UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
I. Aim
Helping students:
- to introduce people
- to respond to introductions
- to describe people
- to write about themselves and about other people
II. Language focus
1. Present Simple to talk about general truths.
2. (Not) Adjectives + enough + to infinitive
3. Attributive and predicative adjectives.
III. Vocabulary
Verbs
Adjectives
Nouns

(to) annoy
blond
slim
a character

(to) rise
curly
sociable
a joke

(to) seem
fair
straight
an orphanage


generous




reserved



IV. Unit Allocation
Lesson 1
Listen and read 1-2
Language focus 1
Reading for details a conversation and revision of simple present and simple past tense.

Lesson 2
Read 1-2
Getting started
Reading a text for details about Ba`s friends.

Lesson 3
Speak 1-2
Listen a-b-c-d
Listening for details to complete the dialogue and practice in describing someone.

Lesson 4
Write 1-2
Language Focus 3
Writing about oneself and about other people

Lesson 5
Language focus 2-4
Further practice in Simple Present and Not Adj + enough + to-infinitive


UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 1: Section: - Listen and read (page 10,11)
Period 2 - Language focus 1 (page 16)
Aim:
Reading the dialogue and revision of simple present and simple past tenses.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Hoa - Lan - Nien and to review simple present and simple past tense.
Teaching aids:
Text book, cards
PROCEDURE

Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement

Warm up









Pre-reading

























While reading
* Pelmanism:
- Prepare twelve cards with numbers on one side and the verbs on the other.
- Make sure the verbs are mixed up. Stick the cards on the board so students can only see the numbers.
- Divide students into two teams and ask them to choose two numbers.
- Turn the cards over and see if they match .
Eg: teach - taught, give them one mark. If not, turn the cards over again and ask the next team.
- Continue until all the cards are finished.
meet
come
live
think
send
though

receive
met
lived
received
came
Sent

I. Pre-teach vocabulary
- to seem (translation)
- a next door neighbor (explanation: a person who lives next to your house)
- to look like: (translation)
* Checking vocabulary: Rub out and remember
- Rub out the new words one a time.
- Each time you rub out an English word, point to the Vietnamese translation and ask "what`s this in English?"
- When all the English words are rubbed out go, through the Vietnamese list and get students to call the English words.
- If there`s time, get students to come to the board and write the English words again.
II. Pre- questions
- Give students some questions and ask them to work in pairs to answer them.
a. Is Nien Lan`s friend or Hoa`s friend?
b. How old is Nien?
c. Where does Nien live?
d. Is she a beautiful girl?
- Give feedback
- Ask students to read the dialogue between Hoa, Lan and Nien on page l0 and check if their answers are correct or not.
* Answers:
a. She is Hoa`s friend
b. She `s twelve years old.
c She lives in Hue.
d. Yes, she is.
I. Comprehension questions
- Ask students to read the dialogue again and answer the questions in exercise 2 on page 11 (work in pairs)
a. Where does Nien live?
b. Does Lan know Nien?
c. Which sentence tells you that Hoa is older than Nien?
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Pair work









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Pair work


d. When is Nien going to visit Hoa?
* Answers:
a. Nien lives in Hue.
b. No, she doesn`t.
c. The sentence is "She wasn`t old enough to be in my class".






















Post reading
d. At Christmas
- Call on some students to ask and answer the questions.
- Correct their mistakes or pronunciation.
- Ask them to work in closed pairs.
II. Gap-filling
- Ask students to use the simple present and simple past tense to complete paragraph 1 (a) on page 16.
- Provide some verbs so that students can use them to fill in the gaps.
- live (2) - send - be(2) - come
" Hoa (1) in Hue last year, but now she (2) in Hanoi. Yesterday, Hoa`s friend Nien (3) Hoa a letter. Nien (4) Hoa`s neighbor when Hoa lived in Hue. She (5) younger than Hoa. She (6) to Hanoi in December.
* Answers:
(1) lived (2) lives (3) sesen
(4) was (5) is (6) comes
- Ask students to work individually and then compare their answers with their partners.
- Give feedback.
* Writing:
- Ask students to write a paragraph about Hoa and Lan.
- Give students some cues and ask them to use the simple present or simple past tense to write individually.
Open pairs

Closed pairs


In dividual
Work










Pair work
Whole class


Individual
work

Homework
* Cues:
a. Lan / Hoa`s best friend
b. The same class / Quang Trung School.
c. Last year / Hoa / to school first time.
d. Lan / show / around / introduce / to new friends .
- Let students discuss with their partners.
- Choose some answers and correct them in front of the class.
- Ask students to do exercise 1(a); 1(b) on their notebooks .





