UNIT 9
POST OFFICE

Activities
Classroom language

Warn up
- Let student watch a video which have imagines and words related to the post office.
- Ask if they can recognize the topic.
- Talk about some words that occur in the lesson.
- Today, I will let you see a video. Watch the video carefully and tell me what is it about.
- Can you give me some word you saw in the video?
- Can you guess the topic?


Pre-reading

Activities
Classroom language

Pre-reading
- Show a letter and ask students “What is this?”
- Ask some questions:
+ can you post letter? ( At the post office)
+ How far is it from your to the nearest post office? kilometer(s) )
+ How do you go to the post office? (/twice a week).
+What for? (To post letter / to make a phone call/ to buy phone cards ...)
+ What services do you think the post call ...)
- in.
- Checking: What and Where
- Guessing: What services does Thanh Ba Post Office offer to customers?
- Ask students to read list out as many services as they know
- Pre-teaching vocabulary:
equip(v) (explanation): trang bị
supply with what is needed in a company or an office, etc.
express (a) (synonym) = very fast: rất nhanh, hoả tốc
transfer (v) : chuyển
to hand over from one person or one place to another
notify (v) (translation) : thông báo, cho biết
recipient(n) (situation) : người nhận
My friend sent me a letter. She was the sender. I received the letter. I was the recipient.
subscribe to ( new papers or magazines, etc) (v) (explanation): đặt mua (báo) dài hạn
arrange to receive(nespaper/ magazines...) regularly

- Can you tell me what is this?
- Yes, it’s a letter
- Where can you post letter?
- At the post office
- How far is it from your house to the post office?
- How do you go to the post office?
- What for?
- You can go to the post office once or twice a week or more than twice. It depends on you.




- Today, We`re going to read a text about postal service of Thanh Ba post office.

- Can you tell me What services does Thanh Ba Post Office offer to customers? You can list as many as you know.
- Now I will give you some new words related to the topic.




While reading

Activities
Classroom language

Read the passage
- Let students open the book read silently to look for the vocabulary.
- Ask about new words.
- Listens the students’ answers, write the new words and explain the meanings:
Spacious (adj) having or providing much space, large
Well-trained(adj) was good training, professional
Thoughtful (adj) thinking deeply; absorbed in thought
Speedy (adj) moving quickly; fast
Secure (adj) not feeling worry, doubt
Facsimile (n) exact copy or reproduction of writing, print, a picture, etc
- Give the definitions of some services in the Thanh Ba Post Office
Mail and Parcel Service
Express Money Transfer
Express mail Service
Messenger call Service
Press Distribution


Now, open the text book page 101, read the passage and find out the new words”

What are the new words in the passage?
All class, listen and repeat to me.



Task 1: Circle the letter (A, B, C, or D) before the word that has the opposite meaning to the italicized word.
- Call a students read and translate the requirement into Vietnamese
- Explain exactly the requirement again.





- Ask students to read the text individually, try to guess the meaning of some words (spacious, courteous, speedy and original) from the context
- Ask they do the exercise
- Go around the class to help them with their work and correct the mistakes.
- Call some students give the answers, correct them and give some explain if necessary.

Can you read and translate the requirement into Vietnamese
You read these sentences in Task 1, in each sentence has a word which is italicised your task is finding out the word (A,B,C or D) which has opposite meaning to the italicised word. The opposite word such as old-new, easy-different…”
Read the text individually, try to guess the meaning of some words from the context