UNIT 1:
Period 1: READING
* Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to guess meaning in context.
* Lexical items: Unselfishness, constancy, be loyal to, sympathy, enthusiasm, suspicion.
* Skills: Reading, Speaking
* Teaching aids: Textbook, pictures
PROCEDURE

I. Warm-up: “Picture talk”
- Ss work in two groups. (Books closed)
- Stick the pictures of 6 things on the board.
- Ask Ss to name them and find out what the pictures talk by collecting the first letters of each name from the pictures.





Lead-in:
- I know that we have a lot of friends in our lives.
- Today, we’ll know more about friendship through reading the text.

II. Pre-reading:
1. Pre-teach vocabulary:
- acquaintance (n) /ə`kweintəns/: quen, hiểu biết (Use example)
- incapable of (a) /in`keipəbl/: bất lực (Antonym of ‘capable)
- unselfishness (n)/`n`selfi nis/: ko ích kỷ (Antonym of ‘selfishness’)
- constancy (n)/`kɔnstənsi/: kiên trì, bất biến (Explaination)
- loyalty (n)/`lɔiəlti/: lòng trung thành (Example)
- sympathy (n)/`simpəθi/: sự thông cảm (Translation)
- suspicious (a) /səs`piʃəs/: nghi ngờ (Example)
2. Checking vocabulary: “What & Where”
III. While-reading:
(Task 1: Fill in the blanks
- Ask Ss to work in pairs.
- Ask Ss to guess the meaning of the words in the box.
- Move around class to give help.
- Give feedback.
Answers :
1. mutual 2. incapable 3. unselfish 4. acquaintance / friend
5. give and take 6. loyal to 7. suspicious
( Task2: Finding the main idea of the whole passage.
- Ask Ss to work in groups of 4 or 5.
- Ss call out their answers.
Answers : B. Conditions of the true friendship.

( Task 3: Answering the questions.
- Divide class into 2 groups A & B
- Group A answer the first questions, group B answers the rest. ( Pairwork)
- Closed pairs
- Open pairs.
- Give feedback.
Answers:
Q1: The first quality for true friendship is unselfishness. It tells us that a man who is concerned only with their own interests and feelings cannot be a true friend.
Q2: Changeable and uncertain people are incapable of true friendship because they take up an interest with enthusiasm, but they are soon tired of it, and they feel the attraction of some new objects.
Q3. The third quality for true friendship is loyalty. It tells us that the two friends must be loyal to each other, and they must know each other so well that there can be no supicions between them.
Q4: There must be a mutual trust between friends because if not, people cannot feel safe when telling the other his or her secrets.
Q5: Talkative people can’t keep a friend long because they cannot keep a secret of the own or of their friends’
Q6: The last quality for true friendship is sympathy. It tells us that to be a true friend you must be sympathy. It tells us that to be a true friend you must be sympathize with your friend. Where there’s no mutual sympathy between friends there’s no true friendship.

IV. Post-reading:
Discussion:
- Ask Ss to choose one of the topics below to discuss in groups.
- “ Why do we need to have friends ?”
- “ A friend in need is a friend in deed”. What do you think about this proverb?
- “What quality of friendship is the most important to you? Why?
- Ss share ideas. One secretary from each group takes notes the group’s ideas.
- Teacher moves around to give help if necessary.
- Give feedback.

V. Homework:
-Do Task 1, p.14.
-Prepare Period 3 – Speaking.



UNIT 1:
Period 2: SPEAKING
* Objectives: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to describe physical characteristics of a person, using adjectives.
* Lexical items: crooked, hospitable, generous, quick-witted
* Skills: speaking, listening, writing.
* Teaching aids: pictures, role cards and textbook.
PROCEDURE
I. Warm-up: “Matching”
- Matching the adjectives from the box with the parts of the body they can be used to describe.
short
broad
straight
Tallish
sleek

pointed
oval
tall
shortish
round snub

crooked
short