Period: 55
UNIT 7: TELEVISION
A closer look 1
I. Objectives
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge: By the end of this lesson, students can pronounce correctly the sounds /θ/ and /ð/ in isolation and in context.
- Vocabulary: the items related to television.
- Grammar: The present simple tense.
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. Attitude: hard, concentrated and active.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self – learning capability
- Communicative competence
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: text book, extra board, cassette tape and real objects.
2. Students: textbook, notebook, workbook.
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5’)
Teacher’s & students’ activities
Contents

T: Look at the pictures on page 8 and answer the questions
Ss: answer.
Who are they and what are these?



2. Knowledge formation activities (36’)
Teacher’s & students’ activities
Contents

- Listen and repeat these new words in the box. Remind them these words in G S deals with the names of the channels or programs….. while the latter deals with the jobs of the people working on television
- Ask SS to work in pairs and match the words with the right pictures.
Vocabulary
1. Write the words/ phrases in the box under the pictures
1. newsreader 2. TV schedule
3. MC 4. TV viewer
5. remote control 6. weatherman


- Let Ss work in pairs to do this activity. They will review the words they have learned as well as they can learn how to identify a word from its description
- Get feedback and ask other Ss to comment.
2.Choose the right words
1 – weatherman 2- newsreader
3 - Remote control 4 - MC
5 - Volume button 6 - TV viewer


-Ask Ss to listen to the words very carefully. Let them focus on the /θ/ and /ð/ sounds and distinguish between them
-Then play the recording for them to listen and repeat the words.
- Play the recording every words many times for ss to recognize it
Pronunciation
/θ/ and /ð/
4. Listen and repeat the words
There Thanksgiving anything
Them weatherman both
Theater earth feather
Neither than through

-Ask Ss to put the words in the correct column while they listen
-Ss compare their answers in pairs before T checks their answers with the whole class.
-Have Ss comment on the way to pronounce
- Ask Ss to give more examples

5. Which words in 4 have /θ/ and which have /ð/? Listen again and write them in the correct column
/θ/
/ð/

Theater, earth, Thanksgiving, both, through
There, them. Neither, weatherman, than, feather



-Play the recording for Ss to repeat the tongue twister.
- Then ask them to practice reading it quickly and correctly
6. Tongue Twister
“The thirty-three thieves are thinking of how to get through the security.”


3. Consolidation 4’
- Answer
1. How to make the sounds / θ / and / ð /
2. Find some more words that have these two sounds the question.
4. Using knowledge (option)
5. Further practice (option)
IV. Experience:

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Period: 56
UNIT 7: TELEVISION
A closer look 2

I. Objectives
1. Knowledge, Skills, Attitude:
a. Knowledge: By the end of this lesson, students use Wh-questions and conjunctions correctly and appropriately.
- Vocabulary: the lexical items related to the topic “Television”.
- Grammar: Wh-questions: When, what, where, who, how often.
Conjunctions: and, but, or, because, although.
b. Skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
c. Attitude: hard, concentrated and active.
2. Capacity is formed and developed for students
- Self – learning capability
- Communicative competence
II. Preparation
1. Teacher: text book, extra board, cassette tape and real objects.
2. Students: textbook, notebook, workbook.
III. Students’ activities
1. Warm up (5’)
Teacher’s & students’ activities
Contents

- Have Ss to play a game.
Noughts and Crosses:
MC
weather
watch

TV viewer
newsreader
listen

TV
programme
what




2. Knowledge formation activities (36’)
Teacher’s & students’ activities
Contents

- Ask Ss to read the conversation and underline the question words
- T can refer Ss to