- Playing cassette once the 1st paragraph.
- Asking them questions: What do you know about Mary am?
- Having them a silent reading then identifying the places of interest.
- Playing cassette again.
- Explaining the new difficult words: Mosque; peaceful; keep in touch; atmosphere
- Reminding them of new and old structures.
* Old Structure: Past habit
Used to + V
* Ex: Lan used to walk past the mosque on her way to primary school.
* New structure:
Wish sentence: Present unreal wish
* Ex: I wish I had more time.
- Asking them to have silent reading for information to answer the questions.
- Calling some students to say their choices.
- Briefly explaining the use of Wish
Ex: I wish I had more time.
I wish + clause (Past simple)
Practice:
1. I don’t have enough money.
I wish …………………………
2. I can’t sing that song
I wish …………………………
3. It’s raining.
I wish …………………………
4. I am too fat.
I wish …………………………
5. The weather is bad to day.
I wish …………………………

- Looking at the 6 pictures and guessing what places they are.


- Answering the questions.






- Listening to the teacher’s explanations then write the vocabulary down.



- Listening to the teacher




- Listening to cassette.
- Answering the question.
- Having a silent reading.


- Listening to the cassette.
- Writing down the new words.
- Finding out structures.






- Identifying new structures.


- Having silent reading and get more information.
- Saying the choices.



- Doing the practice.

1. I wish I had enough money.
2. I wish I could sing that song.
3. I wish it wasn’t raining.
4. I wish I weren’t too fat.
5. I wish the weather were fine today.



Consolidation
Where did Lan take Mary am to visit?
What place did they visit on Friday?
What new structure is there in the passage?


Homework

- Do exercise 1 workbook (p.5-6).
- Explain the way how to do these exercises.



UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Lesson 2: Speak – Listen (45 min)
I. Objectives:
- Developing speaking and listening skills.
- Introducing oneself
II. Language contents:
Grammar: Yes – No questions.
Vocabulary: Some words relating to capitals and big cities in the word, especially in Asia.
III. Techniques:
Asking and answering – Pair work – Role play – Matching.
IV. Teaching aids:
Pictures, cassette player and tape.
V. Time: 45 minutes
VI. Procedures:
SPEAK (28 minutes)
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm – up (3’)
- Making questions:
1. Where does Mary is come from?
2. Does she like Vietnamese people?
3. Does she like Ha Noi?
- Answering the questions:
1. Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur
2. Friendly
3. Interesting

Presentation (7’)
Introducing situation.
Asking Sts to work in pairs.
- Matching and putting the dialogues in the correct order.
( Finishing part (a)

Practice (13’)
- Correcting part (a)
- Sticking the answer key on the board.
- Asking Sts to read the information in three boxes at the end of the page 8.
- Replacing
- Making similar dialogues.
- Practicing new dialogues (Pair work)

Free practice (5’)
- Asking Sts to match countries and their capitals (ASIA).
- Asking Sts to play roles.
- Matching
- Playing roles with their old names and their own words.

LISTEN (17 minutes)

Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Pre-listening (3’)
- Introducing the lesson
- Looking at the picture and taking about them.

While-listening (10’)
Taking about the situation of the lesson.
Playing the tape.
- Listening and finding out where Tim and Carol are and that they are doing.
- Listening and choosing the correct answers.
- Comparing their answers with the partner’s.


Post-listening (4’)
- Checking the answers with the whole class.
- Saying the answers.


UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL
Lesson 3: Read (45 min)
I. Objectives:
1. Developing speaking and listening skills.
2. Help students to know more about Malaysia.
II. Language contents:
Vocabulary: divided, separated, comprise tropical climate, official, language of instruction.
III. Techniques:
Communicative approach.
IV. Procedures:
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm-up
- T shows the map of Vietnam and asks students:
1. Which country is on the map?
2. Which city is the capital of Vietnam?
3. How many regions are there in Vietnam?
- Answering the questions.

Pre-reading
- T introduce a the passage by showing the map and the picture about Malaysia.
- T asks “What do you know about Malaysia.
- T asks sts to read the passage silently and underline the new words.
- T explains new word (translation method)
- Sts answer (in Vietnamese)


- Reading the passage in silently an underline the new word
- Listening to the explanation.

While-reading
- T reads the passage and students listen and find the right information about Malaysia to fill in the table. (pair word)
- Sts read their answer sentences.

Post-reading
- T hangs a cardboard and gets sts to do T/F exercises in pairs.
- T asks some pairs to write their answers on the board.
- T gives answer keys and corrects them.
- Doing the exercise in pairs.

- Answering the questions.

- Correcting the mistakes.

Feed-back
- T asks. For the false statements T asks sts to give the correct ones.
- Giving the correct statements.

Consolidation
- T gives some questions about Malaysia:
1. Is Malaysia one of the countries of the ASEAN?
2. How many regions are there?
3. Is Kuala Lumpur the largest city in the country?
4. Which language is taught on secondary school?
5. What’s the weather like in Malaysia?
- Answering the questions.

Homework

- Learning the new words by heart.
- Rereading the passage.


UNIT 1: A VISIT TO A PEN PAL
Lesson 4: Write (45 min)
I. Aims:
Sts can practice the skill of writing a letter (a normal letter and a friendly letter)
II. Teaching aids:
Pictures of some places of interest ( Hoan Kiem Lake, West Lake, London Bridge, etc), Overhead, projector.
III. Teaching steps:
Steps
Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Warm-up
- T introduces the topic of the lesson by telling the sts his/her trip. Then T ask sts some questions:
a. When did you go last summer?
b. Do you have any relatives?
c. Have you ever visited them?
d. Could you tell us about your trip?
- Answering the questions.

Presentation
- T reads a sample letter.
- T guides sts how to write a letter (address, heading, body, closing, signature…)

- Listening to the teacher.

Practice
- T has some sts read their letters in front of the class.
- T corrects the mistakes.
- Sts read the outline, pay attention to he content of each part.
- Sts base on the outline and teacher’s instructions and write a letter.
- Sts discuss in groups and write letters by themselves.


Consolidation
- How to write a friendly letter


Homework

- Sts write letters to invite their friends to their places where they are living, tell them what they’ll do, what food they’ll eat …


UNIT 1: A VISIT FROM A PEN PAL
Lesson 5: Language focus (45 min)
I. Objectives:
Students can retell their preparations before a special occasion and express their wish.
II. Language content:
Grammar: Revision:
Past simple.
Wish sentence.
III. Technique:
Question – Answer.
IV. Teaching aid:
Pictures, colored chalk.
V. Procedure:

Teacher’s activities
Student’s activities

Past simple
(page 11)









Exercise 1 page 11








Exercise 2 page 12



Exercise 3 page 12
The past simple with wish:
S1 V1 S2 V2
I wish you had a longer vacation.
S1 V1 S2 V2
I wish I had more time.
S1 + WISH S2 + verb
_be (were)
_/v(past)


Consolidation

Homework


- Creating the situation by asking some questions:
1. Where was Mary am last week?
2. What did she do in her first day in HN ?
- Asking the students to pick out the tenses in 2 answers.
- Having some students give the formation of past simple tense.
- Asking the students to do pair word (exercise 1)
- Having some pairs present in front of the class.
- Having the students do group work and the quickest group present their key on the board.







- Creating the situation by asking questions:
“What did Lan say to Mary am at the end of the week?”
- Asking the students to analyze the sentence.
- Having the students withdraw conclusion.
- Asking the sts to do exercise 3 page 12 (group work)
- Having some of the sts write their sentences on the