Week: 21 Date of preparation: 15/01/2018
Period: 42 Date of teaching: 20/01/ 2018
UNIT 7
SAVING ENERGY
Lesson 1: Getting Started + Listen and Read

I. Objectives: After finishing the lesson Sts will be able to
- discuss and get acquainted with saving of energy.
- listen and read the conversation about how to save water in house.
- master new items of saving energy.
II. Language contents:
1. Grammar: connectives, phrasal verbs
2. Vocabulary: bill, enormous, reduce, plumber, crack, dripping faucet.
III.Teachniques: chatting, pair work, rub out and remember, group work
III.Teaching aids: pictures, cassette, a water bill,
IV. Procedures:

Teacher and student’s activities
Contents

*Oral test: - 2 Students

*Today’s lesson:
Presenting the topic of the lesson: exploiting Sts’ knowledge about the saving energy.
- Have Sts look at the pictures of the waste of energy and do the activity as the lesson requires.
- Ask questions about the pictures to make clear the situation.
- Have Sts supply more ideas about saving energy at home and even at school.
PRESENTATION
- Present the content situation of the conversation and exploit the items and the new structure of the topic.
+ Listen and answer the questions.
- Explain some new words and phrases
+ Listen, speak, read and write after guessing the meaning of each.








- Give sts 5 statements and get them to predict if each one is true or false.
+ Work in pairs. Read through and guess.
- Play the tape once
+ Listen the tape and check their prediction.
- Give feedback.
PRACTICE
- Let sts listen to the dialogue once again
- Practice the conversation with a good student as model. Then have Sts practice them in pairs.
-Some Sts reproduce the conversation in front of class. Encourage Sts practice by heart. Correct what`s ever wrong.
* Comprehension questions.
- Give questions.
- Have sts practice asking and answering with a partner.
- Call on sts’ answers.
- Give feedback and the correct answers.
*Consolidation:
Have Sts report the dialogue in a paragraph.
+Work in groups first. Then in front of the class.

PRODUCTION
- Have sts work in groups to discuss about energy saving in the house/class.
A. Checking up:
Do exercise 2 and 4 in language focus.
B. New lesson:
WARM UP: Getting started.
*Suggested questions
- Is the TV/ radio on?
- Who’s watching TV?
- Who’s listening to the radio?
→ Should we turn on TV / radio when nobody watches it? / listens it?
→What should we do to save energy?


LISTEN AND READ:
*Suggested presentation
- Listen and find out who are talking in the conversation.
- Where are they?
“Mrs. Ha was worried about her water bill. It was so big. She is talking to Mrs Mi, her neighborabout it”
*New words and phrases: (see more vocabulary for reference)
- water bill: →visual: Hóa đơn tiền nước
- Enormous (a.): very big or very great
- Plumber (n.): a person whose job is to put in or repair water pipes, baths, toilets, etc.
- Crack (n.): →visual: vết rạn, vết nứt
- Faucet (n.): →visual: vòi nước
*New structure: Suggestion
Model sentence: I suggest taking showers.
Form: S + suggest + Verb – ing + …

True or False prediction.
1. Mrs. Ha is worried about her water bill.
2. Mrs. Mi gives Mrs. Ha advice on how to save water.
3. Mrs. Hs has checked the pipes in her house and found no cracks.
4. Mrs. Ha suggests getting some tool to check cracks in the pipes.
5. Mrs. Mi suggests taking showers to save water
KEY
1. True (Mrs. Said: I’m worried about most recent water. It’s enormous.
2. True (Mrs. said: “You should reduce the amount of water your family uses.”
3. False (Mrs. Mi advices her to have a plumber to do it.)
4. False (Mrs. Mi does it, not Mrs. Ha)
5. True (Mrs. said so I suggest taking showers)


* Answer the questions:
a. What does Mrs Ha worry about?
b. How much money did Mrs. Ha pay for her water bill?
c. What does Mrs. Mi advise Mrs. Ha to