Week: Date of planning: 12 / 09 / 2015
Period: 19 Date of teaching: / /
UNIT 3: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 4: Communication
I. Objectives:
- Reading the page from 4 Teen magazine about five friends to understand where they come from and according to their birthday, we can guess what character they may have.
- Talking about character of friends
II. Language Focus:
1. Vocabulary: the lexical items related to the topic “My friends”.
2. Structures: Verbs be and have for descriptions.
The Present continuous for future.
III. Method: Communicative approach
IV. Teaching aids: Course book, CD player.
V. Procedures:

STAGES
TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
CONTENTS

Warm-up
5’
-Ask Ss to play in 2 groups.
-Ss write the answer on the board.

 Network
Adjectives of personalities.
- humorous
- friendly
- sensitive
-....

Presentation
10’
Vocabulary
- Give new words.
- Have Ss play game: ROR
 Vocabulary
- choir: đội hợp xướng/ đồng ca
- field trip: chuyến thám hiểm nghiên cứu
- volunteer (a): tình nguyện
- curious (a): tò mò
- responsible (a): có trách nhiệm
- reliable (a): đáng tin cậy/ chắc chắn
- firework: pháo hoa
- competition: cuộc thi đấu/ tranh tài
- Racing: cuộc chạy thi.
- independent(a): độc lập
- freedom: sự tự do


Practice
20’
- Show the picture of the five friends in the magazine. Discuss the friends with class: where they are come from, what their name might be, what might they like to do, etc.





- Can bring a map or a global to show where they are from.


- Tell the class they will be introduced to some new verbs.


- Ask Ss to the star signs of the five friends in 4Teen magazine.






- Ask Ss to look at the adjectives of personalities in the star sign and compare them with what they read about the five friends in 1.






- Have Ss review the star sign description for their own signs. Ask Ss to tick adjectives they agree with.


















- Allow them to share their thoughts with a partner.
1. Read the passage form 4Teen magazine.
* Adia: Yobe, Nigeria
Birthday: 15/5
* Vinh: Danang, Viet Nam
Birthday: 7/12
* John: Cambridge, England
Birthday: 26/2
* Tom: New York, US
Birthday: 19/1
* Noriko: Sakai, Japan
Birthday: 21/8




2. Find the star sign of each friend to find out about their personality. Do you think the description is correct?
* Aries: 21/3 – 20/4 (sao Bạch Dương)
Independent, active, freedom-loving
* Taurus: 21/4 – 20/5 (Thiên Ngưu)
Patient, reliable, hard-working
* Gemini: 21/5 – 20/6 (Hoàng Đạo)
Talkative, curious, active
*Cancer: 21/6 – 20/7 (con Cua)
Sensitive, caring, intelligent
* Leo: 21/7– 20/8 (Nhân Sư)
Confident, competitive, creative
* Virgo: 21/8 – 20/9 (Xử Nữ)
Careful, helpful, hard-working
* Libra: 21/9 – 20/10 (Thiên Xứng)
Talkative, friendly, creative
* Scorpio: 21/10/20/11(Hổ Cáp)
Careful, responsible, curious
* Sagittarius: 21/11 – 20/12 (Nhân Mã)
Independent, freedo-loving, confident
* Capricorn: 21/11 – 20/1 (Dương Cưu)
Careful, hard-working, serious.
* Aquarius: 21/1 – 20/2 (Bảo Bình)
Friendly, independent, freedom-loving.
* Pices: 21/2 – 20/3 (Song Ngư)
Kind, helpful, creative.





3. Look at the star sign. Do you agree with the description?



Production
8’

- Have Ss play a line-up game.
- Ask Ss to arrange themselves in order of birthdays. Support them by reviewing months and dates and giving a question and answer they can use: When’s your birthday?

4. Think about your friends’ personalities