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UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 2: Section: - Speak (page 11)
Period 3 - Listen (page 12,13)
Aim:
Listening for details to complete the dialogue and speak to describe someone.
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to describe somoen and complete the dialogue by listening.
Teaching aids:
Text book, pictures

PROCEDURE

Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement

Warm up
* Brainstorming:
- Ask students to think of the adjectives used to describe body build and hair.
thin curly


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Presentation
* Possible answers:
- fat - straight
- slim - long
- tall - short
- short black/dark
- overweight - color blond/fair
brown
grey
- overweight
- slender
- Show students a picture of Mary and ask them to describe her hair, her body build.
Ex: She has long blond bair.
She is short and thin.
Form:
S + have / has + adjectives + hair
S + be + adjectives










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Practice
I. Word cue drill
- Prepare 6 cards so that students can drill easily.
a. he / tall / thin He is tall and thin
b. She/short / slim She is short and slim.
c. He/ short / fat He is short and fat.
d. long / black She has long black hair.
e. curly / blond She has curly blond hair.
f. straight/ brown She has straight brown hair.
II. Practice Speaking
- Show the posters of six people / or ask students to look at six people on page 11-12.
- Call on a student to describe one person, the others have to guess who he/she is.
Example: S1: This person is short and thin. She has long blond hair.


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Whole class






Pre-listening





While listening
S2: Is this Mary?
Yes
- Go on until six people on the poster are described.
- If there`s time, ask students to describe a famous person or one of their classmates and their friends have to guess.
- Ask students to do exercise "Listen a, b, c, d." on page 12-13.
- Give students some expressions and make sure they know their meanings.
- Get students to guess and to complete four dialogues on page 12-13, using the given expressions.
- Give feedback.
- Let students listen to the tape twice. .
- Get students to work in pairs to complete the dialogues and compare with their prediction.
* Tape transcript:
a.
Hoa: Hello, Nam.
Nam: Morning, Hoa.
Hoa: Nam, I`d like you to meet my cousin, Thu.
Nam: Nice to meet you, Thu.
Thu: Nice to meet you too, Nam.
b.
Khai: Miss Lien, I`d like you to meet my mother.
Miss Lien: It`s a pleasure to meet you, Mrs.
Mrs. Vi: The pleasure is all mine, Miss Lien.
Miss Lien: Oh, there is the principal.
Please excuse me, Mrs. Vi, but I must talk to him.
Mrs. Vi: Certainly.
c.
Ba: Bao, come and meet my grandmother.






Individual work





Pair work














Post-listening
Bao: Hello, ma`am.
Grandmother: Hello young man.
Ba: Bao is my classmate, grandmother.
Grandmother: What was that?
Ba: Classmate! Bao is my classmate.
Grandmother: I see.
d.
Mr. Lam: Isn`t that Lan`s father, my dear?
Mrs. Linh: I`m not sure. Go and ask him.
Mr. Lam: Excuse me. Are you Mr. Thanh?
Mr. Thanh: Yes, I am.
Mr. Lam: I`m Lam, Nga`s father.
Mr. Thanh: How do you do?
- Ask students to practice speaking the dialogues.
- Call on some students to play the roles of Nam - Hoa Thu; Khai - Mrs. Lien - Mrs. Vi; Ba-Bao Grandmother; Mr. Lam - Mrs. Linh - Mr. Thanh and practice the dialogues.
- Correct their pronunciation.
- Let students work in pairs to practice the dialogues. (closed pairs).














Open pairs



Closed pairs


UNIT 1: MY FRIENDS
Lesson 3: Section: - Getting started (page 10)
Period 4 - Read (page 13,14)
Aim:
Reading for specific information
Objective:
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to know more about Ba`s friend.
Teaching aids:

PROCEDURE

Stage
Steps/Activities
Work arrangement

Warm up










Pre-reading
Chatting:
- Ask students to look at four pictures on page 10 and talk about the activities they want to do after school or in their free time.
- Give them some questions.
( What are these students doing?
(play soccer / play chess / read books / play volley ball)
( What time of the day do you think it is? (in the morning / evening, after school)
( Do you like soccer / reading books ...?
( Whom do you like playing with?
I. Pre-teach vocabulary:
- a character: (translation)
- an orphanage: (explanation: a place where children without parents live)
- reserved (adj)
- sociable: (adj) (Translation)
- (to) tell jokes: (explanation: tell a story which makes people laugh)
- sense of humor (translation)
* Checking vocabulary: what and where
- Write the word on the board, put one word in each circle.



- Have students repeat the words in chorus then rub out word by word but leave the circles.


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Whole class