Date of preparation: February, 7th 2015 Date of signing: February, 9th 2015
Distributive period: 72 Date of teaching:
Unit 8 new ways to learn
Lesson 1 Getting started

A. Aims and Objectives:
- To teach Ss to listen and read a conversation about personal electronic devices and do tasks: Questions & answers and true/ false exercises.
- To teach some lexical items related to:
+ Electronic devices that can help us learn
+ Using the Internet to learn English
- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
+ Use some lexical items related to personal electronic devices.
+ Make simple dialogues using the given expressions.
+ Master some vocabularies about personal electronic devices.
+ Get to know one grammar point.
B. Preparations:
- Teacher: Handouts, textbook, pieces of papers and cassette.
- Students: Textbook
C. Methods: - The whole lesson: Integrated, mainly communicative.
D. Procedures:
Time/Stages
Activities
Interactions


1. Warm up
8 minutes

Ask Ss these questions:
1. Have you ever owned any personal electronic devices?
2. What are they used for?
- Leads in the new lesson


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2. New lesson
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- Introduce the topic of the lesson:
New ways to learn
Activity 1: Listen and read
- Ask As look at the pictures and guess the topic of the conversation.
- Have Ss predict what they are talking about
- Encourage all kinds of predictions
- Tell Ss not to worry about new words or grammar points because these will be dealt with later.
- Play the recording
Activity 2: True/ False
What is the conversation about?
- Go through the statements to make senses quickly.
- Ask Ss do it individually in 5 minutes
- Encourage Ss to compare the answers with a partner.
- Invite some Ss to give the answer and then explain their choices.
- Give feedback to Ss’ work.
Answers:
1. F 2.F 3. NG 4. T 5. F 6. T
Activity 3:
- Have Ss work in pairs to find the adjectives which describe the devices used as learning tool then discuss the meaning in five minutes
- Invite some Ss to give the words and the meaning.
- Give feedback on Ss’ presentations
* Suggested answer:
1. personal: your own
2. electronic: having many small parts that control and direct a small electric current
3. modern: relating to the present time or recent time
4. excellent: exceptionally good
5. useful: being of practical use
6. mobile: able to be moved easily
7. digital: showing information by using figures
8. perfect: being complete & without weaknesses
9. great: superior in quality or degree
Activity 4: Read the conservation again, and give answers to the following questions.
- Tell Ss to focus on the instructions
- Checks Ss` understanding of the questions
- Set time for this activity, base on Ss’ level proficiency
- Get Ss to work in pairs or groups to discuss the answers.
- Call on different Ss to answer these questions
Key:
1. They are talking about smartphones, laptops and tablet computers.
2. They have changed the way we learn.
3. They use them to take photos or record their work, which can be later shared with the class.
4. because they can be used to store information, take notes, write essays and do calculations.
5. He does his assignments and projects, and studies English.






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Individually



Pair work






Pair work




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3.
Consolidation
2 minutes
- Ask Ss: What have you learnt today? What can you do now?
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.

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4. Homework
1 minute
- Ask Ss to learn by heart the words or phrases related to the personal electronic devices.
- Prepare for the next lesson.

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E. Experience:
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Date of preparation: February, 7th 2015 Date of signing: February, 9th 2015
Distributive period: 73