UNIT ONE: FRIENDSHIP
Reading
I- AIMS:

1. Language skills:
Reading :
Develop such reading micro-skills as scanning for specific ideas, skimming for general information, and guessing meaning in context.
Use the information they have read to discuss the topic.
Read and try to guess the meanings of words and expressions
Passage comprehension.
Finding the main content of the lesson.
2. Language focus :
Vocabulary: mutual, incapable of, unselfish, acquaintance, give-and take loyal to, suspicious
Grammar :
The simple present.
Mutual pronoun “each other”.

II. TEACHING AIDS: cassette player, tape, chalks, pictures, handouts, charts, real objects if possible
III. TEACHING METHOD: communicative approach

IV. PROCEDURE:


STAGES

TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES

STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

NOTES

Warm-up(4)









Pre-Reading
(3’)

Competition game-Network
T prepares a handout with a network of the word “Friendship”








- Play the cassette
- Ask students to pay attention to the intonation
- Teacher goes around for helps.
Pre-teaching Vocabulary
Lasting(a): lifelong
Constant(a): happening all the time
( constancy(n)
Rumour (n) piece of information that people talk about.
Gossip (n) informal talk that may be unkind or not true.
Trust(n): the belief that is honest.












-Listen once or twice
-Discuss the answers to the questions.
-Model the discussion in front of the class.

Group work









Pair work

While-Reading
(26’)
- Introduce three tasks.
-Have students read the whole passage (once or twice) and do the tasks.
* TASK 1:
-Guide students how to do this task.
- Teacher goes around for any help.
-Compare the results of the others and correct mistakes.





* TASK 2:
-Ask students to read the four sentences in the textbook and choose the best answer

- Compare the result and correct mistakes.

* TASK 3:
-Have students discuss questions.
-Observe class and help students.
- Teacher goes around for any helps.







- Correct mistakes.

-Read silently.



- Choose the correct word in the box to complete each sentence.


- Keys:
1. mutual 2. incapable of
3. unselfish 4. acquaintance/ friend
5. give-and-take 6. loyal to
7. suspicious

-Key: B








-Suggested keys:
1. The first quality for true friendship is unselfishness. It tells me / us that a person who is concerned only with his own interests and feelings cannot be a true friend.
2. Changeable and uncertain people are incapable of true friendship because they take up an interest with enthusiasm, they are soon tired of it, and they feel the attraction of some new object.
3. The third quality for true friendship is loyalty. It tells us that two friends must be loyal to each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no suspicions between them.
4. There must be mutual trust between friends because if not, people cannot feel safe when telling the other their most intimate secrets.
5. Talkative people can’t keep a friend long because they can’t keep a secret, either of their own or others.
6. The last quality for true friendship is sympathy. It tells us that to be a true friend, you must sympathize with your friend. Where there’s no mutual sympathy between friends, there’s no true friendship






individual/ pairs







Pair-work







Pair-work

Post reading
(10’)
- Teacher asks a general question, “Why do we need true friendship?”
Students give their opinions
Discussion
Group-work


V. HOMEWORK: (2’)
- Study new words.
- Do the tasks in the notebooks.
- Prepare Speaking.

UNIT ONE: FRIENDSHIP
Speaking

I. AIMS OF THE LESSON:
1. Language skills :
Speaking:
- Describing physical characteristics
- Discussing personalities
- Role-play: Talking about a famous friend

2. Language focus:
Vocabulary: a handout of the adjectives and expressions.

II. TEACHING AIDS: chalks, pictures, handouts, charts, real