Unit 9 : THE POST OFFICE
Period 54 : – READING –
Date of preparing: 29 / 12 / 2013
Date of teaching : 30 / 12 / 2013
I. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
+ Language content:
- To provide the students with some new words relating to the post office and its services.
- To help students with reading the passage about post office in order to guess the words’ meaning in the context and to answer the questions .
+ Language function:
- By the end of the lesson,Ss will be able to talk about different services of post office.
+ Educational aims:
- To make students aware of the advantages of post office
1. Language : a .Vocabulary: Words about the post office.
b. Structure: - The simple present tense ( review)
- Defining, non-defining relative clauses
2. Skills: Integrated skills – main skills: (skimming & scanning).
3. Educational factor:
- Knowing to use some services of the post office in real life.
II.TEACHER AND STUDENTS’ PREPARATION:
1. Method : Communicative approach.
2. Techniques : skimming, scanning, explanation, game, matching, pair work, group work , discussion
3. Materials needed : Pictures, mini-board, textbook.
4. Students’ preparation: New words
5. Previous exercises : Check exercise books
III. PROCEDURE IN CLASS
1. Stabilization: (2ms)
a. Warm-up: - Greeting: Good afternoon class!
Did you have a good examination?
b. Checking absence: Is anybody absent today?
2. Playing a game: Jumbled Words ( 5ms)
Asks Ss to work in groups and rearrange the words in good order to make right words.
1. veenlops => envelops
2. ponhtele => telephone
3. axf => fax
4. leettrs => letters
Where can you see them?
Today we are going to Thanh Ba post office to see what happens there.
3. Presentation of the new lesson:
TIME
TEACHER’S ACTIVITIES
STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
THE CONTENT OF THE LESSON

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5ms
I. Lead-in
- From the game in “warm-up”, leads to the new lesson.
Where do we go to buy the envelops, to make a call?
=> we have to go to the post office.
II. Pre- reading
-Asks the students to work in pairs, discuss and answer the following questions:
1. How far is it from your home to the nearest post office?
2. How often do you go to the post office? What for?
3. What services do you think the post office offers?
- Calls students to answer and gives remarks.
- Reads the reading passage and teaches some new words.
-Asks students to look through the passages and pick out some new words if necessary.
+ to equip (v) / i’kwip/ st/ sb with
eg: His soldiers are equipped with modern weapons.
+ to advance ( v) /∂d’va:ns/
+ advanced ( adj)/∂d’va:nst/ = good
+ well-trained ( adj)
eg: He was well- trained at technological school.
+ to think -> thought (n)
thoughtful ( adj) # thoughtless ( adj)
+ competitive / k∂m’pet∂tiv/ (adj)
-> competition / kDm’p∂t∂ti∫n/ (n)
+ to notify/ ‘n∂utifai/ (v):
ex: you must notify what you saw last night to the police .
+ to subscribe /s∂b’skraib/ ( v) = to book
III. While-reading:
Task 1 : Matching
Asks the Ss to read and circle the letter ( A, B, C, D) before the word that has the opposite meaning to the italicized word.
Calls some Ss to read and explain their answers.
Task 2 : Answer the questions
Asks the students read the passages again then answer the questions
1. What is Thanh Ba post office equipped with?
2. What services are offered at Thanh Ba post office?
3. According to the text, what are the three different ways of sending a letter?
4. What is the Messenger Call Service used for